MarkJ

Sorry to be missing further updates but I totally understand where your coming from. Cannot wait to see the finished product because as always it will be through the roof awesome like all your other builds. Please post a note to us where the Final build can be seen. It will be the best a.m. Grand Sport ever built.

Pierre, check your private messages.

Thanks, Pierre. I'm getting ready to finish the harnesses on the seat and then I think I can get the interior finally put together and inside the body. When that happens it should not be too much longer.

Thanks, Jason. Seems like its taking forever.

I take back what I said now. You were going to have fitment issues whether you changed the ride height or not. They need to rename these kits "Some What Accurate Miniatures" If these are just a repop of the revell kit that seems odd that revell would have so many issues. They are usually pretty good about fit.

I agree with Len. Getting the ride height correct messed up the engine placement, but no problem for Pierre. The ride height had to be fixed. Man, that engine is going to look good all finished out.

Thanks, Gerald. If I could just get this interior done, I could assemble this thing and get her done. Had a few personal issues I had to tend to last week. Anniversary and two birthdays.

Thanks, Mark. For some reason I'm having a hard time getting this one done. Maybe next build will be strictly oob. Except for tires and wheels. and a roll cage of course.

Pierre, check your private messages. I found the link to that YouTube video.

Gotta love the side draft weber, small block Chevy engine. It is so badass looking. That's a great ref picture you have there to follow. Traco squeezed a lot of power out of it for its time back in the sixty's. I believe they ended up with 377 cubic inches. i studied up on it back when I did mine but have forgotten most of what I learned. There is a you tube video of the guy that was one of the main guys behind the Grand Sport project and he goes around one of the remaining Grand Sports explaining a lot of things about it . A video well worth watching. I will post the link if I can find it.

Finished the dash, steering wheel and rear axle cooler.

Pierre, that's the thing. I'm using the photos of a car that is presented as being the real car in a Hot Rod magazine article. So it is a close match to that car, but if its like the real car from 1966 that won the Southern 500, I don't really know. I'm hoping its close. I finished the seat and almost through with the axle cooler. still need to paint the motor that sticks out the side of the cooler. Also got the dash mostly done. I just need to add the guages before I reveal it. It turned out pretty rough. Thats what's good about dashes. when they're installed in the model, its really hard to see them.

Sounds like they print them after they get the order. Thats a good thing. This way your getting Fresh product. It also might be good that they are backed up getting the product out . It means they are getting a lot of orders because the product is so good. A little communication though, would be nice.

Got the base interior painted. Working on the stuff that goes in it.

Thanks, Pierre. I think you will have much better results with the AM kit. If I ever decide to do another one, I can follow your excellent directions for fixing this kit. I believe this kit is better then the Revell kit for this car I have seen posted. It has a lot of ride height issues as well and some other things if I remember correctly. It would probably be very hard to find the Revell kit and expensive.

Yes, that is a much better choice for the tires. I had to use kit bashed street tires for the front tires on my Grand Sport, built from an amt kit, to make it look like the ref pictures of the 005 car I built, Penske won at Nassau with it in 1964 . I used 1964 P.P.P. Nascar tires for the rears and they seemed to look pretty good on it. I modified some P.P.P. 64 Holman and Moody wheels to look like Halibrands. I was deep into the project when i found out that accurate miniature Gran Sport kits even existed. So I stuck with it to the end. It was one of those builds I always wanted to do.

Thanks, Pierre. Sometimes I overthink things. I just tried straight flat red and it's a great match for what I need for the red in the interior. I had in my mind that I had to lighten it even before I tried it. I wish hobby Lobby would offer more color choices from Vallejo.

Got most of the stuff primed. I'm trying to get the right color for the interior. Its brighter than the outside of the car according to the reference I have. So far, I'm using 7 drops of flat red and one drop of white. It's still coming out too pink. I tried using crimson, but it is really an orange color. Those are the only Vallejo red colors my Hobby Lobby sells. I have a Creatix red but the Creatix paints are very thin like they already have thinner in them. They don't cover well with a brush like Vallejo does.

Looks like you nailed it to me Pierre. The fender openings look so much more like the real car now and the car is sitting down like it should now. I think you also cleaned up the work you did on the fenders perfectly.

Thanks, Pierre. if i try to hurry I make lots of mistakes which makes the process longer so it's faster for me to go slow. if that makes any sense.

Yes, that sounds like the way to go. Are those Tamiya colors or Vallejo?

Thanks, Pierre. I'm just glad I can finally prime everything and get it painted so I can finally assemble this project. it seems like the older I get, the longer these projects take. But that's okay. What's the rush anyway. There's no boss standing over me saying, when is this going to be finished? It's not just getting to the destination, it's the journey along the way. But there's nothing like getting it all assembled and adding the wheel /tire assemblies to finally get it sitting and looking like a car. The decals are just the frosting on the cake. It's weird how so many people rush to paint the body and apply the decals first and then never actually finish the build.

Thanks, Gerald. I finally finished the last two items for the interior. I just need to figure out where they mounted the fire extinguisher. I had to copy what Smokey Yunick used in his 66 Chevelle because I could find no reference for it for this car.

Okay, so you're doing the blue #3 car. Looking forward to your color mix for that metallic blue. Should be awesome as usual. I guess it will be like the #65 car that someone posted earlier in the thread. I've always liked that color.