Cowpunk

The model has a great figure for her late 20s. Props to you , Hon!

Wow! Never seen one in those colors but am sure it was available! Pretty sure the headrests became std equipment for the 1969 model year.

As you can see, the 1965 & 1966 Olds Starfire got the Pontiac Grand Prix roof & backlight. But the thing about the 1965 model is that the exhausts exited through the rear lower quarter panel moldings. That's pretty unique. Click the youtube link. 1965 Starfire

This thing is still going? GM frames, front subframes, engine cradles, control arms and sometimes other things were suspended from an overhead conveyor. As they approached a tank of Chassis Black the conveyor dipped down and submerged the part then rose out of the tank and traveled for several feet over a long drip pan that caught most of the drippings. But for many feet beyond the end of the drip pan were more drips on the floor. Of course, there were smaller tanks for subframes and even smaller ones for small parts. Factory Chassis Black is not paint. It's a semi-soft asphalt coating in a thicker liquid consistency. I can't remember for sure if they heated it or not but it probably was to set up as fast as it did. It stunk in the area like it does when you roll by a new road asphalt job. New frames, etc, have runs and sags everywhere. About oil changes.....The assembly plants often built cars with defects that were too expensive to fix. So if they were driveable they distributed them to the factories to use on site only. They NEVER wasted money on oil changes, tires, or anything else. Just keep putting gas into it until it couldn't be used anymore. Then scrap it and write it off.

Look for wear along the 8 corners of the box top.

Neatly done!

A quick wipe with lacquer thinner will knock off a lot of the shine.

Sooooooooooooo Cool!

Fine. I can finish it. I have the 1974 printing of the Chevrolet Parts and Accessories Catalog. The exact same publication that the franchised dealers used before they went to microfiche. Gimme a few days. I have other priorities at the moment.

The "References' you are referring to base their claims of 2 different 1968 Camaro Hoods on the First printing of the 1968 Camaro Dealer Brochure. Sometimes factory literature is wrong at the First printing and gets corrected with the Second printing. First PIC is a factory picture of a 1965 Malibu SS with lower quarter panel moldings that never happened. Second PIC Original 1966 Pontiac GTO material pictured a 8-Lug drum & wheel option that never happened. Search the YouTube title in the PIC Third is a virgin 1968 Camaro SS 350 - http://classiccardb.com/chevrolet/255018-1968-camaro-ss-rs-350-4sp-barn-find-original-drivetrain-tach-amp-gauges-deluxe-int.html

Wrong, wrong, wrong. There are 2 First Gen Camaro SS hoods. The 1967 SS hood and the 1968-69 SS hood. The engine size is irrelevant. The 1967 SS hood was never factory equipment on any 1968 Camaro.

Silly me! Here I always believed that the 1967 Camaro SS hood was different than the 1968-69 Camaro SS hood!

Great Work!

That's what you see in the mirror. You're welcome to keep digging!

It's both funny and sad how one lie begets another.

How many automobile/truck factories have you been inside? Let's say zero. That's a lot less than me. Better to be quiet about things instead of making assumptions.

GM frames, subframes, control arms, and more, were all coated, just like the chassis in your lead picture. But not with a spray gun and not with a thin coating at all. BTW, the floor pans in your lead picture are too tannish-looking. It might be because of the lights in the shop. Fluorescent throws the colors off. They almost look painted but it could never be a Top-Flight car if they were. The glass mat was white, the resin was clear. So it should look pretty close to white, a semi-translucent white because the clear resin added some transparency. And the glass mat gains transparency when it is wetted with the resin. It's a tough look to duplicate on a model car.

It sounds like you're saying frames, particularly General Motors frames from say: 1955 and up, were spray-painted. That's not true.

Raw fiberglass is the correct finish on midyear Corvette floor pans. The other ones i've seen look a little milkier than this. Still haven't figured out how to duplicate that.

Bruce McLaren documentary (2017) free HQ stream http://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=McLaren

I say you won. Or something.

I can see: the dotted lines through some of the windows, the incomplete printing on some of the window frames, and some missing ink in some of the fox (?) ears. It looks like the printer wasn't printing at a high enough resolution to avoid these defects. I've bought Alps-printed decals that were junk and i've got some from Gooche that are pretty darned good.

I looked at a 1977 Coupe a few years ago. Light blue with the Oyster interior, 4-speed. About 85,000 miles on it. Was for sale by the original owner, a woman. Was never driven in winter so the frame was clean but it needed everything: paint, complete interior, weatherstrips, tires, the engine was leaking oil everywhere. Some of the wiring was cobbled together under the hood. She never maintained it beyond the bare minimum. It needed $8-10K to make it presentable and reliable. She had an offer of $5,000 and told me that i could have it for $5,001. I could not do it.

I have a bunch of these kits. Once upon a time i decided to try to build one. I blew on some gray primer then looked at the body in the sunlight and saw all the shrunken areas in the body where the mold had been welded up and reworked. After that, they all became parts kits. ?

Dang, I thought it was an access door where things could go in. ?