bluestringer

Thanks Bob. Had not thought about a fuel tank. I think I have a fuel cell somewhere, but with those big tubs I don't know if I will have room for it.

This is as low as I can get the front without rebuilding the front suspension, which aint gonna happen. I put on some wheelie bars from the 67 Chevelle kit. Got all the engine together except for the headers, I'll get those after gluing the engine in. Now to get the interior done and get some paint on it. I think I have some metallic red I want to use. I cut the wheel holes too big in the bed so ended up with some over large tubs, but looks ok I guess.

Looking good Bob. Love the color.

This one. It is a nice kit, but getting the body on the frame is a bugger, at least for me. I'll take a break from it and go back to it later.

This one is going back in the box for right now. It's done gone and made me mad. Maybe get it back out later. Moving on to my 66 Chevy c10 pro street, try and finish it up.

Came out really great. Nice job on this one Bob.

It's a close fit, but I think I can get that 427 in there. I will have to mount the headers from the bottom after gluing in the engine. The fan assembly is going to be close, may need to manipulate it or the radiator. I'll be installing velocity stacks on the carbs, so I had to cut a hole in the hood. Or I may leave them off and put a scoop on it.

Anyone who has built this kit, did you have trouble getting the body onto the frame. I can't seem to get it on, keep breaking stuff off when I try it.

Thanks.

Here's my redneck engineered rear chassis. A little off center on one side, but I'm going with it. Got to clean up my "welds" and get some paint on it, maybe pick out a few details. I couldn't do much with the front except I cut the spindles off and moved them up a little to get it to sit a little lower. Still not low enough, I may work with the inner fender wells to see if I can get the body lower. Got to get that 427 built and see if I can squeeze it in the frame. Thanks for all the comments and encouragement.

Beautiful color. I love the 65 and 66 Impalas. My first car at age 16 was a 66 Impala SS 396.

Thanks Bob. Yea those tires look mean. I was thinking about putting in a hemi, but have now decided to put the 427 Chevy out of the Chevelle Pro Street in it. Doing some test fitting and there is going to be a lot of frame modification to get it to work. This is turning out to be more than I thought it would be, but I'm going to keep at it and get something built, but it probably will not be pretty.

Looking good Bob. Did you have to shorten the axle housing? On the 66 Chevy I had to cut off the differential and make new tubes on each side. Then I had to move the control arms and shocks more to the inside. Redneck engineering, doesn't look good, but I guess it works.

I've got the rear about where I want it. On the front I relocated the spindles a little higher which got it a little lower but not enough. Looks like I will have to cut down the inner fender panels to get the body to sit lower. Don't think I can do anything else to the suspension. I went with the smooth look on the back, no bumper. I cut a strip of styrene to replace it.

Not giving up, I'll redneck engineer something out of it. Right now I'm working on a 69 Camaro OOB build. As soon as I'm finished with it I'm going to dig into trying to get something done with this truck. It is fun.

Looking good. Love those hot rods.

Looking real good. Nice work on that dash.

Good start.

Looks great. Nice work.

Looks great Bob.

Got a rolling chassis...........

Thanks.

They are really cool. Mine will never be that good. Not sure if I should even continue, but I've already messed up the kit, may as well see if I can make something out of it.

That is some really nice work on those. Did you scratch build the tubs? Scratch building is way out of my league right now. I just got back into the hobby about 5 months ago. I've never attempted to do anything like I'm trying now, all my builds have been straight OOB. You are correct about the stance, and I'm afraid mine is not going to be low enough. I'm still trying to work that out.

Thanks Chaz.