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i like the 180° pipes on the Ford GT. A lot.

Thank you. I see that i might have to get creative with the pipes. I have one of the Camaros, builtup, came from a very well-known online retailer. It was a gluebombed mess, never disclosed by the seller. My first impulse was to throw it at a concrete wall. I'll have to hunt it down and see again how bad it is. He pulled the same act on Albert. Thanks again!

Can it be found in any other kits? No, not something close.......the exact same chassis as the original.

Whatever you do, DON'T accuse OP of perpetuating this thread by Trolling!

Look what you done, Jimbo. It went right over their heads, you rascal! ?

It's actually quite easy for reasons that will foster no good will by mentioning them here! ?

Too Cool. Doc! The quarter panels for the coupe had to be 9-10 feet long. Glad that i wasn't one of them who were recruited to stone those dies.

Wow! One of them that survived! Nice Work! https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/general-lee-graveyard/

The floor is there but it looks a little short and that the rear firewall will push the back seat forward until it is touching the front seat. The interior sail panel trim appears short-shot on the far side and Straight Axle in the front! I don't recall ever seeing Dana-type rear axle covers on a Riviera. Weird how the springs are wound in opposing directions ?

I did 7.5" ÷ 3.5 = 2.14" Knowing that GM did everything except a few ignition components in fractional dimensions at the time, i rounded off to 2 & 1/8". 2" to 2.12" is a difference of only .005" in 1/25 scale. So yes, 2" if not perfect is close enough! ? I've never contracted for such a thing but i'd look into having this molding 3D printed just because i like short cuts.

How's your math these days? The lens is 7 ½” tall.

HI: Mine is a 1986. On the inside of the firewall, above the glovebox, is a small plastic box no larger than a pack of ciggies. This is the rudimentary 'computer' that listens for signals from the Knock Sensor and if it hears any, retards the timing until the knock goes away. I wasn't having any of that so i junked the box, the distributor, the simple wiring and selected a late 1970's passenger car HEI from the pile. It was completely disassembled and cleaned in Berryman Carb Cleaner. Then it got a new vacuum advance can which rotates the pickup coil to manipulate the advance. The white ring is a handcut (with punches) felt washer which gets oiled to ease the rotation of the pickup coil. Maybe you can see the new lightweight Mr Gasket mechanical advance springs. On the outboard ends of the springs are small nylon bushings which go inside the mechanical advance weights. These are usually wasted to the point that there's often nothing there. At the time, i learned that these bushings were out of production by every manufacturer so i scoured the nation and bought all the old stock i could find. Think i ended up with about 30 pieces. Not much but enough to satisfy me. The pickup coil checked with an Ohmmeter and found to be within factory specs, the ignition module replaced with new, and the distributor reassembled. Below is the restored engine wiring harness. It's exactly the same as new so that any future owner can look at a schematic and not get confused by wrong color wiring. New split wire tubing as needed. As i recall, the blue wire went to the electric choke coil. It's not finished because i needed to have the harness on the engine so i could decide where to cut off the excess wire. The red tubing is fireproof (seriously) insulation to protect the starter wires where they go past the exhaust manifold. The insulation is zip-tied in a couple places away from the heat.

It's easy. The Seller gave your item to UPS. Now, one of 2 things is supposed to happen. It will bounce around in the UPS system until it gets to your nearest UPS terminal. Then, UPS will either deliver it to you OR they will hand it off to USPS in your hometown and they will deliver it. There will be no USPS Tracking Number if UPS completes the delivery to you. The 3rd possible scenario is that the label and tracking number get separated from the parcel. You don't wanna know what happens then. Just noticed: The timestamps on your #5 and #6 are out of order. That's actually pretty common. I suspect that they do it to get folks pumped up.

I have a box Chevy 4X4, too, but it's nowhere near as pretty as yours. I done WAY too much work to mine: all new brake lines, master cyl, transmission lines & TV Cable, filter & fluid, all new engine tin including oil pan. A stainless steel muffler & stainless exhaust system that i got in trade for a scrap car body at the junkyard. I don't know what the system came off of but i cut and fitted it to this truck. It will outlive the truck, for sure. New Taiwan front inner fenders. Door & Ignition locks replaced with lightly used and 3 sets new GM-logo keys cut to the code. All new belts, hoses, RB Alternator & power steering pump with new hoses. Edelbrock intake and carb replaced with OEM aluminum intake, rebuilt Quadrajet, air cleaner replaced with OEM. New fuel pump. Junked the aftermarket FM-Cassette unit and installed a correct Delco AM-FM radio with correct knobs. Starter rebuilt with new brushes, Bendix & solenoid. Butchered battery cables replaced with uncut OEM used, side terminal. I used some heavy gauge steel from a washing machine housing to patch the floor. The rudimentary computer is gone. Pulled the engine wiring harness and restored it to stock with correct color & gauge wiring with new GM terminals. No splices anywhere except in the plow headlights circuits. The aluminum mags are gone, replaced with multi-slotted stock wheels and tires that have less than 10K miles on them. Distributor completely rebuilt and all new tune-up parts. New custom-fitted plug wires by way of an MSD Pro-Crimp tool. Bought the wires at a parts store liquidation. Have no idea what they were for but they have a spiral-wound radio-supression stainless steel core. The engine is a beauty, though. A new GM replacement 350 that, when i had the tin off, clearly had only a few thousand miles on it. The engine block has notches for the dipstick on both sides. In spite of the low miles, the oil pan was rusted thru. The oil pan is a GM Dealer-only item. $160 is the cheapest i could find it. :( Found a correct Century fiberglass topper in the next town over - $50 and brought it home on a tow dolly. Anyhow, i have way more into it than it is worth. If the young guy i bought it from could see what i did he'd probably call me a fool and laugh his guts out. It came with a plow that i've used twice in 5 years. It's been out of the yard once to plow the driveway next door. If it doesn't get any use this winter i'll get rid of it. Anyone who appreciates top-shelf work is gonna be floored. BTW, i bought it to take down an 80' tree that was leaning hard over my house. The house didn't get hurt ?

Video games. They're designed to be addictive. Playing with models can't compete.

Obviously some quality work on the drip rails and the stationary side windows.

I don't use sticks. I jam a heated sewing straight pin into small parts and hold the pin with a hemostat. I spray nearly everything so i have many hemos. More than i need, in fact.

AMT 1972 Chevelle with 1971 resin conversion https://www.modelroundup.com/product-p/amt-31548-71.htm

When i was a kid, a lifetime ago, the old bat on the next block over came home with a brand new 1972 Chevelle SS 350 in Placer Gold with a domed hood and black stripes and those tough factory mag wheels that came on the Z/28. I dint have a driver's license yet but was all into big blocks at the time and couldn't appreciate that car. I would dearly love to have it right now, just as it was.

That came out real nice. It's good to see when someone has the skill and determination to pull it off.

Seems like it would be far easier to go from 1972 to 1971 than from 1970 to 1971. There are tons of AMT 1972 Chevelles still floating around.

I read the article 3 times and saw nothing that indicated GM made the decision to proto the 4-seater based on Thunderbird sales versus a possible desire to keep competing directly with the T-bird for passenger capacity. As far as the 1963 Corvette 'almost a 4-seater'. Well before 1963 Zora had a vision for his baby. A 4-seater making production would have ended Zora's relationship with GM. Even then, Zora was too valuable for GM to ever let that happen.

I use the $4.99 model from Harbor Freight. They don't magnify very much but what they will do is compensate for my loss of close-up focus. I got rid of the lamps and the loupe. I have to hold the workpiece 4-5" away from the lenses but so what? I can see everything. I bought a couple sets like the type just above and tried them out but still keep going back to the $4.99 set. BTW, the type just above can be ordered direct from China for about $9 postpaid. You know over there: USA companies contract with them to produce things like the above and in between runs for the customer, they get rid of the printing on the product and run more for their buddies to sell out of their homes on eBay. What's anybody gonna do about it? Nothing. The more developed China Sellers have buddies living in Cali. That cuts out the 1-2 weeks it takes for stuff to come over in small packets on the jetliner. You know they're living 3-4 in a Cali apartment that's so full of product that all there is are paths in between the stacks of boxes.

I've seen them both ways. Some have full front inner fenders, some have front inner fenders with the top surface apparently blocked off in the mold. Why? Was it a running change in the mold or did the hardtop and convertible each use a different chassis configuration?

That's a re-shrinked kit. Look at all the corner wear UNDER the shrink. I've got burned 2-3 times before i learned what to look for.