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Your catalina looks awsome nice interior and very impresive engine details.

Perfect picture the hose rather short maybe about a foot long.

I owned both a 1967 and 68 and by brother had a 69 bird the rear heater hose goes from the heater core in the fire wall to the passenger rear cyclinder head just behind and a little below the rear intake runner there was a nipple on the head, the only coolent passage on the intake manifold was at the front for the upper rad hose, the other heater hose goes from the water pump to the firewall. I hope this helps.

Great review Jairus i was curious about these kits looks decent i like the steel chassis don't like the guide flag setup.

Revell 68 firebird on the crappy parma edge chassis which i cut the center section out and replaced it with wire and the big Al thunderbird on a wire frame chassis.

Yep they all look very good

Great work on a modern style altered.

I assume you mean the coil springs the stock ones were thick blobs of chrome with very little detail so i replaced them with some wire i wrapped around a small piece of brass rod several times then i cut them to size and painted chrome before installing them i put a small piece of brass wire painted white centered in the coil spring mount because it's load bareing.

The rat rod looks great i like the weld bead detail around the roof.

Wow that looks awsome, the paint and decals are very well done as are all those engine details.

That's a good question joseph i have several pics of the car but you can't see the inside frame rails with the engine in the car and the body on it, i think from the factory these early model t cars had open frame rails and a lot of hot rod guys would box them in for added strength because of the high powered motors and it looks better maybe some one else has an anwser.

A little update i got the front and rear wheels installed just had to see what it would look like i made the white wall tires using very thin vinyl tape, this is a very small car almost looks like 1/32 scale but i like it, next i work on the body parts.

Thanks guys for the paint i used createx acrylic aqua with about 30% pearl blue mixed in for the engine and interior, the blue areas on the frame are decals.

I like it very well done i like the color of the engine matching the interior it looks better this way than the factory blue they came in.

Wow Ira you do crank out the projects this does look interesting.

I finished the frame and most of the suspension just have to add the shocks front and rear and do some touchup, the frame was prepped with tamiya white primer than sprayed with Tamiya gloss white and 2 airbrused coats of iridescent white and 3 coats of clear gloss i wish you could see the iridescent paint it looks a lot like pearl.

Wow an amazing build to be shore the paint and graphics are perfect for your subject, i don't build bikes but i may start after seeing this.

I love these old drag cars they have so much personality and those machined parts lookk great.

One pic of the interior painted to match the engine, i gave the steering wheel a coat of tamiya white lacquer than a coat of iridescent white so it would have that pearl look still needs a second coat and a final clear coat kind of an experiment to see if this will work on the entire body.

Both cobras are awsome but i really like the green paint you custom mixed very cool, can't wait for number 3 will it be shiny to.

Great work Jeffrey on your first model back into the hobby looks good to me, good engine details.

g Great work so far i like the carpet.

Wow very impresive work your scratch building skills are amazing.

Thanks guys, no i did not make the wire looms Don they are a pe set from detail master part number DM 2361, Joseph i used createx acrylic aqua with about 30% pearl blue mixed in than a few coats of tamiya gloss.

Thanks guys, i really liked doing the details on this one helps to add some interest with all that chrome.