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But unlike paint, you can peel off a bad foil job

For smaller size pieces I have used clear paint

I never understood how they got the headlights so undersized from the late 50's thru the early 60's. No easy fix.

SMP Decals does several super stock type sheets.

Another great build. MCW did some nice decals back in the day.

Right now, the only fuelie unit in a kit is the AMT 63 Corvette, and it's not very good. If I remember, Harold told me the base parts for his engine came from an MPC 1964 annual kit. He was offering the engine separately.

Harold Bradford at Historic Racing made an excellent conversion kit to turn a Revell 67 Vette into a 63. He used the snap body to start with, but includes an interior with separate seats, a beautiful (correct) fuelie small block and the nicest alloy wheels around.

This tutorial is worthy of pinning

If you look on Randy Ayers forum, you will find several nice builds of these kits including some with the '67 Fairlane body. There are also some good tutorials on building them. Model Car magazine did a good article on detailing them, forgot which issue. I finished up ones with an AMT 1968 Torino body and working on a 1971 Mercury using the MPC body. Plan on doing several more variations.

Don't know if they are still around, but I bought several from Cover Shot Accessories.

What did you use to attach the MCG frame brackets. That has been a problem area for me.

Don't know how accurate you want to be, but GM cars back then we're truck arm cars and the Salvino JR Olds is a leaf spring chassis. To correct that, the AMT nascar's are pretty cheap and you can use the rear suspension under the Olds chassis. Another option would be to use the AMT 70's Monte Carlo chassis as a lot of the teams including Bobby Allison started with that.

To fix the Goodyear lettering, get a new #11 exacto blade and cut a few areas between the lettering. Soak a cotton swab with setting solution and dab it on generously. For some reason the hollow AMT tires are bad for doing this and it has worked for me.

You may try going to a local automotive paint store and have them mix acrylic enamel (not hot) and put it in a aerosol can. I have bought the large cans for about $25

I usually soak any resin parts in Westley's Blech White tire cleaner for a day, than soft tooth brush and cold water scrub. Never have any paint issues.

Patto's Place has some including the VRM ones mentioned above. His stuff is nice, but by the time it comes from Australia, they cost a little.

Been following along and like what you did color wise. It's rare if I make any suggestions, but I think it would look nice to put some transparent gold on the chrome wheels. Goes along with the decals.

Excellent job. Another reason for the white bottom was so they could see if anything was leaking. The Sox & Martin team really stepped up the professionalism in drag racing and you captured it in your build. I started this car about 10 years ago using the MCW conversion for the Lindberg Dodge. Now you motivated me to get it out.

McMaster Carr is a great source and fast shipping. RB Motion would be another source, but I think someone had some issues with him here on the forum. I never have. Always got my items in a timely manner and nice product.

Being a fan of the '62, we have a lot of good choices to build. Between AMT and Revell, we can do the Impala hardtop and convertible, Bel-Air street or strip versions and MCW does a Biscayne conversion kit. We'll be following along on this one, like the color you chose.

I believe the 68 is the Revell kit, but looks like an AMT chassis under it.

Also, I believe the Revell snap kits of the stock version 63 have them. If you are building a shelf model, I would just build the entire snap kit. The body just looks a lot more accurate.

Like I stated previously, I am somewhat of a Corvette purist. But I respect other people's craftsmanship and vision, and you created something to be proud of.

I am generally a Corvette purist, but I like what you created.

If you want to go the extra mile ($$$), Model Car Garage has a photo etched set for that kit.