Oliver77

This is a true survivor! I built this when it came out, and it was one of my first spray paint jobs. (Probably AMT lacquer) Chrome trim is Testors brush paint (it is almost dry now, I’ll give it a couple more weeks LOL). A lot of attempts at detail painting. Big rear tires supply the proper stance. The interior uses custom seats, has woodgrain sticker accents, dirty footprint decals on passenger floorboards, even a green alligator on the rear floor! The hood still has the dreaded metal clip installed. Has a rear bumper hitch, and the coolest feature (to 11 year old me) is the tiger stripe pipe cleaner hanging off the rear bumper! It definitely shows decades of shelf wear but dang it, that 64 GTO body is a tuff looking car.

Wow there are some beautifully detailed Mooneyes builds here! Mine is much simpler, pretty much out-of-the-box. After the usual cleanup to the frame and body panels, I sprayed Tamiya TS-47 yellow over primer. I stripped much of the chrome in purple Super Clean, and cleaned up the moldings. I just couldn’t leave the Potvin blower setup with prominent seams. I used SnJ polishing powder over black spray enamel to recreate the shine. The rear wheels had some nasty ejector pin marks so they got the same treatment, as did the Moon tank and front axle. The motor was stripped and brush painted Testors flat yellow. (Pictures show a subtle difference of yellow on the motor.) I drilled the magneto and epoxied fine floral wire for plug wires. Not sure about the firing order! Instead of cleaning up the drag link rod, I replaced it with styrene rod. I added a junk box parachute. Man am I happy Atlantis got this out!