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This is interetsing http://www.financialjesus.com/saving-money/10-countries-with-cheapest-gas-prices-in-the-world/ Cheapest place in the world is venezuela at 5 cents a liter. Most of the others are in the middle east. What are they doing to avoid this manipulation?

What I cannot figure out is that when an oil refinery halts production for some reason, like hurricane katrina I believe, the prices goes up like almost instantly, becuase supply goes down. But price never go lower when new refineries gets built and goes online. When the prices do go eventually go down, its gradual process. The prices I believe are dictated by the supply and demand worldwide. I wonder if enough oil exists in North America to supply us. If so I think we should harness it and use it only within our borders and not be affected by global markets. But of course that would require restricted the big cars and trucks that all the joe rednecks love to drive.

Getting back to this new charger coupe, I would be very interested in buying this car. Aslong as it remained a hardtop and kept all of the cool styling. I always wondered when they were going to borrow mercedes hardtop technology. It looks alot smaller than the sedan so perhaps a turbo 4 could be an option alongside the v6 and hemi no?

Why do we even need "muscle cars" for these days anyway? I have read somewhere that the average engine only uses 15 percent of its capacity. So do you need 400 horsepower to take your children to soccer practice? If you do, I hate see the size of your children. Everytime somebody buys a camaro or challenger , some shiek in the middle east is licking his chops. I do agree though that this new challenger coupe looks badass.

Thank you. The scratches still bother me though. An autobody shop recommended going over with meguirs fine cut cleaner , then swirl remover. So I might try that on the hood and see what happens.

Small update I wetsanded the hood and polished it with scratchx, Still see small scratches in the finish. I always only used 2000 grit, then polish and have always been satisfied but these scratches really easy to see with black paint. 2000 is the finest thing I have so think I should get one of those kits with the real fine paper. But I am thinking of first applying another coat of this dupont clearcoat, but this time thru my airbrush. Anybody know anything about these acrylic paints? The can only says to wait 10-15 minutes between coats. Its been about a week since I aplied the second coats of paint and not sure if it is safe to add more clearcoat. This paint seems to be kinda almost foamy and this last time, little bubbles stuck to the surface and dried into little pits in the paint. Had a hard time getting it smooth. I have heard of some paints needing a month to cure if you wait more than the 10-15 minutes.

Those colors inside look much better than the mostly grey interiors they came in for sure !!!

I'm with you, I don't understand why anything should be made to look stock when some nice wider tires and some sort of wheel such as cragars make everything look so much more badass.

Looking pretty badass. How did you find that engine paint? I found it very hard to thin properly and to get a smooth coat.

Almost finished the wheels. Put some dullcote on them to make them seem a little more real.

Is thing is BADASS !!! One of my favorite automobliles. Wicked color! This is top shelf where grandmother keeps the peanut butter cups !!!

Badass !!! What kind of glue did you use on that pillar? I would imagine something super tough. You would have had to pull the front of the roof forward as well as down to make it fit no?

Great idea to get the motor to sit higher. Once painted ,you wont even see em. Good job

This thing is badass. I like this model kit as well. Only needs some more detail added in the right places. Don't care if the proportions are not exact. Don't you wish 1:24 was the standard size? So much easier to detail.

The paint you chose for the shell is very convincing. Magnesium with magic dust over top?? What sorcerer sold you this?

In my opinion, nothing cool about a pacer, whether 12 or 12 million miles.

I would like to know as well, and also if that hood will close after adding them. I took some pics of the wheels I chose, the wheels will be painted black in the end.

I intend to mess up the chrome on the pillars. Even though I know that they were there, I like the look without. Same with those courtesy lights on the doors. I clearcoated the hood with that dupont stuff and it seems real high quality. I will now have to invest in some of that super high grit sandpaper. Don't want to mess this up. But its the first time doing black so I expect to not be perfect.

Looks badass so far. I see you have the washer fluid hoses over the firewall. You might have to make a notch for those on the body shell so it fits right though. Keep going.

Thank you. I am surprised how well it turned out. I used alunimum foil for that. Three pieces, one for the top and sides are different pieces. The trick it to go slow. I first stick the foil to the top of the seat and slowly wrap it around the top corners with my fingers. But you have to make cuts in the corners on the excess part of the foil where it starts to fold. Then just take a toothpick and rub it into the edges gently and then cut all the excess foil off.

Made some progress. Painted a base coat of plastickote black. I will try the technique of applying clearcoat directly to black primer. Not sure who invented this so I not trying to take credit for it. I bought a can of the dupont stuff Mr. Cranky uses. Always affraid to black colors so I expect some imperfections. Interior will now be krylon ivory. Any ideas for the carpet color. Black is probably what was used but I would like to use a light browny color. Perhaps the tamiya deck tan color that I was going to paint the vinyl interior.

Small update. Slowly but surely getting er done. Also a pic of one of my many side projects. !956 chevy

So if a criminal shoots the driver, he dies. And if he ducks the bullet hits the fuel tank and he will still die? Just kidding. Badass idea, cannot wait to see more.

John Tersi. I am very dissapointed in you. Those incorrectly spaced wheel studs will never pass safety inspection. The DMV will laugh at you when you take it there.