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Sweet looking setup! I'll be watching this one. My next project is going to be a pro-touring '69 Camaro with a bagged suspension patterned off the AirRide Tech system.

On one of the pro-touring forums there was coverage of a track day held by Air-Ride suspensions. They were thrashing some of their house cars and putting to shame, on the track, many with "steel" suspension setups. Air bag setups have come a long way in the last decade to where there is virtually no difference performance-wise and you have the added benefits of adjusting for a more comfortable ride. I've always thought of pro-touring as what the engineers of the 60's would have built if they somehow had access to new millenium technologies. The classic sheetmetal of the 60s-early 70s with the equivalent handling, braking, comfort and livibility of today's best performance machines. The big wheels aren't the definition they are a necessity to clear the larger brakes, taller spindles and lower profile tires that come with improving the performance of early iron. A cage, racing seats, EFI, overdrive trannies, etc aren't necessarily required. The spirit of the movement, in my opinion, has always been to infuse the classic designs with do-it-all performance.

Finally got the subframe connectors for the Nova done. I'm sure I'll have a little clean-up/gap filling once I lay down some primer but I'm happy with them as my first effort.

Had to go way back to find my original thread. Looking back I'm glad I screwed up the original paint job 'cause the second time around looked so much better. Anyways, I've got the itch to build again. I got a different vibe from her when I put her back on the bench so the tan interior is gone now and repainted Tamiya flat black which I'll get some pics of once the foil work is done. This is what's kept me busy the last couple of nights, fabbing up a set of DSE-style subframe connectors. I'm sure I did it the hard way but the channels for the rails were done by hand with a needle file and the scale 2x3s are a nice snap fit to the floorboard. They should "weld up" nicely with some Ambroid. I've still gotta make the caps where they connect to the subframes but the major work is done.

Len, I sent you a PM the other day before I took off for work. Send me you addy and I'll get the master out to ya.

The first two cars that come to mind '69 Corvette L-88 '09 Z06

Len, were you looking for a reservoir like this? I had this one for the Z06 turned at work, I need to get it cast. It's a full length design based on the research I was able to turn up. Alot of the ones that I've seen are only deep enough to get the effect not prototypically correct. If you want I might be able to get Brad (our lathe guru) to turn another one or I'll find someone to cast it and get you a copy.

Three pregnant women, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead, are waiting at their doctor's office for their checkups. The redhead states that an old wive's tale says that since she is always on top that she will be having a boy. The brunette counters that since she's always on the bottom she must be having a girl. The blonde looks around confused for a bit and then exclaims "Yea, I'm having puppies!!"

My wife goes through a ton of Shout spray doing the kiddos clothes. I'll occasionally steal an empty from her and refill it with water. About 10-15 minutes before I'm ready to paint, I mist down the inside of my paint booth. I got the idea from a buddy of mine that worked on the re-paint line at GM who preferred to work in a wet booth.

Awesome job on the Nova! Top notch detail work, paint, stance, she's got it all.

Looks great, I'll be keeping an eye on this one. I've always had a soft spot for Montes. My dad and I had a project '73 when I was 15. We lost it when the tree next to the driveway fell over on it during a storm.

Man, I feel for ya. I had an inguinal hernia fixed back in February of '02. It actually was the reason I got back into the hobby as an adult as I had some time off from work to recover and not a whole lot to do. Glad to hear you've recovered well.

I got the chance to ski Breckenridge the winter after I graduated high school, beautiful country up there.

George, thanks for the tips. You have an awesome workshop and I'm still stupified when I look at your Smallville dio. I will certainly borrow some of your ideas for the stuff that I'm planning on hanging onto. I'm like most in that I'm was a much more prolific buyer than builder. In the days PK (pre-kids), I would snatch up nearly everything I saw on the shelf that caught my eye, multiples of the ones that I really liked and kits just for the sole purpose of stealing a set of wheels or other parts out of. Most of what's in the totes are those multiples and kits that are outside my primary areas of interest that I know that I'll never will get around to building. I've learned with time to be much more cautious about what I buy and try to get individual parts/assemblies through trades rather than buying a kit just for the sake of kitbashing. Ultimately, I'm looking at getting the contents of the totes back out into the hobbyist realm rather than having them waste away in my possession. I've done my best to keep an eye on the Swap, Trade, Free and Wanted! sections, filling every request that I can help out on. I dislike Ebay as a buyer and absolutely despise selling on there. I'm not under any pressure to unload everything so my last option will be throw junkyard lots on their site. I just put up a post in the Swap section for anyone interested.

I seem to remember a post asking for pics of our work areas and seeing that the wife told me that I had to start getting my area cleaned up I took some pics. Originally, my area was in the spare bedroom in the basement until her friend needed a place to stay. So, I packed up all my stuff and moved across the hall to the family room/storage area for ###### we don't use. Now that baby #4 is on the way (January), the family room is being converted to the boys' bedroom, freeing a bedroom upstairs and I get to pack everything back up and move back across the hall to where I was to begin with. The bench, spray booth, dehydrator station I've really cut back on my aspirations of greatness. I've picked about a half dozen or so projects to focus on and everything else became expendable. The two stacks on the left are complete/near complete kits I have up for trade, everything from there over is somehow involved in said projects. I'm not actually sure how many kits 3 18-gallon totes can hold but it's a bunch. My best guess is that there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-50 kits based on the inventory I took when we first bought the house, what's left out, what I've bought since then and a call to the psychic phone network . This is the aftermath of my boys rampage through my hobby area, kits that had been pilfered for parts and/or kit boxes that were damaged sufficiently enough to warrant disposal. I have no idea what I'm going to do with these eventually because I hate the idea of dumping it all on Ebay.

29 here and I've been building off and on since I was 7. My wife has come to accept my habit. At least I'm not out drinking with guys or getting into any other kind of trouble when I get off work at night. We've got an agreement that she'll learn to build a kit when I sit down and learn to scrapbook. Neither side has had to pay out yet. My boys (7 and 5) have built a few snap kits that never seem to last very long and my oldest will be introduced to painting on his next project.

Quite simply, I can't draw flames either by hand or computer. I got this far by drawing one spoke of the design and mirroring/copying it around the star. I'm quite attached to the design, actually it's attached to me, it's my first tattoo I got when I was 18. It's an ancient symbol for chaos. Basically, I need some help randomizing the licks on the flames. I drew the original in Xara (a vector based design program) so I can scale it up or down as large as necessary and export into just about any format someone would need. I can also remove the flames completely if someone wanted to start from scratch. TIA, Kyle "LOBBS" Laubscher

Your HobbyTown USA is a lot cooler than ours here in KC. If you're not in there to buy something R/C related you can't get the time of day from any of the help. And don't even bother to try and order something they don't have in stock (unless it is an aforementioned R/C item).

Absolutely gorgeous build Izzy!! I always loved those Penske Camaros and you did it justice with your modern take.

Ok, finally got back to the hobby shop and got the color re-shot over the weekend. I'll give her a few nights in the dehydrator and then she'll get cleared and polished. I've still got to get the black-out treatment on the grill and taillight panel area also. Sorry about the mess, my true-white lamp was really screwing up the true color so I took some shots on the bench.

I've got much love for the Durango!! Here's ours the day we brought her home. 2003 2wd, 5.9L (360) and the 3rd row seat. Great job on the conversion, you don't see a whole lot of Durango stuff in any scale.

I've ordered from Mark several times in the past and always been happy with the products.

Yep, I've got a '64 Chevy California Wheels on the must get list again. It was just dumb luck that I happened to trade mine away a couple of days before I knew it'd be of use on this project. If I can't come across a '72 GMC, I'm going with the AMT '72 Chevy, Revell '64 chassis and AMT '90 Stepside bed much like what you've got mocked up. Thanks for the tip on the hood, from what I've read this old kit can be a bear to work with.

That's exactly the kind of luck I'm having getting this project off the ground. I just traded my Revell '64 Chevy to Crazy Ed so he could use it for one of his Chaparall teams. Oh well, at least the '64 is relatively easy to find still.

Thanks for the head-up Steve. Somehow, I've never picked up one of the '67-'72 GM pickup kits so I'm grossly unfamiliar with their strengths and weaknesses.