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Headers are, more often than not, application specific. Even in scale, where we have some room to fiddle with making things fit, it would be difficult to make a one-size-fits-all set of headers. A set of shorty, street rod style of headers would be doable but incorrect for most applications. There are also plenty of tutorials out there for making headers from solder.

I'm down to choosing between the Torque Thrusts included in the '59 or the resin Salt Flats. One of the biggest knocks against the Revell C6 Vette kits, in all their variations, was that the wheels are too small in diameter and the tires were too narrow. I'm staying with the LS2 from the C6 Vette kit so their is no need for steamroller rear tires. The 20" tires from the '59 kit will do just fine. It then becomes a matter of which of the two above mentioned wheels to go with.

I've been doing some more research on the ZR59 SEMA car and it is C6 Vette up front only. The back is a bagged 9-inch all on an Art Morrison frame. I want to do a full C6 setup front and rear complete with the torque tube. I can go 2 ways with this. Modify the kits '59 frame (mainly the pick up points and seriously reworking/eliminating the X-member). This would be more "correct" but would require much more scratch-building. The second option is modifying the C6's chassis plate to fit the '59 body. The chassis plate of the C6 is relatively flat and could be reworked into an aero belly pan relatively easily. It's not as prototypically correct but does involve much less frame work. Someone on EBay does a very nice set of American Racing Salt Flat wheels to fit the large diameter tires in the '59 kit. I'm currently leaning towards option #2 and going with a pro-touring/land speed theme.

The '69 Nova has me a bit frustrated at the moment so I'll step away for a bit and start up on this one. I've had the '59 Vette for years with no real direction on which way I wanted the build to proceed. That all changed with my trip to the Heartland Nats today. I came across this Revell C6 Vette missing its body but otherwise complete for the whopping sum of $4. Needless to say, I snatched it up quickly. Given the '59 Vette's separate frame and that the C1 and C6 are nearly identical in wheelbase, this should be a rather straightforward swap. I'll be drawing some serious inspiration from this SEMA build.

Man, I hate hearing that. I've still got a '68 annual cab + random parts that I doubt I'll ever use. I'm holding out hope that Revell or Moebius will eventually tool up a new '67-72 GM truck. That's the only reason I let this resin one go.

Great turnout again this year and the vendor area has grown huge in the years since I began attending. I don't always have something finished to enter but I always make my best attempt to see the show on Sunday regardless. It's always cool to meet some of the guys from here on MCM there.

I just saw this build in the flesh at the Heartland Nats. Absolutely amazing work.

It's the Race Motors kit. '67 Chevy w/ 6' bed. http://rmrresin.webs.com/nf125.htm

I taught my sons how to spray paint with rattle cans using one of those.

I received a $300 Grex pistol-trigger airbrush for my birthday years ago. Beautiful piece of equipment. I needed a fitting to adapt it to my compressor. Needless to say, other than pulling it outta the box a few times to ogle it, it has never had a drop of paint put through it.

I've got the package with me and I'll mail it on my lunch break tonight. I just have not been able to slip off to the PO before work. In a recent email with VCG, once they receive the parts it'll take them a couple of days to make the molds. They'll send me pics of the first couple out (a shot of the parts and one assembled). If all looks good, they'll be ready to order. So if all goes well, we're looking at early to mid next week as to when you can start placing orders.

Great save!!

My all-time favorite year of Corvette and you did it justice. Good work.

I got word back from VCG. They do ship worldwide so all the international guys will have no issues.

Are we still having this LSx debate? The term LSx where the "x" is a variable meant to represent the different number and letter variations (1,2,3,6,7,9,A, etc.) was widely in use long before GMPP put out the iron block crate motor known as the LSX. Are they interchangeable? No. Are they both commonly accepted? Yes.

Excellent looking build. I've always had a soft spot for the 911. I may have to step outside of my GM pro-touring box and take one of these on.

You know I'll be following this. I always enjoy seeing another builder's take on a old project or trade of mine.

I'm pretty sure that CSC softens up resin and destroys it.

I'm glad I test fitted the body before I repainted. The tires are fitting a little wider than I anticipated. They're not coming off without breaking something so I guess it's time to do the scale equivalent of rolling the inner fender lips. On these Novas, there is a rather large bulge on the inside of the fender lips. It is probably designed into the mold to ensure the body fills out. I should be able to take enough off to squeeze the tires in.

Got the Nova up on all fours. Aoshima 19" Kranze LKZ's and brakes from the Revell C5 Vette. Body is finally stripped so I hope to get the base black down tonight. I have to make a quick trip to the hobby shop tomorrow for another can of MM Bronze and she'll have an orange stripe this time around. I'll really be pushing to have this done for the Heartland Nats this weekend.

Yep, I just loaded up AutoCAD on the home PC. There are several parts/ideas that I've had that have held up builds over the years. Now I'll just try and model them in CAD and send that off to Shapeways for printing. I could see myself throwing together some wheel sets as well rather than trying to continually track down OOP Aoshima/Fujimi sets.

I don't know for sure VCG's international policies but if he won't send me a PM. I'll put a few extra on my order and get them to you.

Ordering will be through VCG. I just created this thread to show him that the market was here to make it more likely that I could get a top-notch caster to take on the project. I do get a discount on my first order for creating the master but otherwise there is no financial gain for myself. My main goal was to get this out in the wild as I believed it would be a bonus to the modeling community to have it readily available.

Awesome. I thought I was going to have to bug the guys up in engineering to make me something in Enovia.

If you don't mind me asking what CAD setup are you using to design the wheels? This is something that I could definitely get into given the lack of aftermarket companies doing pro-touring style wheels at the moment.