Eric Stone

That's looking great, Jared. Coming along nicely.

Wouldn't it have been faster to drive a car past the Chevy dealership? Oh, I slay me...

Jason, if you decide to make copies of the coupe, or just the LX nose, you've got some interested people here, I'm sure. I know I'd be interested in a couple at least. Looks good.

On my stock '66 Nova, the spindles are meant to be in the higher sitting position, so flipping them should work.

I know (IMO) my '70 Chevelle looked better with its quarter windows down. They made such a difference in airflow that the car usually either had all windows up, or all windows down when I was driving it.

I don't remember kit manufacturers being a challenge question, but it's been a while since I signed up. Might be a new anti-spammer feature. Don't let the rules scare ya off. This is a good place. Welcome!

I've had the same feeling at times, Terry, and in that case I usually don't say anything. The kneejerk reaction to the criticism is to say "I build for me and I like it", which may be true, but I know I build for me, and I want to better my builds. You never know how others will react. I guess I'm more likely to offer tips once a discussion about the flaws has begun, but I'd hate to be the one to initially bring it up and upset someone. Also, you don't always know who you're talking to, or what their experience level is. We don't all build amazing models, and one guy's glue-bombed nightmare could be a kid's masterpiece that is deserving of praise and encouragement. I don't believe in the whole "everybody who plays is a winner and gets a trophy" mentality, but the criticism should be appropriate for the builder.

Yup, that's what I was referring to... And calm down, guys I never said they all catch on fire...

Very pretty, in an aggressive non-English kinda way. Seriously, I really do like it.

Mike, what kind of inspection? What do you do? Cranky, you'd be pretty accurate to build a burnt up 80s to current F150... I see or hear about those catching fire a lot.

Spammer. See the links at the end of the post? Look at his profile and all of his other posts.

The stores around here have had some stuff on clearance lately, but nothing that new. I guess I'll have to keep popping in to see what they've got. Thanks for the heads up.

Looks good!

I actually said something out loud that I can't type here when I saw that primer thing with the Vette tail.

Hey, Mark. Good to see you post again. Great looking car! The black over black wheels looks mean!

This one's pretty tame by comparison... Next door to where a buddy of mine used to live. And to back up my reply to Mike, here's a 99-04 Mustang with a Charger front clip added on. And an 05-09 Mustang GT with a '68 Shelby nose. The troubling thing about this, besides how horrible it looks, is that they offer kits for this. Yup, someone is mass producing this...

Why? I've seen plenty of Fords done up just as bad, some worse... Chevrolet didn't do that to these cars, their weird eccentric owners did.

Looks like the Revell GT500... What's the chassis?

The Fox market is healthy around here... There are quite a few junky cars floating around for $1500 or less, some slightly rough around the edges cars going up to around $5000, and then you start finding clean ones for over $5000 and immaculate or very highly modded/built pushing $10k or more. I paid $7000 for mine after a few months of searching and not finding anything worth spending my money on. When I bought it, it had 65,9XX miles. It's an original 5.0/5spd, original paint, interior, wheels, etc, and had working AC at the time (but it has since gone out). It already had a few of the more expensive "cheap" mods- Cobra intake, 3.73 gear, exhaust, shifter, springs, shocks/struts. I've done a few more minor things, but it remains mostly stock, and is loads of fun. Jeff, whatever you decide to do, it comes down to it being your car. Just enjoy it!

Gregg, I'm just wondering out loud here: How are you able to produce a magazine with all the babysitting you have to do on the side?

That interior looks too clean to mess with! My line of thinking is, if you want a 4-eye car, then want to upgrade to an EFI engine, newer interior, and swap sheetmetal, then you should've bought an 87-93 in the first place, as it would be cheaper in the long run anyway. That's a great lookin lil coupe, Jeff, red interior and all. That thing should be lots of fun with a 5.0/5spd swap.

Glad I could help!

Black is beautiful! Here's mine. I PM'ed you about the email account for FEP.

Sports participants and fans live for rules. That's the nature of sports. Modelers are creative, do their own thing, and stray from using the instructions, so it's no surprise they're more unruly.