Ron Hamilton

The inner part of the grille frame is painted too, so all you would have to do is to add the filler piece.

It's getting close on the coupe now. I am doing the engine as a W30 455. Thanks to Cruz for alerting me about the body color filler panels beween the grille and bumpers. Once I get the coupe finished, I would like to start on the convertible, which I am doing as a '71 442 W30/4-speed, with the W27 aluminum rear axle housing and cover, and the red fender liners. The interior will be white trimmed in black, and for the exterior color, I am leaning towards red, with the white stripes.

We are getting closer to the end of this one. Last weekend, I rubbed the paint out, added the kit decals, added the Vinyl Roof, Bare Metaled the car, painted and detailed the interior, and got it up on it's wheels to see where we are on this one. I painted the Vinyl roof on with flat white acrylic. The wheels were detailed with gold paint and the kit decals, and I used a set of old MPC Goodyear Polyglas GT Tires, which I highlited with a gel pen. I still have to detail several aspects of the build, work over the engine, and touch up several areas of this one before I call it finished. Maybe two or three more modeling sessions, and I can go to the next project. Let me know what you think.

I restored a very ratty '71 into this. And I am doing this phantom '76 Convertible.

It is the 1974 Impala Sport Coupe with the "Spirit of America" package. My mom bought one on Memorial Day, 1974.

I have not touched the grille on mine yet. I rubbed the paint out on the body, Bare Metaled, and decaled it over the weekend. I have to do the vinyl roof. One thing though Cruz, the Hurst Olds had a black grille as part of its package. I have found in my research that a lot of the cars posted on the web are clones of the real thing, which lack a few details. I found a set of tires for it that will work for the kit for white letters. I will post the pics later on my post. Good luck Cruz.

That is one of my favorites, Bill.

You did that kit justice!!! Beautiful!!!

I did a little work on the Hurst Olds Hardtop. In looking at the body compared to the latest reference photographs I have, The vinyl roof mouldings were wrong, and the rear window was too short. So I removed the mouldings, and enlarged the rear window. I also made up new mouldings for the rear window. Finding an accurate photograph of a '72 Hurst Olds Hardtop is not very easy, as there are quite a few innacurate clones out there. I found a picture which I feel is representative of what was being sold as a Hurst Olds Hardtop, as well as an old Motor Trend Magazine Article about the car. Hurst did the vinyl roof mouldings in a different manner than what the factory did in their vinyl roof applications, to accomodate the deck lid stripes. This is what I hope to end up with. Let me know what you think.

I'll be there.

Incredible!!!!

At the first blizzard, I measured 31" in front of my house. About 5 years ago, my brother-in-law talked me into going to Sears to buy a snow blower, which was on sale. It is a big, heavy rascal (31" swath with a 9 h.p. motor). Well, I used it three times in those years until the December snow. Needless to say, it has come in pretty handy. I am sick of this snow. Come on spring.

Cruz, The Eldo is coming along nicely. If you didn't do the headlamps, I would have rode you like Secretariat at the meeting. (lol). I did mine the hard way, by cutting the back of the bezel off of the headlamp ring, de-chroming ot, and attaching it to the body before I primed it. I may bring my Shawn Carpenter '60 Eldorado Biarritz to the meeting, if you like.

You beat me to the punch, Sean. Beautiful Work.

Eggsellent!!!!

And I thought I was done.

Those look great. Excellent execution.

Excellent work, if I say so myself.

I modified the kit grille by using parts from an original Johan '71 I had. The '72 grille is the same, with the exception of the color of the grille mesh, and a black band on the inner recess of the grille. The modelhaus has the original JoHam Grille and insert available in their line, and if you remove the mounting tangs off of the back of the bumper, it will fit this car with virtually no modification. The only drawback with the old JoHan part, is that the headlamps are moulded in and chromed over, instead of having separate lenses.

No. I bought a kit just for the roof. The rest of the parts will be used for other projects.

In regards to the "vinyl", I can go with either the Model Car Garage Vinyl Roof Kit, Masking Tape, or the Testors' Spray Vinyl Roof system, such as what I used on this '70 Barracuda.

I did a little work on the Olds. I added the roof drip, rear window, and vinyl roof mouldings, as well as a coat of primer to check my body work. It seems to be coming along pretty good, but there is still a little work to be done.

No, those wheels were not the factory issued wheels on a Comet GT.. The Comet GT had Mercury Dog Dish Caps with Trim Rings. Believe it or not, the '62 Mercury Full Wheel Cover center is real close to the dog dish caps used on the Comet.

Other than the sail panels and backlite, which I modified, the same roof is used on the Cutlass Supreme Hardtop. Otherwise the only other source would be a very rare MPC '69 through '72 Grand Prix, which had the vinyl roof pattern moulded in.

I have been working on the Revell '72 Olds Cutlass. I was a little disturbed that they did not choose to do a proper 442 Grille, so I did my own. I modified the kit piece by removing the Cutlass Supreme Grilles, and adding a proper set of 442 Grilles form an old JoHan promo. As you can see, the configuration is of a '71, as my build is going to be a '71 convertible, so I can do the red inner fenders and the W27 rear axle from the kit. I still have to remove the rocker panel mouldings from the body, as no '71 or '72 442 had them from the factory. The second build is going to be a '72 Hurst Olds Hardtop. I used an AMT '70 Monte Carlo Hardtop Roof, which I modified the sail panels and rear window area. I still have to add the drip mouldings and vinyl roof mouldings, and do some finish work before I prime it. It was a little harder than I thought, and I am not quite happy with it, but it is pretty close. I should be able to add the mouldings, and maybe put some primer on it soon.