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Just realized that I forgot the shift lever. Tried to edit the above post, but apparently it is not going through.

Sprayed a coat of Future on the body. Looking better. May put one more coat on for good measure. Photo still doesn't show the color well.

Interior assembled. I might go back over the steering wheel with another color, I'm not happy with it.

Yes, clear acrylic. The floor finish formerly known as "Future", I believe mine is actually "Pledge with Future shine" (same thing).

Time is running out before the NNLEast, but luckily I'm off work until then. I still want to get it finished before then, so, hopefully, updates will be coming rapidly. Interior is painted and flocked, hope to have it finished before the end of the day.

I managed to finally get some color sprayed on the body. This is an experiment for me. Ever since I started working at the craft store whose name begins with "M", I have been fascinated by the variety of colors in the acrylic craft paint aisle. The paint (bottle shown in photo) was thinned with alcohol, and sprayed through my airbrush. Color is actually a little more copper-looking than in the photo. I'm happy with the results, but it does dry kind of flat, so I'm thinking a coat of Future is up next.

Body has been primed and interior painted. Quick mock up.

Actually, it was caused by a single receipt I had just put on it! One piece of paper too much! Luckily, nothing broke. And I didn't have a lot of parts on it at the time, so nothing was lost (that I know of, yet). It was not the most structurally sound table. So it was a mess that took a while to clean up, and then I had to go get the other TV table out of the basement and set everything back up. But this one is in (slightly) better shape, so hopefully it won't be a problem again.

Love this body style. I think I may have been influenced by the '75 Plymouth wagon we had when I was a kid.

Oh great! My work table just collapsed! :-[

Tom: I think I've got one of those lying around somewhere... You were giving them out at last year's show, right? Interesting idea. I was going to go "Street Machine", but maybe I'll try to think up some way to use at least a couple of them.

So, here's what I decided I'm going to drop the Hemi into. I want to try and get started on it in the next day or two.

My favorite Road Runner, probably because that was one of my first models back in the day. I managed to find one for not too much money a few years ago, and it's sitting on the shelf, waiting for me to do it justice.

Misha: Yeah, I'll bend them down more while I'm handling it prior to installation. ;-)

Installed the air filters, distributor, coil, alternator, belts, and fan, and routed the plug wires. And with that, I believe the Hemi is finished. I'm waiting to install the headers until I decide what it is going into. (Actually, I have pretty much decided what I'm going to build, but I'm saving that for the next update. :-) )

Added carburetors and fuel lines

I've wanted to build a new model for a while, but I have been having trouble deciding just which one of the dozens I have on the shelf. So I have decided to just start with the engine, and figure out what to put it in later... Hemi left over from the '68 Dart I built a couple years ago. I actually started this a couple weeks ago, but haven't been making much progress. I'm hoping that posting it here will motivate me to finish it before NNL East.

This may be a little late, but I always find this site to be a valuable source of information: http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Dodge/1965_Dodge/1965_Dodge_Monaco_Brochure/dirindex.html ... also, the full-line brochure lists black and white as the only vinyl top colors: http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/new/171110/1965%20Dodge%20Full%20Line/1965%20Dodge%20Full%20Line-22.html

Tom: It looks like the link on this post is messed up... It looks OK in the post, but when I click on it, the address comes up as: http://http//www.tssmcc.org ... Or maybe it's just me?

OK, looks like I can now...

I would have posted a photo of it on the workbench, but apparently I can't upload photos from my phone anymore...

I've decided that I'm not satisfied with how this turned out. I've always been my own worst critic... Mainly, I don't like how the windows fit in the body. I'm going to try replacing them with sheet plastic. This, and a number of other nits I could pick at, has returned this one to the workbench.

None of the buttons ("Prev", "Next", Menu upper right) seem to do anything when browsing from my phone (Android, Samsung Galaxy S2)

OK, model is "assembled" but not quite "finished"... I've still got a little "tweaking" to do tonight... See you at NNLEast!

Engine is assembled... ...and first coat of color has been sprayed on the body, second coat to follow later this afternoon.