BigGary

O.K. I'll throw in my 2 cents. I'm guessing you held the can too far away and the primer partially dried before it hit the body, or the humidity could have been too high. I also guess that this can of primer might be old and deteriorating. Did you shake it upreal good? Was the temperature in the room/outside above 65 degrees? Did you warm the can of primer before spraying? Gary

Bill, I see that maturity came along, in at least one sense, you grew face hair! Funny how you don't look that much different now, except now you have teeth! Gary

I like your paint jobs but it makes me think of something. Some people have wa-a-ay too much time on their hands. Gary

I put a post on here the other day about sanding primer with blue paper shop towels. I got ballyhooed about how if the primer is too smooth the paint won't stick. That hasn't been my experience! It makes primer baby-butt smooth. I've used Bounty paper towels for polishing also. It worked fine except that my paint wasn't cured. Back to sand paper and the paint booth. Live and learn... Gary

Thanks for the inspiration Barbo! I've also decided that there needs to be less of Big Gary and have adjusted eating habits and exercise. I've only lost about 5 lbs., but I'm headed in the right direction. Only 95 to go! Keep up the good work. You'll not regret it. Gary

My folks bought me maybe 1 or 2 models, the rest I bought with what I earned. My son became interested after he saw me building. When he was 5 yrs. old, I was working on a 1/72 scale Fokker tri-plane, you know Red Baron.  I had very carefully painted everything before assembly. It was all ready to put together when I got home that night. My 5 year old beat me too it. It was glue-bombed together with 3X too much glue. He really did a pretty good job considering his age. I told him it was my model and I wanted to finish it, but he had done a good job and I would help him do better on the next one of his own. He built many models after that. In high school he had a teacher that helped the boys build armor models during lunch. It was a small school. He is currently working on a Tamiya motorcycle I got him at Hobby Lobby for $8.39! It was regularly $40. It must be in the genes. Gary

I'm glad I'm not driving it! Gary

This car has all the elements of the early 60's lead sled era. The skirts, spotlights, paint, etc. all scream CUSTOM! Great job, I love it. Gary

"I don't even use drugs anymore," That explains A LOT! Gary just kiddin'George

Thanks for the link to the article on Future. It was very informative. Gary

I thought my idea to swap the tops between the Dodge 330 and the Belvedere was an original one. Looks like Bruno beat me to it. I had a 1:1 '64 Dodge 440 2 dr. hardtop and I want to build it. I now have both kits. I was a lot more impressed with the '64 than with the L700 kit I got. I've come up with several ideas for the /6 engine in these kits. Gary

You guys are hitting with an "I wish..." streak. In 1993 I found a real '67 442 for $600. I'm always broke when I find these deals so I didn't get it. I'm not a big GM or Olds fan, but that would have been my first real Muscle car. I was in high school when the muscle cars hit the street, but I couldn't afford one then either. Oh, well... I guess now I'll try in 1/25 scale. Gary

I guess Round2 in their great wisdom needed an answer to the Black widow. They don't seem to be doing much new, but '57 Chevies are very popular. Gary

Worst injury ever, though more than one from an Exacto knife, was a hand mitre saw. Sharp little booger cut down within just thousandths of a blood vessel in my leg. Ouch! At least the E.R. doctor was a hottie. Gary

Let me consolidate what's been said here a little bit. Buy a good compressor for about $100 CDN. Add to that a regulator and a moisture trap if it doesn't come with one. Airbrushes don't take a lot of air by volume or pressure. If I were you I'd buy the Badger Compressor from kitbash1 for a good start. Gary

Its interesting that the '09, greatly outweighed by the '59, spun to a greater angle than the '59. The driver needed side air bags to survive the violent spin to the right. I'm guessing this won't convince very many that smaller cars are safer in a wreck than a big car. A frequently stated reason for buying a large SUV? Safer in a crash! Hmm... gary

This is a great build! I nearly freaked out though, because it is a close copy of the cover car on the latest issue of Street Rodder Magazine.Here's the link to the Rod known as "Downtown Brown".   http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/09...e/photo_03.html  Build More! Gary

I read somewhere online that there were only something like 88 of those '61 Chevy verts with a 409 and 4 of those had a 4 speed. So if you build a 4 sp. convert you're building a rare version. Gary

I picked up the latest issue of Hot Rod Deluxe yesterday. There is a whole section of 50's and 60'd drag cars, especially gassers and such, including, "Big Al" the Allison powered, severely chopped, '34 Ford sedan. I saw it run once along time ago. Its too bad there are no '34 Ford sedan kits. Probably in resin, but no kits. Check it out! HR Deluxe & Street Rodder are always a model building source of inspiration. Gary

If you've ever attempted a black paint job you won't wonder why it is one black paint job. For all the reasons mentioned, black is the most difficult to do. Just ask any 1:1 car painter and they'll tell you. Black and most other very dark colors show every defect. I painted a 1/32 car black. I thought it was clean and free of defects. Boy was I wrong! After 2 attempts and 3 trips in the purple pool, its now blue metallic. Gary

This looks to me like one of 2 things: either there was grit, that is sand or something like it, in the block or radiator, or you have an electrolysis problem caused by 2 unlike metals generating electricity within the system and eating away at the steel parts. You wouldn't think that would happen but if there is enough acid in the coolant, which is usually alkali (I think), then it could set up an electolysis situation. My personal opinion is that this is the result of some kind of grit in the system circulating around for all these miles, but I'm mostly guessing. Gary Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

By the way, TX DPS Dept. of Public Safety, not DSP Gary, Texas

I've been following this build and I love it. Anybody and everybody has put a V-8 in a Vega, in fact the 1:1 conversion kit was released a week before the car was! This is certainly not a cookie cutter car, you know, when you go to a show and there is one after another of essentially the same thing. This Vega stands out. Great Work! Gary

Charger convertible is the car they should have built. It loses the unique roof line, but who cares? Gary