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Hey, you were blowing that much money for a car, they'd do whatever color you wanted! That is really nice, Harry. I wish I had the room for some 1/16. I do wish that someone would do that in 1/25. Charlie Larkin

I do so wish there was an Ollie's near here. They seem to have a lot of good deals. Charlie Larkin

Cool story! Charlie Larkin

I like it. It reminds me in a way of the dream garage of so many people I know. I mean, mine would be a bit cleaner, but it would definitely be "worked in." Those details are marvelous. Like your technique for the insulation kraft-paper backing. Great job. Charlie Larkin

Nice job on these. Charlie Larkin

To me, the tailgate is a bit flat, but it could be the camera angle. From the side- wow, that's impressive! Excellent work overall, not that easy to do one of these. Charlie Larkin

Beautiful color, very nice job overall. Charlie Larkin

Let's see... I started building on a more adult level about 1987, when I was in 6th or 7th grade. I graduated high school in 1993. About two years ago, I dug out the 1965 Riviera I started my freshman year of high school, which was 1989. I'm still poking at it. And there might be a few others, too. Charlie Larkin

Nice job overall. I'll check the WIP, I'm sure the bumper issue is addressed there. Considering the problems this one gave you, you made a most credible recovery. Charlie Larkin

My dad has been an engineer for well...his entire adult life. He has nearly fifty years' experience in all sort of aerospace, missile, tank, radar and computer systems. The computer stuff I don't have a clue about, but that's besides the point. A few years ago, when I was attempting to sell real estate in the worst market this country has seen since the first depression (don't kid yourselves, we had a short depression and are now in a long recession, but I'll deal with that later,) and I ended up having a youngish couple (I was 35 or so, they were about 26 or 27,) looking for an apartment. Both were engineers of differing specialties. I grew up around engineers. Most of my dad's friends and most of the people I've known have been either engineers or employed in technical fields. The engineers could have conversations about almost anything. Their specialty, music, art, movies, sports, books, cars, trains, you name it. But, these two.....they couldn't even articulate their own specialties well. And it was something I noticed about a lot of people about my age or younger that are involved in engineering or other technical fields. I asked Dad about this, and he agreed that I wasn't seeing things. He had noticed the same things, too, that the people now going (and in some cases, being pushed) into these fields were, as he described it, "over-educated, over-focused, inarticulate fools who, while intelligent, aren't as smart as they think." I described them as combining the worst attributes of a savant and a child with very high-functioning Aspberger's. Dad, who has to work with this bumper crop, used words I can't repeat here! So, where things require human interaction, an artistic eye, or a sense of design, those students are either being barred from entry to the respective fields, or being driven out of the studies, leaving only room for these laser-focused, very smart, but old-knife blunt kids who can't handle anything outside of very specific, highly-controlled and directed studies that require creativity. Or, for that matter, an appreciation of the greater world. I think some of the major problems we've seen with kit engineering may be another manifestation of these problems, as younger people who have no appreciation for art, design or similar topics replace those who not only possessed technical expertise, but an appreciation and knowledge of the larger world. Having been substituting occasionally at a charter school focused on math and science, I have seen the future. The school plays a "song of the day" in the morning, and there were several kids who decried music and art as "worthless" because it interferes with their learning about microbes or indecipherable math (well, indecipherable to me.) If you have kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, or somehow have children in your life, PLEASE make sure they get exposed to the world around them, particularly if they display attributes like this, no matter in what disciplines those attributes manifest themselves. These two comments work together, actually. Disclosure: I'm an MBA student, and presently hold an M.Ed. and graduate certificate in management. In addition, I taught high school business classes previously. Like many of the engineering students, we've also begun to attract people with the same fatal flaws into the managerial field. Only, they focus exclusively on one thing: the bottom line and how to wring every last penny out of every operation, reality and necessity be hanged. This is the continuing trend of driving any and all common sense and reason out of many of the professional fields our country, and the world, so heavily rely upon to function. It's something I've picked bones with on many occasions with teachers, classmates, and have tried very hard to drive home to my students. Yes, numbers matter, but if you become myopic about it, you'll be out of business because you'll micro-manage yourself into oblivion through stupid, short-sighted, brain-dead techniques like Dave outlined rather nicely. I think it makes a rather strong case for eliminating business from college and going back to Nineteenth-Century style apprenticeships and under-studies to learn what works and what doesn't from people who have done it for a living, not a bunch of academics who haven't. Charlie Larkin

Here, here! Read the book Cheap. It does a wonderful job of illuminating so much of what's wrong in the marketplace today. Charlie Larkin

Or was trying to be funny by suggesting an overload. Charlie Larkin

As promised... This is the main color chart. 2154=Bel-Air. http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/chevyresto/51020.htm This is the details on how the paint will be arranged inside the car. http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/chevyresto/51021.htm I'm leaning towards Thistle Gray/Trophy Blue with a blue/gray interior for mine and Thistle Gray with the black top and red/gray interior for my convertible. The red, from what I've seen, was a darker red. Charlie Larkin

Nice match to Moonlight Cream. A couple of notes. 1. There was no white from the factory. Moonlight Cream was a close as you got. Dealer two-tone? Sure. Special order using another division's color? GM would do that for a small charge. Just an FYI, no criticsm at all. 2. Bel-Airs used a cloth and leather interior. The leather portions would have been red, along with carpet and possibly the painted metal surfaces in the interior. The cloth was always light gray, regardless of the leather or exterior color. There's a listing to all this information at The Old Car Manual Project. I'll try to find it and post a link her for your reference. Most important, have fun. Charlie Larkin

LOVE it! That looks superb together. Charlie Larkin

Nice work, Bill. You friend will love it. I'm confident of that. His 300 is gorgeous, too. Charlie Larkin

It does rather point to my general belief that the decline in common sense has accompanied the decline in the quality of education and entertainment, leading to a general crassness and cynicism about society and life in general. Charlie Larkin

So, when are they a good subject? Charlie Larkin

Very nice, Joe. Consider bringing this to MassCar if you make it. Charlie Larkin

Nice job. Did you carve those bricks into the wood, or are they an overlay of some kind? Charlie Larkin

Neat dio, Carl. Definitely something out of the ordinary. Charlie Larkin

Thanks, Skip. Graphite Gray/red sounds like a very nice color scheme to me. Charlie Larkin

Nicely done. Charlie Larkin

Wow, are those flubs! Yeah...this is definitely someone not paying attention. It does, however, as you noted, look like they're trying to correct those problems with the wagon. Cool. We'll see in a few months. Charlie Larkin

Hi, Joe. Unfortunately, it is true. We simply don't have the personnel to do it anymore. This is me at NNL-East last year. If you're there, please do say hello. Charlie Larkin