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Thanks for the great idea Horsepower. I found the 69' Boss 302 Mustang to take some parts from. Ive de-chromed the engine and repainted it silver. The scoop wasn't phased by the purple pond, it actually made it brighter. The wheels and tires will be a great fit once i build some ladder bars/axle/housing/shocks for the rear and modify the front wheels to sit at a drooped position.

You don't need no stinkin' door handles. Great finishing touches Cranky.

My eyes must be going bad, ha. Great work regardless.

This build just keeps getting better and better. The engine looks great with those turbos.

That is a fantastic idea! Thanks man. I was looking at the diecasts at the hobby shop the other week, they had a few that had the Dave Deal look. Not sure if they were the muscle machines line. What ever they are, ill definitely have to give them a closer look next time.

This is awesome, little dudes skull makes for one heck of a grill shell.

I think ill be adding more rack space to it in the future. Yeah, its great having this space to myself. Ive lived in apartments and with roommates for far too long, and neither are conducive to getting away and building things. I guess now i don't have many excuses not to build.

I like it. What color of green is that paint? Almost looks like the old VW Cyber green pearl metallic.

Its possible to keep a stock grill on most channeled cars. You can mount it lower on the frame rail and lean it back a bit to sit even with the cowl. It is easier to mock up the Zs with your wheels. Id put some parts box rims on it for mock-up purposes. Yep that's the beauty of customizing vehicles scale or real. Every one thing you want to change, will make you have to change three others. Its always fun to wander around the HAMB site for inspiration. The rear bars should line back up after the channel. Unless you're Z'ing the frame as well, or dropping the floor board below the frame rails. Then you will have to make some custom mounts for them. Go to the HAMB website and search what you're thinking about doing, or want to do. There are quite a few builds in progress over there and quite a few parts making ideas as well. Heck spend a few hours and rummage around the site, you'll definitely be chock full of ideas and information.

This is a great looking build. Nice save Hermit, that blue looks fantastic in the sun. If i saw the first two pictures on an auction site id think i was looking at a real bike.

Evil looking car you've got there. Please tell me that there will be an occupant or two.

This made me shudder a little bit. I go to Huntington Beach every now and then, and ive got to say that this cruiser is quite convincing. For beach area Police some of them can be real jerks.

I see about three of these cars a week on the road, and I bet all of them wished their cars could look like yours again. Great build, looks spot on to the real deal.

It should be a nice get away when its done. Its actually a detached two car garage that the previous owner converted into a 2 bedroom back house. Im going to keep this room as my hobby room because it has a bathroom. The other room is going to be knocked down and turned back into a garage for my 1:1 projects. Completion date, who knows, ha. Yeah the Mercury got its first few coats of gloss white. The Ferrari was a body that one of my buddies gave me. Its now on an Aoshima Toyota 4x4 frame. I had actually forgotten that i started it until i was digging through boxes to put projects on the shelves.

Aoshima makes a small variety of 80s thru mid 90s Toyota truck bodies including a 4-Runner.

Beat me to it, I second the idea. The MPC Willys Paddy Wagon snap kit could make a great base as well.

Haven't had much of a chance to work on my hobby room since we moved in. Slowly but surely though, it'll get there. Picked up these shelves at Home Depot this weekend. I figure they will make great display areas,not dust proof, but at least a place to put my projects so i don't forget about them. The previous owners left behind these clothes storage cabinets, im in the process of turning this one into a dust free place for my models to dry. Still have to install the fan and ducting.

Wow! That is the cleanest 1:12 chevy build ive probably ever seen. The chassis and suspension details are amazing.

Almost positive this is my only wagon. Please excuse the dust and grime, its been sitting out on a dirty garage shelf for a few years.

Very cool. Who makes this kit? I would love to get my hands on one.

That Legacy is downright sexy, i would love to see a plastic version. The Cusco is awesome in its own right as well.

Thanks for the compliment. Well i wouldn't say that the way i did it is the way to go. With the chop and sectioning, if i had done a 'traditional' channel, there would have been no way to fit the driver and passenger figures inside. So i had to sink the seats between the frame rails. On some of my models ive sectioned out the amount of channel i want from the interior panels. Once you glue the floorboard to the interior panels, mount the frame and place it in the body, its channeled. Well except for a bit of firewall massaging. I think that everyone finds a way that works for them. A lot of people here have built quite a few wicked looking 32's, I'm sure ill learn a thing or three as well.

Looking great, Im diggin' the wedge chop. There was a 1:1 that looked similar to your build that i use to see at car shows. It was painted a lime green kandy over a heavy gold flake, and I think it had a 351.

Wow, fantastic work, that paint looks great. I definitely think this one will go much better than the last.

Here's where I made the cuts on a 32' Sedan switchers kit. It was chopped,sectioned and channeled. since the car was going to sit very low i cut channels into the floorboards instead of raising the floor too accommodate the frame,transmission, axle and drive shaft. Everything mocked back up well without having to add any styrene to the roof, the material taken out of the door jambs while sectioning it gave me that bit of play i needed. Probably will never be finished, but here is how it sits now.