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Great job.

Pops did some nice work!

Very nice and I also like the color.

Here's my second completion of the year. OOB except for tires from the parts box (the piecrust slicks were the biggest ones that would fit inside the rear fender openings without surgery). The wheels are from the 66 Wildcat reissue as well as the seat with the headrest portion cut off as I thought the optional seats in the kit looked too modern for the era. I tried to make the seat upholstery look like the old sparkle Naugahyde (save the nauga!) and the steering wheel like an old Moon metalflake wheel by painting them both with Stop Light Red over chrome silver.The decals are a mix of kit and some from the 66 Wildcat. I modified the Bonny-ville motors decals to just Bonny Motors. I drilled out the injector intakes and added a fuel pump from the Double Dragster kit to fill the empty hole in the water pump. Didn't bother photographing the chassis because it's just the stock one painted flat black. Shaved the trim and door handle because it's a race car and painted her in Tamiya yellow Pearl over their white primer. The engine is Testors tangerine from the little bottle just because I've never used this color before.

Finished the 64 Cutlass today. Number two for the year. More pics will be in Under Glass.

These cars are better than people give them credit for aren't they. My ride for the last eight years has been a 2013 dodge Avenger that currently has 140000 miles on it.

Wow Kurt, that is a beautiful photo! If I had a print of it I would frame it and hang it on the wall. Always wanted to live in AZ and have been told that Prescott is one of the better towns to live in.

Here is the final mock up of my current build before final assembly. Just have to decal the other side and shoot some clear coat.

Nice Dart, one of my favorite kits.

Beautiful!

Very nice!

Can't beat a red or black 55 Chevy and you have done a great job on it. She's a real sleeper with that engine under the hood.

Beautiful model considering what you had to work with.

Thanks for posting. I was one of the members following your build and I am very impressed as I am with all your builds.

That looks beautiful. This kit is so nice that it's hard to mess it up.

Beautiful! This is sheer wizardry.

Nice! I always liked the flat top GM cars, especially on a 61 Impala.

Well done!

Thanks for the kind comments everyone. Yes it's the latest reissue and the decals I used are in the box.

Hello everyone. Almost everyone has built this kit at some point in their modelling life but I never had this one back in the day. So I built the reissue. I love the extra parts and alternate versions that AMT came up with back then. I wouldn't really call this a race car but more like a competition themed show car. OOB except tires, safety harness and Moon tank. I cut the wrap around portions of the rear bumpers off so they would look like push bars and raised the front end but tried not to overdo it. The paint is Tamiya Orange metallic with two coats of Tamiya clear over the decals. These old kits are what they are but I think the finished product looks pretty cool. Thanks for looking.

That is just bad to the bone! Excellent body and paint work.

Very nicely built! Shame about the cracked paint.

The Song Remains The Same by Led Zeppelin, Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd, Running Down a Dream and American Girl by Tom Petty, Rough Housing and Twentieth Century Fox as well as Wild eyed Southern Boys by 38 Special. If you have never heard Twentieth Century Fox I advise you to give as it a listen as it's kind of an obscure tune but boy does it rock.

For me it would be Stevie Ray Vaughan. The first time I heard his music I was just floored. It made such an impression on me that I remember where I was and what I was doing at the time. I was in the kitchen with my old 70s component stereo system blasting out the local rock FM station when Texas Flood came on. I stopped in my tracks and didn't move until the song was over. I thought "who is this guy and where did he come from". Although I have never been a fan of the man himself or his lifestyle and habits, I have been a huge fan of his music ever since. Some of the most powerful and astounding blues guitar playing I have ever heard and I have heard a LOT of blues music in my life.

Nothing special. Mostly OOB.