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Great to hear that you're back with this Camaro! Sorry to hear about paint problems. I have painted AirTrax resin '59 Simca body and it's really great, because I did everything like I normally do, little sanding, little wash and paint-no problems. Then I've heard that Jimmy Flintstone bodies (what I have two) need lots of more washing, sanding, cleaning etc, even if they're not bad either. So those problems are because of the resin, I guess? Whose casting is that body?

Thanks, Matti. I'm not sure about the decals yet. If I find some good looking, period correct decals, I might use them. But let's see it tomorrow when I start looking and my decal stash. Nomad looks great, too! The engine really is one of your bests, even if I like your Simca's engine a lot too. Great progress with the chassis also, it's coming along nice and fast.

I got the Simca top painted yesterday with Maston Gold, and it looks good. Luckily there were no leaks or anything, tomorrow I'll clearcoat it. Also I'm building the chassis and interior, mostly detail stuff left.

And a Video: [media=] Also I found a picture of Timo Korpela's Ford Pinto Wagon, I liked this car too, the picture is taken in 2008, nowadays he drives a Super Comp Dragster. On another lane, there's Juho Yijälä with Ford Maverick, nowadays he drives very fast Street Mustang.

Here's little set of pictures so you can see what happened in the accident: Sorry the last picture is very blurry, but it wasn't easy to take as good as that picture with full zoom. Only one tail light was survived from that crash, if I remember correctly. Luckily the driver has new project now, a Chevy II.

Thank you all for the interest on the subject!! Jim Whalen: That's true, it's one of the best ways to find inspiration for all kinds of builds... Maybe that explains why I'm building more and more Drag Cars. Rob: Thanks, and cool pics! That BMW is quite fast, is it turbocharged? And that car on the other picture remids me of Finnish Audi which was 4WD Drag Car, went low 8's. JBWelda: We have very few Slingshot Dragsters, which is a shame. But the coolest one is this one, it's driven by Aulis Hämeenkorpi, SBC and does nice little wheelstands. These pics are taken at West Coast Street Cup Race at Pori Airport. He has also very nice '32 Ford 5W Coupe with Chevy 409 under the hood, custom trailer and this is the way he comes to racing: Okay, I had to think twice if I wanted to post this or not, but I decided to post it. Since you all know (or at least I hope so ) the risks of Drag Racing, sometimes there happen bad accidents, and sadly there happened one this year, and the car what crashed was one of my favorites in SPET Category. It's, or it was Mazda Marella with Huge Chevy Big Block. It was quite wild car, and fast too, but sometimes awfull thigs happen. Luckily the driver, Ari Latva Korte didn't hurt badly because of good safety equipment.

Came across this today, that's, well pretty radical Street Car. Or what do you think, 6,75 and 209.96 MPH!!! And yes, Street Legal, of course. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Worlds-Fastest-Street-Legal-Car-/200827168198?forcev4exp=true http://www.dragzine.com/news/ebay-find-worlds-fastest-street-legal-car-for-sale/

Nice job, it looks very clean to me. Nice paint and decals fit nicely to body shapes. Very cleanly assembled build, thanks for sharing.

Still a WIP. Making a Junkyard Mustang...

Turned out great! Those Rally Wheels look much better than the wheels that you were planning first. Nice color combo and great paint job too. You did great job, as always.

Very nice Hudson! One of my favorite Hudsons that I've seen completed. You did terrific job, the paint is very smooth and shiny. I like the detailing too.

That's impressive work, Bill! I'm speechless. And that's quite rare.

I'd like to see '31 Ford 5W Coupe, because the Monogram kit is getting old and pricey. It's much nicer car than '32 Ford, because if the non-curved A-Pillars. But from those, I would choose Sedan, Delivery or Panel.

Wow, looks great! Paint and details are really nicely done. I always like to see these Old School Style Front Engine Dragsters. This one is very cool too!

Ouch, it starts again! We have had no snow yet in Finland, but I guess there will come snow in few months time, a lot of snow... Last winter we had about one meter of snow on the roof of our house.

You can see the Blower belt is coming off in this picture: I will post few videos too in some time.

Okay, here are my favorites! First the Hollow Heads' Altered. It's powered by Mercury Y Block and TwinTurbos. They're trying to steal the Worlds Fastest Y Block title from Bob Lindsay. Currently the worlds fastest time with Y Block is 7,966 and so far this Altered has been running high 8's. But in the start of 2012 season, it was 11 second car, so it has improved alot. I'll post a video of this later. Then my another favorite Drag Team is Rust Racing which has two cars: '26 Ford T with Blower, of course: And '28 Ford Funny Car:

Pasi Vierikko's Dodge Dart. Burns methanol, went 8,6 on Finals. Rolf Claeson's Firebird. Very nice car with 468 Cid. engine. Timo Heiskanen's Polished Front Engine Dragster with Chevy Small Block and Blower. Burns Methanol, too. Stay tuned for my favorites of SPET... Coming in few hours time.

...And those last three pics were from Alastaro. Then Kari Laitinen's Chevy Camaro. This goes 8,8 times too, if I remember correctly. It has 540 Cid. Chevy engine and picture is taken in Motopark. Then Esa Leino's Chevy II. Very beautiful car, and goes nicely. Picture taken in Alastaro. Then Janne Noren's '34 Ford with 383" Cid. engine. This goes 9,3 second times, if I remember correctly. Very nice car. Picture from Alastaro. Here loses traction Risto Palosaari with Pontiac Firebird powered by 572 Cid. Big Block. Picture taken in Alastaro: Then Jukka Kivineva's Ford Mustang. It's 355 Cid engine with Blower, and it's Loud! Picture in Alastaro.

Thanks for the interest, guys! Jim: Yep, it's not free to ship these cars to Finland. Of course Race Cars are cheaper, because there's no need to do all of the registeration stuff. I don't know well, how is it today, but at least we have many cars, and there's coming more of them every year, many of them come from Sweden too. In the 80's, something happened and cars were much cheaper to ship to Finland than they were before. Especially Race Cars were much easier to ship on those days. That's why Drag Racing came very popular in Finland on the 80's. Ken: Thanx, here's some more coming...: George: Wow, thanks for the information! Of course I know how '65 and '67 Chevelles look, I've built one '65 and I'm building one '67 right now, but never thought of that. But now when you said it--- it's very clearly as you said, '65 with '67 front end. Darryl: Yep, these are great for inspiration, and I always have a camera with me to take some reference shots on the cars. I visit in every Drag Racing event in Alastaro and Motopark, so it's five times in a year. Next year we are planning to go driving in Kalajoki airport, too. Michael: Yes, it is really popular in many places, but Thailand! Never heard of Drag Racing in there, but why not! Okay, here is the next car category: SPET (Super Pro ET) It's basically the same as Sportsman & Pro ET groups, but these cars have dial in times between 7,00 and 11,99. Cars can have delay boxes and throttle stops, but throttle stops are quite rare in this group. Car can be normal Doorcar, or Altered or Dragster. Otherwise there are no bigger limits. Or of course there are, but they're not important in this point. Ask something if you'd like to know more. The qualification results are sorted by Reaction Time, and in Eliminator, it's normal bracket. This is good car category for cars, that don't fit any other category, but that is good thing in my mind. This is very big car category in Finland, so I give you some different kind of examples of cars that run SPET: First we have Mikko Niemi's Toyota Corolla DX with 509 Cid. Chevy Big Block. He won the Finnish Championchip this year, the car runs very nice and straight 8,8 times. This picture if from Motopark. Then another pic from Motopark: Hannu Tekoniemi's AMC Javelin SST. This goes 8 second times too, and he does sometimes huge burnouts, too.

That's beautiful Chevelle! Everything looks very good in it, especially the paint job is smooth and shiny. I like the BMF work too, and those burnt rubbers on rear quarter panels. Engine detailing is very nice too.

Wow, they're cheap! You can't get many sealed kits from Finland with those prices. Especially new kits, are much more expensive than these (bit over $ 30).

I've built this kit too, and it's not very well detailed. The front end looks way too flat to me, as someone already said. It wasn't the funniest build I've had, because of the bad parts fit. Overall, it looks like nice basis for Slot Car body! But it wasn't expensive either.

I think that's not too much from new kit, at least here in Finland where kits are of course, a bit more pricey... Many kits that are not even new, cost the same here in Finland. I find that pretty normal price? So, I did not write this as a critic, I'd like to hear about the prices of Model kits in the USA. Are they much different in Local Hobby Shops, than in Model Express, for example? Just curios and I'd like to hear more. I paid 2011 winter from Revell Kenworth W900 and Revell '65 Stepside 35 Bucks, but they were in discount (Hobby Lobby). But what about the normal pricing?

Once we get the '74 Chevelle, this is what I'll be doing ! http://tapahtumakuvia.kuvat.fi/kuvat/74+Chevrolet+Chevelle+Stocker/ I don't know how there are always cars in my family, where are no scale models except the '60 Impala. Oh and did I say that glad to hear the progress with the '73 Chevelle! Going to be another cool one when available in Resin.