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Very nice Impala! This is very nice NASCAR racer. You built it very fast, but it looks nice anyway... Color and paintjob are great and I like the PPP wheels. I bought few sets from Daytona Racing Hobbies and souvenirs, just next to the speedway. Nice job with it and those decals you did are amazing also. Nice job with it!

Few more photos, thanks for lookin'! Feedback is welcome...

Finally an update! I really wanted to use L88 scoop for this. Chevy used L88 scoops in Corvettes. This hood had quite bad scoop for this style car. Here in Finland, they used lots of L88 scoops in the early 80's. I got one for a trade while back, and it's now installed. The scoop is from '68 Corvette, which means that it's too long for the hood. I opened holes for the scoop. I did it with Trumpeter Panel Scriber and a hobby knife... Then I did some test fitting with this scoop. It was almost longer than the hood! So I made the scoop shorter. I did some test fitting and drew lines where to saw a hole for this new scoop. I cut quite muxh stuff from the hood, now the scoop fits fine. I glued the dcoop to its place. It was time to put some bondo to the hood. Now it just needs lots of sanding. Also I put bondo to the fenders. Now, I think it's some sanding left and then I can paint primer on it. Original scoop Here it is with holes opened... Test fit...

I've been busy for last days, and I had not time for posting this update earlier. So, I have sanded the body and now it's quite good, but still lots of work left before primering it. Body needs more bondo, but I also made spoiler for the rear. It's sheet styrene. I warmed it a bit so I got a right shape to it. Now I think, it's time to move on to the engine and chassis, maybe I left the body for a while... How about other projects on this community build?

Nice Impala! That real thing looks very good, and model is also amazing! Color looks good on it, and those decals aren't bad! Engine detailing is nice, and those wheels and tires are looking good. I like it, you did a good job!

Great car. I'm building the same thing, but from AMT's kit. I'm thinking the same color and interior is painted already blue, but body is now in paint stripper, 'cause I screwed up the primer. But nice job with the Impala, that paintjob is very great. Also I like the interior and engine detailing, this is very nice car.

Amazing Pickup! Weathering is awesome and that color is great for this kind of rusted truck. This one looks like 1:1 car on the pictures, only thing, where I can see that it's a model is that engine on the bed. That distributor and intake manifold aren't just looking "right". But really great job you did on this, amazing build.

Color is great! I like the paintjob, you did and decals are very nice too. Great to see one original Challenger. Engine looks very good. That air cleaner is very good looking. Detailing is also very nice and I like the chassis work. Nice job on it!

Very nice work with the Willys! I love seeing wagons being built, and this is one of my favorites. I've been looking for MPC Snap Tite kit from Wagon Willys, but this is not a snaptite? Like the color combo, it looks great.

Little update to my Corvette. I have sanded some little parts, like front and rear clip, and the fender parts. I glued them on place, and then I put some putty to the seams. Now it needs sanding, and more putty. Let's have a see, when comes the next update.

Thank you for the comments! Engine is sitting in that place, and that's Revell's mistake. It's way too back. But I think, I have one way to get it look better. For the next one, don't want to start sawing this one... Brett: Color looks bit orange in the pics, but it's red. This '55Chevy is painted with the same paint, and there color looks as it looks really. In these pics, it's bit too orange as you said. Thank you for the nice words!

Looks good, I like how you did the roof. Paintjob looks great too and color is just perfect. Engine looks good, and detailing is very nice. Nice to see these wagons, it's quite rare to build these,and that's bad. Here is one link to Space Cowboy's Photobucket album, there are some pics. http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o33/moose5147/65%20Coronet%20Wagon/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ24

Nice 60's style Custom! I like the color and that paintjob, those decals fit nicely to that body. I like the tire and wheel combo too, lake pipes are also looking very very good. I like this one, thank you for sharing.

Yes, that's true. But I think, I want to leave those valve covers chromed, or maybe I paint them with polished aluminium. Then it's possible to remove paint from the raised letters... Thank you for the tip. This is fun build but now I haven't done eny progress, because of the school, I have lots of work right now. Today I got little time and I worked with Roadsport V8 Corvette, but maybe tomorrow?

Few more photos, thanks for looking! here you can see all of my Impalas. They all are Mild Customs... Comments please, I want to make next one better!

This is my second model for 2011. I started working on this about three years ago. I started from the engine... I painted it orange and started to put it together. I wanted to go with chromed valve covers for a custom look, but I had not any of them so I used stock orange ones. But with '58 Impala, there came two valve cover sets for 348", I used other ones to this. Also I started to put some plug wires to engine, but after that, I stopped working with the engine. It was time to start chassis work. I didn't get much done, but I painted the hole thing, gas tank, frame etc. Painting the body was tricky. I used gloss red, but the paint left off from the body and also I saw some scratches on the paint. Then came long break. Some time ago, I started to sand old paint off from the body. I also painted some primer on it. Then some test fitting, and for a right stance, I saw some material off from the springs. Putting chassis together, was quite easy. Wheels I took from Revell's '49 Mercury and tires are from the box (if I remember correctly)... I took old plug wires off from the engine and made new ones from Detail Master's yellow wire. They are looking quite good. I also started installing the engine, but it didn't fit at all. After some sanding, cutting etc. I got it fit right. I took wheel backs from parts box, but i drilled new axle holes to them, because someone had glued axle systems very hardly to wheel backs. Finally I got them look good and I painted them with gloss black. Interior is painted with semi gloss black and then some red stripes, like Tuck 'n' Roll interior. Decal on the dash is from Monogram's '39 Chevy? Interior was quite hard to fit togehter, specially door panels and dash were hard. Cauges are decals, but the speed cauge, I painted it myself, because the decal spitted up. I did the second try with the body. I painted it with a metallic red. It went well, and I sprayed some clear on it. Foiling was awfull, so much chrome trims all around... Glasses in and some other parts before gluing the chassis. Nothing special with the final assembly...

Amazing Hemi Dart. I like this kind of Dart- primer and matt black. Great looking, and I like the stance a lot. Wheels and tires look good too. How did you make little pieces of burned rubber to the rear fender? Looks good. Engine is amazing and detailing looks great too. Spark plug wires are looking just how they are in real car. Nice, thank you for sharing it, WIP topic was great to watch.

Thank you, it turned out well. Let's have a see, what people say in saturday, it's a model car show in Tampere, Finland.

Very nice Riviera, one of the best ones, I've seen. Paintjob looks very good to me, shiny and no orange peel at all. Nice job with the wheels are just perfect, so real looking. And that grille is great too. I like this one very much, but maybe foiling door handles would be a good idea?

Cool project. I like always to see glue bomb restoration too. What is this Pickup kit? I don't know, what is in the "Starting with this..." picture, it doesn't work on my computer. It's interesting to see how this one turns out.

Great Dart! I like the color very much and paintjob looks good. That engine detailing looks nice too, and chassis is amazing also. Thank you for sharing, this is one of my dream cars to build, not to own, Chevrolet is better... Nice model.

Yes they are, and that's bad! But this kit is sharing some chrome parts with '59 Impala too, and these new Revell's kits from '60 Impala are having lowrider or too big wheels, Revell has not made stock wheelcovers to come with the kit. I think. How is it in Monogram's older kit, if I remember correctly, there is a full set of '60 Impala's wheelcovers? I just finished this kit and one thing is really mattering... Front tires are way too back, it's great that you fixed the problem. Nice work with the chassis, that spare tire well, it's in my Impala and does look bad! But I have built the chassis for it long time ago and that's why I didn't remove it now when I came back to work with that model. Yours is looking great!

Windows are not the biggest problem... I think that fitting interior and chassis to body... It's really tricky. But anyhow, nice job with the body, paintjob is very great and foiling looks good. Is this going to be stock or somekind of Custom? Really nice job so far.

Sorry, it's already sunday, but I post these pictures, because I'm very close to finish my '60 Impala Mild Custom... I must still make lake pipes and of course some finishing. But i think, I'm gettin' it ready today. This would be my second finished model in 2011.

I also painted "CHEVROLET" textes from the valve covers. I used toothpick and red enamel paint. Came out pretty good, now I must do some more engine work, and of couse body isn't ready yet, so lots of work before thinking of going to primer this one... Comments and tips etc are welcome! EDIT: Those valve covers are lookin' really bad with a supermacro picture, better in live. Don't believe? Come on here to watch!