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Uummm, no, it's not the one you're thinking. I know who you mean (I saw a spoiler on another site), but I met this one in a Random Encounter playing as Franklin.

I've been tossed from a few cars and didn't die, but it sure did hurt. I've had a few hard front end hits that didn't eject me, but did do damage. So far, the only times I've been killed involving a car invilved bailing out to avaid getting hit by a train, and one time when the car exploded on me. Oh, and I also accidently bailed out of the blimp without a 'chute :o Personally, I like the weapon wheel, it's virtually identical to the one used in RDR. Not sure about the radio, still working out what the stations are. Not to start any spoilers, but has anyone else ran into anyone from GTA4? Don't mention character names if you have, just to prevent spoilers. So far, I've met one, was somewhat suprised to meet this particular person, but it was pretty cool.

Tamiya has a brush on filler primer.It comes in the same style bottle as their Super Thin Cement, and has the same style brush on the cap. It seems to be a slighly thicker version of the gray fine primer.

No, the next Gran Turismo, which will #6, isn't out until December (already preordered it ). GTA V is Grand Theft Auto 5. I picked mine up this morning (Collectors Edition), didn't feel like dragging out for the midnight release, wasn't feeling very good anyway. Took forever to get it loaded up, but was well worth the wait. Haven't done much in the line of missions yet, but so far have managed to get wasted in a shootout, mauled by a cougar, and ran over by a train! :lol:

I'm somewhat the same way, it depends on what the build is. Sometimes, I just want to do a quick easy build, no frills at all. Other time, especially if it's a build of a specific subject or even simply a subject I realy like, I'll go all out.

There are some major differences from the Blitz to the US trucks, but with the proper alterations, the Blitz chassis would be an ideal starting point, though it really is not accurate for a US truck after 1955 1rst Series. The '55 2nds have a distinctly different chassis from the earlier trucks, mainly that they do not taper in the front. From what I've observed from comparing a Blitz kit (which is a very good kit on its own), it matches the '37-'47 (early) chassis the closest, but is close enough to use for the later trucks. The main issues are the steering box location, wheelbase, and the wheels. On US trucks, the steering box is behind the axle, the Blitz is ahead of the axle. The wheelbase on the Blitz works out to be about in the middle of what the US trucks offered, so either shortening a bit or lengthening a bit will correct that. The Blitz also has a large 8 lug bolt pattern on both axles, US trucks used 5 lug front/10 lug rear. Otherwise, the wheels re very similar.

The 302 was only used in the Camaro with RPO Z/28. However, the 307 was used in the 3rd Gen Chevy II/Nova, as it was the replacement for the 283.

That's correct, Chuck, the trim is molded to the glass on both the front and rear windows.

The front wheels sit that far back on the 1:1.

There is rubber under the stainless trim peice that pretty much extends all the way to the top of the trim. The trim itself was not standard on the '55-'59 Chevrolet and GMC trucks, most had the plain rubber gasket. The Cameo and them GMC Town & Country were the only trucks that had it as standard equipment, optional on all others. Mine did not have it from the factory, I added during the restoration.

Something to bear in mind, the windsheild does not fit flush to the cab on the 1:1 as it is depicted in the kit. It actually sits back from the roof edge aproximately 2".

Either that, or we would have ended up with Packard badged Gremlins and Pacers :lol:

Yes, there were.

Both points are true. Getting the 'Vette into production faster was easier using fiberglass, but there was also a cost savings of not having to produce stamping dies for what would be a low production vehicle. There's also the case that some of the body lines of the Corvette would be much easier to produce using fiberglass over steel. Ona side tangent, and going along with the alternate history theme of the thread, GM did experiment with an aluminum body for the Corvette, as well as a 4 seat varsion of the '63 Stingray body, which was considered to better compete with the Thunderbird.

You'll definitley want to test any custom mix candy on a scrap body or plastic spoon before you shoot it on to your build body. I had a bad experience recently with a custom mixed candy that simply did not work as expected. What I was after was a candy teal/aqua color, figured mixing a little green into blue would work, as I had done something similar before and got very good results. Seems the particular brand of paint I was using (a no longer available line) doesn't work as well as one would think for color mixing, especially the candy blue. The pigmnets in the blue are rather weak, the green overpowered it. I ended up with a, for lack of a better description, Booger Green candy, which looks as bad as one would think it would. I don't have nay pix, as it went pretty much right into the purple pond. I still plan on trying for the color again, but next time I'll test it first, and use a different paint line, most likely Testors or Tamiya, or possibly the new Alclad line.

There was an SS396 COPO Nova, the 9738 that was done through Fred Gibb Chevrolet. They had the 375 horse 396 with the TH400, which was not available in the regular production Nova SS.

Yes. There was a couple of COPO Novas, though, the SS396 and '70 LT 1 Yenko Nova.

The Camaro is a heavier car, with a much stiffer body than the Nova.

Not necessarily. COPO only stands for Central Office Production Order, nothing to do with racing, or at least not directly. Yes, the program was used to produce cars built for racing purposes, but it was also used for fleet orders and even small production runs for regional option packages, which could be as simple as a regional specific color option.

There were no factory built 427 Novas, as GM deemed the Chevy 2/Nova platform as too lightweight to handle the power of the L72 427. The handfull of 427 Novas that do exist were built by Yenko. even Yenko admited, after testing them, that GM was right, the 427 is way too much engine for the Nova platform.

Here's another source for paint chip pics and codes, http://pc.dupont.com/hcl/?locale=en_US .

The '94-'96 Impala SS only came in 3 colors, Black (all), Black Cherry ('95-'96), and Bright Aqua Pearl (96). All 3 colors are available in the Testors Laquer paint line. Balck and Black Cherry are the most common colors seen on them.

Here's a sample of one of Tamiyas kits, the '72 GT-R

Something else to keep in mind with Tamiya, some of their JDM cars do include the parts to build them as their Export/USA counterparts. Case in point, the 300ZX, which includes both dashboards, 2 different dash gauge cluster decals, and even the different JDM and USA spec intake manifolds. I have seen kits done in a similar manner from Fujimi and Aoshima as well.