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Wow Scott, this is really turning out great....very close to the 1:1 Keep it up, really liking all the work you've done so far.

Hi all, picked this one up for the first time in over two years, I have started at least 5 projects since this one. I could not put it down...so, let the mods continue while taking a brake from the Camaro and finding a good motor for that project. I had this one in a descent spot, just not descent enough for me to accurately represent current pro mod designs. Chop, cut, rebuild...repeat! I'm making some pretty significant changes...extended/narrowed nose, brand new fenderwell treatments, adding a little bit of curvature to the rear profile and probably replacing grill and hood. Just a major overhaul, hope it turns out well and don't mess it up....I cannot put it down so it will be one or the other. Thanks for looking and my goal is to finish something....someday, lol.

Hey Tyrone....just went thru the whole build again, someone mentioned museum piece, I'll agree to that! There just something about seeing one of your builds with the rolling chassis, motor mounted with the nose and doors off and the rest of the body mounted. It's truly an awesome sight, I love it bro!! Your an awesome builder and I look fwd to every one of your builds/updates.

This is turning out very well. I have always wanted to tackle a pro stock replica, maybe one day. For now, I`m enjoying your trials and tribulations, this is no easy task…New side panels, relocated nose, narrowing, greenhouse reduction, bulging, fender work, basically all the work I love doing on these bodies! Scott, you are pure craftsman my friend with an eye for the curves and the flow of these mods, my hats off to you buddy!!

Awesome chassis, killer motor and the paint..wow Very,very nice!

Anxious to see more progress on this one, starting to take shape…chassis looks good!

Thanks for the comments guys and the welcome back, I'll try my best to hang around. That gives me great motivation to keep moving fwd on this one. Small update, trimmed some of the bottom of frt spoiler and added a flat 1mm thk lip across bottom...needed to do a little something here as the stk length of spoiler almost set on the ground, now it is a scale 3" off ground. That's pretty close to what I was looking for and it will be nicely blended in. I've also started scratching the grill work, albeit different from stock but will be a smoothed and rounded over look to replicate a one pc style nose. I have still not got the motor type figured out even though I have started the blown beast, I'm realy digging some of the turbo builds and could suit this one. Mitch P...thanks for noticing the rear wheels, the front halves are from a top fuel kit and back halves were parts box pcs. Fronts were cut right behind center pcs, squared, cut back halves to length I needed, then mated back halves and blended. Both sides of rear wheels have bead locks.

Tyrone, loving this build, looking incredible!!

Scott, man your off to a great start, good luck to you and I'm loving it, go for it, your doing a fine job!

Hi all....spent a little time at the bench this week finally. I've spent most of the spring/summer on my other hobby, restoring vintage bicycles....been fun. Anyways, spent a little time on this 10.5 beast this week. I've been doing some filling and smoothing up some areas, scratchbuilt the scoop, more frt end work to come, colored the rear bead-locks. Looks like I'll need to scratch a frt window too, cannot find the kit windshield anywhere. Oh well, it will be fun. I skip too much time in between visits, I need to finish this one. Thanks for looking.

Hi all....been taking a break from this one, sort of. Actually, I've been contemplating for a month or two on a big modification. I decided to go ahead with the plan. For a while now, I've felt the body was too wide. So I broke down and made the mod this week with a nice wedge cut right down the center. 3/16" was removed from the width over top of frt fenderwells and around .14 removed from width over rear fenderwells. I've got a before shot with front width traced on an index card and an after shot over that to see the difference. Looks quite a bit more bullet-like and I'm satisfied with finally moving on towards the finish.....needs a bit of filler here and there, otherwise, the two halves went back together very well. This has been a fun journey so far and will try to finish b4 much longer. Thanks for looking in.

Joe....I personally think they would be fine and they look cool. I have seen dragsters with all kinds of different colored headers. Just imagine they have an experimental combo coating of teflon impregnated gold and titanium to keep engine compartment heat down, resist corrosion and improve exhaust flow?? Not to mention they would probably run 30K per set. If all else fails, could you break out the brush? You could possibly tone them down with flat aluminum almost dry on a paintbrush, then follow with other colors and blend? Just thinking out loud....

Spent the last hour and a half going thru all this....stunning work everyone!! Included a couple of my current drag racing projects....pro mod scratchbuilt chassis' in brass and styrene. The bodies are not 100% scratched, but pretty close. (68 Vette Roadster and 2011 Challenger Pro Mod's)

Tyrone....I followed your journey making this and WOW. This is killer, absolutely beautiful work bro. Love it!

Looking great on your details Brett. Everything looks to be coming together quite well!

Great work Scott. I'm really liking your attention to detail. About your pleasing everyone....I know sometimes builds have these hangups and its a matter of personal preference, happening to me on several of my pro mod bodies. You get to a point where there are too many ideas to ever implement and bam, everything stops. Of course a step back doesn't hurt, but I have found (very recently) to just build something different, box-stock....I built an Acura NSX Japan GT car in 2 weeks. This and the Outlaw Camaro have helped me more than anything with focus. And, of course, make it simple....something that can be finished. Just a thought.

Bodywork is looking good Darren...anxious to see your progress.

Joe...this is great. Good luck on the turbos and headers....I'm kinda at a similar state with motor on the Camaro, except blower assy and fuel pump. I'm gonna love to see what you do.

Thanks for the kind comments, means a lot to me! Been working on front brakes and piecing together the motor off and on this week. She's a beast...well, almost. Brakes and motor have parts from a little bit of everywhere and some scratchbuilding, making the rear motor mount next to finish the initial fitting...then time for detailing. The front of this chassis will be full! Thanks for looking in.

Thanks for the kind comments. I had originally planned to make this a quick, shelf-build with bodywork mods, some interior work and no motor....was saving the blocks for other builds. I've decided to go ahead and drop one in this build, I'm not sure what kind yet. I'm kinda leaning towards blown. I hope to enter my first show in May. I was going with another project that is not started yet, but I think I'm going with this one now. This is no replica...by no means, but I'm enjoying how this is turning out. Been doing chassis work this week.....replaced whole front end with '90s nascar thunderbird unit (glue bomb i picked up for free), brass/styrene pinned frt suspension components, added the batteries, parachute lever/cables. I should be able to finish front suspension and start some brake systems soon, then motor work and other detailing. I included a start and current shot. Thanks for looking!

Amazing work Steve.....thats one great build!

Hitting a homer Ty.....this one will be Beautiful bro!!! Keep it up. ps.....thanks for that shot of the 1:1. Been researching pix of wb setups and this is perfect. You nailed your wheelie bar setp btw! Awesome man...

WOW Chris....you are a madman with mad skills bro. Keep it up, loving it!

Amazing work Joe....simply amazing. I hope one of my builds will be at this detail level one day. You are making it right man, and sometimes thats a strain...but we are perfectionists, just the way it is. It will come back to you.

Outstanding Niko, your are doing some very fine work. I love the cleanliness and the subject!