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Oh Yeah, very nice looking. I had a 1:1 '63 Impala convert, flashback city !

Nice job Jim, sharp looking car!

The original issue AMT '68 Shelby Mustang also had a clear hood, it had the Highrise / Teardrop molded into it.

Excellent job, really looks good !

Excellent work, way to go! I agree with cutting the width of the header and setting the bumper edge back closer to the edges of the front fenders. That's the first thing that caught my eye when I looked at it the pic's. Other than that it really looks good.

Wow, what a conversion you guys got going. I also worked for General Motors in the past, I quit froze my pension and sold cars for the rest of my working career, pretty much all GM dealerships of course, I also did do 5 years with Chrysler. Hey I thought highly of Chrysler, Ford, and the now defunct American Motors also, they all made some great cars. In my opinion GM was the Greatest Corporation to ever grace this planet and the largest for many years. I don't believe anyone will ever be able to come near what they've accomplished. I learned a lot from them through the years, I think they were the most professional ever in the car business. It truly saddens me to see the jackpot there in now, I just can't believe how there management could run this Mighty Corporation into the dirt the way they did. You know they really stooped pretty low to go to the white house cut a deal and sell out with Obuma and form the new "Government Motors", Cash For Clunkers, Oh Man and the stock holders that got screwed, I don't want to get started. And they put the Berra lady in the CEO position to purposely soften the blow for the corporation from the heat there going to receive. You know it sounds like to me they really aren't as car oriented as they used to be, it was there main stay, I heard they wanted to be more into the banking business. If this how there going to operate "with a crutch" and "being unprofessional", ( there probably wanting another bailout ) THEN THEY SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS !!! 'cause it's sure as hell not the General Motors I once knew !

Fine looking custom, excellent bodywork and paint !

Nice work ! They do look like real cars. A friend of mine had a black '65 Max Wedge 4 speed car back in the day just like yours.

Way to go Greg, that's some great history, really enjoyed it. 6 months and 50 Grand = 18 million units a year. Yeah man, that's the kind of numbers I'd enjoy seeing. What a return !!!

Looks like he almost had to tilt the front end if he wanted to raise the body to work on the engine. Greg you can sure find some interesting stuff. Man that's out there. lol

Nice looking hearse. The engine and interior really look sharp.

Nice looking period piece. It's going to be a knockout when it's done.

JC, Andy, & Mike Oh yeah I had to keep it short when I wrote that PM because of space. Yepper, the weight and distribution of the 427 plus the fact of too much power and the traction. It definitely had it's problems. Oh yes, Mike and the "Liver regenerating itself". lol I wanted to type something on the ride, It wasn't as bad as some of the hard tail choppers I built but it was rough. Although it wasn't a street car it was made for racing.

I Love them! Totally Awesome! What a race design, looked like it was screamin standing still. It just possessed everything good looks, arrogant, Smooth rolling lines. I worked for GM years back, I had a Superintendent that was personal friends with Zora, I used hear some good stuff on occasions. One thing he did tell me on the Cheetah was (and it might have been mentioned before but I've never read it) was the cockpit heat was so intense that it would melt the soles of the drivers shoes and make the foot pedals sticky for the drivers. Now that's a hell of a thing to have to keep in the back of your mind while your wrestling with that monster and super powerful it was. I think if they were able to work the bugs out, the frame flexing, and the intense heat in the cockpit, and anything else they could have resolved the problems, they would have hammered the Shelby Cobras. I had a very good friend that owned a 427 Cobra God bless him he was a good guy. His dad owned a foreign car dealership and Tommy hounded him until he bought him a Cobra, and he paid his dad back. His dad told us later he really didn't want to buy it he was afraid he'd get killed or hurt in it. I rode in it, it was a wild ride. it was a 427" had the mag wheels, road pipes ,amber headlights, a plaque rivited on the dash that said "Not Recommended For Street Use". And at that time the one thing that I've only seen on his car was a Lift-Off Hardtop and it was aluminum like the rest of the car. I loved that Cobra, but let me tell you it didn't handle well either, I think it's all about torque, I'd watch him crack the throttle at different levels and the car would go crazy and he would be fighting hard to straight line it. At times we would go to other hot car areas and race, everybody wanted a piece of the infamous Cobra, we would watch out for one another and be (lookouts for the cops). You could tell how unstable the car really was if you would just keep your eyes on the amber headlights you would see them bouncing all over the place, you knew he was putting it in the wood. And that bad boy would get hot big time too. I think the whole problem with the Cheetah was Chevrolet pulling the plug on it, or it would have been everyone's favorite car. Greg I agree with you if someone would produce a kit of it I think it would sell some good numbers. I have the Cox kit it's not bad for a curbside kit the proportions on the body look right on.

Oh yeah excellent work ! Nice clean execution, you made working with resin look so easy. Old Scool !

GM's idea and design for the Vertipac was to make the shipping $ per car more cost efficient. The Vega was one of the cheapest new cars you could buy back then, smaller cars didn't have big profit margins. Also there was no problem with fluids GM designed a special package for the Vertipac cars, plugs for the dipsticks, oil and trans fluid changed the routing on somethings etc.

You made that promo come alive Tom, It looks good. The tail lights and markers look realistic now.

Way to go Adam, it looks real good and excellent modeling !

TSO there awesome ! I've been wanting to go see them live for sometime now. I won't miss them next year. The lead guitarist is really tough. Listen to him on the song "Christmas Jam".

The wrecker is looking good, seems to me there was something with solid steel wheels, a as I was typing this and it came to me. You need to find some military modeling buddys. There are military vehicles both German and American that have the solid steel wheels that you can use. George

Lookin good Adam, the interior washes and the IP standout. Looks like your going to make the little toad look respectable!

Hi Adam, The Chevette Scooter never had chrome bumpers, that was part of the idea of the Scooter model it was meant to be one of the cheapest cars you could buy, they only came with painted bumpers. I'm pretty sure the bumpers were done silver. I'm racking my brain trying to think exactly what came on the Scoot I can assure you it wasn't very many options. 5 Speed was standard, Radio was a option, I think even the cigarette lighter was a option. They had rubber mats in them instead of carpeting. I think they had painted grill and head light bezels too. But I do remember the bumpers they were so cheap looking the car kinda reminded me of a Hugo. Oop's that's a low blow ! If my memory serves me right I think they were in the area of $2700 - $3100.00 brand new. I sold in a pretty big Chevy store and I can remember we only had 1 or 2 of them in stock. compared to 12 to 15 regular Chevette's in stock. I would think that there's a website on line that would have the RPO's,and packages that were available on the Chevette, Monza as well as the rest of the GM lineup. Maybe not they might have dumped all of that info.

Adam, Way to go I just knew you stuck a stick in a Hornets Nest with your opening line ! lol And I also knew that a bunch of people were going to come to the rescue of these 3 so called undesirables ! The engines available for the Monza was the "Iron Duke" 151 c.u., the old reliable V-6, and the 267c.u. not the 305 If my memory is on I think the 305 c.u. only came in the "Monza Spyder" at least that's how it was when we first started building them. Hey man they were about the cheapest transportation you could buy. I couldn't wait till I heard a V-8 one coming down the repair line that I drove off of with the exhaust not hooked up. and then it was play time. Then I'd go out in the lot and hammer the hell out of it. Oh and of course my choice would have to be the Monza, Because I was a "new car driver" that was my job classification in the GM plant where they were built. Shortly after the Monza's (in fact we built the Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick Versions of the Monza also) I quit and froze my pension and sold cars GM cars that is sold the whole lineup in 33 years, I did sell Mopars towards the end. Wow, I never thought a thread would get this big from those little nothing cars they must be flashing everyone back to the good old days !!! Our youth ! he he

It depends in what manner you consider a Chevette a loser. I'm pretty sure the Chevette holds the sales record in General Motors for the most units ever sold of a single car. I sold a ton of them new and used. Oh and as for the Monza it was no slouch either, it was pretty popular car. In a Chevy store you sell a lot of either of them especially in the spring of the year around graduation time.

Oh ya, In -A -Gadda - Da - Vida Baby ! Lookin Good Bobby