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Thanks Jason!

Spent some time today on getting closer to finalizing the template for the motor plate and am messing with a spacer for the mechanical fan I'm toying with using. As with much of this build, it's sort of a mixture of old and new. The fan will be spun by an old-school electric water pump. With tin work My plan is to make a motor plate in .010" nickel-silver. This has a little ways to go but it's pretty close. I'll be adding the exhaust port plates and prepping them for plug wires. Side shot showing a bit more of the overall package Comments welcome!

That color looks super, Stan. And it's shinier than shiny! Looking forward to more updates...

Yep, that's it...

Keep up the steady progress Lucas! It's looking good...

Thanks Paul...

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement, Leonard! I hope to see some updates on your Camaro one of these days...

Thank you, Darryl. It actually turned out pretty much the way I was hoping!

Thanks Paul. If you have a chance to check, and I'll do the same... Thanks for stopping by and taking a look Stan!

Thank you, Håkan. I appreciate it! Hey Chris! Thanks for checking in on it. I'm inching closer and closer... Thank you, much, Brian. Bill - I thank you, sir...! I truly appreciate your looking in on my build, Ron. Thanks a bunch! LOL Paul. Yeah - unfortunately, I thought of that. I'm trying to think back when I was doing 1:1 stuff how all the wiring went. I'm probably gonna have to refer to some wiring diagrams to get it all straight in my mind... Thanks Ray. That's my goal. I hope I can pull it off. I'm going to be getting into a lot of fidgety things one of these days, i.e., wiring, etc. and I'm sure that's probably going to try my patience. I'm really happy with how it sets. If it all goes together in the final assembly with the same stance, I'll be a really happy camper. On a whole different topic, I finally figured out what kind of class I think this is best suited to fit - Nostalgia Pro Stock - based on the rules only. It is not being built to replicate an existing P/S Fairmont, so in that regard it wouldn't legally qualify. By the spirit of the rule book, I need to use a snorkel hood scoop on it to conform, and I'm sure I'll have one painted to match, but I'm still leaning toward a cowl hood for my favorite choice. There might be a couple of classes it could fit in, too, that are sportsman classes. If anyone is interested in shedding any light on this particular subject, I'm more than willing to hear/see what you have to say.

Got some more done. Worked on overhead switch panel. Though not pictured, I added some small PE washers on the ends of the "switches" I'd shown previously to help me keep holes drilled in the face panel in a straight and well spaced line, then glued the switches to the back side of a piece of .080 angle bracket. I will add sides to it to attach it to the cage. Got the holes drilled on the front after drilling through from the inside out. Toggles, when made are going to be .020 styrene rod flattened on one end, leaving the rod end to insert into the switch panel. I added a strip of styrene to the fender flange area so I'd have something to attach the tin work to. I began drilling that so I can add rivets at the junction of the fender and tin. I've still got to do the driver's side and will add one more at the rear on the passenger side. Also got around to starting the rear deck spoiler. I will be adding PE spill plates to it but it's at least started. It's laminated out of three pieces of styrene, .015-.010-.015" so the rivets I'll use to attach the spill plates will have a place to reside. I tried making a spoiler and drilling into it from the outside edge and it was too easy to get off-angle and drill into the surface material. That's all for now. Comments welcome.

Wowzer!!! OK. The BIG ONE doesn't look too bad after all... LOL Keep up the great work, bro...

I'm very curious to see the process, Jimmy. Anxiously waiting...

Nice trivia info, Paul. I was guessing the discs to be phenolic, but I was wrong. Imagine that! LOL Thanks for the encouragement!

Made some progress over the past several days. Haven't had as much time to work on things as I'd have liked, but oh well... After quite some time of thinking and mentioning this, I finally got around to adding slide mounts to the central frame rail system. You can see the trans portion of the mounts and the mount for the shifter above the reverse case. Setting on the central chassis I got so frustrated with myself a couple nights ago. You've heard the saying two wrongs don't make a right. It's true. I'd "cleaned out" the pivot holes on this set of Lenco handles and attached the grips before I realized (bad recollection) I'd drilled the holes bigger than I'd needed to, so I had to fuss around waaay too long trying to find all the appropriately sized pieces to "adapt" to the circumstances. The grip halves are .006" PE pieces that I primed and painted with flat black. After attaching them, I touched a dot of Future to them to give them a tiny bit more thickness and a bit more shine, similar to the black phenolic grips on the OEM Lenco parts. Something I've just barely started on is my aluminum block 351C Now I'm going to have to screw up my courage and take out the trans tunnel before I'll be able to do any more fitting the trans or attaching the levers and linkage to the trans. More to come, Lord willing... Comments welcome!

Very nicely done!

Your tins look just absolutely out-of-this-world, Chris. Great recovery my friend...!

I'm gonna throw a bit of a curve at you, Tyrone. I really like the profile of the big hat, but the front view of it is almost overwhelmly large. Of course in drag racing and modeling, bigger is always better, so I'll offer a tentative vote in favor of the "big hat." I actually kind like the subtlety of the smaller version, though.

Beautiful... even though it's nowhere near finished.

Great job Chris! Keep at it bro... Also, while I'm thinking about it, I'll wish you a happy birthday a day early, in case I forget tomorrow (which I probably would!). SP

Niko - here are a couple pics of the new Frontrunner tire: Side-by-side with kit Frontrunner Comparison of redesigned tire, flanked by kit Frontrunner and Moroso tire. Mine is a direct replacement for the kit tires. Jimmy - Thanks for taking the time to go through the thread. I hope there are some things that will prove to beneficial to you... The Lord really has blessed me with patience, if nothing else... LOL

Niko, I'll plan to take a picture of my new Frontrunner side-by-side with the kit Frontrunner and Moroso tires, just for sake of comparison.

John B - I appreciate your empathy... LOL. Thanks, so much, Greg! No need to apolgize, Jason. My website has issues right now, so not all my stuff is visible that's actually available. I've been too spread out with my time to get it fixed, but I plan to get started on that soon. I have two sizes of slicks currently, 14x32 and 16x33, plus a super nice "Frontrunner"-styled tire. Wheels will be available. I've cast a few out of a single mold but need to develop a new batch mold. Thanks for your interest! I'm hoping to start work on a new step-by-step build of my Lenco lever set that I'll use on this build. The trans is more or less done. I've also begun work on a new 351C-based 427 stroker. I've got the heads attached to the block and have done a bit of prep work for mounting the scatter shield. More to come!

Thank you for your input, John. I truly appreciate it. That's the direction I'm planning to go. Still just don't know whether the studs/nuts will be in the wheels only, or if I'll do it so they appear functional, i.e., studs mounted in the brake hats. And then I have to treat the front end in a similar way. ha Your question about how I find the time is a really good one... I don't feel like I've got nearly as much time to work on it as I'd like. There have been weeks when I've hardly touched it. I'm trying to run my Futurattraction small business; work 40 hrs a week at my real job; sing in a men's barbershop chorus; up until yesterday had been helping my wife write a book for several years (I did the photography and helped proof numerous times) - we signed off on final revisions with the printer, yesterday, so praise the Lord that is finished; and I'm on the worship team at church, plus all the normal "life" things we all do/go through, so I have my fingers in (too) many pies. I don't even consider myself to be a fast (or efficient) builder when I do have time. It seems like I spend at least two hours of time thinking for every hour of doing. If I gave you a dollar for all the hours of sleep I've lost at night thinking/planning how to make something or resolve a problem on this project you'd be a moderately well-off man... LOL Evidently, I'm either more efficient when I do work on it, or I spend more time on it than I think. Sorry for the rambling response...

Thanks for the nice words, Dave... Thanks, too, Paul, for those leads.