Lunajammer

How ironic that those are exactly the colors you get to choose from on the car lot. "Hi, I have these options I'd like on my new car. Can I have that in teal? Oh. How about powder blue? No? Well, then what do you have? Silver huh? Ugh, fine, I guess I'll take silver."

Sort of. There were only two greens, both very dark. I could live with Emerald Green Metallic and will probably go back for. Just gotta come to terms with spending the price of the kit on a paint can.

FWIW, I only counted metallics and nothing darker than charcoal gray (a medium dark silver). If I included grays, which I considered solids, you can expand that list by several more skews.

Which brings us to... ----------------- Actually Dan, I almost went there myself and started googling Kia Sol for some of their two-tones, but why confuse my own rant? ?

Looking for a nice Duplicolor green at the auto store, I was confronted with a fairly broad selection of paints... if you love silver, black white and three reds. Eight slots just for silver alone, and these are just spray touchup paints, not engine, wheels or caliper paints. Universal Silver Radiant Silver Bright Silver Ingot Silver Pewter Metallic Silver Galaxy Silver Metallic Ultra Silver Fine Silver Edit: Just returned from another auto store with a better appointment of Duplicolor so we'll need to add.. Classic Silver Mica Gunmetal Metallice Fine Silver Birch Magnetic Metallic Silver Silver Charcoal Metallic Charcoal Gray Metallic Satin Silver Metallic Silver Mica Alabaster Silver Metallic Lunar Mist (it's silver) How did automakers ever survive the 50's??

Clearly, you're a very accomplished builder. It's unbelievable that you chose this kit to put that kind of time and talent into. I've never seen this old dinosaur done better.

Superb work. Precious results.

Thank you much. If I try it again, I'd like to explore using a Model A. So many interesting possibilities.

Yup.

Not anymore I'm sorry to say. Just chains; Hobby Lobby, Michaels, art supply stores.

I start with these tools almost exclusively. The dental tool (especially the rounded tip) I use for two part QuikAluminum because I can press firmly into grooves and sculpt shapes. The stir stick I use for Bondo. I'll sand it to the shape I want before spreading, then break off that piece when I'm done to get more uses from the stick. The sides let you do broad spreading and the shaped tip for spot spreading. For skim coating I dilute Bondo one part glazing putty with lacquer thinner and paint it on like a heavy primer with a brush, then clean the brush in lacquer thinner. This is the stuff I use for sculpting. It shapes like clay and sands easily as Bondo when firm.

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Great ideas here, thanks for sharing. I have one of these... Which leads to this...

I used 1/8-inch tape to set my margins for the halo roof, but that might've been a little generous. My thinking is that our Cannonball is basically a photo contest and since I'm not the most mechanically astute I'll need all the visual impact I can get, so I'm doing the more interesting vinyl pattern.

While you guys are chasing rabbits down holes I chose not to look down, I'm pretty much just putting lipstick on the pig. In this case, a vinyl top might look pretty. Don't know if GTX's wore 'em but Road Runners did and ignorance isn't a crime ?.

Whoa, beautiful. ?

Sometimes I need two hands. I'm sure there are a variety of no-finger solutions for securing your engine that haven't occurred to me.

I don't know what your engine consideration is, but FWIW the Corvette LS engine darn nearly drops right in. The only tweaking I did here was shorten the front snorkel and trim a little from the chassis at the back of the tranny. Don't remember if there was any issue with the exhaust. (Love your rims BTW).

That’s fascinating. Very interesting find. Looking forward to what you will do with it.

I know a stock intake is the hang up here, but as a point of conversation, the Revell parts pack Caddy engines are plentiful for around $10. The intake rails make it a very distinctive hot rod addition but I wonder if the 4-carb intake could be modified to stock?

Well, that's the plan. I know myself well enough to know that if I don't finish by spring I'll never return to it in the fall. It's amazing what a 20-minute spray can session can do to boost a project's progress.

Very minor update on the GTX… parts cleaned up with some primered and others painted giving clues to some color choices.

That’s so old I don’t even remember it.

Hmm. That many models that well thought out and well executed... maybe you DO have too much time on your hands. ?