exnyman

Beautiful restoration! I love the color combination! Reminds me of when my Dad and I were restoring my 68 Nova back in the late 70’s. I wanted to paint it Grecian Green with a black vinyl top so my Dad painted the roof green. The body was in black primer and I drove it to work and college that way til 1981. Fast forward to 2004 and we did a full restoration on it back to its original butternut yellow. But this color combo on your Mercury sure brought back the memories!

What a great build! I’m in awe of your skills! I’ve had this kit for 15 years and multiple times have tried building it, only to get frustrated and put it back in the box. While the MCW body and interior is very good, the fitment takes tons of patience. I love to see scale 68 Full size Chevys. My Dad bought an Impala Custom Coupe brand new. My first car, was a 68 Impala Convertible, which I’ve now owned for 50 years.

Absolutely beautiful! You’ve replicated what has to be an extremely rare car. I love the fact that you chose to do the post model as I owned a 68 Chevelle 300 post from 1979-1993.

Looking good! I see your Dad’s car had the optional right hand exterior mirror. Not many 65’s had it and it took me years to find one for my 65 SS convertible. At one time I had the SS convertible and a Danube Blue Impala Sport Coupe. That old photo brings back memories. Somewhere I have a photo of me at age 6 standing with my cousin Barbara, in front of my Aunt and Uncle’s brand new 65 Olds Starfire convertible. I swear in the picture, my cousin has that same beehive hairdo!

Wow! That looks amazing! I’ve always been a fan of the 68-69 Skylarks and you’ve really done this one justice

Looking good! The perfect color for a 64!

Absolutely beautiful! Very clean and I love the color combination. I’ve always liked the Cutlass best out of the 64 GM A bodies. This brings back memories as I had a 65 Impala in this color scheme, back in the late 70’s. It had whitewall tires but had a very thin red pin stripe on the mid body line.

Wow! That looks fantastic! The detailing and improvements just really make it a standout. You’ve inspired me to do this to mine. My Dad brought one of these home for me when he special ordered a brand new 74 Impala in this same color. In December of 74 I started driving and learned how to drive on that 74 Impala. I remember being really nervous at first because the car was only 6 months old. My Dad had a few custom touches done to his Impala. That triangular rear side window was done as an opera window with a half vinyl top. He also had the dealer install an electric sliding sunroof. It was his last brand new car so he went all out. I always liked the aqua blue, and liked the promo in that color.

Really nice! Did the body print out fairly smooth, or did you have to do a lot of sanding?

Fantastic work! Nice to see another one saved!

Fantastic looking Nova! You nailed it right down to the body color Rally Wheels! I worked for Avis Used Car division when these were new. Whenever we got a car on the lot from the fleet that was this color green, the salespeople would get upset, because they didn’t sell well. It seemed at the time it wasn’t too popular a color. We had a 79 Nova this color on the lot for months before it sold. There was a Grand Prix the same color that took even longer to sell. Personally, I like green so I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t popular.

I had the Pro Stock kit with the 75 Grille back when it was a current kit. Don’t know what ever happened to it but a few months ago there was one on EBay that I bought. It was built as a curbside promo type build. I had to get it as I want to build a model of the 75 my father had years ago. Here’s a picture of the grille.

I’ve always liked this body style and green is my favorite color. This looks absolutely beautiful. You really got all the details perfectly!

The photo is from the 65 sales brochure. Here’s the next page. I owned a 65 SS convertible from 1979-2003 and it had never had the grille changed from accident damage. It had the vertical bars blacked out. I like the choice of color on your model, it really accentuates the sleek lines of the car.

An absolutely beautiful build of a beautiful car. By the way, the blacked out vertical grille bars are also correct for 65 Impala SS models and 65 Caprices.