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I repairs the sink marks in the trunk, and stripped the chrome from the bumpers. The chassis has the Ford features imprinted on the bottom and kinda liked it for the nostalgia of it. It was cracked and I repaired it. I downloaded instructions from the internet to determine what came in the original kit and I happened to have two motors in my parts stash. I stripped and cleaned up the motor.

Back in October, I hurt my right index finger at work, of course I’m right handed. I no longer have full use of that finger, and as any model builder knows, you need good fingers. At 63 years old my building time is probably limited and it got me thinking. I came to the realization that all these kits I’ve been wanting to build all these years needed to get done. So I’m on a mission, we’ll see how long it lasts. This is rebuilder I purchased some years back and over the last few years I’ve been collecting the parts needed to complete it. The hood, chassis, tail light panel and tail lights are all from EBay. I stripped the paint and the body was in great shape.

Very cool, may I ask the color of yellow you used.

Very cool

The Johan body is a hard top like you need.

Looking great!

Thank you everyone, I really appreciate the kind words. I’m now working on a 62 Ford Galaxie, built in the same manner.

I used the engine and chassis from the AMT 65 Chevelle Wagon kit, drilling out the holes in the chassis for the screw bottom, and detail painting them both. After painting the body, I Bare Metal foiled the trim, added the sponsors decals, added the battery, washer bottle and upper radiator hose, and screwed it all together. I still need to clean up a couple things and try lettering the Chevrolet letters on the hood and gate.

After searching color combinations, I finally decided to go with White for the exterior and Blue for the interior, I wanted something other than the black, white and red that are so popular. The Gage decals are from EBay, and the seat belts are from the parts box.

I really enjoy the simplicity of the old screw bottom kits, and wanted a simple fast build so detail is limited to paint and decals. I filled the back up lights on the 65 rear bumper, as the 64 has them combined in the tail lights. I stripped the chrome off the front bumper and grille. I painted the front grill flat black, masked the grill and then air brushed Molotow on the bumpers. I then used their pen to detail the grille, Tamiya clear orange to the turn signals. I sanded and polished the original kit glass, it came out very nice to my surprise.

First finished build of 2020. I love the variety of cars you find in the Stock and Super Stock classes. I came across this EBay purchase back in 2011. It was missing chassis, tail lights, rear bumper, motor and trans, and hood. I kept watching EBay and eventually located tail lights and a resin hood. The interior tub, dash and seats were unpainted. I had a 65 Chevelle wagon parts kit, which I sourced a lot of parts from. The body was in pretty good shape.There was a small crack at the wind shield, and a glue spot from a bubble gum flashing light that I repaired.

My favorite so far, very nice build

Very nice, you don’t see many of these built

Very cool

I agree with Snake !

So Tim, I have to ask, did you become an architect, and do you still collect stereo equipment...? Great post, by the way, I always enjoy you contributions, a beautiful build!

Love your work

Very nice!

Very nice work

Looks great, too short a life for such a talented driver

Very nice build! Great job!

Very nice build, I’m glad you’re finally finishing this project, I hate to see so much good and hard work go to waist. This is the best rendition of this kit I have seen! Great work!

That is sweet....

WOW

One of my favorites, great work, love this!