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    What did you see on the road today?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

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    The Monaro (aka Pontiac GTO) was a really nice car when they intro'd it here back then, but GM dropped the ball (as usual) and didn't advertise and upgrade the car fast enough after the intro. The equally nice Commodore (aka Pontiac G8) is a car that I truly lust after, and as you said Bill-------they sound absolutely terrific on the road.

    Sadly, Pontiac is gone and all those cars with it. Chevy offers the SS now, which is nothing more than the G8 reborn-----but with a pricetag of $43,000+ I won't be getting one anytime soon! :o

    Yeah the Chevy SS is just a rebadged Holden Commodore as was the G8. I actually think our Commodore utes would sell ok over there if they didn't price them out of the market.

    Bills coupe

    in Model Cars

    Posted · Edited by checkmate

    Thanks for the kind words and encouragement guys, glad you like it, I think Bill will too. ;)

    To answer the questions,

    the paint is Holts Duplicolour Red Mica with Repco(Aussie car parts retailer)clear over it. According to the bloke at Repco their paint is made by Holts and just put in different cans.

    The grass is static grass, railroad guys and wargammers use it a fair bit. You can buy it online and even make your own applicator out of a electric fly swatter. It's easy to do and the results look great. Here's a video of how it works, I use longer grass than her and a bigger zapper. (Mines got some boot!)

    Bills coupe

    in Model Cars

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    Finally finished this, better late than never, made for a mate to give to a mate.

    Not an exact replica but close enough, I made a quick base for it since the guy getting it (Bill) doesn't build models and my experience with non modellers is they usually break them picking them up so he can grab this by the base to move it. ;)

    Started as the ZZ Top coupe, different wheels and brakes, RHD conversion, aluminium ram tubes. Edelbrock covers with leads sticking out of them because the real car has a LS style motor.

    Tail lights got painted red after pics.

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