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Very creative! Will be watching your progress on this one with interest.

Back in the day, my uncles and their buddies all seemed to follow the same approach to hot-rodding on a budget: First, jack it up in the back, usually with Gabriel Hi-Jackers air shocks and/or extended shackles. Second followed closely behind; wider tires on chrome wheels out back. Very common then in my neck of the woods to see new 15x8(or 10)-inch Cragars and white letter tires on the rear with stock steelies up front. ( Just cheaper to buy 2 at a time, as budget allowed ) Thirdly, traction bars; Lakewood brand, please. Fourth would involve exhast, depending what your car had to begin with, you either bought Hooker headers or Thrush mufflers, if not both. Cherry bombs were also accepted. J.C.Whitney provided chrome exhaust tips. By this point, priorities shift and vary, but alot of no-name chrome engine dress-up goodies appear, as do under-dash 8-track players and Jensen Co-axial 6x9s in the rear shelf. Oh yeah, it was very important to show your colors; that is to apply all those complimentary "stickers" the above manufacturers included with their products to the rear quarter windows of your ride, thus looking "race car-ish" without messing up your paint/primer! I swear those boys chose Hooker headers just because Hooker had the biggest and coolest stickers!

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing some of your paint work...

Greetings! Enjoy the hobby!

Welcome to the world of car modelling! There's plenty to learn, and the guys here are quick to share knowledge and advice. It's fun and addicting, so get ready....

Check some old Tom Daniels kits for some cool induction setups. I think the Pie Wagon has 3 deuces with cool custom wedge-shaped scoops on each. Most if not all TD kits were 1/24. Cool build, great start, much luck to you!

Seen some nice folded fabric details done with simple paper towels soaked with thin Elmer's glue; worth experimenting...

Pretty nice,actually. I like how those FolkArt acrylics laid down; looks more scale-correct to me. (Nice small pearl flakes!) Kudos on your choice of colors. Those are tasteful to me!

Nice car and story! Thanks for the link.

Wow; just loving this thread! Hilarious stuff out there. Who knew we all have such oddities peppering our stash?! Most of my weirdness has been duplicated here by others - The C57D from Forbidden Planet, Blohm und Voss BV-141 plane kit, etc. Don't have a pic handy, and the kit is currently in storage, but my weirdest automotive-themed kit is "The Homer" from Polar Lights. This is a kit based on an episode of The Simpsons, where Homer finds himself in a position to design the perfect American automobile. I love it! One of my modeling goals is to build a 1/25 "realized" version to display beside it.

If you're lucky enough to have an "Ollie's" near you, they have in stock this week an assortment of Dupli-color "Perfect Match" automotive touch-up paints in 8oz. spray cans for 99 cents per can! I found seven colors and clear I can easily use in modeling. These are acrylic lacquer and spray very nicely. Ollie's price stickers cover the OEM matching numbers, but I was just looking at them as close-enough sort of usage. You can make out some labeling; my dark burgundy-ish color turned out to be GM's Dark Garnet Red Metallic, and my silver is from Honda!

Progressing nicely!

Something very "clean" about this body style. Looking forward to seeing what you make of it!

Yeah, they're definitely workable kits, but not faultless. A LOT of things can go wrong between measuring and final product. The best laid plans...

Great work so far! Keep it coming!

Interesting stuff. I have access to a fixer-upper 65 Buick Skylark that I can pull some actual measurements from - thinking of the greenhouse in particular, which I believe is the same across the GM intermediates of that year. Just thinking out loud, in an internet forum kind of way! Snake, you say the window openings are pretty much the same. That means corrections to the PL C-pillar need to happen at the rear, which is a bit of a complication, but maybe not terrible. Can anyone speak to the accuracy of the AMT 65 GTO roof that was separate from the body ( not the "custom" one) ? Thinking of a glue-on replacement.

Lots to love here, but John, that Watson-esque paint is right on the money!

Love that color! Is there a build thread here on the forum?`

That C-pillar is really noticeable now that you've mapped it out. That old AMT body looks right to these middle-aging eyes. Just holding some lined paper against my screen, the PL body shows to be "taller", and I see it easily, especially in the rear quarter panel. It has a "stumpy" proportion that is the opposite of the "lean-but-muscular" AMT quarter panel. Do you see it? Could be a photo thang! Dangit, now I want one of those AMT bodies. Overall, the PL body looks to my eyes to need about a 1mm slice taken out of the body from stem to stern, a slight pie-cut vertical at the back of the front fender opened up to take a little of the droop out of the front end, and the C-post massaged into shape. Just one man's opinion... Thanks again for the comparison. This helps. I have a couple of these and really want to build them as right as I can. I like my old Monogram kits, but they are 1/24. Was really happy to see these in 1/25 when they came out. I think they have much potential yet.

Well said. Don't forget that applies to your health as well! The key is PROGRESS. A little is still some PROGRESS!! By the way, black will look sweet on this, but I can picture it on the salt flats with a silver body on a red frame. Just sayin... Hang in there. man!

Ron, those builds sound intriguing, and I hope you have time to document and post. Best of luck. I'll be watching for your measurements on those kits as well. Thanks for the effort!

Flatout, that's a sweet build of this old favorite. Greg, I seem to have struck a nerve. That was unintentional. My point wasn't that you couldn't stroke and bore to your heart's content then or any other time, but you weren't going to land on 396 cubic inches with the available hardware from those days. Even the article that shows the 396ci engine doesn't explain how they got there, but talks about the typical 383 you get with a 400 crank in a 350 block. Back to modeling...

Fantastic. Your work is appreciated, and should help quite a few of us! Will be watching...

Snake, had any time to experiment with the C-pillar?

Keep this one going! So far, so good!