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Agreed! Nice looking "stripe-delete" candidate as is. Very sharp!

Brian, on the first page of this thread you got some solid advice on making silicone molds and casting your tires in resin. If I may expand on that a little, I'd recommend Alumilite's Alumires RC-3 Black resin for your casting. It makes for a nice, realistic black finish right out of the mold. It is very opaque, so no light transfers through making your castings look "toyish." Simple 1-to-1 mixing ratio. Here's some small parts I cranked out with simple squish molds, except the Delco battery, which is a one-piece. I'll file the bottom of it flat to get rid of the excess, and the others have thin flash that an X-acto will clean right up. Most of it will actually flake right off it's so thin. My point in showing this is to show just how opaque the black resin is. You can find it here: https://store.makelure.com/store/p/1053-AlumiRes-RC-3-Black.aspx

These are serious land yachts! Typical kit for the time, it can still build up very nicely, as you've proven. Very clean build, and your color choices are superb and look like factory choices. Beautiful car, beautiful model. Well done.

Hilarious, and creative!

I truly hope it's the Cosma Ray, we don't have enough of the better-built true custom classics. Please, please, please be the Cosma Ray! And note to CanCon, Tom's name is Tim!?

Welcome to the forum, and congrats on a super clean build. Outstanding paint work. Looking forward to more.

Hard to beat a red Chevelle! Very nice model.

Beauty of a fat-fendered Ford! I've got the sister kit (woody), metalwork painted almost exactly that color. It's a great color for curves!

Man, that color looks SO good! Well done.

Very cool to see one of the Tri-5 cousins, and it doesn't look bad at all! Thanks for the heads-up, wasn't aware this existed.

AMT tires are 1/25, and these wheels at 1/24 are too big to squeeze in.

Wicked stance, and although I'm generally not a fan of white cars, that ivory looks proper here, especially as a ground for the red accents. Excellent choices! Another winner.

That is SHARP! Great job on a clean build.

Thanks for the great pics!

Crazy cool! Love the oddball styling, and you did a fine job on your model!

Beautiful job on a gorgeous car!

So stylish and classy in that color combo! Thanks for the pics.

Best kind of kit for experimenting/learning! Go man go!

The NASCAR rear looks like a natural, easy fit.

Very cool project. Love your attention to details.

Cool color, and your chassis is NICE. Can't wait to see more!

Thanks guys. Mark, the 62 Catalina was my first inclination for a rear end, but as the car was built in the late 60s, I wondered if maybe a GTO 12-bolt might have been perched on the leaf springs. They never ran terribly wide tires on the car in the time period I'm interested in. Thanks for the heads-up on the Rodder's Journal article, I'll find that one. Espo, thanks for that tidbit on the Hot Rod site, could be very helpful. As for the American Graffiti years, I couldn't care less. That look was a step back from its former glory. To each his own!

Going to build a model of one of my favorite cars of all time: Popular Hot Rodding magazine's Project-X. This yellow '57 sedan got me looking at cars as a boy the way that one cute girl gets a boy REALLY looking at girls. Being a test car, it went through a lot of various phases, but I'm keeping my build ol' school. I'm not at all interested in any variation of the car newer than the late 70s. I'm shooting for the early 70s mostly. I have a couple of old articles that got me started, but I'm needing some further info that the ol' interwebs can't provide. I'm building the car as it looked after the rear wheel openings were enlarged a little, a fresh interior with bench seat up front, rear seat deleted and covered with a tonneau, 4 point roll cage and Simpson harnesses were installed then,too. A fresh L88 427 with Edlebrock intake and Holley carb and 4-speed were added at that time, and Hurst/Airheart disc brakes up front to stop all that power. No bumper up front, just a tube grille. I read that a Pontiac rear end was installed at one time, early on. Does anyone know what rear end that was? What car it may have been sourced from? How long was it used? What replaced it? When? In one black and white photo I can see that the rear end has been painted a very light color, I'm thinking maybe even white. I've seen old drag racers with white rear ends under them, but it could also be yellow to match the car. Does anyone know which is right? I'm hoping some of the older guys here (like me) might remember or even have some of the old magazines that describe some of those details. Another detail I'm missing is some small lettering in the area of the quarter panel between the rear swooping chrome strips, near the tail-end chrome over the tail lamps. It's blurry in every pic I can find. What does it say there?

Looks SOOOOO right! Well done.

VERY cool, low key cruiser! Did you vacu-form a windshield?