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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?

That interior looks absolutely real! Very nice shade of gold you've got there as well.

A like-minded man, good to have you here! Look forward to seeing your builds. Hawaii you say, how's the weather there??

Got to agree on your color choice; that rich hue looks so right on that body. It may have fought you, but you whipped it just fine!

Oh, that is so nice! Revell really captured the nuances of the complex curves of the front view of the '57. The grille/surround/bumper looks just right on this model, and I especially love how your model sits. Is it straight from the box with regards to the stance, or did it require tweaking? Great build!

Was fun following your progress on this one, and it looks every bit as sharp as expected. Gorgeous, miles deep blue color. Well done.

Another cool racer, and an obscure one to me. Nice job re-creating it, the color looks spot-on. If my name was Coonrod, I'd paint a cartoon racoon on my race car and call it a day!?

Love these kits, and you've really done it justice. Very well done!

Interesting stuff!

There was a very informative comparison done by Tim Boyd that can still be found, done years ago before the newer AMT kit came along, or the Revell snapper. ( Scale Auto Enthusiast Nov/Dec 1982) It showcased full builds by Tim of the old AMT, MPC, this Revell, and the Monogram 1/24. Lots of side-by-side photos for comparison, and Tim's no-nonsense objectivity made for an excellent read. Properly built, all looked pretty nice, but in the end he gave higher marks to the AMT. Sort of "by default" the Monogram scored better than Revell, even with lighter chassis details and some proportional issues, because the Revell kit had so many fit issues that he reckoned many would never be finished by the average consumer/builder. He whipped it into shape for the article, though! Same article can be found in "Building Model Cars Vol. 1 - Best of Scale Auto Enthusiast Magazine 1979-1984"