Harry P.

Love it! Love the colors... the white frame, the body color, the red engine block... it all works together really well. Nice job!

Beautiful!

So you don't care for the car, and you yourself describe it as a boring OOB build... so why do it?

It's available to 94 million households (80% of all households with a TV). It's available to a lot of people, but only a tiny handful actually watch. That 900,000+ who watched the first episode of Jay Leno's Garage was the biggest viewership for a program on CNBC in their history. Not a whole lotta eyeballs looking at CNBC.

Viewership for the first three episodes... Episode 1: 916,000 Episode 2; 689,000 Episode 3: 556,000 Not exactly the kind of trend you want to see...

The "earthquakes" couldn't have been a very big deal... no mention at all here on the local news. Usually the media makes a big deal of earthquakes. If they didn't even bother mentioning it, I'm guessing you guys out there all survived...

Wow... how do you pick up the pieces after something so catastrophic?

That's cool, I like the look. It's kind of different from what you always see. But you should really paint those header flanges black, to match the pipes.

Yeah, I knew it was something about Pearl Harbor. Sorry, never saw the movie. Not a fan.

What could be cooler than building a model with your grandson?

Learning is what it's all about. Keep painting, keep posting.

Oops... my mistake. I didn't realize that Evening Orchid wasn't available in '67. But still... that '67 Impala coupe... drool...

Brad... I smell a magazine feature...

Oh, ok... I see what you mean, Bill. Yeah, I always loved the roofline on the real ones... didn't realize you were talking about the model.

BTW... I think we're doing actual quotes from real people, not lines from movie scripts. I think. Right, TJ?

John Belushi in "Animal House?"

One man's "wonky" is another man's "cool"... PS: I agree, lots of very nice stuff going on in '65, too. Maybe we just say that the mid '60s was the bomb...

For American car styling, I mean. Sure, there are tons of beautiful designs from all eras from the '20s to today, but for some reason the stylists were getting it all right in 1967. Just a few of the beauties from that year... Chevy Impala in Evening Orchid with a white interior... Ford Galaxie... Pontiac Bonneville coupe... Plymouth Barracuda... Plymouth GTX... Chrysler 300... Cadillac Eldorado... Mercury Cougar... Man, I could go on forever; that's just what comes immediately to mind. What a year for beautiful cars. And oh yeah... my very first car was a 1967 Belvedere (it was 10 years old when I got it, but was still a cool looking car).

I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, so I'll just agree! Beautiful model, absolutely gorgeous color scheme... a terrific model of one of the best looking Fords ever, IMO.

I have to admit I hardly ever stop into this section, so this is actually the very first time I'm seeing this thread. WOW! Some amazing stuff going on here! I don't know why, but it seems like the most spectacular examples of scratchbuilding are usually done by the guys who build drag cars.

I'm pretty sure the CNBC version is all new.

Not heater hoses. Coolant hoses. From the radiator to the engine block and back again (upper and lower hoses).

Yes, this project is still alive! I admit I haven't made much progress lately... it's been sort of put on the back burner because I've been pretty swamped with "real" work... so much so that I had to work all last weekend, when I had hoped to get in some modeling time... but nooooooo! That's ok, though... real work is what pays the bills around here. Anyway... I've been sort of stuck here. I've been going over the various possible ways to make the windows operate. There are tons of different ways to do this, though none of them are particularly "easy." Add to that is the fact that the doors on this car are really thin, leaving very little room inside the doors for any sort of window linkages. I have a few ideas, but haven't settled on the exact way to do it yet. Same problem with the rear tailgate/liftgate combo... how best to make the latches really work, how many latches, where to locate them (centered or twin latches on the ends), how best to make the support arms for both the lower and upper gates, etc. Again, there are many ways to do this, both in 1/8 scale and in the real world. I've been doing a lot of "thinking" on paper lately... ...and I'm pretty sure I have the tailgate/liftgate worked out in my mind. Now all I need is the time to actually get building. Maybe this weekend...

I think it came out great. Your foiling is nice and clean and crisp... the way it should be!

You are correct, sir!