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Sounds good. I did mine so that I have the distance vision and just need glasses for reading. My wife had hers done but opted to do one eye for distance and one for close reading. Don't understand what she was thinking, but it was her choice. Look into getting some prescription sunglasses. With the improved vision comes a greater sensitivity to bright lights like the sun. Glad your vision is improving.

I know what you mean. There are times I just want to get dressed in the dark so I will not see myself in the mirror.

You're right about the trunk tail panel. This would require someone to recreate the trim with some Plastruct or Evergreen styrene stripes. The tail lamps can be highlighted with a chrome marker to bring them up to the way they look on a normal SS. The other trim parts that you pointed out can also be changed, just depending on how much you want to create a body style that otherwise is not available. Would be doable with a little time and patience.

Had both eyes done a couple of years ago. Other than the sensitivity to light at first, I had no issues at all. There are a couple of types of lenses that they offer for distance or nearby. Do you recall which ones they used for your surgery?

Are you using any Calamine Lotion on your poison ivy? I used to have to have a 55 gal. drum of that stuff the last time I got caught by it.

Revelle offered a '65 Chevelle SS years ago. The model was based on the Z-16 option that was when Chevrolet introduced the 396 engines in the Chevelle line. There is a slight trim difference on the trunk lid that can be easily changed and switch engines for a small block if you want. The kit has been reissued a couple of times and I see them often at swap meets. I even have a couple squirreled away in mt stash. The kit is real well done and builds up into a great looking Chevelle.

Very creative body work and the paint finish looks great on this build.

Great looking paint color and the body trim is all cleanly done. Like the engine detailing. A lot can be done during an OOB build by just paying attention to the little details like this.

Beautiful looking paint color and finish. The black accent trim all looks OEM and like how you toned down the finish just like the real car. Like the engine detailing and the how you finished the factory style rally wheels.

I see a few here that look interesting to me. The '40 La Salle couple has always been a body style that looked great to me. The '54 and '57 Olds 88 hardtops would also be nice to have.

Great looking Ford show. The black '57 Ford Custom 300 really brings back fond memories of a couple of '57 Fords I have owned in the distant past. I had a Fairlane 500 Convertible that was granny fresh when I got it. Later I picked up a real clean two owner Mainliner two-door. The big attraction to me at the time was the 312 engine and a 3-speed with overdrive. I was the third and the fifth owner of that one. I tried several times to buy it back from the guy I sold it to, but he appreciated the car as much as I did and wouldn't let it go.

Those "J's Wheels" look really interesting to me. I have also been looking at those Flame Masks and would like to know how they work out for you.

Many many years ago when my first wife and I got married I only owned cars with manual transmissions, and she came from a family that only drove cars with automatics. I had tried for months to teach her how to drive a manual car, but she was so nerves with me in the car she just couldn't get the hang of it. This meant when I was at work or not at home, she was marooned with no way to get anywhere. We lived in the mountains in southern California and one weekend my mother, who lived in the beach area came to visit. My mother was the type of women that could overcome just about any issue put before her. She was also raised with nothing but manual transmission cars. She took my wife to a parking lot at the local market and within an hour had my wife able to drive a manual transmission very well. This allowed me to go ahead and buy the new car I was wanting. This also became the main family vehicle and my wife's daily driver. In the fall of 1965, we bought a new 1966 Impala SS with the 396 and 4-speed. My wife did become a very good driver and didn't lug the engine and could move smoothly through the gears. My bride of 40 years has always been fine with a manual transmission, and we have had both manual and automatic transmission vehicles in our garage depending on the type of vehicle. For a few years she even drove our JK Wrangler daily, and loved it with a 6-speed manual, 4-inch lift and 33 in. diameter tires. She even was great on our Jeep Jamboree outings. I would get to drive only when she got tired. Now with what is in the marketplace both of our cars have automatic transmissions, but they are of the 8-speed variety, and I have to admit they are more efficient than the manuals for our purposes now.

I may keep my Hot Rod subscription for another year. I'm not fond of the quarterly publications but I do like the content, and I get almost daily E-Mails with stories and picture content. "Electric Trend", formally known as Motor Trend is dead to me.

A note to all. You're only as old as you feel.

Beautiful looking Bel Air. Enjoyed your WIP on this and your theme for the build. Great looking paint and body trim. The interior looks very realistic.

Great looking chassis and interior fabrication.

I can sympathize with you on the poison ivy. I have gotten infected a couple of times and for me it is just almost imposable to get rid of. Used to even have to sleep at night with a long sleeve shirt and pants on when trying to recuperate. I would scratch it at night in my sleep. Our family doctor gave me some sort of steroid shot that at least started getting my body to fight back along with everything else you're also doing.

The van craze was an interesting time, and seeing how it was done elsewhere is always interesting. The body modifications you mention look smoothly done and the paint looks great. The interior "carpeting" on the floor and ceiling has a good-looking finish and was the style.

Great looking body color and thew interior looks great as well. Like the wheels and stance.

Great looking seat trim. Ford was putting interiors in their top-of-the-line models way above their price point.

Like the detailing on the Flathead.

I'll be 80 later this month. I remember my father telling me once when he was in his late seventies and had jacked up his leg real bad downhill skiing at Mt Rose at Lake Tahoe, he said he was a young man trapped in this old body. I now better understand what he was talking about. Still build 5 or 6 models a year and I'm trying to build models of the cars and trucks I have owned through the years. Other than being overweight my high blood pressure is held in check with a fist full of pills every morning, but I consider myself pretty healthy. I enjoy checking in on what all everyone else is doing here since we all share pretty much the same interests. I'm really impressed by what I'm seeing many of the younger builders are doing, they all seem younger. There is so much talent and creativity going on and everyone is trying to help each other anyway they can with suggestions, parts, or even a model swap now and then.

Great looking paint color and finish. Like that you added the sub frame connectors.

Tuff looking little wagon. The Ansen style wheels look good here.