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Spring is coming, are there any hardware stores in your area that repair screen doors? They'll usually give you any scraps that they're going to through away anyhow.

Great idea if you're not clear coating the decals. This is an issue on just about any build when installing the interior and chassis parts. I bought a premade foam pad that is designed for just this sort of job, and it works well to hold the body in place when doing bare metal foil. The foam is 6 inches wide and 1 foot long. The top has two different sized troughs for lake of a better term, that run length wise and helps hold the body in place. A microfiber towel might also work setting the roof down on that.

Maybe use a 4 bbl manifold and reshape the carburetor mounting pad to look like a 2 bbl manifold. The two-barrel carb could come from a Tri-Power setup that uses Carter carbs. I think that would be the most common carb that GM used in that era.

Great looking color and the finish looks good in the photos. Clean stock body trim.

Great looking paint finish and color. Like the LS engine.

Red plastic as well as some other colors are known to ghost or show thru most shades of primer and final color coats. Many have recommended a silver as a base coat and then primer from there. I suggest that you start by using some of the parts trees in the kit to experiment with for painting. A good automotive type of primer might be a good place to start. See how the colors you are wanting to use react over the primer as far as the red bleeding thru. Any colored plastic seems to offer painting problems, some more than others and no two seem to be the same. Many others here will offer you some ideas and I suggest trying each of them to see what works best with the plastic you are working with.

Since the 2 bbl carburetor on a basic 326 cu in Pontiac engine would be hidden by the stock air cleaner there wouldn't be any need to change the intake manifold or remove the 4 bbl carburetor. The exterior dimensions of the Pontiac V8 are pretty much the same it wouldn't matter so much which kit you robed the engine from, just look for the best-looking engine you can find.

Beautiful looking paint work and color. The chrome trim is all done nice and neat. Revell added the big brake and wheel option on this issue but forgot some of the hardware that would have been required for that option. At least the main parts are there. Great looking chassis details.

Beautiful looking builds and represent some of the best years of Pontiacs.

Great looking shade of green. The engine detailing looks good and like how you detailed the wheels.

Like the color, sort of a Candy Apple Red look.

Great looking station wagon. The wood trim all looks very realistic.

Great looking paint finish and the Yellow paint is very bright. Clean looking engine details.

Great looking paint finish and the color was really popular on these cars when new. Like the wheels and tires plus the stance.

Just got back from my Dentist. The crown for my right bottom tooth had arrived and was installed. The crown on the left bottom that broke this weekend will have to be removed and a temp installed next week when the dentist can schedule. The Dentist cut me a 50/50 deal on the lower left since it had been less than 5 years since it was replaced, so that's some good news anyway.

We have to remember that some of our parents come from a time when many had to do without and repairing the old machine was the least expensive approach to day-to-day life. Now we seem to be in a "Through a way" lifestyle.

Thank you for sharing your photos and congratulations on the awards. While not a big show, what it may have lacked in quantity it made up for it in quality of those entered.

We used to call a car like this a "Sleeper" since it didn't look like it had much under the hood until it was too late. Realistic looking paint finish and the unassuming look for the time.

Like the theme of your build. The Roadkill car is a '56 Chevy 210 two door post body if that is even important to you on this build. Hardtops got misused just as much as any other body style. On the surface rust you might experiment with hair spray as well as the salt method. Maybe even use both depending on what type of paint you're exposing underneath giving you even more of a variation in the finial finish.

Thank you for sharing your photos. I agree with your '65 GTO and the IROC as being especially nice. Being a big '56 Chevy fan I liked the two '56 Bel Airs, but there are just so many well-done cars and trucks here.

Something to try if you're wanting to make the clear plastic lenses standout, most modern kits headlights have A small bump at the bottom of the lense housing. Staying with the silver or stock look just a tiny dot of silver paint on the top of that bump will give the lenses a different look when the clear plastic kit lenses are installed. You can try different clear color paints depending on the effect you're after. Fog lights are fairly easy with some clear yellow or orange on the inside of the lenses. For the Gasser Look use a clear red or whatever clear color works with your paint scheme.

Had a crown break while eating a sandwich at lunch today. I had broken one on the other side of my mouth a couple of weeks ago and the dentist did the impressions and sent them off for a new crown and installed a temporary crown on that side. Now I have to go get another temporary crown for the side that broke today. Thats the one. Good old PEP BOYS. The rear seat speaker had about a 10 second delay on the sound and sounded very unique at the time. I had load leveler shocks on the back and when you went over a bump a certain way or at speed the rear seat speaker would make a noise like you had crashed into something or bottomed out on the road.

Anyone else remember the Verbasonic rear seat speaker from before the '65 GTO made them popular? Also had a 45-rpm record player that mounted under the dash, all before 8 tracks became the thing to have.

Great looking paint finish and color. Like the Kustom body work and the roof line looks like a later model GM roof around the rear window opening and the C pillar.

That shade of gold was a popular color on GM cars from that era. Interesting, looks as if they left the convertible boot on the parts tree.