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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.

Great paint work and chassis. Like the wheel and tire combo.

Great paint finish and clean body trim.

Great looking paint color and finish. The Flat Head engine and its detailing look great. Like the pin striping decal on the rear deck.

Beautiful looking roadster enjoyed watching your build. Fitting the engine and drive line looked like 8 gal. going into a 5 gal. can. Paint and interior look great together as does the chassis.

Great looking body work and interior. Like the T-Bird? wraparound rear seat.

I like the real story better than the Petty one.

So many beautiful looking cars and trucks. Thank you for sharing your pictures.

Using stitchup suggestion, starting with a sharp blade may also cut the paint enough that it wouldn't chip the paint as you move up to a scribing tool. Try working up from the blade in stages.

Depending on which kit you are using for the base, you may want to find a Revell '66 El Camino kit as well for some parts. That kit would provide you with a correct style grill and hood for a non-SS car. The other part you might want to find if your son's employer doesn't have bucket seats would be either a rear seat from another '66 Malibu or the Revell '66 Malibu station wagon. That seats would have the correct seat pattern for a Malibu level interior trim. The front seat back would need a little modification to replicate a folding seat back. For the small block Chevrolet engine, the 'Revell '69 Nova SS kit has a very correct looking engine and even the correct exhaust manifolds for the '66 Malibu.