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Great looking paint finish and color. The trim detailing and the way you did the T Tops look good.

Great looking build, and I'd stick with the racing damage on the side stripe.

Beautiful paint color and finish. The body trim looks great. Like the way the interior and chassis is detailed.

Beautiful looking paint finish and color. The body trim detailing looks great as does the engine.

Great looking Model T Truck. The colors and finishes help to remind you just how basic of a vehicle these were.

Good looking color combination and like the bed wood.

Sometimes you can trim just a sliver off of the relief in the interior side panels so that the interior and chassis will slide in. I have even found that during the interior assembly that I failed to get the sides and the dash part seated tightly as well.

Thanks for the info on your resin body. The one I bought last year is from Star Models. After seeing what you posted on using the '67 Chevelle chassis I had to see if the wheelbase would line up on the body that I have. The chassis looks like it would fit on mine as well. I'll still need to find a grill and bumpers to finish. I don't want to cannibalize a '58 Impala kit so I'll have to look around for that. As for owning a "classic" '58 Yeoman wagon, a guy I used to work for wanted a '57 Ford two door that I had fixed up and he traded me the '58 wagon and a couple hundred dollars since I could use the money at the time. While the wagon was in perfect running condition the paint was oxidized from always sitting outside in the weather and never saw any type of waxing or other paint protection. The guy who traded the wagon to me got it from one of his lodge brothers who was a house painter, and this was his work truck for years. This gets better, the colors seemed to match the Forestry colors of green body and light gray room and had the basic 283 with a two barrel. The transmission was a 3 on the tree but had an overdrive on it. Chevrolets from that era that I remember that had factory 3 speeds rarely if ever had an overdrive. Ford on the other hand were normally found with an overdrive more common than not. At the time I thought of it as just an old car to commute to work in and wagons were just considered old family cars at the time, unlike now. As much as I liked and preferred my old '57 Ford I now kick myself for ever letting the wagon get away. Anyway, I'll watch your build to see what all you are going to do with it.

Saw the C-10 and my wallet started to tremble.

The 1:1 subject may have been little more than a trim option, but your build looks like it could be so much more. Strong color and well done, window coverings and just a little paint trim on the hood. The wheels look good along with some nice tires.

Beautiful looking GTO. Great paint color and finish. Cleanly done chrome trim and engine detailing.

Great looking build. The outdoors picture really makes it look realistic. Clean building and assembly make even an out of box build look great.

Better than the box art, great looking paint and decal finishes.

Nice looking suspension. Like the two-tone body colors.

Look forward to following your build. Having owned a '58 Chevy two-door wagon many years ago you can understand my interest. You mentioned the '67 Chevelle chassis and would like to know if there was anything you had to do to use it.

Just need some race numbers and some tire dust.

This is what they mean when they say, "Laid Frame". Red color looks great along with the wheels and stance.

Beautiful looking paint color and finish. Like the wire wheels and the aftermarket top.

This could be fun trying to pick up that railroad car full of Mustangs and set it back on the tracks without breaking anything.

Great picture, but a posed publicity shot for sure with all the "suits" standing around.

Hi Steve, your brother-in-law's Olds looks exceptionally well done. You mention a couple of points about colors to use and the ride height of the car itself. I personally think the ride height seems like it would have looked off the showroom floor. While many of us prefer a little lower stance and would often due that with even a brand-new car in the day, this looks to me much as I recall them sitting. You wanted suggestions on possible Tamiya spray paints that you could use. For the body I think Tamiya offers two colors to look at. For the body TS-30 Silver Leaf would be the most likely and TS-17 Gloss Aluminum would be just a shade darker. For the engine look at TS-19 Metallic Blue, this may be a shade darker, but over a white or silver base coat and very light color coats of the Mt. Blue I think you should be able to duplicate his engine color. I notice he has the optional red plastic front fender inner liners. Tamiya has a Bright Red number TS-49, it is a gloss and would require a dusting of flat clear to get the correct finish. The shocks could be done with just the basic Tamiya Gray Primer and would also give you a correct finish. The chassis finishes were rarely as pretty as this, but the Tamiya Semi-Gloss Black should be very close to his car. As always you should due a spray out on some plastic spoons and then hold them up against his car and see just how close they look. You may still have to do a few color adjustments depending, but you should be very close. Since these are all colors that you would usually use in model building anyway even if they aren't right, it wouldn't be a lot of money wasted. Would like to follow your build on this so please post it when you get into it.

I'm thinking this is an old "friction" style toy much like Tarheel Ricks. I also had a few of these along with a '56 Olds and a '55 Dodge as a child. The give away is the metal chassis and you will notice a couple of slots in the chassis that were the attachment points for the friction motor. You would hold the car and run it forward a few times on the floor and this would get a small flywheel mounted on the chassis spinning. You could then set it on the ground, and it would run across the floor until the energy in the flywheel was spent. All great fun before remote control electric car and truck toys were invented.

Like the deep dark Blue color and finish. Neat detailing of the engine and the bed wood.

Beautiful looking finishes, especially the body decals. Amazing attention to the mechanical details.

Great looking paint color and finish. Clean looking engine details.