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Great looking paint color and finish. I like the open wheels look. Very realistic looking engine details.

Maybe a smaller diameter tire if you have one that matches the sidewall and tread design.

I need the phone number of your muffler shop. Like the exhaust.

I agree with everyone on this being a great kit. Goes together with little or no drama and the proportions seem correct. Another bonus is that you can, with a little finesse, use some parts from the Revell '66 El Camino & Malibu wagon as well.

Great looking truck and I like how you detailed the engine. Very cleanly detailed body trim.

Beautiful looking Avanti with great attention to detail on the engine and chassis. The interior is very realistic looking.

Another idea for the hood crates. #1 Mask them with Tamiya masking tape or an equivalent. #2 Paint your body color and clear before polishing the finish. #3 Unmask the grates and either lay down some Bare Metal Foil or a chrome type finish paint and allow to dry overnight. #4 use either a thinned flat black or a panel line type paint to fill in the pattern on the grates.

Great looking little Malibu. Always liked the 1:1 car as well. Like the stance and the engine detailing.

Great looking finishes. Not something that would get lost in the market parking lot or go down the road unnoticed.

See what you mean about the decals. The artwork does look good though. Like all the engine, chassis and interior detailing done here.

Enjoyed watching your build. The body finish looks really well used and you can see where the top is chopped.

Great looking paint color and a nice-looking finish. Like how you removed the center ridge on the hood making it look even lower and wider. Good engine detailing and I like the stance.

This had to be a difficult body conversion. Paint looks great and the hood looks like Fords hood as well.

Great looking color combination and finish. As for the blotchy hood stripes, the white decals have a hard time covering any darker paint color it seems. Try a second set of decals and see if that helps. Hard to tell in your pictures that there is even a problem.

Great color and finish. Like the clean body trim.

Great smooth paint finish and the color looks perfect for this model style. The interior looks good, and all of the body trim is really cleanly done.

Excellent chassis detailing.

Great looking color combo and the interior is a nice contrast.

Great looking color combination with the white interior.

Beautiful looking paint finish and one of my favorite colors. Cleanly detailed body trim.

Beautiful looking paint finish and the color makes me want to put on my sunglass'. Impressive engine and interior.

It's all in the final details.

I only take our cars for the oil & filter change. The price is not much more than what it would cost me to buy the parts to do it myself plus they dispose of the old oil. Things like the cabin filter and air filter are easy enough to do and I do save a little on the parts. Because of past issues with anyone touching the wheels I prefer to do that myself as well. There is one local tire shop that I have had balance my wheels and tires plus alignment. They are the only ones in the KC Metro I would allow near one of our cars.

A good point. I use a torque wrench on the wheel lugs for the final tightening. These monkeys just lean on their Air Guns until they stop turning or the stud starts to stretch. One thing to look for anytime someone has had an Air Wrench on the wheel lug nuts. One your first stop going down the road you suddenly feal a pulsation in the brake pedal that you didn't have before your car was serviced. This is a good sign that the brake rotors may have been warped by overtightening the lug nuts. This takes a great deal of force, but there is an adjustment on the handle of most Air Wrenches and these guys often turn it to max. Another reason I mentioned the rounding of the lug nuts, I have seen these so-called Techs use the wrong size socket that is off just enough that there is a little slop between the lug nuts and the socket. They will approach the lug nuts with the gun already spinning and lean against the lug nuts until the socket starts to grab the leading edge of the lug nut. Sometimes it will slip on right away but usually it spins on the edge for a bit and once the edge of the lug nut starts to round off it will just get worse. The other thing that is visual at least is the chrome is chipped off and the outer edges of the lug nuts start to rust. I even had the locking lugs on a truck I had ruined because the tech didn't seat the lug key in place before he started spinning the wrench. this knocked off enough of the design on the key and rounded out the locking lug I had to take it to another shop to have it cut off with an Air Chisel and replace the wheel stud. All I wanted was to have the wheels balanced and he didn't even do that correctly. This was one of the local specialty tire and wheel shops selling the very expensive wheels and billing themselves as being the experts. Sorry for carrying on about this, but the way they claimed the damage was already done before I came in and wouldn't stand behind their work, I wasn't about to let them near my vehicle ever again.

My condolences. One of the hardest things to do, but for the best.