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I like the way you finished the body color, looks very realistic without being overly shinny. Great idea to have the window stick on the windshilrd, wasa that in the kit ?

Beautiful looking Camaro. Great looking finishes and the painted wheels look just like the painted wheels that came on the Z-28.

This looks just like some of the 1:1 Olds of that time. Beautiful finish. Who is the supplier for this resin body ?

Beautiful looking build. I have always thought the Canadian Ford products of this era were more interesting and they weren't afraid of a little extra chrome trim.

Looking at the smooth body and paint you wouldn't realize the way so many body parts were blended together.

Both are beautifully done. Both shades of blue were very popular when new as you can see why.

Beautiful paint and perfect color for this. The chrome trim looks perfect.

Great looking paint and I like the angled B pillar.

Beautiful looking paint and trim. A seamless looking roof conversion as well.

Beautifully done build. I enjoyed watching your build and your attention to the details along with the paint really make this an outstanding save.

Great looking interior and dash. The extra detailing your adding will really look good when finished.

Great engine swap. The switch to a later model FE engine back then wasn't much harder than getting '58 model year motor mounts.

Going to follow this. Can't wait to get this one on my work bench.

The only Tamiya spray paints that you would want to be very carful using are the ones designed for spraying inside of remote control bodies. I would test on some plastic spoons before spraying and model bodies.

I agree but my problem was that the morning sun was still so low in the sky I couldn't photograph anything facing west as I was shooting into the sun. We had limited time to be there and cars were still coming in we had to leave. Their web site is www.MidAmericaChevelles.com and they may have more pictures posted later this week. The quality of the cars was amazing.

These are early morning pictures so the cars photographed were the ones facing east. The sun was still so low that west facing cars couldn't be photographed by my phone.

These are early morning pictures so the cars photographed were the ones facing east. The sun was still so low that west facing cars couldn't be photographed by my phone.

Your correct I got the two mixed up. They were some interesting interiors alright.

If you recall in later years Chevrolet started using a 15" painted Rally wheel on the Z-28 that looked very much like the five spoke mags. By the way they weigh a ton which actually make them counter productive for performance, but they sure looked great.

OOO Ya, the old GM engine switcharu. This dates back to around '74. The first I heard of it was when I went to work for a Chevrolet dealer in central California. We were encouraged to not speak of it to any customers and pled ignorance if pressed on the matter. What happened was this was a time when the Feds where raining on car companies and GM was the big fish at the time so that was their target. The smog laws requiring testing of every engine, transmission, and rear end ratio even was getting very expensive. Some of the "350" engines offered by Oldsmobile, Buick and even Pontiac were hard to get to pass smog and still deliver good driving and gas mileage numbers. This is about the time the "corporate blue" engines started to show up in those cars. GM had smog'd the Chevy 350 so they just started putting the blue engines in everything. The engines never said anywhere on them that they were an Olds, Buick, or Pont. but if you knew what a Chevy small block looked like you knew what you had. In reality these customers had a better running engine than what their divisions 350 had become but you know how lawyers can sometimes smell money. So the lawyers and the courts where raking GM over the coals over the engine switch. Nobody seemed to mind that Ford and Chrysler had been switching valve covers between their product lines for years. I don't remember the exact dollar amount, but I'm thinking that what GM had to do was give the buyers of the cars with the Chevrolet engine a big rebate toward their next GM car. Anyway, your sway bar question. As I have mentioned before I had an '86 Monte Carlo SS since new, and it had the sway bar but no track bar. Were they the same, I'm not sure. If it is real important to have it correct I'm sure you could tap into one of the Buick forums especially ones that are GN or GNX centric and they should be able to clarify what is and isn't correct for you. Keep up the great work here.

Not ready for the Depends any time soon. My wife likes to joke that when I get to that point she'll put me in the garage over the drain and have me make car engine noises, Vroom Vroom.

With just a little extra detailing this will be a fun little build. I don't do any Dragsters anymore but I'll be getting a couple of these.

All of your added features and details really make this a special looking build.

Nice looking paint work. Great to see this built in this manor.

The color is really eye catching and a great looking finish. Perfect wheels for this build and the stance looks great. So many of these were modified in just this sort of way when new.