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  1. Like the '70's style clean look on the body finish and trim. Great body color and the stripe colors go well with the finish. Dish slotted wheels of the day as well.
  2. Great looking paint and finish. The striping looks nice and straight. Like the contrasting white interior.
  3. Great looking paint color and finish. Clean body trim and engine detailing.
  4. One common body mod was to fill the openings in the front roll pan where the bumper supports passed through. The downside was that the protection that the bumper provided was then gone. As for the headlight chrome removal. Try a 10-to-15-minute bath in your basic pure bleach product. Has never seemed to affect the kit plastic.
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    Great looking paint color and a very smooth finish.
  6. Have seen and heard of many cars and trucks that the owners would delay even the most basic maintenance such as regular oil changes and filters. Then they bad mouth the vehicle when they have an issue because they failed to do what anyone with any common sense would do to keep a vehicle running. Outside of your home vehicles tend to be your second largest investment and to not care for that investment shows a lack of common sense.
  7. Please let all of us know how good, or bad this pen is when you test fly it. Could be a rebrand of the Molotow product, or a blatant fraud.
  8. Wonder why the driver didn't kill the engine and/or put in neutral when he realized that the engine throttle was stuck?
  9. Great looking paint work and finishes. Like the added roll bar and brush guard.
  10. The white and gold paint treatment is really striking looking. Like the wheels and tires as well.
  11. Great looking paint finish and color choice. Like the two different top options and the wheels.
  12. Great looking build. The paint color and trim finishes are realistic looking.
  13. Great looking parts mix on the body and the paint finish looks good.
  14. Great looking finishes and the engine details. Wish GM hadn't waited so long to go to a mid-engine setup.
  15. Great looking finishes and the added detailing that you did makes this a standout build.
  16. On the hub caps, they were first offered on the '67 Camaro's with the disc brake option. I still have an original set that I traded from a coworker in '68. He got the "hat" style caps, like your originals, from my '68 Bel Air and I got his caps. For any moldings and other miscellaneous parts look at Classic Industries online. They have catalogs for many GM products and year models.
  17. Lamborghini Mura - The sound of the engine in any gear nearing full song will make the hair on the back of your neck at 100 yards, I can attest to that.
  18. Who are you going to call when this happens to you? better to pay a little more upfront for a known quality product than save a dime.
  19. Reproduction floors and the trunk floor are available in the aftermarket. We used to call this color combination a "Hony Bee Car". I knew a guy that had one with the same colors but with the 3-speed and overdrive. As I recall it didn't look a whole lot better than this one and it was about a 10-year-old car at the time.
  20. The classic with the two-tone option would have had another chrome strip along the upper body line from the door and wrapping around the tail gate and acted as a defining line between the two colors. You might look and see if there is any sign of body work in that area. That mangled trim part, if you can't find it locally there are a couple of suppliers that offer real good reproductions for all of the trim. I like the Rally wheels with the small '67 only hub caps, it makes the wheels look even deeper.
  21. Having lived off and on for years in the "Rust Belt" let me just say this is a disturbingly accurate looking poor old, tired Nova. The basic body color sort of reminds me of the Beverly Hills Cop movie car that the Axel character that was the cop from Detroit drove. Great accuracy in the finishes throughout including the interior.
  22. Great find and you have some work ahead of you. Seems to have some of the hard-to-find trim parts. The hood does look like it is from a '56 model but not to hard correct if that is important.
  23. Great looking El Camino. I notice the side trim, could this have been, in the past, a Conquista model or one with the wood grain siding? You're already doing something about the headlight setup and the nice thing about these cars is that the way they are put together there are many changes you can make that are basic bolt one alterations. As your finding out the head lights can easily be changed, but the trim and even grills and bumpers can interchange with other year models as well as some of the same era GM products. I have had the good fortune to have owned two different, '66 & '67, El Caminos and enjoyed them both.
  24. They're just waiting to see if you drop any food on the floor. Then see how long they sit still.
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