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Came out great, I like the paint and the color. Got to like a Ford with the tear drop hood.

The steering wheel in the picture looks pretty good to me. The flams look amazing with the clear on them. What did you use for the headlight rings ?

I was working in a Chevrolet dealership in central California, in the '70's, when we received some inventory orders. One ( which I ordered as my demo) had the factory sliding sun roof and came off the truck with about 3 to 4 inches of water standing in the rear foot wells. The dealer informed me that we weren't going to order any more sun roof cars only T-Tops as needed. I had the same problem with a '67 Type 1 with the factory roof. Seems assembly lines and sun roof drain lines don't seem to work together very well.

That color really looks great. I like the "Live Edge" bed wood treatment, that's original looking. Nice interior.

Great looking custom. The color contrast really stands out.

Great looking AAR. I always liked the hood design on this model. Not sure of the objections you have on this, it looks fine in the photos.

Great looking mild custom. I like the smooth style with a lot of the extra chrome removed. Very clean looking build. I'm working on the Aerosedan right now and it sounds like many others are doing the same. These are very nicely detailed kits.

I like the fade paint job. Good looking wheels also.

For wheels and tires like the photos I think that the Pegasus #1125 Chrome reverse wheel & tire combo might be the best. I have used them a few times and the bolt circle area even looks like the photo of the '51 Ford. Round 2 has issued another great set under the AMT brand and many hobby shops do carry them, I try and grab a set when ever I see them. Next, the Revell '56 Chevy Del Rey kit had a nice set of wide whites in an OEM style 6.70x15 tire. You might put out a request on the "Wanted" section on the forum if you can't find anything else that would work.

The T-Bolt is a Revell product and your Fairlane I think is from AMT so there is bound to be some factors there but nothing that you couldn't overcome. I think I remember building one of these a long time ago and thought that AMT had the body looking correct. I had a neighbor who owned one of these with the 271/289 and I remember it since it had the distinct solid lifter sound and the exhaust note left no doubt as to what it was. So I look forward to seeing how your build goes.

I'm somewhat familiar with the "popup" style sun roof you mention. You are correct in that the seal was between the roof panel and the metal frame for the top with a thick rubber gasket in-between. The ones that I saw that leaked were usually victims of poor installation or the gasket dried out and cracked with age. The models overhead type sun roof in the shell appears to be recessed in the roof in a fixed position as if mounted from the inside and the shell surrounding it would form a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH effect about the thickness of the shell that would hold moisture and in time would start to leak on a 1:1 application. Remember were talking about a shell based on a product from long ago and I'm not sure just how accurate this is in that area.

Again a great looking build. The Hemi will get this going a lot better than the old flat head 6 cylinder.

This is a really nice looking little Hot Rod. All the right elements with just enough off the top.

Great looking paint work.

You have a big undertaking here. I have walked away from model bodies with the issues you have described. A thought on the drivetrain. Ford offered a K Code 271/289 4 speed package on these just like the early Mustangs. Just an idea, or a more standard 289 and Automatic. I like the Thunder Bolt chassis idea as that would give you a much better detailed chassis to work with.

I would have to agree with you on the sky roof option, even with just a normal rain the seals would start to leak real soon since the design has no natural water runoff that I can see. The side window that requires removal of part of the bed rail would also compromise the integrity of the bed rail. While it probably looked good at the time I don't think that it would age well.

Instead of a backup camera you would need a forward camera. I can see that this could be a fun weekend party bus.

Great looking build of an Icon truck. These were used by the military through out the world and are still almost un stoppable. I like the roll bars and the wheel and tire combination. Has that got a Hemi ??

As everyone else has pointed out the paint work is beautiful and the smooth body lines and bumpers and grill all flow perfectly together..

Amazing level of detail on the engine. In this scale that area can get pretty cluttered running all the hoses and wiring.

Beautiful looking paint and interior. I like the way the dash is done also.

I have wanted one of those booths from Harbor Freight for a long time. Since I don't have any project cars I'm working on and I'm not doing as much as I used to it is hard to justify the expense. I also have wanted one of their parts cleaner tubs also.

I think that while the gray kits body is the most accurate it still isn't 100 %. Look at the shape of the back of the roof in the C pillar area and you can see how it is shorter and drops off faster than the picture of the real car. The good news is it has the 1:1's character line that is between the rear wheel opening and the bottom edge of the body trim. There is a small difference in the chrome body moldings in this area between the Belevidere and the Fury had a slightly different trim layout in this area.

I had a customer who ordered a '66 Impala four door hardtop with the 396/325 engine and a close ratio , RPO M21, 4 speed. This was his family car and his wife drove it usually. Mine was an Impala SS with the same setup. I remember seeing a couple of wagons with a four speed but they were few and far between. As far back as the '59 model year Chevrolet built at least one 348 tri-power hydraulic cam and 4 speed. I'm pretty sure it was all OEM based on talking to the second owner who had just bought it around 1963. The car had the correct spaghetti shifter and the steering column had no sign of a previous shifter being present. The correct OEM shifter for the '67 Supernatural can be found in the Revell '66 Chevelle Wagon kit. This has the reverse lockout trigger and the correct curve of the shift lever that cleared the bench seat. Most 4 speeds were in bucket seat cars and the shifters were almost straight in design. In '68 Chevrolet went cheep on the shifter that looked like a Hurst unit but was mounted to the frame cross member instead of the transmission tail shaft so if you're hurrying thru the gears the engine torqued over and the linkage would bind making fast shifting a touchy thing to do.

That's just cool. I thought it might be a sand blasting cabinet.