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Ours is also White with the Black interior. The Black colored Grill area gets a lot peoples attention when your overtaking them on the freeway. Civilians have figured out that it's not a Patrol Car but some local PD and County cars will still wave once in a while. Good luck to you both with this new one and know you have a substantial car around you.

The only wheels I seem to be fighting right now are the Revell wheels that are designed to go inside of their new hollow tires. Seems like you need a miniature tire iron to get the hollow tire around the two wheel parts.

Should you have to go with metal axels check any store that carries hardware. They will have Wire Nails in many different sizes and they have small packages that are sold by their weight.

There is always a curtain sadness when anyone gets killed even if it is sort of self inflicted. I guess the chute didn't work the way it was supposed to. I wonder if the Science Channel is going to show this guy crashing ? The Road Runner and all of his Acme equipment always made me laugh.

If your wife is used to stepping on that Hemi very often the V6 even with the new 8 speed will leave her a little disappointed. We got an '18 Charger GT with AWD a little over a year ago. This was to replace our 98k mile '10 Charger RT AWD Hemi and 5 speed. For most normal driving needs the V6 is fine. But if you need to hurry it a little the lose of 100 H.P. will be felt. Our '10 would run away and hide from the new car. Still I have found the Charger to be an outstanding value for what you get especially for what you have to pay compared to anything else out there.

Amazing amount of work went into the chassis, body & paint, and so many different aspects of this build. Using the body pretty much leaves everything else is still in the box.

I like the two-tone paint and nice body trim. I haven't seen one of those Corvette Mercury Marine engines for a long time. A 1:1 with that engine you would need a charge account with The Tire Rack.

Looks great. I like the light Blue color.

Looks great and I like how you used so many parts that aren't normally found in modeling.

Nice save on these two Vettes.

Great looking El Camino. The paint job looks great and I like what I can see of the interior.

I agree with everyone else, this is a beautiful looking convertible. Great attention to details in both the interior and the engine. The colors you used for the different components under the hood look exact.

Looks great, I really like the under stated colors. The roof rack is a must have for the family truckster.

The Hood with the scribed opening from behind can be a problem. Not always, but most of the ones I've done the outline of the pattern on the back side will show up on the top as a small raised ridge.

Great find.

That's a great idea.

One thought in my mind would have to do with the cost of production. The inside or mounting side can be used for many different applications. The outer half of the wheel can be tailored to the specific kit. There are many different outer designs and sometimes this may include different width tires also and this would be an easy way to make the outer half fit the wider tire. Just a theory on my part.

I use and would suggest Yahshu's method on the White Wall Decals. I might mention that when you're applying the decals and they don't want to lay down a little Solvaset can help. You mention the way that you have to man handle installing the tires on the wheels. This is a very valid concern. I'm at that stage on a build I'm working on of a Revell '50 Olds. Fortunately for me the build is being done with Black Wall Tires. I have my doubts if even their Pad Printed White Walls would survive my installation techniques.

Back in the "Hobby Stock" days in the mid '60's we would put the main leaf spring from an old car behind each rear quarter panel. The normal leaning into each other was fine, but if someone was trying to take you out they were in fore a rude awakening.

Are you going to leave it that way or modify them ?

I had a '56 Ford F100 in the mid '60's that was used by a land scaping company. The wood was gone and they didn't have the wood bed kits we have today back then. I got a couple of sheets of Marine grade Plywood and made a bed floor with one seam running down the middle.

Beautiful looking build and I really like the colors. I remember when those hub caps were popular on the 1:1's. They weighed about 25 lbs. each, try and balance that wheel and tire. Do you have any pictures of the engine and interior ?

I like the way you "aged" this and the setting for the pictures is perfect.

Great looking conversion. Looks like something you would expect for a dealership to use. Many of these were converted to commercial use during hard times.

I like the Diamond Plate flooring. This would make since even in the 1:1 since there would be moisture build up over time and a wood floor would rot out over time.