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The paint is very nice and very smooth. I like how you used the Challenger stripes and exhaust. A '60's era Mopar on Keystones and Red Lines, that was the look.

The color you created for the interior looks very compatible with the body color. I would only suggest trying to sharpen up the edges between the White and the Solman colors. I have never used that shade of Pink before but I notice a nice fine metallic finish. The good thing is getting to do this with and for your daughter.

I would suggest using the Gray primer in very light coats in order to find any imperfections on the body surface. When you're satisfied with the body then start with a light coats of the White primer. White and just about any other light shade will turn out best over a White primer as this tends to brighten the finished color coats. Most medium to dark shades usually work best with Gray or Red primers. The White paint tends to have less pigment and it is best to use several very light coat to get good coverage.

Great paint job and the chrome trim is very clean looking. I like the chrome rims, they look perfect with the dark body color.

The 8 tire concept was from one of the big tire manufactures.

This sounds like a reality.

I agree

A thought on the exhaust manifolds. This has to do with a small block Chevy conversion if that is the way that this goes. A couple of sources for first stock manifolds. The Revell '56 Chevy kit. In the real world these would not be the most ideal, but in plastic the exit toward the rear of the engine in a down turned fashion and I think would offer the least clearance issues. The next best possibility might be the center dump rams horn style manifolds in the Revell '57 Chevrolet kit. The stock or maybe even the tubular headers from the Revell '69 Nova could maybe work also. The stock manifolds are a design that put the manifolds below the spark plugs and exit toward the rear and are at an angle that should clear the steering column.

Back in the day my '51 Ford was getting it's new duel exhaust and Smittys the muffler shop guy was kind enough to heat the front springs until the lower control arms were almost touching the bump stops on the frame. Looked cool but you would have to stick to the smoothest roads you could find.

You might ask if "gas" is an option. You'll wake up with a mouth full of cotton, but you don't have to listen to the noise when they're pulling your tooth. The way you have described it your going to have to have some major work done. Being put under might be an option to think about.

Thankyou for your reply. Have you ever used the Clear Alcad? I had purchased the Clear with the idea of using it at a later date. I think I'm going to do what I recommend to everyone else. The old picnic spoon test.

Thankyou for you suggestions. I have been leaning toward the Alclad just because it seems easier to me. I have, Alclad Aqua Gloss Clear, but have never tried it yet. .

Dentist, at least the ones I've been to in the last couple of decades have been good ones. I had to have braces starting with my adult teeth. Weekly tightening of the wires was excruciating. I had to eat soup for most of my high school years. I had to cover the braces on the cheek side with a wax material to keep from ripping up the inside of my mouth. That old joke about a couple getting their braces tangled up while make out isn't funny, it hurts. I couldn't face a Dentist for years after that. Got to the point where the old fillings were turning into crowns. That didn't hurt as much as the braces. Had the wisdom teeth out in my fifties and they had great pain killers by then. I have one implant tooth now and just had one pulled to be replaced soon with another implant. The modern Dentistry has come a long way from the old days of torture that used to be Dentistry.

Thankyou for the information. I really admired your Mercury by the way. One of my concerns with the grill is the parallel cross bars that are close together and may be an issue getting in between them.

Very nice clean looking pickup. The color is period perfect also. Many years ago I worked with a guy that had a '53 in a light blue color. I think the body of this kit is about as close as anything being done today. The Hemi engine looks great also.

I guess I'm in the B group. My thought is the stance has as much to do with it also.

Great looking Fairlane. I agree with everyone else on the paint work, and getting those stripes to line up perfectly and no bleed thru.

I have a question regarding "chroming" Bumpers and Grills. There are so many here with far more experience with these pens than I do. I'm getting reedy to chrome the bumpers and grill for a Revell '50 Oldsmobile. My prep so far has been to strip the kit's chrome and paint them with a very shiny coat of Tamiya TS-14 gloss black. I have both 1mm and 2 mm pens. I also have Alclad paint as an option. My concerns are first applying over this large of an area. Second is drying time before it's safe to handle for installation. My past experience has been that the more I have to handle the treated part it seems like I have the black showing thru in many spots. I understand that clear coating will also dull the chrome finish. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

In many was you are correct based upon the release of the Camaro, F model, as a '67 year model and the Nova, X model, as a '68 year model. The Nova , or Super Nova goes back to it's first appearance at the New York Auto Show in 1964 as a styling exercise at the show. GM upper management had been sitting on their hands about both the X car and even the F car which at that time was being developed behind the X. GM's thinking was that the '65 Corvair could match the new Mustang. They had just launched a new Impala, had the new Chevelle that was selling very well, and a revamped Corvair and didn't want to do another car at that time per what I have read. The sales of the new Mustang turned out better than what Ford even hopped for. Ralph Nader wrote a disparaging book about the handling of the Corvair based on the previous year models handling. Chevrolet Dealers had a hard time selling the '65 models after that even though the book was about a vehicle that had a much different chassis under it. GM Management came to realize they needed to step up the F model asap. The X model then jumped ahead of the planed X model with one big problem for the F's. This had to do with the cowl height area and some other minor hardware issues. The F & X shared the same cowl height when they went into production. I know you are a former owner of an early Camaro and I owned a '69 for a total of over 15 years. In many ways it was like you were sitting on the floor, because you were, of a '68 Chevy II. The chassis of the Chevy II for 1968 was designed to replace the '66 & '67 model Chevy II. When the F model was sped up ahead of the X to come to market as a '67 year model much of its basic chassis design was developed for the X model that came to market as a '68 year model. Much of this I knew at the time just because I'm a car nerd, but much more accurate information was found in a book by Michael Lamm called "the Great Camaro". The one I bought many years ago was the second printing dated May, 1979. For someone who would be interested in the subject it is interesting and gives a lot of the back ground on GM's thinking at the time.

The first Barracudas were just a Valiant with a really big rear window. I'm not saying this to run down the Valiant since they were basically a good little car. I think Plymouth knew something was a foot at Ford and they didn't have time or money to develop a completely new car from the ground up. You have to remember even the Mustang was mostly a Falcon underneath. The Camaro / Firebird was based on the Chevy II.

I have to agree, who ever created this isn't the sharpest crayon in the box. On TV in this area anyway, I think we have more Ambulance Chasers, Home Flippers, and all sorts of woodland creatures telling me to buy their Insurance. I checked around on Home and Auto Insurance this last month when we got the great news about how much more our premiums were going to be and how much less they would cover and saved us even more by raising our deductibles and reducing our coverage on any type of natural disaster. I checked all of the local agents and even some of the 1-800 people. I have come to the conclusion they just type in your name and address and then quote you a premium with in a $5.99 lunch of one another. The best commercial to me is the Raccoons stealing the garbage truck. Any Raccoon that can spot a half a Cheese Cake in a dark ally in a stolen garbage truck when he's supposed to be looking for the brakes, well I think it's funny anyway.

I'm sorry about the incorrect information I gave you on the engine. Chevrolet started offering the 230 cu.in. 6 Cylinder on the '63 year models followed by the 250 cu.in. 6 Cylinder in '65. I think Rod Halls suggestion of the resin 6 Cylinder for only $10 looks like the best way to go. This would be both cheaper than buying a kit to raid for the engine and the picture on the Web Site looks pretty accurate to me.

You're correct. I'm playing with a '60 Pickup right now and I didn't think about the engine being the incorrect year model or design even.

My reasoning on the fender switch has to do with the universal nature of the sedan Fenders since the grills and hoods are designed to be either a '39 or a '40 standard and the '40 Deluxe. The coupe fenders are '40 Deluxe only. I agree with you if you're building a '39 or a "40 Standard the Revell kit is a much better kit. When this sedan kit was released many years ago it was considered one of the very best of anything you could buy. I still like it along with the '40 Sedan Delivery they released a few years later.

I really like the Flathead engine. I built a '49 Ford F-1 and did it in TS-42 light Gun Metal with some company signage as a tow rig for the Revell Midget & Trailer. Red wheels and the signage was small and also in red. Many of the old Ford colors would look good like the Dark Blue or Green and Maroon. Consider Fire Engine Red as some thing to consider. What ever color you use it's going to look great.