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Great looking pair. I like how you did the bed on the pickup especially the chrome trim. The color on the coupe isn't something I'd think of until seeing this and it looks perfect here. I like the Flathead engine here also.

Beautifully done. The color reflects the time period as well as the interior. I haven't seen a good looking Vicky in a long time and I like this one. Great detailing on the front suspension since everything is out in the breeze.

Run it without the hood, If you got it flaunt it with this engine. Remember Hijacker's were white and Delco's were blue.

Sad ending. How's your build going ?

I like the early vibe of this. Those Dirt Track rear tires look great.

I would have to agree with Snake45 on the list of Day 2 mods. I would take you far longer to do all of that on the second day of ownership, but I remember those who tried. I bought a new '66 Impala SS and stopped at Scotty's Muffler off of E Street in San Bernardino before I even got home, 30 inchers no more resonators and tips. Scotty's even gave the exhaust a coat of black spray paint back then when they did an exhaust system. To this day I can't seem to keep my hands off of any new car we get.

Minimal effect on my day to day life. The big exception is that my wife is working from home for the last two weeks, which isn't all bad since we do enjoy each others company. With spring starting here I'll be outside getting the yard in order and I have been working on a different drainage system for the gutter down spouts and the sump pump. Had a great system going down both sides of the back yard to drain into the pond. The problem is that over the last 19 years the trees have grown and their root systems have invaded the drain hoses that were in the ground. I'm digging a new trench to lay new piping in and only go about 30 feet from the house and then a clean out catch basin. I cancelled all of my doctors visits that I had for this week and they were cancelling or resetting appointments anyway. We made one last run to the store last night before the "Shut Down" here and got a few things we needed. My wife has had me try and find TP somewhere for the last two weeks. The local stores shelves are starting to resemble a post apocalyptic world. Beyond TP I couldn't even find any Flour or Red Been let alone my favorite Bread. My wife is gluten free and as such there is only this one type of bread she can eat, and that is all that was left on the shelf. At the check out the two ladies were talking about the supply problems and mentioned that people were even buying the "healthy stuff". This is going to be inconvenient for a lot of us but the people I'm most concerned about beyond those with health and age issues, much like myself, are the people that have had their jobs shut down and are left with little or no alternative source of income. Just go with the flow and help others when and if you can.

Great paint work and very cleanly detailed trim. I'm impressed by the body proportions in such a small scale kit. Glade you mentioned the scale, I never would have guessed it was 1/32nd.

Amazing.

I like your concept for this build. I have only built a couple of "Woodies" but never had the nerve to go as far as you are with the wood trim. I'll look forward to seeing how you bring everything together.

What made me think of it was a late '90's Grand Prix GTP that we had. The speedo was all that the dash thru up on the windshield. I know Detroit and GM specifically has offered this feature on other cars since then. I always thought it was a great feature since you never had to take your eyes off the road to read your instruments. I have only seen pictures of this technology in fighter aircraft and this could be a good way to solve your instrument issue and it would be in keeping with this build. Some others have forwarded you some places to look to help accomplish this.

Have to venture out to Home Depot to get some new drain pipe and a clean-out catch basin for the down spouts and sump pump. The tree roots have completely invaded the old system I put in years ago. Tomorrow we go into lock down so food and wine trips this afternoon.

Great looking finish and I like those wheels on this. Very aggressive Road Racer look.

Great looking seats and I like the seating arrangement. I don't know how you would represent this, but maybe a "Heads Up" instrumentation like a Fighter Jet or and old Pontiac Grand Prix or something like that.

I would suggest that if you're going to try to puncture the can in any way to think long and hard about doing that. While the can may leak all or part of its propellant I still wouldn't want to be trying to open the container to get that last little bit of paint since I think there will always be some pressure there and you might end up with a very big mess on you and the surrounding area.

If this is for the trim around the windows that is to represent the black rubber that is holding the glass in place you have several options. You could use brush paint in different shades of gloss black depending on the effect you are trying to accomplish. Masking the trim and spray paint the area, but this would require a lot of masking. There are several paint pens on the market that could be used. At one time Bare Metal Foil offered a black foil for this type of detailing. I remember some mentioning that the black coloring could easily be damaged and even removed while installing so extra care would be needed if you use that.

Great idea, I'll have to remember this the next time I have this problem.

When I built one of the '57 Cameos a couple of years ago the problem areas that I ran into was mainly the fitment of the windows. My kits windows seemed slightly undersized. I created new window ledges around the inside of the cab to hold the "glass" in place and give me something to glue them to. I also added very small strips of Plastruct on the outer side of the body that served as chrome moldings and this added to giving the glass something to rest against. Other than that it was a fun build and I'm going to do another soon. One thing I did to make it harder on myself was to set it all on a Chevy 454SS pickup chassis and a '57 Bel Air dash and seat.

Those old M22 Rock Crushers were great if you were really using them, other wise they were noisy enough that at times it was hard to hear the radio. Lovely car washing assistant.

The AMT '55 Cameo kit didn't have the side trim on the bed like the '57 model did. The bed is a little fiddly but it does turn out nice. Just plan on a couple of gluing sessions and don't try to put it all together at ones.

When you mentioned headers I was thinking of after market. You bought the real deal early Z-28 and that is the way Chevrolet shipped them. A Z-28 ordered with the 2 - 4's and or headers they were in the trunk and the dealer did the final install. Most of these were ordered for SCCA spec. racing. The early Air Cleaners were ducted to the firewall for fresh air and that area in front of the windshield that also served as the intake for the air for the inside of the car. I'll bet you knew when were getting on it, you wouldn't even have to look at the tach, just smell the cabin air. That may have been one of the reasons for the introduction of the Cowl Hood option in 1969.

So many fine looking builds.

Beautiful looking Corvette. I like that you used the original color and the finish looks real smooth. The engine is clean looking and the foil around the cove turned out perfect.

This system started for the Calif. production cars and was adopted later to fulfill the emission requirements in other states. I bought a used one owner '69 Camaro around '76 or '77. The car was sold new in Los Vegas NV. and it didn't have the system and California didn't require me to retrofit it. As I understand it almost all cars GM sold with a manual transmission had this system since it was the only way they could get the cars certified for emissions. Many of the automatic transmission cars could pass without the system. The how's and why's of which I just don't know. The high performance GM cars all had this system. I bought several different GM cars starting with a '66 Impala SS 396 and 4 speed with the AIR System on it. As for the Headers you mention. Because so many of the Headers were sold in California as well as other parts of the country they would just manufacture their Headers with the provisions for the AIR and if it wasn't required you would just install the plugs. I'm sure many would do that even if required and this gave them an easy way to remove the system. The state of California suddenly realized this was happening. Their reaction was to have CHP Safety Inspections check points, think DUI Stops, They would just have everyone on the street drive thru for random visual inspection thru out the state. Very big ticket if you had removed the system.

Now that is cool looking. You really should try and find a way to send some pictures to the 1:1 builders, I think they would like this also.