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I have polished unpainted plastic bodies maybe three or four so far. As Steven Guthmiller mentioned you can lightly sand away the molding lines using a very fine sanding pad and then use a polishing media. My go to is the Mcquire's Plastic polish that they offer primarily for polishing plastic lenses and taillights. This stuff is even great if you have a plexiglass boat or motorcycle windshield that is scratched as well.

Would a light coat of Clear Green help tone down the metallic appearance?

When the big push from Detroit to go with the dual headlights on the '57-year model cars the problem was that a few states didn't allow dual headlights on vehicles sold in their states. The reasons may be forgotten in time. What Ford Motor Company as well as Chrysler had to do on the models that they wanted to put dual headlights on was to build cars with either single or dual headlights on the same body styles until everyone agreed to allow dual headlights on the '58 models and beyond.

Great looking bright blue paint and finish. The top chop looks like it would still be easy to see out of. Nice interior and engine detailing.

Great looking paint color and trim. Like how you redid the rear axle as a single axle with dual wheels?

Great looking paint finish and clean body trim. Like the interior detailing.

Beautiful looking color and finish. Well detailed interior and engine. I like the optional Chevelle hub caps, they look perfect on this build.

Great looking paint color and clean trim.

Would a Pearl White with another color faded around the body lines be a consideration? Sort of a late '50's to early '60's style like when this truck would have been new.

I'm not sure what is available today, but some sources from the past might help. For a comparison between the Z-28 and the Boss 302 Muscle Car Review magazines Sept '09 issue did have a four-page article with several good pictures and a good explanation for what was going on in SCCA Racing and the manufacturers reactions. Their July '89 issue had a good story line on Roger Penke's development of the Z-28's for 1967 to 1969. Popular Hot-Rodding Magazine from June '07 had a story that was focused on the Z-28 development including mention of Vince Piggins, who was head of Chevrolet Product Promotions at the time, and how the option became to be. One article that maybe the easiest to find today was done by Hot Rod Magazine in their January '96 issue with an article about Smokey Yunick's Camaro. Hot Rod Magazine has an online library of their past stories that should enable you to easily accesses the article. While not a comparison between the Mustang and the Camaro, still a good source of information on the Camaro in general can be found in a book from Lamm-Morada Publishing Co. called The Great Camaro written by Michael Lamm.

I would be happy with any of these from any reissue as long as they're pretty accurate in their shape.

Beautiful paint color and finish. Almost a shame to hide all the interior and chassis detailing done here under the body.

Clean looking paint finish and color. The body modes look like OEM when finished. Like how you redid the interior details.

Beautiful paint finish and color. Like the chassis and interior detailing.

Beautiful looking paint finish and clean color. Great engine detailing.

Like the stance and the 409 as it looks right now. A 409 story from the late '60's. The Chevy big block, 396 & 427, had become the popular choice by that time. A guy at the machine shop that many of us used was building an engine for his early '60's pickup and he was basing it on a 409 block with lots of head work and a mild cam. What he built was a high torque engine that could pull his race car and trailer along with his cab-over camper when he went to the races.

Like seeing how your restoration of this '60 is going. When it is time to do the tribute to your '58 Corvette from the past you might try to find the discontinued Revell '58 Corvette kit. The kit has a lot of good detailing built in along with an opening trunk and a well-done side coves.

Begs the question, what ever happened to the MPC '67 & '68 Chevrolet molds? There are more than a few of us who would be buyers for these kits if they were ever reissued.

Like the shelving and the variety of kits. Noticed the Az license plates on the wall. I hope your garage is temperature controlled to some extent based on Arizona temperature extremes.

The paint color and the finish really look great. Clean chrome body trim. Like the wheels and the stance.

Alway a joy to build a replica of a previously owned car or truck, especially something as special as this. This had to be a terror on the road or the strip.

Beautiful looking finishes and I see what you mean about the green interior color. Sometimes the unexpected makes a project really eye catching.

Beautiful looking roadster. The colors for the body and the interior complement each other. The wheel and tire combination looks perfect with the way the stance is on this. I like the old Oil Bath type air cleaner.

It has been said that it is more fun driving a slow car fast than a fast car slow.

Always enjoy the variety of great looking cars and trucks at your local car shows. The '50 Ford reminds me of a '51 I had so very long ago. The brown Nova, I actually bought a secondhand Nova SS that same color, cost me a fortune to keep it running due to the previous owner's neglect.