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Looks great and I bet your friend will enjoy it also.

Man you cranked out a bunch of beautiful looking builds. I really like the '67 El Camino, see my avatar, The '62 Impala and the Ford truck are special also.

Great subjects, I always liked this form of racing and these were really good kits. Some thoughts on the decal and "glass" issues. Last year I built an original issue of the Datsun 510 in BRE livery. I was faced with all of the problems you have noted. The decals in the window seems like a good idea and many say that is the way to go. I suggest that before you start to cut up the decals, scan them and create a computer file so that they can be printed on decal paper if the originals do not survive. As for the "glass" a product that I have used is from Meguiar's called PlasticX, it is designed for clear plastic as a cleaner and a polish. As with anything I would first try it on a very small area just to be sure. Any left over, and there should be a lot, you can use on your cars tail and headlamps Another thought on the Folgers car. Should you go with the as cast dark Red plastic you can lightly sand any mold lines with the finest grit sanding pad you have and then use the PlasticX to give it a smooth finish and then you wouldn't even need to paint the body if you didn't want to. Please post your progress on these as they are unique in any ways.

If you were running Revell and wanted to expand your business into the future I think you would have to consider some subjects that represent more currant production vehicles. I think most of us of a certain age might even be interested in building something offered in the last 20 years by automotive manufactures, but more importantly the younger future modelers would have something they can better relate too. The old molds of past model offerings are a sunk cost and reissuing them would still be a viable option as long as they were still selling. A company can't always move forward counting on an ageing buyer demographic. Just look at everyone bemoaning the piles of models in their basements and divide that with our expected life span and I think we can all see where Revell needs to go with their product lines.

I'm afraid I am addicted much like many others on the Forum. I think I'm starting to get a handle on it though. As I stand in the isle at HL or Michaels with the discount coupon burning a hole on my pocket and I gaze at the offerings and I start to realize I already have 2 or 3+ of each of these at home already. I'm waiting for the new Chevelle and Mustang from Revell and anything I can find from Moebius and force myself to stop stock piling paints as well.

No one seems very happy about the "Big 3's" ideas for future products. I think they are betting on buyers that don't know or care which set of wheels are driving the car or which way the engine is pointed. Now for any type of real enthusiast it is quickly becoming slim pickings if you can even afford what they want for a new car today. I'm at a point where I'm going to have to either invest some money in our '10 Charger RT with AWD or spend over $40k for the type of Charger or Challenger I would want to drive and I will have to give up the AWD which does come in handy once in a while around here. I would really like to have the AWD feature in the future and the only way they will build on is if I take the 6 cylinder and that may work for the average guy it is really down on power in that heavy a rig. They still build this same car for Law Enforcement only and since they beat these things to death I don't think they are having any warranty issues with the general public. In 2010 this rig cost just over $30k with all the bells and whistles. That will not even get you into a basic Charger today with a 6 and AWD with little more than Air and the standard Radio. So do I spend a few grand and go through the Transmission, do brakes, new Tires and Shocks all the way around. That's where I'm at on the Automotive journey in life. I may just buy a PD Dodge Charger and then redo the interior.

Great looking paint and I really like the body mods. as well. Very nicely done Port Injection set up.

beautiful looking Corvette, I like the Green with Saddle Interior color combination.

Great looking builds and an interesting subjects. I remember following the Pacer and the Willys Jeep builds.

Splicing the bumper would be the best way to do the Bumper. Most of what you'll run into is solved using a little Eye Ball Engineering to make everything look right.

The year model Pontiac you're trying to replicate and if you want a 4 door or a phantom 2 door may depend on how and where you cut the bodies. One thing to remember if you're going the 4 door body style. The doors on a 4 door are not as wide as a 2 door body style. Because of some of the unique side body shapes I would suggest the Pontiac body and re scribe the door openings. The biggest problem that I think you may have has to do with the tail gate. The Tempest/GTO tail panels are different on the coupe body than the wagon. Use the Chevelle Wagon tail gate and then fabricate the tail light area on the body. I think you could use the GTO rear bumper with little or no changes. If you're wanting to build a 2 door version you wouldn't have to re scribe the doors but you would have to change the side windows. This takes a little planning but I was able to build a very convincing looking 2 door '66 Chevelle Wagon just like the factory '64 & '65 Wagons. I used the '66 El Camino kit for measurements for the door and in this case you would just use the GTO's door lines for a guide. The pillar that is at the back side of the second door on the 4 door is brought forward and the door lines are lined up with the lower body. Look closely at how the side windows and the body meet and you'll see that the area under the back side window is a little higher than in the door area. I extended that line forward and filled the gap with a strip of plastic under the door post so that it ended at the body at the same level as the rear side windows just like the earlier Chevelle Wagons did. I had to shape a few moldings but nothing extensive.

My preference is a good old folding paper map and the trails we use are not on any GPS. Another thing is the time line of getting the text months later ? I think based on the information shared here by so many, we are under far more surveillance than we can ever imagen.

Racoons can be very destructive besides being ill tempered. Several years ago we moved into a new home in a newly developed area. The area was going from a cattle raising area to new homes and a lot of natural habitat was going away. We had a neighbor across the street that went away for a week and boarded their small dog with the vet. They failed to latch shut the doggie door and you'll never guess who moved in. After destroying the contains of the garage they ate their way thru the sheet rock into the house its self. As I remember it took the insurance company and the workmen several weeks to make the place habitable again. More recently my neighbor had sighted a Racoon one evening in his back yard. Armed with a borrowed trap he captured "Rocky Racoon" as he became known. If you were to stand even within a couple of feet of the trap this thing turned into a snarling hissing, just thankful it was in the cage. The neighbor took him a few miles up the road where a corn field and a stream intersected. He set the cage on the ground and with the tailgate down on his pickup. He leaned over and opened the door and jumped back into the bed of the truck. He said for a moment the Racoon looked like he was going after him and then turned and went down the stream bank. Moral of the story is give the little critters plenty of room and what ever you do don't try and grab on, you may begin to wonder who caught who if you do.

Thank you all for some very interesting, and dare I say scary information. Mine is an old device and I try to keep everything I can turned off. I have not used any type of mapping app for years. I even have blocked many of the updates that the phone says it wants and I can't live without. One thing I have a hard time understanding with the photos, we were in an area with no cell phone service. I didn't try mine as all I was doing was taking pictures. Several people in our group were always messing with their phones the way those who are addicted to these device's tend to do. Now if I can't get a cell phone signal I wonder how they know where I was taking these pictures? This trip was in September and almost 4 months later I'm being sent a text to me showing where I was in a remote off road area with a trail map in the back ground and showing the different places I stopped to take pictures in addition to another set of the pictures I had taken. This is to much like an invasion of my privacy.

Three beautiful looking Hot Rods. The '37 Ford is hard to get it to look this good.

Very nice well built. As everyone else has mentioned the way you used the colors and the black detailing really makes it standout.

Your body conversion looks just like it would be a kit. I would be interested in any pictures you my have of the body work.

Very clean well detailed build.

This looks like an interesting build. While not a subject I myself would build I still like the engineering that other modelers put into these types of builds. By the length of the barrel this Gun should have a good range.

I sure miss the big yellow Lab that used to like to make his presents known. He's been gone now much longer than he was here, but he's still missed.

Great information you're providing here. A couple of observations from your excellent photos: The Intake Manifold on the AMT engine seems a little flat and inaccurate the area of the Thermostat housing. The Revell intake shows the correct cooling crossover and mounting point for the thermostat and upper Hose mounting point. The Revell rear suspension shows a detailed view of the rear Sway Bar that is part of the F-41 Suspension option. The side by side wheel and tire comparison shows a marked difference as the Revell combination looks like a 14" and the AMT looks like a 15", and with the stated size on the tire there is no doubt. The unnamed clear lenses and the Transmission Cross Member leave some interesting possibilities.

I'm charging my phone today and I hear the pinging sound like when you receive a text message. When my wife and I are together like this weekend I hardly ever get a text so of course I thought it may be something important. The text is telling me that I have additional photos from a Jeep Jamboree we attended this summer. My thought was that someone in the group we were with on the trail may be sharing their pictures. The message contained a map of the trails we had been on and it had a little picture on the map in the locations where I had taken pictures. I open the map and it was pointing out exactly where we were when the pictures were taken, and we were off in a fairly remote area several miles from any paved road. In the message they had grouped the pictures , I guess using GPS or something to show where I was and what pictures were taken at that location. My wife gets messages when she leaves for work sometimes saying how long it will take her to get to work. She also gets the same information when she is shopping and gets in the car to head home the same thing, time and miles. So I ask all of you here, do you think your phone is looking over your shoulder ?? We never asked for any type of service from our phone carrier, they just start following us and telling us how long it will take to get somewhere and even sending me copies of pictures that are only on my phone that I haven't shared with anyone else. This is starting to get very creepy.

Most people prefer the hardtops on most cars, but like you I like the post cars from this era the best.

Glad to here you came out ok. I remember when you were posting the pictures of your car when you were painting it. That is one of the shades of Blue I really like.

Beautiful looking builds. You really capture the look of the originals.