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Looks better than the cars they used on the TV series. Great looking paint work.

Beautiful clean looking build. great color combination.

Coming together nicely.

I like the fine detailing on the engine. The Carbs. are just the right color and showing a little dust and dirt collection as well as the oil seepage around the valve covers and filler. The tail lights and the grill look perfect.

Looks good so far. You might consider removing the verbiage on the floor pan above where the differential goes. The rear end my hide most of it.

Great looking old Chevy. I also like the wheel and tire treatment. Sometimes a good clean painted wheel goes a long way.

While the Blower setup mentioned from the Monogram Corvette, most street setups had the Alternator and any others driven off of an additional belt. So it may just depend on what you want the engine to look like.

Is the license plate just the luck of the draw or did you request it. The guys at LMC would enjoy that. I love your cooler and all the other goodies you've created.

Interesting treatment on the convertible top, I don't recall ever seeing anything like that.

Excellent combination of bits and parts. I like the way you painted the pattern on the roof. Nicely detailed engine and interior.

I look forward to seeing your photos.

Thankyou for sharing your pictures. Some really great looking builds.

I'm glad you included pictures of the construction prosses to help understand just how much you put into this build. The finish build looks so realistic it is hard to fully appreciate what all you have done. Great subject .

I like everything about this build. The paint treatment and flames look great. I like how you "laid frame" on the stance and the engine and drive train. The interior updates are perfect.

Very nice finish on the body. I like the after market red sway bars.

I am also not a fan of the two part mirrors. They are hard to glue and always have problems with the way they point after they dry. I have tried drilling a small hole in the stand through which I use part of a staple to pass thru and a very shallow hole in the back side of the mirror. While it works it is a real pain.

Great looking Kustom. I like how the new roof really changes the over all look of the Buick.

They look great.

Great looking build on this gasser Vette. Gramps 46mentioned the front fender scoops and I think it was after the '56 or '57 model year that they did away with the scoops. As for the rear shackles I think that most sanctioning bodies would not allow them. I remember two different approaches that guys used way back when. One would be to drill the shackles half way between the top and bottom and add a small diameter tube or pipe through which and additional bolt could be added giving additional rigidity. This was also used by some Jeep guys before commercial Lift Kits were common . This would keep the rear end from shifting when you turn. The more common way they some of the Gassers were lifted in the rear as to mount the differential under the leaf springs much like a pick up truck. This would give you the lift needed without up setting the rear suspension. Just ideas. The rear quarter window on the 1:1 Corvettes were never used in the original kits and I always wondered why.

A kit that might offer the wrecker parts would be the AMT/Lindberg '34 Ford pick-up kit. The older issues had the option of a small wrecker boom that mounted inside the bed. The kit also had a flat steak bed version that could be used. There have been a few Chevrolet truck kits issued with the wrecker boom. I think most of them are based on the old Billy Carter kit. Billy Carter was the brother of our President Jimmy Carter. Lets just say they were very different than one another.

I was going to suggest you use a #11 blade and scrape the chrome of the part you want to paint. As Snake pointed out this would be the perfect time to remove any imperfections on the bumper and maybe even remove the bolt heads so the bumper is smooth. If you're building a drag type model you could make the bumper represent a Fiber Glass one.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to look around for the Brat model locally.

Thanks, I'll remember to look the next time I'm in there. I have been using the Tamiya Q-tips up until now.

Your "wide eye" front end was the most common that I remember. The deep set hood on your 1:1 was not something I recall, but there were a lot of variations of this theme and I remember many different combinations. The main thing was what you could find and use. The flare of the rear fender in the picture pretty much matches what I had. The shorter front fenders had the stock turn signals mounted on the top of the front fenders. Mine was a '67 type one with a metal sun roof. This was in the mid seventies and I had an apartment on 13th street about a block off the main strett running to Hwy 101. The nose and hood would be of great assistance for my plan to build a model of the Baja I had, maybe we can work out a trade for something you may need. The wheels on mine were from Empi and they were a solid painted center. I had 15x8 rears with 10.00x15 ribbed implement tires. The fronts were 14x5 and I finally settled on 6.95x14 tires after much experimentation with different sizes. As I mentioned the front end would not bit into the sand and let you turn when I had the wider tires. I also drove it on the street and with the modified engine it would dust most any other V'db that I would meet. I'll be looking over your shoulder on this build, you have me wanting to jump into my own.

Very clean looking build. I like how you used very realistic surfaces for the interior and the bed details.