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Clean looking street rod. Great color and finish. The engine looks good as is with real looking finishes.

Great looking paint finish and color. The interior color goes well with the body. Clean looking body trim.

Like the blue on the '40 Ford. Great looking paint on the Plymouth. I built one of these last year, more like the box art. Really like that kit.

Like the concept and the way, the rear portion of the roof fits.

Great looking back - half job. Serious looking tires.

Looking at Brians nice side by side pictures of the kit body and the "Shooting Brake" edition, the side trim looks to have a gentler slope as it passes over the door section. The chrome trim extending too the rear looks to be in the stock position on the body.

The roof design is the big give away as to the year model. GM offered that roof on every model except the Cadillac that year. Chevrolet also offered the roof design on the Bel Air line only for '62. As for the rear end treatment, this may have to do with this being the base 88 series.

Thanks for sharing. Great looking show. The black '66 Impala SS reminds me of a Danube Blue one that I got in'66. The gauge cluster between the consol and the dash was not a common option, at least that I have noticed, mine also had that as well. Liked the two side by side '61 & '62 Corvettes.

In the past I used the Decon in the wedge-shaped box when we built a new home in what used to be a field that they had grazed cattle in. The rodent infestation in that new garage was more like a Rodent Motel 6. I put a couple of the wedges in the garage and the problem was solved, except for finding the dehydrated carcasses here and there around the garage. They didn't even smell. They don't seem to offer those around here and for the last three years we've been using the old fashion traps and what they are selling now as Decon along with a local commercial exterminator putting traps in our garage. The traps on a board seem to be the most effective. With winter approaching I'm looking at any alternatives I think might help. Where we live there is a large habitat for rodents along with all kinds of woodland creatures. We have a small creek nearby and lots of trees. brush, and undergrowth between us and some farmer's fields nearby as well.

Don't even know if this would help, but I'm trying something I saw online about repelling mice. Spray the area under hood with Lisol. Seems that rodents and maybe others don't like the smell. Works well for cleaning surfaces anyway.

Great looking paint finish and color. The wheels almost remind one of the failed factory alloys offered at the time, they were very porous and wouldn't hold air with tubeless tires.

Your vinyl roof and seat inserts look even wilder than what the factory did.

Beautiful looking paint finish and color. Like how you did the interior.

I agree with everyone else on the paint color and finish. The body modifications are well done and look like something from that era. Like the stance.

More great attention to details.

Like the way you have detailed everything. The paint looks great.

Really cool looking. Might want to inspect the plug in real close for condition due to age. Had a 220-air compressor that went up in smoke once.

Beautiful looking paint finish and body trim. Like the horse blanket interior. The Moon hub caps bring back some fond memories from when that was very popular. The stock appearing engine detail looks great.

Very realistic looking dashboard.

Like your paint scheme. I just finished something similar on a '57 Chrysler 300 that I'm working on. I also have a resin '58 Yoman that I have threatened to do something with for a while. How and what all did you do for your hood? Which doner kit are you using for the chassis?

The lower line wagon is good looking and could be one way around the door length issue. Just a personal choice but never cared for the '58 style hood, even on '58's.

I'll be looking forward to your build when you get back to this. I might offer a couple of things to consider accomplishing your body modifications. Consider using plastic stock to create the extension of the tail fins if you still want to do that. This way you wouldn't even have to touch the body side moldings, and you can shape the fins the way you want them. Widening the doors would have you redoing some or even all of the body side moldings. The kits rear door edge could be filled and a new door opening line cut into the existing molding as one way to do that. The reshaping of the B pillar could be done by cutting away the forward portion of the pillar and run it parallel to the exciting back edge, but there is the door handle that you would have to replace. As for the engine, if you don't have a good-looking Ford Cammer engine from another kit think about a 3D printed one as there are a few good ones available. As to the suspension changes, the Revell '57 Ford kit has little room for wider tires than stock with the kit's inner fenders. While the wagon kit is actually better than the coupe it is still tight unless you reshape the inner fenders. Depending on how much you're wanting to do on the chassis as the prototype has an aftermarket chassis you may be looking at a 3D printed chassis as well. While costly, at least some excellent aftermarket 3D chassis and engines would make this easier to do.

Great looking interior.

Thank you for sharing. Great looking models.

Like the aggressive look and paint finish.