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C/Gas ?, Maybe C/Gas Supercharged or C/GS or CC/Gas, What ever, I like the art work and I can see building a model based on this. Very cool looking.

I was visiting a doctors office this week. In the parking lot was a new Jeep Wrangler and I noticed something was different about the spare tire mounted on the tailgate. I have no idea where they got this and I have been looking all over town for one ever since for our Wrangler. Instead of a spare tire cover they had mounted what looked like a giant wooly spider. The body of the spider covered most of the wheel and the legs wrapped around the tire as if it was hanging on to the back of the Jeep. Very realistic looking and I would like to find one for myself.

Sounds like a perfect evening. The setting looks fantastic. One of the hallmarks of a great photographer is putting yourself in the perfect setting at just the right time and use the lighting to your advantage. I think this is very true with black and white in particular.

I hope someone will remember those of us that can't attend and take some pictures to share.

Will anyone be taking pictures to share ??

A Pro Touring AMC Pacer, who would have thought. Great job melding the two together. I like the paint finish and the color.

I always enjoy watching your builds. I like how you strive for accuracy on everything.

The dash and steering wheel color look almost like a dark Candy Apple Red.

This should be fun to watch. I remember when a lot of magazines were doing write ups and printing pictures of this car. The fact that it was not the normal mainstream body style of the time made it that much more interesting. The name and the body color also made it really stand out.

Nice save on the interior. You mention the shifter, and it does look a little agricultural in nature, but if you ever see the factory "Spaghetti" shifter you might like this one better. The base interior in the kit may just be more accurate than you think. I have no knowledge of the El Camino being factory built as an Impala. May have happened, but I have just never seen one back then. The only ones I have seen were modified by adding the exterior and of course the Impala interior. I like how you did the fabric portions of the seat. The body colored dash gives a custom look to the interior as well.

You make a very good point about the early CJ's. After WW II many returning GIs had first hand knowledge of the capabilities of these vehicles that were created going into WW II. The manufactures and Willys in particular had capacity to build these vehicles but the original market was all but gone. They started advertising the utilitarian uses such as what you experienced growing up on a farm. I think if a vehicle could ever be referred to as a "Swiss Army Knife" it would have to be the old flat fender Jeeps and their later versions as well.

I have also experienced this mystery battery draining issue. I had to replace the battery in our '09 Wrangler. This worked fine for a couple of months and then the battery was dead one day. Went back to the auto ;arts store and they checked the battery and said it was fine. Drove and recharged the battery and it was dead again in a week. Back to the parts store and it tested good again. I should mention that in both instances I had charged the battery with a trickle charger for a few hours and then drove about 20 miles to the parts store to get it checked. The resident expert at the parts store said that sometimes the computer would drain a battery while sitting. The car isn't driven on a daily bases, so maybe. I even took it to the dealer and they were no help either. Surprise Surprise. Batteries today are not cheap so I started using a trickle charger once or twice a week in hopes that would keep it going well enough to have enough charge when I did use the Jeep. I guess I got lazy or forgot and didn't use the charger for a couple of weeks when I started wanting to drive the Jeep. Now it started fine and has not given me any problems for several months. No one can explain how or why this has happened. I'm very carful about doors being fully closed and not doing anything that would cause electrical draining of the battery. I question the theory that the on board computer would be the cause, but it has seemed to stop. If anyone her ever finds out just what was causing their problems I hope they will share how what and why for those of use still chasing problem.

Are you going to make it a Crown Victoria ?? With or without the glass roof ??

Eight line from bottom and 18 across. Man my eyes hurt now.

Before I would discount one of these I'd be looking underneath to see how scraped up the skid plates are. If you spend anytime off road you will have a new found respect for this rig. He has the right tires and ground clearance, now how scraped are the skid plates and only then will you know if this guy is a poser or is serious.

With that much money you could hire a little boy for your dog to play with. I would take que from Jay Leno and have a large garage with living quarters attached. I think a few nice speed boats could be fun.

Very interesting concept. I like the way you detailed the engine.

I had followed your build on this and it turned out great. Beautiful paint, proper stance, good looking wheels and tires, I even like the Sun Visor.

Great looking build. I also like the color. It's fun to build a model of previously owned cars. I have also done a few. I'll bet you wish you had this Chevelle back in your garage.

Well the mower fiasco is in the rear view mirror now. I got the Air Filter that I needed at Home Depot as well as the Fuel Filter. Sears sent an acknowledgment that they received the returned over price Fuel Filter and they were crediting our credit card. Well we all now know that Sears is filling for Bankruptcy so getting any refund will be doubtful at best. This whole mess started because I couldn't find the belts locally. I saved the belt packaging since it had Suzuki part numbers and I recorded those numbers in my owners manual for the future. Since these were the original belts from 2002 I have my doubts that it will still be in service in 2030. I do know it will not be under my butt for sure.

I was only sharing what the writer put forward in his article. That is really all the more I know about this vehicle. The writer mentioned the fact that the vehicle his was driving was rear wheel drive only and that's all I know on that subject. The Roxor you mention as being a 4 wheel drive makes sense to me but I really don't know .

These Cougars were very nice cars in 1:1 and this model shows that well. Interesting color combination that really looks good on this model. Nicely detailed engine also.

Great looking paint work and the chassis and engine are cleanly detailed.

I was going to suggest a NASCAR chassis since the body seemed to be heading that way. I like how you changed to look of the body with just a few cuts.

One of the best feel good stories in a long time. A note on the cars colors. If someone described the Yellow with Green hood I would have said it would look hideous. After looking at the way that Ford did it I think it looks far better than if they had painted it Black the way it would have been done here.