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Being a solid tire is actually an advantage. This makes it easier to modify the center of the tire to fit other wheels from different kits.

I used some pain .020 thick styrene from Evergreen for the face of the cover. If I were to do it again I might even use something just a little thicker. The reason was that when sanding and the center wanted to bend in and was hard to get sanded evenly. Maybe a strip of reinforcing glued to the back would also work.

Very nice build. I can see from the chassis it is driven in the snow also.

The attention to the details really shows. Great looking Race Team.

Your build looks great and you should be proud of it. This kit is a reissue of what was "cutting edge" from AMT at that time. Portions or most of the chassis is kind of a clunker, but as you've shown here it can still be made to look great.

This turned out perfect. I know the hard work you put into it and it really shows. In '69 I was not much of a MoPar guy but I always liked this model, you know a good car when you see it no matter who made it.

I think it looks great. I like the color combination.

I also like the color you used. The Foil trim looks great. Look forward to seeing the interior and chassis.

I like your grill change. The wood has the right look to it. I see you're going with the Sun Visor. As I'm sure you know the Revell Mercury Custom offers a wealth of parts like the bumper. I built one a couple of years ago and made a smooth tire cover for the tail gate so that I could use the Surf Shop decals from another kit.

While I think either color would look great I would use the Tamiya color if it was my choice. One of the reasons is recalling a '58 Ford from years ago with this very same color combination and it looked outstanding. The car was a few years old and I have know idea if the colors were stock or not, I just remember how it stood out among the other cars.

Thank you for the update.

I couldn't tell you right off which kits had them but I remember that the Spiders were an option in many AMT kits in the late '60's and some '70's era kits.

He got that right. When these became popular it was acceptable to drive with your left hand on the knob, remember no power steering back then, and your right in a head lock on some innocent young damsel who's trying to grab the door handle on the right so she can escape. At least that's how I remember it.

Was alcohol involved ? We just had some guy in KCMO thought his girlfriend was a poor mother to their child. He told the police he thought the best way to deal with it was to cut her throat and set her on fire. And they walk among us.

One of the draw backs to the Air Shocks was that if you put 30 + pounds of air in them the rear axel would lose all suspension travel and in a sense became the rear suspension would be like having the differential bolted to the frame. When I put the oversized wheels and tire on my then new '67 El Camino I modified a kit that was offered to raise coil spring cars. The kit had about a 4" pipe, for lack of a better description, that went on top of the rear axle at the spring mount. This had a mounting plate at the other end that the factory spring would rest on. You were expected to drill new mounting holes in the bracket for the shocks. This also put the rear coil springs in a bind as they were now bent over instead of being straight up and down as they should have been. This is where the Shade Tree Engineering came in. I took the 4" spacer and cut it at an angle which restored the coil springs to a more up and down position. I looked thru the catalog for the High Jacker Shocks and found that the full size Buick wagons had the same mounting hardware as the El Camino and were 2" longer. I also added traction bars to the upper control arms so that the rear end wouldn't "warp up" under hard starts. This was a 360 hp 396 cu in 4-speed truck, great fun. This netted me about 2 - 3" of lift with no suspension bind and a smooth ride. Cleared the 9" wide rearwheels with Polyglass 60 series tires fine.

Did anyone take any pictures to share ?

Did anyone get any pictures to share ? That used to be one of the high lights of this.

Another great looking Muscle Car.

Your wheel choice reminds me of the style of that era, Ansen Sprints with a machined surface. I like how you detailed the instruments. This work is usually lost on a hardtop but with a convertible you can really see it. Had a '69 Camaro hardtop for 18 years and still miss it. Very well built.

Interesting paint treatment. I like the added gauges in the dash. What was the source of the bucket seats ?

Very well done. The chassis is a tremendous improvement. The paint and interior look great.

Great looking rebuild. I like the color, I just bought a can and wondered what it would look like.

I have used a set of Pegasus wheels and tires on a custom. They offer a nice chrome wheel with a narrow white wall standard width tire. Might check that if you can't find anything in your stash.

Not that it really matters in regard to the original question, but the Del Rey was the name of an interior trim option that Chevrolet offered for their 210 series two door cars. The start date was late '53 and was seen mostly on the '54 thru '57 210 models. If you were to look for a '53-'54 Chevrolet with that interior option, it changed the look of the interior very much for the better. The Revell '56 Chevy 210 2door sedan has the Del Ray interior done just they way Chevrolet had it. The '58 Chevrolet Del Ray series was just above the Biscayne but the interior didn't look as nice as the interior option on previous year models.

I have tried several suggestions from friends to the north including Minnesota and even the Dakotas. Not tried the Koolaid since I have over 100 feet of lake front and that stuff may stain anyway. One year we set stakes at the waters edge and ran fishing line back and forth between the stakes. They learned very quickly how to fly over that, but the first few times were very entertaining to watch. I even considered Rat Poison at one time, but there was to much risk of collateral damage to other species and there often is a neighbors stray dog. I have made a "rocket launcher" out of PVC pipe and shoot Bottle Rockets at them. So far this has proven to be the most effective. Again I'm just trying to keep them out of the yard. To help understand just how serious this problem with these birds is, a few years ago a nearby larger lake with a beach for homeowners to use had to be shut down by the health department. The Geese feces floating in the water was so dense and the bacteria level was unsafe to even be around. But you must remember this is an endangered species and are protected and cannot be harmed punishable by law. BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH bird has more rights than I do.