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great looking finishes.

The paint color and finish look great against the interior and tail stripe color.

Great looking paint colors and finish. Learned a lot watching your door operations on this. The interior colors go well with the body. The engine detailing is really well done as is the chassis. Like the stance and wheels.

Great looking detailing throughout. The colors look era correct and the metallic looks to scale in the finish.

Beautiful Black paint work, you can even see the clouds reflecting on the finish. The white tail stripe and interior look great. Like the showroom style build.

Beautiful looking builds, especially the colors. Sort of a His & Hers combination. The engine details are very realistic looking.

Great looking wood grain, I like your maroon body color here.

The owner ran out of monie before he could get something to hang of the rear-view mirror. Anyone else remember shrunken heads or fuzzy dice?

There are several '51 ford resin bodies from more than one caster out there. The bonus, at least to me, is that they are of the tudoor sedan for the most part.

I have polished unpainted plastic bodies maybe three or four so far. As Steven Guthmiller mentioned you can lightly sand away the molding lines using a very fine sanding pad and then use a polishing media. My go to is the Mcquire's Plastic polish that they offer primarily for polishing plastic lenses and taillights. This stuff is even great if you have a plexiglass boat or motorcycle windshield that is scratched as well.

Would a light coat of Clear Green help tone down the metallic appearance?

When the big push from Detroit to go with the dual headlights on the '57-year model cars the problem was that a few states didn't allow dual headlights on vehicles sold in their states. The reasons may be forgotten in time. What Ford Motor Company as well as Chrysler had to do on the models that they wanted to put dual headlights on was to build cars with either single or dual headlights on the same body styles until everyone agreed to allow dual headlights on the '58 models and beyond.

Great looking bright blue paint and finish. The top chop looks like it would still be easy to see out of. Nice interior and engine detailing.

Great looking paint color and trim. Like how you redid the rear axle as a single axle with dual wheels?

Great looking paint finish and clean body trim. Like the interior detailing.

Beautiful looking color and finish. Well detailed interior and engine. I like the optional Chevelle hub caps, they look perfect on this build.

Great looking paint color and clean trim.

Would a Pearl White with another color faded around the body lines be a consideration? Sort of a late '50's to early '60's style like when this truck would have been new.

I'm not sure what is available today, but some sources from the past might help. For a comparison between the Z-28 and the Boss 302 Muscle Car Review magazines Sept '09 issue did have a four-page article with several good pictures and a good explanation for what was going on in SCCA Racing and the manufacturers reactions. Their July '89 issue had a good story line on Roger Penke's development of the Z-28's for 1967 to 1969. Popular Hot-Rodding Magazine from June '07 had a story that was focused on the Z-28 development including mention of Vince Piggins, who was head of Chevrolet Product Promotions at the time, and how the option became to be. One article that maybe the easiest to find today was done by Hot Rod Magazine in their January '96 issue with an article about Smokey Yunick's Camaro. Hot Rod Magazine has an online library of their past stories that should enable you to easily accesses the article. While not a comparison between the Mustang and the Camaro, still a good source of information on the Camaro in general can be found in a book from Lamm-Morada Publishing Co. called The Great Camaro written by Michael Lamm.

I would be happy with any of these from any reissue as long as they're pretty accurate in their shape.

Beautiful paint color and finish. Almost a shame to hide all the interior and chassis detailing done here under the body.

Clean looking paint finish and color. The body modes look like OEM when finished. Like how you redid the interior details.

Beautiful paint finish and color. Like the chassis and interior detailing.

Beautiful looking paint finish and clean color. Great engine detailing.

Like the stance and the 409 as it looks right now. A 409 story from the late '60's. The Chevy big block, 396 & 427, had become the popular choice by that time. A guy at the machine shop that many of us used was building an engine for his early '60's pickup and he was basing it on a 409 block with lots of head work and a mild cam. What he built was a high torque engine that could pull his race car and trailer along with his cab-over camper when he went to the races.