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Dogs are pack animals and they really need to be with another dog and or people. They should be treated with the same love and caring that you would give a child. If you cannot or do not want to do that then at least find someone who will and give the dog a chance to give someone deserving the love and undying loyalty that they give.

Great start. Like you I built one of the coupes years ago and used everything in the box. You are correct that front end will require a lot of body filler. The '58 Impala roof is a very original idea also.

Looken good, very colorful chassis.

Very nice clean build. The tutone makes it look like a much more expensive model Mopar.

Very clean factory looking plug wires. I like the color you're using on this also.

If you have an option of purchasing gas that has NO ETHANOL do it. As you have seen from others it will damage any engine to varying degrees. So far it has cost me two lawn mowers and one snow blower and non of them were cheap. As for automotive you will give up a minimum of 2 to 3 MPG on this stuff. Over the last several years I have had to use Ethanol in several different vehicles and in each instance when I could get fuel with out it I noticed a marked difference in gas mileage when I could get away from it. In this area there are a few stations that offer it in as a premium grade usually around 90+ rating. They charge 5 to 7 cents more per gallon, but with the dramatic increase in gas mileage it is well worth the extra expense. Like you most of the late model vehicles that I have owned the manufacture has said to use no more than 10% ethanol or it gives them an out on any warranty work on the engine. I personally would rely on the engineers before someone with the EPA and what ever agenda they have. You car is a very big investment, take very good care of it.

Someone here mentioned a web site that I have since used and found very helpful: OLD CAR BROCHURES.COM. You might want to take a look to see if they can offer any more information for you.

Check out Testors One Coat Lacquer #1848m Root Beer, it might be very close.

If you should do the window trim you might try a flat aluminum paint as the chrome trim on such a car would be in pretty bad shape and wouldn't look right shiny.

First let me commend you for you thoughtfulness in this endeavor. The front fenders are fiddly but doable, the only real problem with the front fenders is that the front edge of the wheel opening is a little far forward. Other than that it is a nice kit. I know it is what you have, but the Revell '69 Nova will work well with just the removal of the front fender louvers.

Beautiful Corvette, great color choice.

After test fitting and any sanding you feel is needed, you can usually hold the "window" in place with small pieces of tape. I'll use either Testors clear cement or Jewel-It that I picked up at JoAnns Fabrics. It is designed to attach beads and such to pants and other fabrics, they say it will even hold when put thru the wash so it's very strong. On head lights I'll use Future floor shine as it will not show at all and will give the head lamp a very shiny look. This will also work well for tail lights.

This looks like a nice Resin body, but if you are going for the pillared coupe style you will want to add window moldings. I had looked at this and others that are based on the hardtop body style. Something about them just never looked right and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong. The caster would do a good job adding the pillar but would forget the moldings that went around the windows on a coupe. To my eye it looks almost as if the roof was raised somehow.

Beautiful build, the way you blended the parts from other kits and made them look like that's the way it was supposed to be. If you built a 1:1 this is what you would want to be.

What colors do you like ? Have you seen a similar truck somewhere that is your inspiration ?

Some very interesting choices made by others, but some of us are very limited on what we could pick. In 1944 it would of been Olive Drab or Battle Ship Gray in color and would have had an equipment number stenciled on the hood. I would have a Jeep. At the time there was very little that would stop it and this was before high performance vehicles were very common. We have a JK now that is modified for better off road fun and we're less than a month away from the Jeep Jamboree at SMORR in southern Missouri. They may not be fast, but they are fun. If I was born say even ten years latter it would be something with the lightest body and biggest engine in it that you could get.

Like the chrome wheels either way, white walls or black walls. I noticed a lot of work done on the inside of the bed and what looks like you have shortened and or lengthened the bed.

Beautiful looking Torino. I like the extra details with different shades of paint and the plug wire boots.

Nice build so far. I really enjoyed building one of these almost box stock and with just a few little personal touches they really are great.

In the 60's I had a friend that had a '65 Plymouth hardtop. I don't think it was the very top line model only because the interior was not anything special. I only rode in it once for a short ride to the coffee shop and back and it just didn't seem as well put together as my '66 Impala SS was. His was a 318 or 273 with an automatic and was his wife's driver. It was a silver color that he said he couldn't keep from oxidizing. In all fairness this was in San Bernardino California and as anyone that has lived there can tell you the summers there can be brutal on paint. It had a red and white cloth interior, but other than that it was not a very impressive car. Sorry to all of you MoPar enthusiast.

On the subject of most often towed: This usually has to do with the number of those models sold. Reliability: As others have stated most vehicles today have a good reliability record but as they age they usually are not maintained as often as they should be. I found it interesting that others have found out that they do not have a transmission dip stick. I thought it was just a Chrysler thing but it seems others are finding the same problem. We have a '10 Charger RT AWD that I had to go buy a universal dip stick for. The dip stick comes with a chart to tell you how much oil is in the transmission depending on the reading. There are several vehicles listed with most being imports. The transmission in the Charger is of a design from when Mercedes owned Chrysler and I thought that might have something to do with it. This my now enable me to convince my wife that we should really buy something from the '60's just so I can keep it going. You know like a Corvette or something like that.

Outstanding ride !! I guess you will be buying a few of Revell's forth coming '48 Ford coupes.

Almost looks like small block heads on a big block. Is there an optional engine in this kit ? Is it possible that the heads have two different part numbers listed in the instructions ? While this is not common since in the 1:1 the heads can go on either side. Some times the under side of the head will have a different aligning slots from one side to the other and some times they can even just be mounted up side down. Hope this gives you a place to start looking.