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This is good. A kit of a "kit car". look forward to how this comes out.

I went to the theater for "Indian". The movie was great, a real must see.

It's called "thinning of the heard" or cleansing of the "gene pool". But they are fun to watch.

'32 sedan, that's the one I was thinking of. But I think using a couple of truck fenders to make a grill is still a good idea.

As Bill pointed out, this kit should give you the basics to work with. One thing you may want to look at is the rear window. The model art shows the large rear window, and your uncle's truck looks to have the more common standard small window. This can be changed very easily. On your uncle's truck the outline of the large opening is like a body molding with a metal inset to cover the gap between the large opening and the small rear window. On the 1:1 truck this is all one piece and a very small rubber molding holding the rear window in place. Please keep showing your progress.

Looks very good. I think that AMT had an accessory grill in one of it's early street rod kits that used a '59 Edsel grill and had quad headlights built in.

I might see "Rush" only because Ron Howard is the director. I just read something about "Rush" in Auto Week magazine. At the premier showing with several drivers and Bernie Ecclestone gave it a thumbs-up. Remember Ron Howard did the movie on Apolo 13. As for the other one, I don't think I'll even bother with Netflix on that.

You could try first cleaning the tires in the purple pond. Rinse well with water, spray with gloss clear ( that way the decals will not show silvering ) . Use the decals. Then spray with flat clear. The main thing is to get the tires as clean and free of any manufacturing release agent used in the making of the tire. Check out Hobby Lobby or others in their arts dept. , There are several different pins with every color you can think of with very fine points to hand draw the lettering. I think you will want to seal your work with a Flat clear after your done.

I agree with the spoon method. Has worked for me also. Just painted my 50 Olds Model Master Flame Red over gray primer. I wanted a more 50's red look than I got over the white. The white will almost always give you a brighter looking color.

The 1950 CpeDeVille looks like a very good builder, or drive as is. The others have some good things going for them, but you will need very deep pockets.

Kansas City area has been mostly rain off and on. Then last week, Monday and Tuesday it was in the 70's and I'm pulling and spraying those pretty yellow flowers. Tuesday night into Wednesday rain turning to snow. Only in Kansas can you mow your yard and pull dandelions one day and scrape ice off your windshield the next.

Interesting looking old Buick. One thing that looks odd is the front end looks like a '59, and the rear fins look like a '60. The '59s had a more pointed fin and the '60s were a little shorter and rounded much like your model.

Looks perfect. In 1973 I had just gotton into the car business, and the dealer 's demo Caprice looked just like your model.

You need to market that shelf. I for one would buy at least one. I think at least half the builders here would like one also. Tell your boss you just invented a new product for the company.

If your building a hot rod motor you can put the plug wires where ever you want, like the picture Jeff has shown. If you're going for the O.E.M. look, Chevrolet usually ran the plug wires over the valve covers thru small metal and rubber holders. This kept the wires from getting in touch with the exhaust manifolds or shorting out on each other. They also had a small holder that used the lower valve cover bolts to guide the plug wires when they turned down to the spark plug. Hope this is of some help.

I don't recall ever seeing one. This isn't a bad kit, you might be surprised by how good it would look with a little extra effort.

You might have to look around in your leftover parts boxes. You can work with what's their depending on the level of detail your going for. If it's something you like I would get it. It's a good kit, just not of todays standards. I built a black sedan when this was new. Looked good.

You get the tree build options on the box art. The "wagon" roof has a clear plastic sun roof as I recall. Remember this is a 60's - 70's kit with the screws holding the chassis and metal axles thru the engine and all. But it was a very good kit at the time and the body proportions are good as is the interior. You can build a very nice model out of it, but know what you are starting with.

Looks great. Your blue is like the O.E.M. color called Marina Blue. You could get a very light blue mt. and a dark blue mt also.

I can see why your Plymouth won. Congratulations !

They both look great. You wouldn't think it today, but in 1957 Ford outsold Chevrolet..

Great looking ride. On that gold side trim you might try Tamiya X-12 Gold Leaf or X-31 Titan Gold which is a little lighter looking than the Gold Leaf. Keep us posted on this.

You might see if your local hobbie shop has the reissue of the WW II Jeep from MPC. I think that it's from Round 2. The tires look very much like the pictures of the four 1:1 tires in your post.

Just thinking, you may be able to build a better convertable by useing the '60 Starliner without the roof.

That was great. Loved the music. It was a much simpler time. And yes I can fart dust.