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Great looking color and finish. Like how you got the fabric look to the interior. Interesting looking air cleaner set up.

Beautiful looking paint work especially the flames. Great looking interior. The engine and chassis are cleanly detailed and painted. The "Americans" just look right on this.

The paint gives the effect of the big metal flake paint work from the past and the finish looks great. Like the changes to the grill and parking lamps, it is a Kustom after all. The tuck and roll interior looks good. Nice reflection on the chrome hub caps.

Wondering through You All Mart yesterday and found a 1/27th Jeep Gladiator pickup that looks more like a 1/25th next to what is sitting on the work bench. For $10.97 it is a steal. Metal body with nice detailing on the body and the pop out interior and bed as well. Got it disassembled and looking at colors to replace the Olive Drab shade of Green on it now.

The plastic mesh material looks fairly thin. Maybe if you can find a pair of scissors that medics use to cut their materials. I by chance got a pair years ago that are made of stainless steel. The cutting edge is just over 2 inches long and there is no flex between the blades as you use them for cutting. These things cut .5 mm sheet plastic like butter.

I was going to make an upholstery suggestion, but it sounded like you already had your seating picked out. I was thinking some of the reproduction upholstery that is available but use the Impala pattern seats. I'm sure there would be a cost consideration as well. I think I mentioned before that I was fortunate to have owned a '66 Impala SS when new. I have always liked the overall style of the '66, and I think that is why I enjoy seeing what all you are doing with yours.

Great looking paint and trim finishes. The Police equipment looks very well done. Interesting that MO. Highway Patrol used the Mercury in 1969. Where I was living in California a few of the cities went with the Mercury as well as a couple of CHP units.

Great looking paint and trim finishes. The colors offered on the Chrysler products at that time were really stylish for the time. Like the optional wire wheels.

The paint finish and color look great. The clean finishes and of course the background in these photos really make this model stand out.

Hot Rod online has an article about John Force and the fact that he is in the ICU unit for observation. As others have mentioned, many are holding him in their thoughts and prayers. I'm sure it is for the best that this is what they are doing. He just looked so alert and uninjured in the clips I have seen when they first got him out of the car. I hope that proves to be the case.

Great looking color. Like the interior details.

Remarkably clean looking '66 Bel Air considering its age.

Read today where vandals have been stripping these charging stations of the copper wire. I don't condone that, but it does serve the same purpose.

He needs a treat for just looking so cute.

Read about this this morning. I liked what he was quoted as saying afterwards. He said, "Time's running out, and I'm trying to hang on." Guys 75 and still one the most competitive drivers in the sport. Who else could blow and engine at over 300 mph, bounce of both retaining walls on fire and sit up on the gurney and smile for the camara.

Great looking paint color and finish. Like the clean chassis and engine detailing.

Great looking build. Like the realistic looking finishes and markings. The chassis looks much like the bottom of my '18 Charger GT.

Thats a radical Z'd front frame. Drive shaft tunnel might make a good arm rest. Like the Pie Crust Slicks.

I took a '58 Yoman Wagon in trade from a guy I worked with, back in the '60's for a '57 Ford I was selling. They were the base model, but they could be had with options. I the case if this particular car it had the 283 with a 2-bbl. carb. a 3-speed column shift and overdrive. many had the blue flame 6. I never really know for sure, or even was that concerned about it, but it was painted an unusual shade of light green with a cream-colored roof above the drip rails. Looked strangely like the color used by the California State Division of Forestry at that time. When I got it was a 100k plus miler with no rust, faded paint and like new interior. Had been used for years by a local house painter so the inside of the back has colorful. At the time it was considered just an old ugly station wagon that no one cared about, unlike now.

What a great gesture for your father. I agree with him on the '40 Ford as it has always been something I would have liked to own as well. The dark blue color would look great, remember this was a non-metallic color when new if you're trying for the OEM look.

I agree with everyone else on your VW, very tastefully done and I like the engine upgrades. The newer color and a little less chrome trim along with the wheels make it look brand new again.

For those of us that were, or maybe still, financially challenged the black wheels with the PEP Boys baby moon hub caps and narrow white walls was sort of the style for a while.

You have to wonder how it has been kept in such nice shape.

Not sure what the exact size is on the Revell exhaust tips, but I have been using Aluminum tubing size 1/8 x .014. I use a well-worn Exacto miter box to cut to the length needed. This size fits a little lose over the end of the plastic exhaust systems in almost every kit I have come across. When cutting the tubing it tends to have some Aluminum shavings that will partially close that end. I use a simple wood construction nail to ream the opening enough that it will be snug on the plastic exhaust. Sometimes you may want more if a flared open end and again I use a nail to flare the end. A touch of polish on the tubing will give it a bright finish.

My impression is that dogs really enjoy these trials. They have such natural skills anyway and this helps then realize some of them. Sort of like play some sort of stick or ball sports for humans.