Donnie Allison's '74 Monte

[Belugawrx]

9 hours ago, Pierre Rivard said:

Lovely kit isn't it? Hang in there man!

On 4/28/2025 at 4:50 PM, MarkJ said:

Looking very awesome, Bruce.

It's not that bad a kit, really...just needs alot of touching..I pretend I'm building a Pocher kit...lol

Decided to replace this 2" thick spoiler with some sheet aluminium

Drilled out the lower rail and installed Detail Master bolts

Better

More soon I hope

 

 

[MarkJ]

Yours is Much better, Bruce. 

[Kevinjr26]

great work! 

[Kevinjr26]

On 4/28/2025 at 12:12 PM, Belugawrx said:

Well I gathered up all my courage and got the body stretched over the chassis without popping the glass...whew

And, of course the air cleaner sits too high...so more surgery

Bumpers fit just fine

Q. C. + C.s welcome

Later

 rear bumper looks good! i had the same trouble with bertha as well as the wheelbase lining up....... alot of "clearance issues" 

[Belugawrx]

41 minutes ago, Kevinjr26 said:

 i had the same trouble with bertha as well as the wheelbase lining up....... alot of "clearance issues" 

I found out that the fire wall needs to sit in front of the locator tab inside the body behind the front wheel openings. That helped alot...

 

[Kevinjr26]

yeah i used a monogram rear end assembly and a monogram front suspension looks a little more believable scale wise so that is some of my alignment issues as well.

[Belugawrx]

I ended up using the Salvinos suspension all around, cause I wasn't used to these kits and didn't want any more work than I already had...lol

Anyway, big shout out to Mark @Mark W for sending me some of the finest mesh I've seen, to complete the front end

And with that done, it's off to 'Under Glass'.

Cheers

[Kevinjr26]

I have a question did you use a hole punch for the oil cooler screen? also the main grille looks spot on!

[Belugawrx]

59 minutes ago, Kevinjr26 said:

I have a question did you use a hole punch for the oil cooler screen? also the main grille looks spot on!

I used this to mark the screen with a pencil, and then cut it using my p/e scissors after drilling out the headlight cover...worked up to 7/32" bit, started with 1/8"... did the trick

Hows Bertha coming along..?

[Kevinjr26]

slowly but she's sitting on the wheels now. i have to do grilles and exhaust and overflow pipe and she's done.

[Mark C.]

Looks so much better than what comes in the box!