tbill Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 looking good, love the color choice and black out treatment, gonna be a sweet car when done.
TFchronos Posted July 11, 2014 Author Posted July 11, 2014 Looking good. Nice stance to it and the color is great. Thank you Tommy! JONATHAN,,,,,,,, this is one of the better looking '67s ive seen somthin' about the gunmeteal and the blacked out treat ments is so cool!!!!!!! how about more? shaun/s p.s, motor looks great also! Thanks Shaun, glad you're liking it.
TFchronos Posted July 11, 2014 Author Posted July 11, 2014 looking good, love the color choice and black out treatment, gonna be a sweet car when done. Thank you Tom!
TFchronos Posted July 11, 2014 Author Posted July 11, 2014 Finally got a good day to spray a few days back so I resprayed the front passenger fender and the truck lid. The painted ended up going on a little darker this time around. I replicated the paint process from the first time, primer, to color, to clear. I think it happened because it started on the charcoal grey rather than the bare white body like the first time. It is a little disappointing but I think it adds a little flawed charm to it. It is a cannonball racer after all. It's not meant to be a perfect big budget show car, just something a relatively regular person could have made to travel across country. Time to finish up working on the interior. Thanks for looking!
Mopar - D Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 I like the how the body parts turned being different shades.
Speedfreak Posted July 12, 2014 Posted July 12, 2014 Jonathan, I love '66-67' GTX's and this looks as good as any I've seen. You capture that badazz Mopar mystic with the color choices you've made. There is something I've noticed in a couple of the pictures you took; The 3rd picture in post #19 has some purple showing from something in the background towards the bottom left of back window; 4th picture has a purple paint can top(?) in background. I think purple is screaming to be part of this color scheme. When I saw those pictures and noticed that I was like " this is the missing color! And what I'm thinking is 'windows. Give it a look, and , see what you think.
Wonderbread Kustomz Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) Looks good bro... Edited July 13, 2014 by Wonderbread Kustomz
slusher Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) Nice touch Jonathan... Edited July 13, 2014 by slusher
TFchronos Posted July 14, 2014 Author Posted July 14, 2014 I like the how the body parts turned being different shades. Thank you Dan! Jonathan, that is simply wicked looking! Thank you Mike!
TFchronos Posted July 14, 2014 Author Posted July 14, 2014 Jonathan, I love '66-67' GTX's and this looks as good as any I've seen. You capture that badazz Mopar mystic with the color choices you've made. There is something I've noticed in a couple of the pictures you took; The 3rd picture in post #19 has some purple showing from something in the background towards the bottom left of back window; 4th picture has a purple paint can top(?) in background. I think purple is screaming to be part of this color scheme. When I saw those pictures and noticed that I was like " this is the missing color! And what I'm thinking is 'windows. Give it a look, and , see what you think. Thank you Gene! After building 3 of these, well I own two but built one twice so I guess this makes number three lol) I've really grown to like these cars myself so much that if I could ever own a 1:1 it would be my Mopar and overall muscle car of choice. Purple tinted windows (if I am following you correctly) would definitely make it stand out and put it over the top I agree. But this is being built to run in a cross country race of.. um.. *cough* well.. questionable legality . So trying to keep it low key is a big part of my theme with it. That was one of the driving reasons to make it Charcoal Grey. I liked the idea of the color for the car as it was but this also plays to the stealth side. Dark grey in general disappears on the road really well. I can't tell you how many times my Dad was almost hit because his '90 Cavalier was painted (by us, originally red) Charcoal grey, no one saw it until the last second. As cool as adding purple to the car would be, I really would like to try to keep this as low key as I can. Thank you very much for the suggestion, I'll definitely keep it in mind for a future GTX build.
TFchronos Posted July 14, 2014 Author Posted July 14, 2014 Looks good bro... Thank you James! Nice touch Jonathan... Thank you Carl!
TFchronos Posted July 14, 2014 Author Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Here's another update. After getting further into building this I've realised that the decal sheet is missing so not having the decal sheet (or even knowing if it had dash decals for that matter). I decided to make my own dash cluster using Mopar Performence brand gauges. Thought it would be a little more appropriate than using universal gauges. I also covered the top of the dashboard with electrical tape to give it a nice leather look. I tried covering the seats to but that didn't end well. Thanks for looking! Edited July 14, 2014 by TFchronos
Speedfreak Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Looks good Jonathan and you're welcome on the suggestion. You could alway's have purple fuzzy dice!
Wonderbread Kustomz Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Bro, that interior is looking great! Nice idea with the tape for the dash!
microwheel Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Hi Jonathan, your GTX is really coming along. I know I havent posted on it yet, but I have been following your build. I like all kinds of 60s and 70s muscle, but the chrysler brands from that era, take me back to my teen years when all my friends were out cruzing in their mopars. I'll be following along with your build as you go.
TFchronos Posted July 16, 2014 Author Posted July 16, 2014 Looks good Jonathan and you're welcome on the suggestion. You could alway's have purple fuzzy dice! Thanks again Gene, I'll try my hand at making some. Bro, that interior is looking great! Nice idea with the tape for the dash! Thank you James!
TFchronos Posted July 16, 2014 Author Posted July 16, 2014 Love the Gauge dash cluster. Real nice touch.. Thank you Carl! Hi Jonathan, your GTX is really coming along. I know I havent posted on it yet, but I have been following your build. I like all kinds of 60s and 70s muscle, but the chrysler brands from that era, take me back to my teen years when all my friends were out cruzing in their mopars. I'll be following along with your build as you go. Thank you Jim, much appreciated.
TFchronos Posted July 17, 2014 Author Posted July 17, 2014 Going even further into the build I have also found that the tail lights are also missing. So I tried my hand at making my own. The tail lights are sitting loosely, the right side wasn't in fully when I took the picture. Thanks for looking!
DynoMight Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 If the tailights aren't glued in yet, paint inside the taillight bucket (Where the light goes) silver, it'll look reflective, like a actual one.
freakshow12 Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Or foil the backside. I do that and it works good
slusher Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Nice scratch building on the tail lights...Your doing a great job on this build...
TFchronos Posted July 18, 2014 Author Posted July 18, 2014 Thanks Glenn, Fred, and Carl. If the tailights aren't glued in yet, paint inside the taillight bucket (Where the light goes) silver, it'll look reflective, like a actual one. Or foil the backside. I do that and it works good Thanks Glenn and Fred! I've done the foil to a few tail lights already, it really does look good. But for this I think I'll leave it darker, I think it looks really good with the blacked back end.
Custom Mike Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 If you or someone you know smokes, get the embossed foil from a pack of cigarettes and put a piece of it behind them, it really makes the tail lights pop! It won't make them super bright like normal foil does either! Scratch-made tail lights with cigarette pack foil behind them...
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