November 2017 BRotM Winner - Muscle Cars

Wow, it was a great turn out and some great racing. Its always fun with more participants ! We watched him rebuild this car before our eyes and man oh man it did not disappoint ! The winner of this months BRotM - Mustang1989 !!!!!!

Congrates ! I will be sending out your gift card asap !! Great build !!

nov 2017 Muscle cars by David Keim, on Flickr

Sorry for the long absence folks. Had some work to do after hurricane Harvey and have had some home troubles to work out but I'm working my way back. I'll start off with my Bracket Race entry for this month if it's not too late too enter.

I built this one a few months back and this is another one that's got a special place with me. This car was my very first car model and I originally built it at 13 years old. It survived all these years to become a "glue bomb" project at the first part of this year. Almost all of the original parts have been used except for the hood, grille and a few other parts here and there. All in all the old build was in decent shape as I'd managed to keep it encased since first building it 35 years. When I left home at age 19 for the Army I left this build and several others behind where it stayed all this time until I finally picked it up from my parents house and put it in my display case here at home where it's spent the last 5 years. When I started on it 7 months ago there was no engine and the interior was.......well ........you know ...........very "Monogram" basic. I had alot of work ahead of me which I found out throughout the course of the re-build. I ended up using a total of five other kits to piece some of the missing pieces together (one of which was a newer Revell Camaro release kit to "update" this old dog of a kit with some of the parts that Monogram had failed to put in their kit) , hood and wheels were donations from good friends here on the forums (thanks be to Dale and Paul). Powertrain/ drive train was from the AMT Chevelle SS396 kit. I ended up spending ALOT of time in the interior as well as the engine compartment. All badging is from PE fret for the Revell Camaro kits and the paint is GM paint code 79U--Mystic Teal Metallic, a paint that was used in the late 90's/ early 2000's on GM vehicles (Camaro's / Firebirds being in that line up). I also opted to transform this into an SS which took a little fancy foot work with the grille but I managed to pull it all off okay plus I got rid of those FREAKIN' DOTS in the middle of the turn signal and headlamp lenses. I'm pretty happy with the results although the kit (as well as me) had it's limitations. lol

Here's the BEFORE SHOTS:

And here are the GLAMOUR SHOTS FOR THE CONTEST:

Engine Shot:

and interior shot: