54 Chevy Sedan Delivery-COMPLETED-09/16

Thanks Joe! It's looking like I might be making it to the body fairly soon. I've got a lot of work to do when I get to it but it's coming.

As for what paint scheme I'll be going with? I'm sticking with the box top on that. I just recently got my reprint of the originals in the mail....and for a great deal. I'd probably do 'em myself but I don't want to experiment with this one.

Scheme:



Decals: (The plates weren't part of the original sheet- I just had to do it!)

Oh Yeah! That is looking fantastic Joe. I'm rather antsy for you to get the body on myself. I was meaning to ask you, are you displaying the back door open? If so, is the door already a seperate piece or will you have to cut that from the body? It is a pleasure to watch your builds Joe.

Thanks Eric! That'll make two of us on the car body. Man I've got a lot of work to do to clean that up. ALOT!!!

Can't wait to see this thing with the body on it. Awesome work Joe!

LOL! Thanks Crown! I didn't think of the clear body.....

I'll be finishing this up with the paint and decals exactly how it is on the box. I was able to fab out the original decals to get a new set printed up with a customized license plate based off of the most recent Texas plate design that reads RUQWKR. lol

Folks this gets more "do-able" by the day. I've got the bulk of it all test fitted here and so far everything is fitting and clearing where it's supposed to. A couple of shots:

This is where things had to be adjusted a bit. The firewall was sitting to low from the rear of the body line at the rear of the engine bay opening causing a gap between the firewall and the body. I shimmed it up a little to close the gap up. I've already test fitted the body and I'm in good shape so far.

Hope to get a little more done over the long weekend.

P.S. Just in case anybody spotted it....I am working on the front wheel center caps. There aint no way I'm going to leave those things as is!

Doing abit of catch up been away for a while your build is moving along very well ! Don't you wish for a clear truck body 

Thanks good buddy Lee!! I'm still in the process of painting the couch and figured as much with the clearance issue. It'll be moved to suit. Thanks for the input.

Looking good, you might want to check clearance of the back of the couch against the inside of the body shell. Looks like it may be close.

LOL! Thanks for the kudos Steve! I've looked for the lava lamps and have found a source for lighting but no lava lamps.

1st: WOW!  just bearly covers these improvements  andTVs in and runnin'

 Right fine job on the carpet and couch too. 

OH  Say, somewhere I have one of those 1/34 scale lava lamps....oh wait, I traded it for a 1/44 scale  8 track,   .... sorry  thought I could help ya there for a minute. 

Thanks good buddy Joe!! So far it's still looking like I may actually finish this thing within the decade. lol

Great improvising Joe. Looks like your new scheme will work out great. Love the TV. Beautiful work so far. I like it.

Well as some of you might've figured from the get go......that big  couch aint going to work! It's too tall and takes up way too much room in the back. I even trimmed out the bottom of it so the wheel tub would fit up inside the bottom of the couch and it was still too tall. No worries though. I broke out the bench seat from the kit and filled in the area at the center of the couch where the transmission hump cut out was and have it primed so far. I also tossed the coffee table from the equation as the TV was sitting up too high and would've hit the roof. I replaced that with a section of clear plastic from Evergreen and painted it black on the back side to give it that "black glass" look. I'm currently working on the L angled two legs for the front of the table. I believe this....is more doable. I still have to carpet the side of the R/H wheel tub but I'm makin' some progress anyhow.

Thanks Greg! lol .

Thank you good sir Joe!

Lee: 'Preciate the good word. Oh yeah. It'll be open alright. I'm not doing all that stuff in there for nuthin' you know.

Very nice. Does the rear door open on this? Hate to see the detail not seen on the finished build.

Very nicely done Joe.

That floor is just flocking beautiful.

Kidding aside, looking great, Joe.

Ok fellas. Finally some worthwhile benchtime this morning. I managed to modify the OOB rear flooring to fit around the wheel tubs in the back and mate up to the original front floor section almost perfectly. I shot primer, then the red coat and then flocked it after the red had dried. So far so good. The wheel tub coloring / flocking is up next.

From here:

To here:

Thanks Joe! I'm really stoked about using them alright.

Well guys I feared not being able to use the couch as it was just too bulky. I have another plan using the same layout though. Moving forward.......

That's slick that you were able to to get someone to create a set of decals for you. They're excellent. Love your plates. I've yet to see that new style Texas plate. 

Thanks alot Greg. PM sent...........

Pretty slick interior there Joe.

I ditto Crown, those floor mats definitely caught my eye. And I'm also curioius how you did the eight-ball.

Thanks Lee , Joe and Steve!

Rather than risk either using the originals or bolotching the things up myself, I outsourced the decal restoration project. While he was doing that I had him add a personalized license plate with the newer style Texas plate format so that it could be read easier. I thought the RUQWKR was in order. lol

Gees Joe, are you sure the thread count is correct for the seatbelt fabric?

Seriously good looking 

Oh yeah! The seat belts look great Joe. Yet again, your patience and skill have paid off remarkablely.

Impressive work Joe!

Thanks Eric! It's almost as much fun as the engine for it was. lol

Well I spent dang near an hour this morning at the bench. It was enough to get the seat belts assembled and finished..........

Thanks Joe and Crown!!!

Thank you as well Wallace and I appreciate the tip.