’73 Camaro

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I made copies of the Kicker 6X9 speakers for the rear…

Rubber Heartbeat floor mats for the front…

And the velour dot pattern for the three factory seats…

The dash still needs the gauges, but most of the painted details are done. The stereo is a Kenwood KRC2008 and the face is a custom decal. The burl wood trim is hand painted.
The silver paint had worn through the dash trim on my car so I repainted it blue (and the Camaro script) to go with the exterior. I also added the A/C vents and made a non-manual transmission brake pedal.

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I made decals for the gauges; the lighting isn’t the best so the shadows are blocking the small ones, (fuel, amps, temp and clock gauges).
I didn’t make a decal for the tach. Seemed like a waste of time drawing it and then putting the AutoMeter tach in front of it. I can’t see the factory tach in the real car. (I don’t even know if it still works.)

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Shot the base color (Admiral/Cloisonné) blue from the original touch up paint I had for the real car, with a coat of intra-clear to seal it.

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The sealer-clear coat was sanded out but not polished or waxed. Custom made stripe decals have been applied.
On the real car I chose to paint the stripes with hard point corners on the inboard edges (like a Chevelle) instead of the factory stock round radiuses. I think it accents the pointy nose better.
Still a few more decals to add before clearing it…

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All the decals were applied a week or two ago and since I was shooting my Corvette, I shot the clear on this too.

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I machined a set of aftermarket Auto Meter gauges from aluminum.
A vacuum gauge, tach, and oil press & water temp.

I made decals for the faces and installed the tach and vacuum gauge.

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Originally I planned to make the exhaust pipes out of solder, so I filled in the mounting holes in the chassis. But after looking at the kit’s pipes, even though it is for the single crossover style muffler, I saw it would be much easier to modify those parts into what my car has.
I used the left over turbo mufflers from the AMT ’66 Nova (I used to build another one of my cars) and chopped and spliced the Camaro pipes to fit sans the single muffler. The cross-over pipe was made from a piece of one of the headers that didn’t work. It is all pinned together with aluminum rod.
Base coat of silver ready for proper coloring…

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Exhaust system has been colored and weathered and dry installed with the suspension sub-assemblies.

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The water temp and oil pressure gauges I machined a couple weeks ago have been installed in their little under dash panel. The switch for the driving lights has been added to where the cigarette lighter used to be. A crush sleeve was machined from aluminum and added between the steering wheel and column. I’m calling the dash done for now.

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Looking Awesome!!!

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I made the Wink mirror by milling some smoke colored plexiglass to make the base for the mirror panels. Then boxed them with some 0.010 sheet styrene.

The mirror faces are made of Mylar.

And a custom decal to replicate the stickers on the front side…

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I finally got around to polishing some of the body parts. First I sanded the hood stripes smooth then hit it with some Tamiya wax.

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Now that looks better than a real bonnet.

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Finally got the chrome trim done and waxed the body.

[OWhite3]

Good lord, that looks fantastic!