1969 Dart Street/Strip (Re)Build
HDK kit arrived yesterday! The kit was packaged extremely well. I cart-wheeled it end over end into my house and nothing was shifting inside that box. It was a bit like Christmas time. Parts wrapped and packed in paper and I was tearing through it like a tazmanian devil! Wife was working late so I took over the living room. Flipped the rug over and started laying all the parts out.
Even the cat was making some use of the parts, scratching and rubbing around on it.
The welds on this kit are really awesome. I'm impressed with the quality through and through. You can tell that there was a lot of thought put into the way the kit is built.
I could stare at this stuff all day. But if I did, I wouldn't get them off to powdercoat! Dropped it all off today and doing it all in gloss black. I tried to come up with some other color combinations, but I just couldn't think of anything that would look as good as black with the rest of my car.
Then there's little things like the small cutouts to merry the parts together that I didn't even see at first. These are very precise!
Working in the aircraft industry makes you expect a certain level of quality in parts and I'm really blown away at the quality of this kit. I hope the powdercoating quality comes out just as good. Any of you that have really followed through this thread will know that I am somehow a magnet to ordering NEW parts and they show up completely defective. Part after part after part. It doesn't seem to ever end. Even the "New high quality" rack and pinion I ordered last week showed up looking like a 5 year old took a hammer and pipe wrench to it. So my hat's off to Denny on making this high quality kit and making me feel completely satisfied about spending the money I did on it.
HDK kit arrived yesterday! The kit was packaged extremely well. I cart-wheeled it end over end into my house and nothing was shifting inside that box. It was a bit like Christmas time. Parts wrapped and packed in paper and I was tearing through it like a tazmanian devil! Wife was working late so I took over the living room. Flipped the rug over and started laying all the parts out.
Even the cat was making some use of the parts, scratching and rubbing around on it.
The welds on this kit are really awesome. I'm impressed with the quality through and through. You can tell that there was a lot of thought put into the way the kit is built.
I could stare at this stuff all day. But if I did, I wouldn't get them off to powdercoat! Dropped it all off today and doing it all in gloss black. I tried to come up with some other color combinations, but I just couldn't think of anything that would look as good as black with the rest of my car.
Then there's little things like the small cutouts to merry the parts together that I didn't even see at first. These are very precise!
Working in the aircraft industry makes you expect a certain level of quality in parts and I'm really blown away at the quality of this kit. I hope the powdercoating quality comes out just as good. Any of you that have really followed through this thread will know that I am somehow a magnet to ordering NEW parts and they show up completely defective. Part after part after part. It doesn't seem to ever end. Even the "New high quality" rack and pinion I ordered last week showed up looking like a 5 year old took a hammer and pipe wrench to it. So my hat's off to Denny on making this high quality kit and making me feel completely satisfied about spending the money I did on it.
