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Really showing the potential of those old Matchbox car mix !

Very nice model of this show rod. Skeleton looks good too !

paint is tamiya TS 58 pearl light blue

Been working on this one for the last couple months. Getting ready for final assembly. Paint is a 50/50 mix of Tamyia green and Tamiya silver. Interior is Tamiya deck tan. The chrome on the wheels was in bad shape so I stripped them and shot them with Rustoleum Bright Coat.

Me too Gary. Great to see you at the bench. Looks like a cool, well researched project. Good luck with it.

Very cool. Nice blue on that as well. 😉

Nah, he bought that to pull a 40' lowboy tandem trailer to haul his push mower on.............

Dave, I have some more Ferraris laying around since the early 1990's...

Great to see you building something new, Gary !

You can spray virtually anything over Duplicolor as it’s an acrylic lacquer. I assume Krylon is an enamel, which greatly limits what can safely be applied over it. Steve

My second rocket bunny 86 chopping the body for the wide arches is a fiddle as the plastic is super thin and prone to snapping

Looking great as always Charles , detail always amazing .

Just a reminder that the newly reissued (for the first time since it was originally introduced in 1998) AMT 1968 El Camino Street Machine has fully 25% of its parts count unique to the street machine kit vs. the factory showroom stock version from the same basic tool. The kit includes unique engine induction components, realistically lowered front and rear ride height, mildly tubbed pickup bed and sidewalls, electric (instead of fan belt driven) radiator fans, and more. Now I'm not going to claim that the street machine engine parts and wheels/tires/brakes are fully 2025 state of the art (because they aren't!) but with a bit of kitbashing or aftermarket substitutions in those areas, this kit goes a fair way toward the pro-touring or (more accurately) restomod genres than most kit buyerswould expect. Especially considering it was originally introduced 27 years ago. Food for thought, anyway. TB PS - when I finally get around to it I will be posting pix of my recently completed build of this kit with the above suggested modifications...

Nice build! I will be following this one. Gives me a few ideas.

The difference in scale between the Accurate Miniatures kit, 1/24 and the transkit 1/25 led me to use the MPC donor kit. Not accurate but easier. One mystery I have not solved yet is a roll bar, or not though it does have the birdcage like the production version. Harold Bradford also made a transkit in 1/25 scale.

Something to keep in mind,, To backdate the kit to the earlier grille style you need not only the grille and hood but the fenders and inner fenders as well. All the sheet metal from the cowl forward is completely different.

I would be game for a 68-71 grill style by the time the 72’s came out it was a face only a mother could love

Thanks. I have not built the 1/25 scale but I can take pics of the resin parts. Is that what your asking?

Very Kool, I like the looks of this. Do you have pix of the 1/25 scale printed version?

Yeah, the bells and whistles. Whistleblowers is more like it. Ford cars getting access to your texts and contacts. Cars ratting you out when you mash the throttle a tad. Maybe a hard brake or two and your Ins Co knows before your brakes cool. Hard pass.... As an aside. I'm NOT against technology. But when it s used for nefarious purposes like it was prophesised. Well, I just cannot abide. My dream car is a 550SEL Benz. 85 or 86 ish. Lots of tech and advanced features on that car. BUT, it won't rat me out of I see a bit of open road and open it up for a mile or two and let the ponies loose.

Really coming together, Sam - too bad about the doors!

FBI or HS mobile office? 😄 steve

If you are building anything resembling a stock wagon, go for one of the resin bodies instead of the kit piece. The kit body is way off proportionally.

@Wild Child Thanks! I really enjoyed the dragster evolution you just did. Motorsports had an attainable magic back in the 60s and 70s that just seems missing in motorsports today. Love your work! (For example, I bought a '67 Camaro in 1985 for about what I spent on this model/paint/decals 🤣 - obviously that Camaro is long gone 😭)

Here's mine, going for a mild 60s custom. Gonna be gold with white accents. And of course its gonna have a tuck and roll interior. The wheels are from the revell 64 Thunderbolt and the rear tires are amt parts pack m&h racemasters. It was inspired by this car I saw at a goodguys show.