'70 Grande

Lei, Yes, please bring it to the August meeting. I have a 289 that I'll bring to trade... thanks!

Lei, The '53 would be my first choice. Thanks

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I am looking to trade for all the stock Flathead V8 engine pieces from the AMT 1/25 1949 Mercury kit, (any release/reissue of this kit). They can be fresh from the tree or from a built-up if in good restoreable condition, (not interested in a complete kit). I have a fairly deep parts box to trade from. I am in Illinois.

I've often wondered how those drivers back then wrestled one of these race cars with manual shifting, steering and brakes for a couple of 100-miles around a shoddy dirt track and lived to do it again a week or two later! This build is awesome, especially with the added details like the straps holding the doors shut... well done Model Guy!

On its own, I think the box art on this one is a masterpiece!

Great work so far! Good color choices, too... I'll be watching your progress!

Funny, the first project that came to my mind when seeing this '64 Mercury Comet upcoming kit post was building one of the '64 East Africa rally cars that came outta Bill Stroppe's shop. Doubtful that Moebius would issue such a kit but wouldn't that be a delightful surprise if they did!

With your modern wheel and tire combo, I think the cross ram feels more appropriate for your build... the shorty's are good but have a more vintage vibe in my mind.

Sidebar story mikemodeler: Yes, I'm a Ford Mustang guy, but one of my favorite 1:1 cars I owned for over 7 years was this 1970 Camaro with the 250-inline 6-cylinder and automatic transmission... old out-of-focus pic below! The car had an interesting back story too long to get into here, but at age 16, my parents wouldn't let me buy a V8 Camaro so this is what I got instead!

I was a bit surprised by the poor fit of the kit's front spoiler center piece. Once the front fender flares were in place, I expected the front spoiler center piece to basically drop into place. Turns out the pieces don't line up very well and end up not being flush across their bottoms once all together. I decided to add some styrene to correct this as much as I could. The first added piece of styrene brought the bottle edge of the center piece more flush with the bottom edges of the fender flares. The second styrene piece I added covers the entire area as shown in the 2nd pic. It doesn't bother me that this additional styrene makes the entire front spoiler a bit deeper/closer to the ground as I'm doubtful that will be noticeable when my build is completed.

And some more pics of my end result. You may notice in the last 2 pics here that the cut-line on this rear spoiler/corner piece doesn't line-up anymore with the trunk's panel line, but now overlaps it a bit. This was a result of me taking some material away from the bottom side of that rear spoiler/corner piece to minimize how much length would be added when the point was attached... I didn't want the tip of that point going below the side-body-line on the rear fender per the 1:1. (I hope this makes sense). I'll be removing that excess when I install the center section of the rear spoiler. I kept it here for now as a reference piece as a duplicate this same rear spoiler corner piece work for the passenger side piece.

The rear spoiler work that I started on this Camaro project became more complicated and intimidating than I thought. Reshaping pieces that are complex-curves in all directions and then getting those curves to properly line-up with an area on the body that's also nothing but complex-curves means slow and patient work. My main issue with the kit's rear spoiler piece is that it's bottom edge doesn't come to a point on the rear fender per the 1:1... (see previously posted 1:1 reference pic). In the first pic below you can see a nicely molded trunk emblem that sadly needs to be removed as the rear spoiler piece will cover most of it. The second pic shows additional styrene I added to the driver's side spoiler piece to build it up for a pointed-tip. The 3rd pic shows my end result.

Mel, I thought I might have this Cyclone rear spoiler for you but turns out I don't. Anybody out there got one for Mel?

Can-Con After explaining and posting about the rear spoiler, narrowing that rear bumper, (with 1:1 reference pics), will be the next thing I post about. Your White Z28 looks excellent and will provide me with some inspiration!