RancheroSteve

All Falcons and Rancheros had 13" wheels until 1965. The six cylinder cars had four bolt wheels, the V8s (late '63 & up) had five bolt wheels.

8 color photos of the real truck comes in the kit, what engine really was in the original truck? Straight six or a small ford 8?

Straight six (lots of info regarding this if you read back in the thread).

Decent looking new wheels and backs form what i can see, but (just to be nit-picky again), they should be four bolt wheels for this vehicle. Put the hubcaps on 'em and no one will know, right?

I guess while we're at it, the other thing that isn't quite right is the inside of the tailgate: it should have the same slant as the outside (forward towards the top). I'm guessing that might have been a compromise necessitated by molding technology. Not so easily fixed, but you can throw a tonneau cover over the bed and call it good.

There's really only a couple of things wrong with the body as I see it, and they're both pretty fairly easily fixed.

First, the lip above the rear window (I assume it's still there in the current re-issue) shouldn't be there - grind it flush and re-scribe the trim line.

Second, the rear cab pillar is sculpted wrong, but this can be vastly improved with some work with a sanding stick and maybe a little putty.

The photo below illustrates more how things should look:

Apart from that, like most AMT kits of the period, it gets the look of the car about right to my eyes.

Haha - not to get too off-topic, but the outhouse probably represented real progress at one time. Just think about how things were done previously.