Ragtop Man

Very cool - should have most bits fairly close in size and shape. SBF engines are a dime a dozen; the new Revell B351 Cleveland (with tweaks) is excellent, and Revell has nailed the 428 in a couple of issues.

Surgical - that is crisp as new money.

Great job, love the wheels and stance!

Nice job on the Pantera, my dream car for many years. Bought that kit on a whim... never got around to it. I do have a few of the Airfix small-fender cars, and one of the GTS wide fender, still sorting what to do with them.

Good job, Mikey.

Oh, baby. That is dead solid perfect. Much straighter than they ever left the factory! Nice job.

Jaw. On. Floor. This is great. The interior is a model unto itself!

The wheels in 1:1 (and scale) can be changed out by changing the brake drums, which is to say removing the 8-lug wheels by unbolting the rear drums (with a 5/5 pattern inside the hub) and simply switching out fronts. The Pontiac spindles, axles, backing plates, axle flanges, yadda yadda are all common regardless of wheel selection. Nice to see them in a kit, might put me over the edge to chase another '62. FWIW, in the day, it was not uncommon for racers to have standard rear drums with the slicks in the garage and change them out on race day. Much wider selection of tires and wheel sizes that way. There was only a factory 14" 8-lug steel rim at a set width, which tended to limit tire selection. IMO, this also juices the choices for your Moby bubbletops - have a box of AMT parts including the diamond tuft interior "sittin' in la-la waitin for ya-ya" to knock out a custom '61.

Opened your pic and the second it flashed, I said "perfect" !!!! Really nice job on the kit, it is no picnic but looks awesome as it sits.

Looking for some guidance on the Jada Shelby that I've hoarded for a few years now - this is close to the look I'm going for. Have you done one of those yet?

Fantastic build - where did you source the Magstars? They are just my favorite aftermarket wheel ever for that era Ford passenger cars...

As noted by a few friends in the hobby, Round 2's release schedule has rather nicely mirrored the mid-00's catalog from Missing Link. First came the Gen 1 Mustang FB, then the HT '65 GTO, then the AMT '70 Mach 1 and '64 Chevelle SS (!) all sold out faster than we could pour. Many thanks to Steve G. for cutting steel tools for AMT so that I could re-live the early days of our enterprise, I have only a few buildable rejects in my archive. Note to future casters: save one of everything! Fast forward to 2023, and news of the re-release of Mach Won.... talk about a jolt! There has been a fair amount of speculation of what this would look like built up, so I went digging in the MLRC picture crypt and found these shots. Our resin '70 was a Xerox copy of the annual, needing only the '69-73 of your choice to finish it off. Thus, by the transitive property, this is what it looks like. You will need an interior, a stock shaker hood and scoop which I am assuming will surface in resin fairly soon, or modify some parts from one of the squillion or so '69-70 kits already out there. You will also need a sheet of clear styrene for the windshield, cos' the current kit item has been modified to accept the supercharger inlet; can't speak to the rear louvers, but those should not be a heavy lift, either. Our good friend Tom Mooty knocked this out in about a week prior to the Toledo Show that year, using what IIRC was Testor's French Blue with hand masked blackout. Wheels are MPC '73 kit items, engine looks like MPC as well but can't say for 100% certain. If you have hoarded R2 Polyglas, so much the better, the wide ovals were an option too depending on which supplier and which plant your 1:1 came from. At some point in the future when all my stuff is unpacked, I'll have a Grok-A-Thon to see what newly tooled (since 2005) Mustang/Cougar bits suit the R2 Funny Car release.

One of my retirement projects has been to take on the herculean task of sorting and categorizing out digital pictures (since 2002...) Found this shot that I snagged in '06 or so, when MissingLink released the '70 Mach 1 transkit for the '71-3 AMT "Road Racer" Mustang. There are some other shots of a great build by Tom Mooty of our "Job One" release.

That was the release I had as a kid - bonus Pinto FC included (But not terribly accurate.) There are still some bits floating in storage. The truck was a victim of the Great Shelf Collapse in 1974-5.

I'd be very surprised to learn this cover art issue was not planned for the future. Were I to place a bet... you would see this and the Ford 9000-series Louisville Race Car Hauler in a gift set with a mondo decal sheet. I believe the Mustang was on the original cover art for the Hauler, just not included in the box, which seemed an oversight to me. Later, in the '70s a Pinto F/C (CrazyHorse) was included as a bonus, somewhere I've got a cover from that box stashed away, along with an enormous junk box of truck parts.