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Greg, when you first showed this gluebombed body I thought you were nuts. Why would you even bother with something in so bad shape when it's a super=common kit and you could easily pick up a fresh one anywhere on the cheap. Now it all makes a kind of perverted sense. 🤪 👍👍👍

Pretty cool Brian. I'm working on a highly modified one of those right now myself.😉

Is Olsen Bros doing that body currently Mike ? I was under the impression that they closed down shop except for the one bro trying to get caught up on paid back orders and offering a very limited selection of small stuff.

Yes, I mixed some tan and chocolate brown flock to about the shade of the brown accents.

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.

They didn't show a '68/'69 Toronado. Probably the only car I've ever seen that the whole grilles move up out of the way.

And a computer I'd say. The grille in that truck is obviously AI generated and looks like a lot, if not all the rest of that pic is also.

Got the interior finished Modified the door panels and added printed window cranks. Probably should have picked a smaller set but I may pick them off and replace them with power window switches before it's done. Seat is from the AMT '57 Chrysler. It's the right size and looks like a common style custom seat for pickups. Made brake and gas pedals from sheet stock and made a steering column with shifter, tilt and signal stalks from scratch and added a printed steering wheel. I had originally planned to go with a green pattern decals for the seat and door panel inserts but I guess my decal paper is too old and broke apart when I tried to apply them so I went with the light brown. Again common with current pickup builds from the show coverage I've been watching on YouTube

Are you eventually gonna make a set pf plexi covers for over the headlights, Kurt? I always thought that looked cool on the real Daytonas.

Revell Lincoln Futura's are pretty close if not exact.

Been working on the interior. Re-shaped the upper door panels. Some inserts going in the spaces at the top. Seat's from the AMT '57 Chrysler. I thought it makes a pretty good looking custom seat for this truck. Some green patterned decals I made up will go on the seat and door panel inserts. Made a tilt steering column from scratch and will be adding factory style tilt and signal light stalks and a shift lever. Paint is the same Tamiya racing white I used for the side panels on the body and it'll all be dull coated when done.

A couple shots of where it's at right now. Not much progress as I'm concentrating on my Chevy pickup build. Trying to get it ready for a show in a couple weeks. But I will be back on this when the truck is finished. 😉 Not real happy with how the windshield tint is looking right now. Probably clean that up and probably darken the blue/green tint on both windows. Maybe even strip it and start again. Keep in mind it's not sitting right up where it would be when finished also. Needs some white letter tires, I think. Could also use a couple more passes with the Tamiya polish before foiling too.

I have that kit. In doing reference for it [yes, I sometimes do that] I seem to remember reading it was all painted on by hand using some sort of strait edge as a guide.

If some people could walk on water, they'd complain about getting their feet wet.

Sorry to say I'm still waiting for someone to make a kit of one that looks "right". Yes, I used to own one so I'm very particular about it.

I am aware of those. Amazing kits but just not my thing. But this is just what I mean, some people get off on building models like that right from the box. Then there's those of us who get off on taking something like this,, and turning it into this,, , , and just because I did this doesn't mean it takes ANYTHING away from someone who wants to build strait from the box.

Personally, I think there's room for both camps. Some people like to just turn their brains off and follow the instructions and come up with a nice looking model. Some of us like to take that badly engineered kit and use our brains and creativity and come up with a nice looking model. Same destination, different road. I don't even look at building a Tamiya or Fujimi kit as the same as building an AMT or MPC any more then building a car as the same as building an airplane or tank. Different models/different skill set. ,,, and don't even get my started on building a car from a pile of unrelated parts from different kits from different manufacturers. ,well, anyone who'd do that is just nutz. 🤪

Give that man a harrumph. 👍

The actual Jeepster front bodywork is quite different from a CJ. BUT , , I have done that exact mod back in the early '80s with the MPC kits available back then and it was pretty strait forward. And it looked pretty good too. No pics from then but it's not exactly uncommon in 1/1 apparently.

Those are actually hood ornaments.

Any tariffs imposed by Canada would have nothing to do with you Al. That's NOT how tariffs work in spite of what some people believe. 🙄

Excellent. I'm very much looking forward to dropping a few of those down low over some 20s in the near future. 😁

Erik, quick question on another subject, If I may, I'm wondering about the status of the '67/'68 Chevy pickups? I hope all this wackyness that's going on hasn't killed the project. I'm very much looking forward to these.

NAFTA deal was replaced 5 years ago by the USMCA deal