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  1. Thanks! No targa roof; I'm doing it as a T-Top with the panels off; I just haven't put the cross bar in place yet. The color is Testors Graphite Dust lacquor with Testors Flame Red inside. Motor will be a 440 six pack, sourced from the same 80's MPC kit that donated the wheels.
  2. nope, but it's scary to think there might be two of us running around loose out there. :)
  3. Tom, that's bringing back a LOT of bad memories for me! Awesome job on the build and the emission plumbing. That's pretty much what most Volares looked like by the time they were a year old.
  4. Great review! A comment about my experiences with the 1:1 and the kit Volare: The 1:1: I grew up in the malaise era as well, picking up thrashed out Cudas and Chargers while dissing the new junk coming out of Detroit. As a gas station mechanic, I disliked Volares and their million miles of (usually leaking) vacuum lines keeping their emissions clean. Then, one day, I found a 76 Volare station wagon, factory equipped with a 318 V8 and an overdrive 4 speed stick. I picked it up to use as a snow car to keep my 70 Cuda out of harms way when the roads got slick. The addition of a 340 cam, ft and rear sway bars off a St. Regis hwy patrol car, and a set of T/A radial 60s really woke the Volare up. I was really impressed, it drove one heck of a lot better than the muscle era Chargers and Roadrunners I was used to. Of course, its self biodegrading body was a problem, and eventually it died in the line of duty when a 74 Dart rear-ended me on the snow. In a poof of brown rust dust, pretty much every seam in the back half of the body opened up, and its days were over. That was almost 30 years ago, the overdrive gearbox lives on today in my 70 Cuda when I want to do some serious highway cruising. But it was a good car. The kit. Like the 1:1, its whole concept is a typical of the era. But bashing the concept is like bashing the Flock of Seagulls. The early '80s pretty much stunk. But, once you start looking at it, its one of the better engineered MPC kits I've made. I remember as a kid pretty much all my early 1970s MPC annual kits' chassis fell off when you picked them up by the roof. I've been spoiled by new tooling, but for era correct MPC its fit and accuracy are pretty darn good. The custom parts are a joke, and I kinda think Round 2 included them as a reminder of what a nasty era in which the kit was designed. The custom tires, however are my favorite hot rod setup and my stash was getting thin. The kit is about half done, its getting built as an '80s boulevard bruiser using the 440+6 and Weld wheels from the MPC 71 Roadrunner reissue. So, in a nutshell, while both the real car and the Round 2 kit may offend at first site, they both really have a heart of gold and I'm glad I bought both. That said, I'd love to see someone build the kit recreating the entire emissions vacuum line setup for the Evap system, the EGR system, the NOx system, the TCS system....etc ad-nauseam.
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