Oldcarfan27

Nothing wrong with dreaming and hoping. Besides, naysayers also said the tool for the 34 Ford pickup was long lost and guess what.....? This is a big planet we live on and stuff thought long since scrapped sometimes turns up. Unless you've personally scoured every square inch of it, or witnessed them getting melted down, you can't be any more sure of what's gone as those who wonder what's left! Until we have evidence to prove it, we just don't know. It's good to have hope. It's called optimism.

I remember the movie "Radio" set in 1977 or 78. Ed Harris plays a high school football coach who drives a primered, beat up 76 or 77 Ford pickup. What a bad driver to ruin such a "new" truck.

In the 80s movie "Mr. Destiny", Jim Belushi's character builds model cars and he's a normal guy. The movie "Easy Money", Rodney Dangerfield's character builds model airplanes to avoid smoking and gambling. He has a nervous breakdown while building a Messerschmitt. Sounds about right for airplane builders (LOL) It's a very funny scene!

Guess they needed a consultant for that fact! Kind of like movies set in a certain year and yet there are newer cars in the scenes that weren't even "built" in that year. Funny.

Fred, compare the cab of the Revell Courier to the photo of the real truck. Look at the windshield and vent window area. The roof is clearly more upright on the real truck. Besides, the box even says their kit is chopped. Use the AMT Courier for your chassis and interior, it's clearly the best and most correct example available. Mazda didn't change the truck much under the skin. Even though the body looks newer, closer look shows the update was just cosmetic and not structural. I've wanted to make a stock Courier forever and once I discovered the cab detail facts, I was off and running. Good luck with your build. This is the truck that inspired the bed. It's someone else's pic I found online. Even though the creases don't line up, and the bed as a whole is incorrect, the curve of the top of the side panels matches the cab, and the inside of the bed is right, so that was my basis.

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Valid points, well taken. And thank you for having a gracious response. An informative discussion is good and healthy when both sides can be heard!

Next up was figuring out how to make the stock fleetside bed. Which alluded me until I happened to find a Dodge D50 box laying around. I sized it up and found it had the perfect curve to the back of the cab, and the bed floor. I used more sheet plastic to finish the sides, tailgate and bulkhead. The red areas are from the D50. I had to cut the hexagon shapes on the bulkhead and the FORD letters on the tailgate from scratch. Color may end up mustard yellow, pastel blue or olive green - all stock colors, I haven't decided yet. Comments?

I've been piddling around with this idea for a while. I've always wanted to make the Revell "Fun Truckin'" Courier stock, but the chopped cab had me stumped. Until I realized the 79 cab still had the stock windshield and basic dimensions. I also figured out that both cabs can be combined to complete the look I want, sooo..... The side panels are simply made from sheet plastic, as it's easier to cut simple rectangles from that, than to try to fix the kit pieces. I used the wheelwell from the AMT Courier as a template for the wheel opening. Blue parts are the Revell kit, grey parts are the AMT kit and white parts are sheet plastic. Then I cut out the hood scoop area and replaced it with sheet plastic. I built up the stock frame from the AMT kit and used the well under the hood for detail and to align the chassis. Notice how the AMT interior is a perfect fit for the new cab. And it pretty much represents the stock interior of the real truck too.

That's sooo cool! I don't see any kit based parts on this. Looks like it's all just sheet plastic. You've got the look coming along nicely, I want to see more of this.

But it can always be worse! What's that?!

Model T's?

I guess that's what life insurance is for. Not to be cold hearted, but usually the spouses know where their passions lie and are well aware of the risks when they marry them. You can't say that what a career military, police officer or fire fighter does is selfish. What they do, they do because it's their calling. Their families know there's a great possibility that they may not come home - but they do it for the greater good of humanity. For that matter, anyone of us could leave for work in the morning, and not come home that evening. Life has no guarantees, only God knows how many days each of us is to spend on this earth. We all should be so fortunate as to know what he has designed us to be and do while were here. We need to enjoy and be thankful for each and everyday we are given, and to stop the petty bickering on things that won't matter in the long run. Only then can we live life to the fullest. I remember hearing someone say - If God is in charge, you're indestructible until you've fulfilled what he put you here for. Then you go home.

That and the pedophiles, child abductors, drug dealers and gang bangers. The world just isn't as safe as it used to be for kids under 12. I remember staying out late, doing fun stuff with my friends as a kid. But I won't let my kids stay out after dark and never far away from my presence. I just care about them too much to leave them out there for the creeps! Until people do something about the dregs, it'll only get worse.

I have to ask, why? I can't imagine any of the band members driving one, or any of their fans not being too embarrassed to be seen in one. VW must've sponsored a tour back then.

If he put anything on it, it'd fall over. Nose first.

If AMC would have designed it and sold it like this - they would probably still be in business! I wanna build this.

Reminds me of my wifes shaver.

It's probably more mechanically reliable now! And cheaper to repair.

Look up! A little higher...there you go.

Got these FREE from a guy on CL... Along with a couple large R/C speedboats and a motorcycle. Some people are very generous. I thanked him profusely!

Did find one of these again, Had one in my childhood - it was so fun!

Don't remind me. I had acquired that one twice on 2 separate occasions. Each time I lost interest in it and sold it off - both times. I wish I had one now. But I haven't even seen one in decades.

Aw shucks, story of my life. But at least I have something to tell my grandkids

Christine? The movie? The one with the cranky car? Where? I don't remember her in that movie. Or are you talking about something else?