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My '73 mustang competition winner


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A close personal friend of mine saw the 1st kit I've made in years. The foose fd100 pickup. He then challenged me to a buildoff. What he didn't know is i had bigger plans for the foose kit and due to some paint malfunctioning I ditched the silver idea i had and sprayed it all flat white to hide the mess up and slapped it together with very little detail just to get it over with. So off to hobby lobby we went both coming home with a 73 stang kit and both with a different shade of purple as a base color ( the wives decided they wanted to take part and they picked the colors blindly to us) So I took my time and let my imagination run wild and came up with this..... He wouldnt even let me post pics of both cars to let you guys vote on. He just said I won hands down and ordered the prize kit of my choice off hobbylinc and in a couple more days I'll be dipping into the amt rerelease VW Scirocco20170903_131641.thumb.jpg.da0df82a0eaf98custom made lift off air cleaner based off a 1937 ford i picked up because the cleaner options in the kit wouldnt work for my vision. Also my 1st time using a distributor wiring kit20170903_131315.thumb.jpg.5b31069caa39cbcustom made NASCAR styled spoiler using a speedway gas station rewards card 20170903_131250.thumb.jpg.b7dae3849d9761its hard to see but the big end of the blue stripe is actually 2 different shades of blue20170903_131624.thumb.jpg.57f4a6fc9cfc06ove

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I can perhaps understand a Boss 429 in a drag version of this kit but given that the largest engine you could get in 1973 was a 351C pretty much tells you the model companies were about marketing and fantasy versus making something close to a stock version.  These kits (AMT and MPC) never had Magnum 500 wheels, the 73 only aluminum slot wheels, a 351C, a ram air plenum, shock tower braces, an accurate dual or single exhaust, an automatic trans.  However, you did get non factory rear window louvers and a incorrect 428 engine from the 69/70 kits.

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