THarrison351

Thanks for the praise. The '67 'bird would be this one below? I did some detailing, painted the interior, but can't remember the headlights.This picture was taken many years back and I don't remember why. It's packed away in a box until the room it's stored in is converted to a bedroom or we move again. See following picture.

Looks great. I think I built that as a kid when it was still under the MPC banner. It seemed MPC had several flip front street freak cars in the seventies. 1957 Chevy, Ford Mustang this pickup and a Corvette. Maybe more, that's just the ones I remember building.

Definitely not finished. To go along with the aforementioned missing items, there's no front brakes, distributor/magneto and wires or steering box too.

Listening to some movie soundtracks, (Donnie Darko, Once, Kodachrome, Singles, and American Graffiti) I did finally manage to get some painting done tonight. I think I'm done with what I'm going to do on the chassis plate. My steel paint is dried up. So, silver for everything bare metal. I still need to do the master cylinder and finish the battery under the hood. The interior is finished except the instrument plate. Tomorrow I foil and detail it in black. The wheels turned out OK for a blind guy using 3x readers looking through a 10x lighted magnifier, one eyed. The tail lights and tailpipes were touched up with a Molotow pen. Tomorrow, I detail the chrome on the body with the pen or foil. I haven't decided yet.

OK, I'm no expert, and the Internet has been a poor source of information for interior information. As best I can tell, 72 Trans Ams were available with the standard (vinyl) morrokide seating trim in six colors: blue, ivory, saddle, green, beige, and black and not a ivory, seat black carpet or blue carpet combination. The optional more upscale combination cloth and morrokide seating trim was only available in beige and black. I haven't seen any colors but blue or black. I have seen the color combination you want in a 1973 Trans Am. Which is kind of funny and leads me to the second part of my post. If there is any more info from the better informed, I'm open to answers. Here is picture of the under hood of the diecast. It is surprisingly well detailed for a $10 diecast and fairly accurate...for a 1973 Trans Am. It shouldn't have finned valve covers but that's not the only problem. The angled bars from the radiator support to the fenders were added in 1973 because of the new 5 MPH bumper laws. I had seen pictures of 70-72 Firebirds and knew this was a mistake, so I cut mine off. Oddly when I was looking for more pictures of something else, the picture below the diecast popped up and now I know where they got it from. So if you want to strip the exterior paint and repaint it as a 1973 TA with a 455 SD under the hood, it will be correct but the interior will be wrong. 1973 Trans Am fender braces and single snorkel on air cleaner 1972 Trans Am no fender braces and dual snorkels on air cleaner I'm slowly getting some of the detail painting done and will add more pictures soon.

I wish we had Rite Aids in Wichita

Agree, and they cost a house.

Painted the interior blue with my brand spankin' new Paasche VL double action airbrush I bought from HL on clearance last month. Love it, never used a double action before. Barely used any paint. My old Paasche single action was great and I liked to use it occasionally. I just don't like the clean up exercise. Color is Testors (Model Master) Nassau blue metallic in their lacquer color system decanted. Detail painting next

OK, MPC 1960 body right, but interior wrong, 1957 maybe? AMT 1960 was a 60 but labeled 1959 and very simplified. Revell 1959 multi-piece body and well multi-piece body which may have been updated to 1960 without stock wheels. I think somewhere there was a heated discussion on a forum that clarified the good, the bad and how to fix all of it.

Well, I just realized something else that was off and will need to be addressed. Welly in their infinite wisdom went cheap on the tampo print. The stripes were printed the same way on both the white car and the blue car. In other words they used a tampo print to fade the outer edge to the center. This only applies to the white car's black and blue stripes. The blue car's black and white stripes are solid, no fade. Welly's

If you have the American Graffiti Mustang, it and the MotorMax are the same. And now that I have hunted all over the net, I don't think the 71 Mustangs that were loose in the NEX display were even Wellys, I think they were MotorMaxs because I can't find any 71-73 1/24 Mustangs from Welly Hopefully this will be the end of the Hijack. I don't mind. It's fun to see what other people think.

called a 1960 Corvette but really a 1959 as I understand the AMT mold.

The grill doesn't represent any car, but I made mine look like a 71 Mustang Mach1 because of some reason. The tail panel Mach1 marking was wrong for all years. All Mustangs could get what those hubcaps are supposed to be. I have an old Mustang book from the 80s that has all the differences what could be on each year what couldn't be with what and even if it wasn't available the dealer could add if the customer wanted to pay for it. https://www.7173mustangs.com/showthread.php?tid=17350 scroll down about half way I think nowadays every 71-73 for sale has Magnum 500s on them. Its kind of like the 65-66 Mustangs all have the styled steel mag wheel and all the 67-69 have GT wheels or Magnum 500s. You hardly ever see the stock hubcaps.

Hey, I know it's only $10, sadly the mold is getting a little long in tooth. With what Welly is selling now for the same price we could use a replacement or some updates. It might have a nice chrome bumper, but those headlight buckets. The rear track looks like late 60s-70s Chrysler A-bodies. Oh yeah, the tail light panel on the Welly/MotorMax car is as bad as the pick ups I recently completed.

Yes, and I'd love to see some proper steel wheels with trim rings and the proper poverty caps. Not the Mercury styled ones. This works on 70-71 Torinos too. Like what you saw on the original Eleanor. https://www.imcdb.org/v004972.html

I mean it, along with almost every 1971-1973 mustang in plastic or metal is lame. Something, usually the grill, always the engine is wrong. I think Danbury mint made one good representation with their 1971 Mustang Boss 351/Mach 1 w 429. You will pay dearly for a nice example though. I built one of the Testors Mustangs with the ahem... Boss 429s many years ago. The grill is wrong on that one too. Only picture I have. It's packed away.

There sure is a lot of talk on Welly diecast lately. I purchased a blue Trans Am a few months back because it looked well proportioned, wasn't white and was cheap. I'd like to get a lot of the Welly diecast but we don't have Rite-Aids in Wichita. The couple of other stores mentioned, do have a few of the NEX displays with the lame 73 Mustangs and late model pick up trucks. So I'm in the process of detailing my Welly. Here is what I'm starting with: Side Front Back Interior Engine Chassis plate It blows up pretty good: Preliminary paint. I plan to paint the interior blue. Drilled the exhaust. Painted the grill and the turn signal lens. I know they're supposed to be clear with amber bulbs, but when I painted the stump amber, the lens still looked clear. There is just a light coat of clear amber. I think the camera really enhanced the color. These tires look like they belong on a truck from the side However, the tread pattern looks like a radial. I can't wait to detail the wheels.

The Impala came in blue as well. The Belvedere in black w white top as well. The Nova in yellow as well 37 Chevy Cabriolet was maroon and cream. 53 Ford custom pickup in primer grey. 66 Buick Riviera low rider in painted yellow w green panels, also blue and possibly a yellow one w white cloud like panels . Dodge Viper in red and also black. 55 Nomad in lt blue w white top. 70 Chevelle SS in black. 72 Chevelle SS in yellow. 1932 Ford Phantom Vickie in purple. I think that about covers it. I built a lot of these. About 18 total and I still need to finish the 37 Chevy. I have 5 AMT Masterpiece models which were kind of the assembled versions of these kits.

Depending on where you live, this is still true. Ask someone from the rust belt, or most Canadians. The drive-trains are almost bulletproof today, but all the metal bits still succumb to mighty tin worm

Sad, but true apparently. Unless we have been lied to all these years. Most the JoHan tooling was stolen by disgruntled employees over the years. It's too bad because they had some of the best bodies when the existed.

If you click on the YouTube link it will tell you he died of a heart attack

Carousel 1 made many nice 1/18 scale cars. I don't think they're still in business. That's a little overpriced. I see three, one with a buy it now at $399.99 plus a reasonable shipping: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CAROUSEL-5201-1965-INDIANAPOLIS-500-LOTUS-38-JIM-CLARK-82/163194368352?hash=item25ff247160%3Ag%3A5~4AAOSwwHpbbHXO&_sacat=0&_nkw=carousel+lotus+jim+clark&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313 Second one at $450 free shipping: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-18-Carousel-1-1965-Jim-Clark-Lotus-38-Indy-500-Winner/223083188607?hash=item33f0cb517f%3Ag%3AuxEAAOSwhFhbLkEX&_sacat=0&_nkw=carousel+lotus+jim+clark&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313 Third one across the pond at $527.08 plus high shipping, but they'll take a best offer. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-18-Carousel-Lotus-Ford-Type-38-Jim-Clark-1965-Indy-500-Winner-RARE-MINT-NEW/132657410522?hash=item1ee2ff71da%3Ag%3ALBEAAOSwEzJbHMkt&_sacat=0&_nkw=carousel+lotus+jim+clark&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

Icon die-cast. I've got the Cobra plus the yellow GT-40, 67 Royal Bobcat GTO, and all of the University of Racing Legends die-cast NASCAR cars. Great die-casts

You know, NASCAR wasn't checking window size and or placement back then, right? As long as the car didn't look too funky to the eye, crew chiefs were manipulating pillars and opera windows for aerodynamics even then.