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Wow! Seeing that steering wheel and the plaid sends me right back into the one I drove for a camp one summer with a rack full of canoes behind. Can still feel the front tires thumping on the gravel road...

Great work on the fine unique stuff!

So clean ! Love the Fairlane in the background too. A trip the other day down the old highway yielded this bit of inspiration

X2 !!

The brochures agree with you... the chrome trimmed cluster was a custom cab upgrade. Looks like maybe the '57-'59 base models were grey/silver painted steel. The chrome clusters installed in base model trucks are probably the result of someone haunting the wreckers looking for upgrade parts and scoring lotsa parts can get changed in 60 years

I've seen enough pics on line to make me think this is more a difference between high and low-line cab trim than a wrong restoration attempt. ...And here's another guy's personalized update...

Merely preserving one of the greatest rodding eras, I guess (snapshot from a '48 film taken on Bunker Hill, LA.) My pile is similar, but with a fairly heavy concentration of Ford trucks, handful of reissue amt '78 4x4s grabbed cheap among others. Great for accurizing a certain modern release. Lots of mustangs and a few torinos as well too, mainly for the better accuracy of detail parts.

Coming across this pic I took a few years ago... Kicking Horse River at Golden, BC in september

That's an autolite 2100 carb and they are fairly easy to find in the mustang kits.

Those hydrovacs are built right here in Alberta and shipped all over the states. A friend of mine has delivered a few.

Concept-wise, I certainly agree; stylistically, let's hope the beclowning that happened with the Fords doesn't happen again...

Good times for Dodge guys.... new 4x4 out of the blue from Round 2

As an aside, here's a contrast between factory quarters and '70 quarters applied ...

Not that it will make much difference in scale, but the coupe/ragtop windshield is slightly taller and more upright than the fastback. Wish I'd had my camera when I was at a friend's garage, seeing them sitting side by side...

Nice work, Chuck ! If moeb hadn't stuck us with the early motormax diecast style proportions, it'd be perfect GM and Chrysler had already split their dealer/model streams and Ford was just catching up to the idea after the war. Took the Whiz Kids, Breech and the Deuce to get Ford back on track. Merc trucks were only marketed til '68; there's no mention in the parts books after that. Here's some info on the last ones... http://www.fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35331&sid=500dab07635234c30758a66b112e29ee

Beautifully done! Been wanting to build that one for years.

Final assembly... Longnose '69 Mach Won '70

Have you got a wip thread going on the ragtop?

Well..... pics freshly scooped from big auction site

Aside from being a hair narrow at the top, looks like it will fit just fine with careful gluing... Thanks for posting that, JC. Pretty cool but I don't have the slightest desire to own one

This kit actually has 3 chrome trees but only one with the '69 trim and drag engine parts -shared with the longnose kit The '69 amt grill here is actually better than the mpc one and will be a great start for a '69 conversion, as Mark alluded to. As an aside, I tried the mpc '69 windshield for fit in the amt last night and with careful gluing, it could work. It's just a hair narrow, so a slight bit of shimming on each pillar could pull off the illusion. aand, there's no need for any unpleasant culinary concoctions here. These kits had achieved an almost mythical status due to them being hard enough to get one at a time let alone both. Just pure luck they fell into my hands when I could take the time to scope them out. I'm not a patch on Mark's knowledge of this hobby but every three or four blue moons I can hopefully make something of a contribution.

On another forum it is being claimed that the interiors are different between the amt '69 and '70. As the gent doesn't seem to be given to talking through his hat, I'll take his word for it until the kit comes out and we can check. When I had both original '69 and '70 bodies side by side, they appeared to be identical but for outer body detail; why they would tool up a whole new interior is a good question. '69 and '70 AMT bodies