mk11

Not as tough to make your own shortbox as I thought... 8 inches out of the front of the box side and 12 out of the back

They need to integrate that little bit of common sense into the factory assembly process... these wheels had never been off the vehicle Of course, a savvy owner could do that right off the bat; much like spraying something like fluid film over the wheelhouse on a new pickup could save that area from rustout.

Finally got motivated to make the cuts on my unibody short box conversion. Another project received attention too; making cuts to turn a series lll Landy into a series ll with the 88" w/b and inner mounted headlights. This one will be somewhat un-stock, with my inspiration being the '66 Golden Rod V8 conversion ...

Ask me how I know about that chore ... Came across a young lady a couple of weeks ago standing beside her two year old jeep. Had run over a spike or something. Hardest part was actually getting the wheel to move as the hub/wheel interface is so tight they get welded together from corrosion

Good point about the licensing; I was referring to your catch of his comment about the 'Ford small block' in the kit. In light of Charger 'whaletails' and D150's with 4 cylinder engines, among other booboos, it seems Round 2 marketing could use some help with fact checking

Any engine in a Ford is a Ford engine to this bunch of master marketeers...

General rule seems to be with this generation 'iffen you don't know from nuffin, it don't matter... none of your peeps do either'

Such is the sad state of automotive 'journalism' -heck, any type of journalism- these days

this one came close to following me home...

Looks like the adults were in another part of the building again when the graphics for the D150 were being laid out... when's the last time you saw a Dodge half-ton with the 2.6 mca-jet mitsu in it? ?

Kinda looks like they were aiming for the 351M, with the squared off valve covers... but I'm not sure what planet they scrounged the carb and distributor from

There may well be something to that eventually, given the provocative wording used in Mr Boyd's unibody wip thread...

Here's another thread on this build...

Anyone know who cast the resin body? Pretty involved project to make the corrections on an existing longbox.

With the 'new' '66 fastback having arrived, a close look at the chassis plate reveals only a minor modification; removal of the two round spacers cast into the topside under the interior. So, another look at the variations of this plate... The Mach 1/Autolite/Superstang/Iron Horse chassis is mostly identical on the bottom to the third plate from the right (countdown coupe from mid seventies) with axle holes like the annual plate (no leafus interruptus) and body support posts molded on top side. Pics of that one are posted earlier in thread.

Just curious to know if there was any progress made on this build...

...with a '57 ,58 or 59 grill?

Absolutely. Here's Casey's pic of the original fastback chrome... and a combination pic of chrome from the funny car/street freak awb on the left, current fastback issue on right and sections from one of the many coupe reissues ('89 ertl) under it. Now, it do look like there were never any tips offered in the coupe kit chrome at all, right from the '65 annual through the revised full detail coupe brought to life in the early seventies. Therefore, since Round2 is utilizing the coupe chrome shot for this fastback reissue, our options are to source the nice drilled tips from the funny car or invent them.

I'm jealous; mine didn't come with them either. There ya go... auction it as a rare one-off ?