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The glass and tub may fit but the reissued vans represent '78 up; they have a different grill than that early 73-77 one you have. Nice find.

That one is a reissue of the 1/24 monogram '68 and does not contain a true '68 dash. More here...

Interesting little album here of a vintage 312 deuce roadster... Looking pretty good here in about '62. Now it has a cheezy flame job https://www.tbirddeuce.com/index.html

Sure glad this one fell into your hands, Mike. Gonna be a beauty The original paint looks like the old amt peacock metal flake. Anyone know if there's a currently available match for those beautiful old turquoises?

Sounds like a dream gig to me

Yup... Wanting something stronger than currently available 4 spds (T-10 etc) Ford engineering came up with the toploader design in '64. It was named for the way all the internal parts were loaded through the top; the shifter position had nothing to do with it, as some might have you believe. Their three speed was based on the same design... with one less shaft sticking out the left side and one less bolt on the top cover. The 3 spd was such a durable design, GM even used these on some of their cars in the '60s. This is the style of trans that would be accurate for the 3spd '67-'72 F100s.

The basic 68/69 grills would be identical in scale, except for distribution of black paint accents. The phoned-in design of these grills by moeb has the headlight door area approximately double the size of the 1:1. In addition to this, all the moeb 67-72 grills are at least 1mm too tall. Betcha Mr Burkett was very impressed when he saw what moeb was sticking him with for the initial '69 release.

The F250 came both ways, 2wd and 4x4. The current '68 pickup offering is meant to replicate a 2wd 3/4 ton. There is a 4x4 F250 coming down the pike sometime; hopefully they've done their homework on the suspension.

In what way? It's got the dana 60 and there's only so much you can do to the I-beam front in scale.

These will work too... from the revell ramcharger kit. Might have to switch that front pumpkin to the other side though.

Me too Sure helps to love the cars... It's great you still have your 1:1, Chuck ... sure would like to have my '66 a-code bench seat coupe back again

Not on mine... they wouldn't fit anyways They're great replicas of the newer metric pattern wheels (like Fireball's) that would be more at home on trucks from the mid-nineties up. If all you need is eight lugs, you're golden. The anything-goes school of thought at moeb is either disappointing or hilarious, depending upon your point of view. The dished look of their F100 wheel is actually patterned after a -wait for it- GM 4.75 bolt circle wheel like this...

Guess it doesn't matter if the hub cap is mounted, but.... oof Here's what the prototype wheel for this vintage looks like...

Looks like we have 7 variants of the amt early mustang chassis plate after all... here's the friction chassis, slots in between the promo and annual plates I guess.

Yeah, but it, like, gots a whaletail ? As I believe you yourself said something once about 'a link to a simpler time'

Beats the monogram fastback hands down. Hope they tool up a '65 grill too

Now try to find one with this on it ...

Concave headlight reflectors(buckets) would be a slight improvement...

Doesn't really matter. First time I'd seen that instruction sheet. Just curious to see how close one could get mining the parts packs.

Anybody try this route to a custom deuce?

Therein probably lies the answer to why most of the early kits were so beautifully rendered. Oversight was probably near microscopic by people with pride in their company's product; plus they had the budgets to hire the best craftsmen. As for today, I've heard people wonder if occasionally the oversight ends after the lawyer receives the license fee

What Roger said was a reference to the original AMT '60 bed and cab being molded in one piece... and is a very good idea. Opens the door to styleside and flareside box options. I can't really add much to what's been said (definitely not alone in being a Ford truck fan) but you can pretty much take it to the bank that most of the early kits are as close as you can get to an identical copy in miniature. Those sculptors were masters of their craft. Sure, minor imperfections exist, but don't really jump out. Very few modern tools can hold a candle to these and one especially represents as close to a nadir in applying computer tech to a subject as you can get for a model of a classic subject. gigo. The true craftsmen are few and far between. Anyways, Steve, checking out an original 1:1 with a few key measurements will bring you back to a stellar example of the art of model engineering brought to us by amt sixty-odd years ago Great choice for a new subject.

Still trying to imagine the timeline/relationship of the '69 annual/longnose and the '70 bodies but it looks to me that amt figured out a way to retain some of the core elements of the annual when they cast the longnose body. The main reason we haven't seen the the original '69 body released again is probably that what was left of the original mold was altered with the '70 design elements externally. A comparison of the '69 and '70 kits shows that the latter is as 'all new' as a '73 F100 is relating to a '72. The basic elements of the molding/parts are shared (interior, glass, hood, inner body parting lines/details) between the two kits but the outer body shell details, engine and chassis (reverting to what looks like a modified version of their '67/'68 chassis ) are changed. Another indicator of a shared foundation is the longnose '69 chrome shot -including '69 grill- included in the Mach Won kits. Be interesting to see a comparison of inner body details between the '69 annual body and the longnose. Some of this is obviously pure conjecture ... but it suits me until I hear an actual insider tell a better story