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X2! The uniqueness comes mainly from the alterations at the mounting points to the chev superstructure, not necessarily the visible skin. The wheel openings are long enough to allow the wheel centers to be moved 1 inch back at the front and forward at the rear to allow for the chev 119" w/base. Regardless, it was engineering money well spent, as it was one of the best selling cars here through the sixties.

If you can surmount potential difficulties with the grill width (another issue is slightly asymmetrical headlight stacks), another way to come at this might be to use the roof from the modstock '66 chevy on the GP body as an alternative to quarter surgery. I currently have a topless gp body awaiting a decision to become either a parisienne ragtop or hardtop; powered, of course, by a 409 GM canada did a masterful job of hanging the pontiac sheetmetal on the chev superstructure through the sixties. The two inch w/b difference between chev and pontiac frames was easy to hide in the pontiac wheel openings, one inch back on the front and an inch forward at the rear.

Even without the car, I'd love to see a set of those 17 inch 5 spoke wheels in scale. They look good on almost anything.

Sure be cool to find one of these for bashing a full detail model. The perspectives are a lot closer than amt's. No idea who made it...

True, that Ford marketed them as '65s, but they used the 64 1/2 id for internal documents, part listings etc as they had to differentiate them from the actual '65 model year production cars. Some of the engineering changes during the model year changeover in the summer of '64 were introducing alternators (only five years after Chrysler adopted them) and changing the 289 engine castings to accept six bolt bellhousings, among others. An important change during the '64 model year was the transition from open draft tubes to pcv systems. The 260 was dumped for '65 also, replaced by 3 different versions of the 289. Regarding perspective on this 1/16 body, the roof C-pillar is actually about 3/16" back of where it should be; meeting the rear quarter at about the halfway point between the door rear edge and the back end of the quarter. Moving it forward should restore the proper 40 degree windshield angle. There really is no excuse for such a poor interpretation of this in scale. Scaling up directly from the 1/25 coupe should get a guy in the ballpark. Now, if we could just get a scale set of F70-14s for this, we'd be set

Great recent trades with Casey, Cancon and Tom99... Thank you, gentlemen !

You are absolutely right, sir, it is strange. In this case I think it's called marketing... or a mistake made by same. It's true that the two engine families may have had similar looking water pumps/front dress, and even an oil filter in roughly the same place, but that's where it ended. Here's a pic of the standard '68 - '76 2bbl 360/390 FE truck engine. The 4bbl was an option only in '75-'76. This standard exterior design (almost all had the 352 cast on the front) stands in for almost anything FE in scale, with appropriate changes to the valve covers, manifolds, color and oil filter mounting..

If it shares anything with their GT40 kit, Casey, it appears to be underscale... They sure will, as moebius poached their FE engines and chassis almost directly from the amt 75-79 F350 designs. The 360/390 that amt supplied in their kits, calling it a 460, was pretty elemental and the newer tooling in the fairlanes and starliners is better.

How about one of these? ... back story may peg your bs-ometer

Most current box art does less than nothing for me... let's see some classic stuff made as puzzles even if it's not strictly amt

Those 200S wheels look like they're almost identical to the '65 Mustang wheels, sans the axle boss. Forgot how much fun I had building that one forty years ago; gave it to a friend with a Vette resto shop. Discovered I still had the unused tri-power setup here a couple of years ago.

How about just cutting the nibs off and drilling little holes?

It looks like the wheels supplied in the Tuff Truk (76Ford F350), the '70s GMC stepside and the re-issued model T... among others probably. Don't believe they have a real 1:1 counterpart; just a similarity to the small window drag wheels. ... not a fan

Here's the parts layout...

I guess that's the one I was thinking of. Funny, they did a better job on the support ribs for a wrong application than either amt or moeb did for the rightful design. Maybe I'll have to try using that as a replacement in a amt or moeb F100.

Guess we have here another glaring example of what assumption does for credibility Guess I'd better build one of the ones I have to see what they actually contain...

Tried hot water yet?

I bid on what might have been an assembled version one of those kits a few years ago on the big auction site but lost to someone with deeper pockets Unfortunately I didn't save the pics... Incredible work sir !

Accurate ones would be nice X2 !

Monogram never made a '79. The kits may be copyrighted '79 but they are definitely '80up trucks.

How about an Acadian to go along with that?

Miles, you can avoid the warpage common to the multi-piece box (with the wrong wheel opening) by getting the corrected resin 73-79 box from MAD resin. Kris makes really nice and correct replacement.

As the AMT '78/'79 Wild Hoss Bronco is somewhat related to this series of trucks I thought it deserved a mention here Here's a couple of pics comparing the chrome trees and 4x4 specific parts... These parts, along with the moeb 4x4 and excellent Fireball resin F250 conversion stuff will work with all the Ford truck kits from '66-'79. ...and the instruction sheet... C'mon Round2, please reissue this one and here's a link to some thoughts on correcting the proportionally challenged '67-'72 F series trucks released a few years ago, using the amt '73-'79 cab ...

Good catch, Rex. The real problem is that the whole roof sits about 1/4" back of where it should be. Moving it forward on the quarters should return the A pillar angle back to the correct 40 degrees. Scaling up the 1/25 coupe directly should get it in the ballpark. Got one sitting here awaiting the muse to strike

That disney deal only lasted five years in the nineties; the force didn't renew the contract after that. Those Polar Graphics watermark decals were excellent. My sheets were applied to an LX mustang, a caprice and a '93 Camaro. Still have some partial ones. The last sheet I picked up was at a hobby shop in Great Falls about twenty years ago.