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I am inclined to be just as fussy as some of the rivet counters on here but I've found it's not worth the stress. Just do your research and find the kits that match your experience level. R & R's stuff is quite primitive but I'm willing to work with it if it's all there is and it is just plastic after all. Another challenge to improve my skills mike

... the one you just scored is my most favorite kit. I actually did an article on this exact kit in Model Cars back around 1987 or so - IIRC it was pictured on the cover of that issue. I think you'll have a ball putting this kit together. Congratulations on your score. TIM Looking forward to it, Tim, especially after reviewing your excellent gallery. Heck, any of your galleries or buildups are motivating. It unfortunately is a builtup and I can see I might need some parts. Hope maybe you can point me in the right direction for those. Also picked up a hemi hydro as well. mike

Better to be safe than sorry; it costs just as much to manufacture a dud as it does to make an accurate one... Anyone remember the fiasco Lindberg had on it's hands with their '61 Impala? mike

Half the trucks on the line were heading for Australia at this point. Sorry the pics aren't the greatest, just about lost most of my prints to moisture when I put my collection temporarily in the back shed. Moot point now with digital cams but I was gonna say always carry extra film as you never know when you'll get a chance to take unlimited pics like this. Yes, I ran out of film too quickly...

Some pics from the Kelowna factory before they shut it down about ten years ago...

That Revell kit looks almost identical to this AMT kit, like the one I just scored on the big auction site mike

Found a good deal on one of these new falcons so I thought it would be interesting to check it out against an original 64 amt kit I've got. What I found is while the new kit is a fairly decent offshore replica of an American industrial artifact, it's a severely overpriced largely innaccurate kit that I was actually happy to resell. The body is fairly close but just seems to be missing something, like most off these offshore kits. As a friend of mine said, they seem soulless. Hard to beat the original master pattern makers from Venice and Dyersville for someone raised on american plastic. To spend 35-50 bucks on a kit that requires as much drivetrain and chassis rework/replacement for accuracy doesn't really make that much sense to me. Can understand a company seeing a hole in the marketplace and making a bid to exploit it though. mike

I can't remember the last kit I bought to just build as is. Ran into a couple of good deals on the kenz/leslie cougar f/c so now I've got relatively accurate logghe chassis for a dyno don comet I've been wanting to build. As the t-bolts are plentiful and cheap lately especially in the street burner series they're gonna be foundations for the 64 and 65 Comet drag cars I''m working on. Now with Moebius's pending 69/71 Ford trucks, I've finally got potential use for all the stuff I've been stockpiling in the way of drivetrain/body/4WD chassis from other truck kits... mike

Trying to find a source for this brush paint. Any of you guys know of any other company that makes a chrome silver that looks as good? mike

...and I just came across my old sae issue with someone's Montana cowboy cadillac on the cover that I've been saving for inspiration... current issues sure don't have much mike

Some of those south american variations are interesting. As was mentioned before, check out fordification.com for the best info on these trucks... they've even got pics of the right hand drive australian fords on there mike can't forget the Mercurys either... http://www.fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35331

Well, after no reply to four emails over the past year I guessing Randy's got a useless email server or he's not necessarily needing my business. I've discovered what I'm looking for elsewhere so best of luck to him running things that way. mike

Hey Perry, if you're still out there, I'm still interested in a Comet wagon. Haven't had a reply yea or nay since last Christmas.... mike

Don't know how many of you guys have seen this, but about fifteen years ago the boys at sae put together a Ford truck model history. http://www.fordifica...php?f=2&t=37394 Great reference. As far as the short flareside boxes go, the design used on the sixties trucks ran from 53-72. Ford actually dropped the short flareside from 73-75 as they had widened the rear axle and frame in 73 and it no longer fit. They continued to use the eight foot flareside, though, which was wider and taller. For '76, they decided to issue a shortened version of this box. This turned out to be for one year only as the tall sides with the flared top were kind of out of proportion to the length so for 77 the box side tops were flattened out. This is the design that ran through the eighties, with only a change to the squared off fenders from the rounded ones in 80. Therefore, to build a short pre-73 flareside, the boxes from revells 56, monograms 55 and amts 53 can be used. The boxes from monograms 80-up shortbox and the revell night rider truck could be used to build an accurate 77-79 flareside with just a change of fenders. The big block engines used from 68-72 were either the 360 or the 390. They never came with 428s stock unfortunately. mike