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Digging up the old instrumentals I grew up with is a great memory trip; Dad loved quite a range of music always had Alpert, Firehouse Five, swing, Kenny Ball, James Last or something playing...

Love that '57! I get what you mean about the lower fender light contour but I just meant that in scale with a valance, lights and grill it's an easy up/back date. Good project for a guy with a 3D scanner and printer.

Might be easier to fudge in scale than you think... The fender wrap below the lights looks the same, with the 57/58 signal straddling the line at the lower valance. Here's a pic I scared up of the F&F resin '57 Pics following found on line claim to be modelhaus conversions...

All I can say is be careful what you wish for If Round2 chooses to resurrect this one, they can certainly conjure multiple grills to extend the tool's versatility. While some long for 37 piece chassis detail, I believe the sales of this appealingly designed kit will justify the wisdom in keeping it simple. Of course, there's always room for some improvements. It's pretty much a proven fact that no one's going to match the accuracy of the original body.

The original AMT body, like most of their vintage offerings, captures the look and feel of the car better than the monogram/revell item. Very true. Like Mr Wherry's turquoise coupe, I consider this one a 'benchmark' build of an original, only in emberglo....

Here's the Murray article...

Thanks for that, Bill. I've been curious about those since I first read Spence Murrays' article about them in one of the Petersen Complete Ford books years ago. Called it the 'half-merc' for it's 119 cid size but little was known about them at that time.

Not the first time this has happened... Whoever started this kit got it wrong too; aided and abetted by IMC casting the letters upside down in the first place Of course, they're not supposed to be glued onto the 427 block either, but... Love to see this project coming along so nicely. Hope you don't mind my adding some history from the may '63 Sports Car Graphic...

Came across the same thing with a big model airplane collection but he put the decals in a few ziplock bags instead, for the obvious reason. Definitely agree! Been on the receiving end of 'pifs' myself

Thanks for the thought.

Well, part of it could be blamed on one T. Boyd... think E58

They are, but not by much anymore, it seems. Found a nice one that will benefit from a fuzz duster parts infusion among other items...

Was looking for a 76-79 but just found one. Thanks!

Wow! That would fill quite a gap in the resin offerings, with all the interest in the vintage drag cars out there. Would even make an easy conversion to a two door, as the side apertures are the same on 2 and 4 door cars.

Trying to think of an alternate name for this... hmmm maybe 'people of facebook' ?

Here's another one, in a '69...

True. The only thing out there is AMT's retooled '63 grill that includes a '1964' for Ford's sales award truck trophies; the six bumper bolts would be wrong for '64 as well.

Scenes Unlimited had these... The bolt circle was common to Ford, Chev and Dodge right up to the mid nineties. Unfortunately, the new kit toolings represent the ugly, busy looking newer metric pattern wheels.

Lotsa jdm stuff out here; saw a cedric last summer.

Thanks Bill. Absolute goldmine of info for us detail guys.

Thanks Tim. I've got a sealed mono motorcraft t-bird here... guess I'm jes' gonna have to open it up. I certainly agree that the early aero birds are appealing, especially the ones cloaked in that blue metallic.

Tough to find a clear pic of an original... The oil filter was obviously located toward the back; maybe someone mistook the draft tube housing for it when it was tooled up. Those upswept manifolds were a good location to place a fish, irresistibly tempting at least one practical joker I've heard of. The first FE application in the F-series was the 352 in '65 .