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My latest vintage State Police cruiser is now complete. This is a replica of a Tennessee Highway Patrol 59 Ford Custom 300 2 door sedan. The kit is a resin production from Promolite 2000 (Tom Coolidge). I built it 'curbside', but I substituted the kit chassis with one from an old AMT 57 Ford Fairlane, which resulted in a little more underside detail and poseable front wheels. The body is fantastic on this kit. It is cast so nicely and matched the color of the THP so close, I just polished the bare resin to a high gloss, and added Tamiya gloss black on the hood, roof and trunk, as per THP specs. The interior is finished in an array of grays and gunmetal, as the 59 Custom only had one interior color available. Police goodies came from my parts box, the decals are from Pursuit Plastics and the roof light is a clear resin unit detailed with BMF and clear red paint.

WOW...one of the best I've seen of any build...congratulations.

Spectacular.

Great conversion, great color scheme...in a word, great!

This is a great kit, and you did it justice. I just took a first in box stock with mine at Masscar last weekend. Almost the same color, too.

Love these unusual rare kits, especially built as a clean box stocker. Great job.

Let's see your high beams!!! Another great build.

Very, very nice. Looks stunning. Another lost kit that needs brought back...or a new tool! Did you alclad the bumpers? They look very good, realistic.

Now that's well done!

Holy Thing of Beauty. Great job, among the best. But, the Resin caster is Tom Coolidge, not Hoover.

Truly nice. Great job.

Very nicely done. Be proud of that one!

Great job, love the detail.

OK, I'll play: Torino/aluminum foil; Mustang/BMF; Olds/foil What did I win???

Great job. You do wonders with your models.

Very nice. The model manufacturers missed the boat by not kitting the B model.

Looks real nice from here Rich.

Now that's sharp and different.

Excellent job...very clean.

Very nice. How does he see behind him? LOL

That really looks good. Nice upgrade.

The Hobbycraft kit is a Hughes 500 in 1/24 scale. They sold it in several versions, including a military and a police version. I have one of the police kits on my 'some day' list to do. It was a very popular chopper in the police biz back in the 80s/90s. CHP had several. The Revell chopper is the same one, only 1/32 scale. The 1/24 kits do pop up on eB every now and then.

Excellent. Love it with the police caps.

BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH that's nice. Great job Rich.

Beautiful. That color fits it well...too many 'pink' ones out there!