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I appreciate the nice words guys, thanks. No problem.

Great build and excellent fabrication work.

Like Carl said, pics are blurry, but the truck looks great from what I can see. Do you have a macro function on your camera?

So she was a BIT rusty, eh?!

I went with the old line "There's no replacement for displacement" with this. The 350 went into the parts box, and the L-88 427 from the Revell '68 Corvette convert. took it's place. Headers came from the B/M '69 Camaro. Done in Model Master Huggar Orange with a Krylon semi-gloss black interior. Did my trick of using washers for disc brakes on this one too. Ended up being one of my favorite builds. Did I just say that? Being a Ford guy, maybe I should have kept that to myself!

I'm sure others probably have better, but I have this link. Good shots of the engine bay and interior. http://www.colinsclassicauto.com/detail.php?car=336

Very impressive build Fred, beautiful work.

Now that's cool. Very nice paint, and work.

Really nice looking build, great work.

That is awesome! Looks like way too much fun......

I agree, never thought I'd hear those words put together. On a similar note, a few weeks ago I saw what looked like a late 80's-early nineties, well abused Ford Festiva wearing collector plates....it gave me a good chuckle.

Very sharp build Ray. I definitely cruise around in that. What brand of black did you use on the interior? It sure looks spot-on for vinyl in my eyes.

Thanks guys. The 'Cuda is one of my favorites from the era too. Ed, the slicks did come with this kit, though they are M+H Racemasters, when they should be Goodyears. Mine is from the most recent re-issue in the late 90's.

I'm glad to see you were able to get this one finished Mike! Lookin' good.

Another top notch build Randy. Great pictures as well. Like you said, it is very refreshing to build something a little out of the norm once and awhile to help recharge the batteries.

Lots of potential in that one! Like mikemodeler said, up here in the rust belt, it seems a lot of them looked like this after only a couple of years of use.....and only got worse from there!

Thanks for the good words everyone. No problem Austin, hope to see pics of yours when you finish it. Thanks Carl. I believe it was Valspar Urban Beige for the interior. Sounds like it was a beast Stephen, I'm sure it was a the gas station too! When I was a kid a neighbor had a dark blue late 70's Scout on 32's or so. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, with maybe the exception of a friend of my parents who had a 390 powered, red '67 Galaxie fastback.

I won four bucks....spent $14 on tickets though.

Where you at in the land of beer 'n cheese?

Glad you like it guys, thanks. Chuck and Tom, you guys aren't kidding about this kit.....not much to it. I think that is the beauty of this one, it challenges you to bring it to life. The stock suspension has a spring under setup (leaf springs under the axles). So to lift it, I did what they do with a lot of the 1:1's, a spring over. I carefully removed the leaf springs from the axles and remounted them on top. In doing this, the front sat slightly lower than the rear, so I fabbed up a crude set of shackles for additional lift. Here's a couple of pics I took during the build. Hope this helps some.

Thanks so much guys. I never thought this old Ford would garner this much attention, I am truly humbled.

Sweet Duster, Nick. Very nice work. Love that color combo, I built a '70 Road Runner the same way. You know, I have yet to build a Duster. That may have to change soon. Thanks for the inspiration.

Mmmmmm......Torque Thrusts. Nice choice. The perfect custom wheel choice for musclecars, IMHO. Great color and detailing Rick, nice job.

Thanks a lot everyone. After I win the Powerball tonight, maybe I'll finally be able to park a real one of these in my driveway. Yeah, I'm liking is here so far. I tell ya though, with all of the amazingly great builders here, it's hard to hang with you guys! I'm finding lots of inspiration in checking out the tons of builds and wealth of knowledge, on this site. I've got the same Grabber Green plans for when I whip together a Boss '9. You couldn't go wrong going with the blue, either.

Wow, that paint is sick! Nice work.