mustang1989

Stance and paint are all THAT......and a bag of party mix!!

Been a while since I've peeked in on one of your builds. This one's looking good so far Andre.

Very good weathering on this build.

Thanks Dave!! I've already got one....I just didn't have these pictures in there yet. lol . Thanks Mike! Good looking build and good looking 1:1 Perry!!!

Now that.............is BAD A$$!!!!!

Very nice job on that front end. That's gonna make a WORLD of difference!!!

Thanks Carl and right you are pal. I'll be taking the negatives to get processed sometime this week and should have some more pictures up of the 1:1 car. REALLY stoked to get those back.

I also found me some BONUS SHOTS of my old car!!!!! I'm currently doing a bathroom renovation to our master bathroom and needed some tools that were hidden away in the "house toolbox" by my wife. While looking for the tools I found a small plastic box with.......a whole load of pictures of my old blue Mustang PLUS a slew of negatives that I'll be taking to a photo developer here in town to have pictures printed up with. Frickin' SCORE!!!! Here are those missing pictures of my '69 Mach 1 351W in my '67 while it was under construction. Man.....I haven't seen these things in 10 years. Now.....what tha hell were they doing in the dang tool box for?

Did some work stance wise this morning. The front got some re-positioning of the front spindles, a little sanding here and a little drilling there. All the rear springs needed was a slight re-arching. Now it's starting to look more like I want it to with a slight forward rake.

Good idea on the headlights. I've got both of these kits and couldn't believe they tried to get by with chrome headlights on the AMT offering. Crazy.

I'll be tuning into this one Gareth!!!

Thanks Mike!! Really appreciate that Steve!!

Right on brutha!! That's a great job on that replication. One of the things that I like most about this site is most everyone's willingness to chip in and help out. I built a 59 El Camino for one of my friends son a few years back and people came out of the wood work to chip in and help out. Awesome!! Btw....tbill (Tom Billings) is definitely one of the coolest dudes around here.

Whadda great looking build. And a nice n' tidy shop to go with it as well. NICE!!

Thanks Mike!! Glad you're tagging along. Lookin' good Rob! Happy to have you here as well.

Thanks Gareth and Pat!! LOTS of fun building this one.

Good lookin' lil' Torino!!

Man that looks NICE!!!!! VERY well done!!!

I really enjoy these non-muscle car builds. Something different and cool! Very good work on this.

Man that looks great Al!! Hat's off to you

Going over to check it out.......

Well .....in seeing Mikes example above and given the fact that I've built one of these somewhere around 15 years ago and I remembered that the stance was a nose high look.......I decided to do a mock up to check everythign out and it was just what I expected.....it has a nose high look to it. I have a spare AMT GT-350 in the stash so I cut the necessary sprues from the trees and mocked everything up just to check. Man.....there's gonna need to be some fancy footwork to straighten this out if I'm going to get this thing to look like 1.) the box top (which is severely misleading if a builder thinks that this kit will build up just like the picture) and 2.) look like I want it to look personally. On a couple of other notes..... 1.) If you've never built one of these, pay attention to the attachment wheel retainers (that I have marked "R" for rear and "F" for front. They are different sizes meaning the rear retainer has a larger hole for the axle then the front does for the spindle. 2.) The box top shows Firestone Wide Oval Tires and the kit has these Super Sports instead. Not a game changer but hey.....put what's ON the box IN the box. C'mon!!! Same goes for the stance. Just sayin'. The OOB stance:

HOLY SCHMOKES!!! Man that is COOL!!!! Love it!!!

Thanks Bob!!

I'm a fan of 429 Boss engines and am definitely a fan of any Mustang. Awesome build and love the paint!!!