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On the real car there is a bit of a gap. Are you planning to paint the bumper body color as it looked like the chrome has been stripped. I would glue it on first with export/super glue and mask off the grille that you do not want painted body color. If you are going to use the chrome bumper you have test fit it and looks like you may have to trim just a little off the grille area to get it to fit more snug if that’s what you want. The area behind the bumper is black so you will not be able to tell the difference anyway.

Interesting no one has mentioned health. Starting to see a lot of people my age (66) pass away. Not much sense in having millions if you an are not around to enjoy it for a decade or two. Along those lines get a trust/will. Relatives can ge nasty over money. As for cars, I would like to have maybe ten as maintaining them would start to feel like a chore. I’d knock out my bucket list by age 70 if possible of places to visit. Have a nice room for displaying model and diecast cars and of course a nice house with a separate garage and man cave. Get a second place because my wife would not want to take care of all the cars but my two children would take over that responsibility with enthusiasm. I meet a lot or people that like older cars and performance cars and their children could care less about them.

Tail lights I added to the MPC kit. Gary we have all been there with having to doing things a few times to get it right.

Great build. I remember when you starting building it.

One more. Dale Sr.

The Warren Tope 73 Mustang was raced back in the day.

Awesome builds Gary. It’s great to see so many variations of the roadster knowing it’s not easy working with the older resin molded bodies and finding the decals and spare parts. It is probably why 1/43 is so popular in Europe and England as the variations were easier to make in limited quantities. The Automoello diecast Mustang I is really nice - I have the 1/43 one.

It’s a great museum and I’ve been three times. Other great museums in SoCal are Segerstrom, Lions and Marconi just to same a few. IN August I’m going to cover the Shelby Experience, California Auto museum, a Mecum auction in Monterey, races at Laguna Seca and Sonoma. Of course there are car shows like the LaJolla concours, Benedict Castle and San Marino. I have another year of my cross country adventures here and if I can swing going to Pebble Beach I’ll try but some of the shows prices have gotten ridiculous. Honestly I would rather see 60-70s cars on Road courses or go to Lemans for the historics instead of being shoulder to shoulder with people on a golf course looking at multi-million dollar behemoth cars that I wonder who is going to want in 20 years. For those on Facebook I post hundreds of pictures a month of shows, cruises, races, auctions, swap meets of all kinds of cars ad events. About half of the photos are of Fords (Mustangs, Cobras, GT40s and Panteras) but you will also see exotics, race cars, 50s to present exotics, classics, muscle cars and just about everything else made in the last 75 years. I rarely post on instagram as keeping up with one is enough.

From the web.

Looking at the pictures I used flat black when I built the IMC version and Testors gloss blue when I built the MPC one. Neither is probably correct as I from period photos it looks more like a sem-gloss dark blue.

I have been fortunate to see Gary’s collection (this is the tip of the iceberg) and as a Ford fan he has quite a variety of predominately race cars and the kits would make any hobby shop jealous. If I recall the X-1 was a slot car conversion cast by Mini Exotics. Glad to see you got this one finished on the lesser know GT40s and it reminds me I have a lot of Fujumi kits of MKI and MKII and some resin MKI and MKIV kits that deserve to be built. Very nice build and I remember seeing the complete 1966 Lemans MKII entries are the NNL east show many years ago. Not sure back then if all the decal variations were available but these the availability of decals is amazing.

Fantastic build with a lot of extras.

Awesome builds. I have at least three 1/12 kits in the stash and like many I wonder how I will display them. It will probably be a long time before I have to worry about that as like many of us the ratio of unbuilt to built kits I have is about five to one.

Nice build. I’ve built a few dozen 1/43 kits from Europe and elsewhere but the Monogram kit is very impressive even decades later.

Very nicely done. I built one years ago and for Monogram to include an engine and photoetch and a correct chassis in that scale for a very reasonable price was great. Too bad that scale did just not catch on with the US market. It would have been very cool to see a 427 version as the only one I have seen is a Japanese Superior metal kit that was expensive at the time and goes for over $1,000 now.