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Another fabulous Palmer kit. This one isn't horrible like those really cheap ones but the front end and grille is pretty awful. So, what to do with it? Well - you can see what I came up with as trying to make something worthy of being put next to an AMT or MPC kit from that era would have been tough.

It is what it is and I cannot explain it. However, I think Foose did a pretty good attempt to recreate the Palmer kit with all it's quirks (well except for maybe the GM taillights he added). It makes we wonder - did his crazy uncle work at Palmer? ?

Well - yes and no. If yo want something that resembles a replica stock forget it. This was the Lindberg (ex Palmer) kit which compared to some others pictured maybe isn't as bad but I only saw one choice for this half-breed 69/71 Mustang was to give it the MadMax treatment. No amount of SnakeFu would help this hot mess. The Zoomie pipes and junk in the trunk was added.

No need to opologize - life happens.

I do not have the blue #2 version but I have this other yellow one and I used parts from yet another one for the interior of this Monogram 70 Boss which I started a very long time ago with the Boss 429 kit becasue the 70 Boss 302 kit was not even out yet. Needless to say I assume the diecast interior should fit the 69 kit but I have not test fit one yet. This 70 T/A is probaby my oldest unfinished in progress build as I did not want to cut any corners making it accurate as possible.

Glad everyone is okay but sadly this only adds to the paranoia that anytime someone coughs people are going to run away. We will look back at his in a few months and hopefully learn some valuable lessons from the facts and how people cope with uncertainty.

More expensive than toilet paper. About $100 with tax and shipping. Nice job on the white on the roof too.

Very nice an the paint is stunning. Here are some period pictures I found online.

I have not seen this paint scheme for sale before as a 1/24 diecast but I saw there are a few on Ebay. It's a tough paint scheme to do in plastic and there isn't a racing version anyway which makes it doubly difficult to replicate. I assume you removed a few of the "sponsor" decals or maybe removed them and started over wtih Fred Cady decals. I was still typing but you just verified my suspicions. Well done.

Indeed. The fact that these are all 1/18 scale is remarkable since they aren't really many kits around so there's a lot of mismashing of different cars. The few 1/18 kits I have seen are noting more than an unassembled version of whatever diecast they decided to let the consumer build instead of the manufacturer. Sometimes you even get to pay more for the priveledge of "building" one.

At some point (a week or so) the demand will subside because all the idiots that stocked up for a month will not be running out every day to buy more. Of course before the madness stores probably scheduled their normal restocking deliveries but the media hyped up all the temporary shortages so people have just made things worse. One thing this has shown that many people will only care about themselves and could care less how it impacts the general population.

Good thing we have some sensible people on the forum. I have mailed decals to forum members (if I have an extra one) and I use a Forever stamp and regulr envelope. It's nice to help someout out and maybe someone will return the favor.

Pretty good price on these on Evilbay.

People are told to avoid crowds yet the grocery stores are mobbed. A week ago the toilet paper aisle was stocked to the brim. A few days ago it was completely empty. I think this virus is affecting people's brains too. ?

Sweet Mach1. Here's my 72 I bought in 1981.

Not trying to spread rumors but I saw a post on Facebook that this years show has been cancelled. Official now it's cancelled.

Some things that are heavy but not necessarily valuable are difficult to sell online due to shipping costs. A package deal to a fellow local modeler is probably your best best or like others have said a model show (IPMS or otherwise) would put you in touch with the best prospective customers. I would guess you may get 50 cents on the dollar and as along as 25 cents since the downside side is those same buyers may already have what you are selling. If you are not in any hurry you can wait for the best opportunity. Good luck and if you list those funny car bodies online let your fellow modelers here know. I am like a cat that hears the canopener when I hear the word Mustang - my ears perk up. ?

I bought these years ago but they pop up on Ebay pretty often. I would not pay over $30 but I have seen people ask a lot more. If you followed by build on the white one it started as one in yellow with the appropriate mods.

You are right about the paint - it looks great. I see you painted the door handles and I like the red carpet. I have the "stock" version in black and another in yellow and the third one I painted white to make the Japanese police car.

Yes they do. It gives me an idea to use the Warren Tope 1/25 kit which would be a lot less costly than Jim's undertaking. I have a stack of bodies so cutting one up just to get a nice trunk is no big deal. Now that I think about it instead of filling in those vents on all my MPC hoods, I should just fix one and get copies made. I have spent hours getting just one hood filled in and smoothed out, not to mention cutting out holes for the scoop and fillling in the rectangular cutout on the underside of some of them. I had another thought - that Testors metal kits (the "stock" ones) could also be turned into a T/A racer with possibly borrowing the chassis and interior of the 69 diecast from Autovalue. Ok - back to our regular programming and apologies for rambling on in this post.

It is a great kit and 100% accurate in every way. Oh, and the stock market went up 20% today. ? So as we may know it's a metal version of the MPC plastic kit but with opening doors and the changes required to modify the interior. Since it's a custom there is nothing to say what is right or wrong. The Boss 429 sorta makes sense in this case. It's too bad Testors did not correct the incorrect hood vents but who would notice or care (except me) and the cost to fix that in the tooling did not make the cut. So, have fun - it's an easy build and you're right about the paint - nothing to be ashamed about. I would change one thing - cut the spoiler mounts in half to lower the rear spoiler and of course mount it facing the correct direction. Lastly, paint the door handles chrome.

NIce idea. Yellow is the color I least like to spray paint as it seems to take a lot to cover and get even coats.

Wow - that's is a perfect display case. Well done. Many of us have the opposite problem - too many models and not enough cases. Since I build kits and also collect diecast - I have run out of space but it has not stoped me from buying or building. ?

Welcome to the forum. I also collect 1/43 diecast and build some of the older 1/43 kits (Starter, PM, Marsh, etc). I saw an advertisement a few months ago for a 1/24 Gulf GT40 diecast made by Hachette but there does not seem to be any available fro sale anywhere. By any chance have you seen any for sale in France? Here is one a fellow board member and friend managed to get before they seemed to disappear.

Nice scores on both and adding extra detailing. I picked up the chase version of the blue Boss so it has gold wheels and trim. Not exactly stock but M2 makes only a few hundred chase cars for each variation.