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Way to go Bill. Yous should bring them to a meeting sometime. I usually throw a few in the IMPS contest because there aren't a lot of entires and usually come home with a 2nd or this place. The J car is a little dusty - built in the 1990s. I would love to see a NNL sub theme of anything but 1/24 or 1/25 scale.

The reality is 1/43 is much more popular in Europe than the US. Here's a site where I have posted some builds. As you know except for the great Corvette and Cobra kits by Monogram, all the kits I have bought were from France and England and diecasts from China or maybe Japan. Start posting some pictures and perhaps other will play along.

Kits to consider using: MPC 69 Mach1 Revell 69 Mach1 Matchbox 1/43 69 Mach1 Revell 70 Mach1 Monogram 1/32 Mach1 Amt or MPC 71-73 Mach1 Lindberg Mustang (Maybe for a Foose version - it's a bad kit). Otaki 71 Mach1 MPC Bounty Hunter or Revell Blue Max funny cars AMT/MPC 74 Mach1 No kits available for the 03/04 Mach1 unless you count the Mach III There are more but they are rare and/or expensive. I will post some older builds and opened but unbuilt kits as we get closer to the start.

Come on Ray - you do not have a display area like Floyd Wright? These are 1/18 which take up a lot of room. I have all of my larger that 1/64 diecast crammed into display cases but with over 2,000 Hotwheels, matchbox, etc. there is no way in Hades I could display them all.

Who is going to build this?

I think a few of these are Phantoms or at least highly modified. While everyone thinks Eleanor was a Mach1, it wasn't. It was a 71 or 72 sportsroof with a 73 front grille and bumper and the standard hood. Even the Foose Mach1 may not have started as real one.

Some profit is better than none at all. I see the same stuff listed dozens of times waiting for that one sucker to bite. There should be a relisting limit too. Why waste everyone's time with stuff that's never gonna sell.

Very well done.

I also have to laugh when you see five people selling the exact same model and the prices wary wildly (for example from $150 to $500). Do these people not look at completed listing and what others are asking and even at the low end of the price range whether anyone is bidding. There should be a rule you must drop your price by 10% every time you relist the same item. After the fifth time the asking price might actually generate some interest and bids. Isn't the whole point to sell something?

Saw this picture with the back open.

You cannot have too many Mach1's.

I built that one a long time ago but it ended up breaking apart and it had a bad paint job so I bought another one for about $100 which of course is still in the box. Painting something that large can be a challenge. When I build it I might even consider taking it to an autobody shop.

Uh oh - I can't pass this one up. As I have not built a 73 yet that's what I would probably do.

This insanity should end in a decade as the potential buyers will shall we say not be around much longer. The current Revell, Carerra, etc. slot cars are far superior and a whole heck of a lot cheaper. I understand paying for nostalgia but these prices for slot cars, hard to find models and promos are crazy.

I was thinking the same thing. It is probably possible to modify the AMT hardtop into a convertible and find a 65 grille and dash and make the Revell chassis fit it but that would be a lot of work just to have a 1/25 version. Someone out there has probably done it.

Here are some close ups of the first attempt. I suppose I could modify the 2nd kit to make it more like the MPC version.

Glutton for punishment I guess.

Well, never say never. I could not resist picking up this one for a great price.

That's a Mustang with attitude. Curious about the decal. Is it three 6's upside down or one piece? With this color you might want to use individual letters and numbers to avoid the clear film from being visible. The mesh grille is cool too.

Saw a bunch of photos on Facebook. While I've never built a low rider, the paint work on every one I saw was ridiculously good and replicated something 24 or 25 times larger and makes anything I built up to shame. Just simply amazing as where just about every model seen in the pictures. Check out Marcos Cruz (our Ex MAMA president) Facebook page for pictures or the many other pages he posts pictures.

From Collecting Muscle Car model kits by Tim Boyd. If you do not have this book it is a must have to any car modeler.

Just a suggestion but you may want to change the description of each post. People might think you posted the same thing ten times. While I'm add it perahaps cluster them together more so the viewer can see the details better.

I think that was the case for the MPC kits - the chassis was carried over from 69/70 to 71/73 but I believe this picture is of an AMT chassis which look like it has roots from the 65-68 kits. I could be wrong - this chassis was a glue bomb.

Great job. The body looks pretty stock except for the wheel wells. Good save on the decals.

I have a dumb question. Could you paint almost everything in say four hours, go to sleep for six while evertything dries and wake and up finish the build or do people stay up the entire 24 hours? Just curious.