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This is the only IMC kit I have not built (out of all the GT40's J Car, Mustang II) but it looks similar to the AMT 289 Cobra (chassis and engine) and you can find the Testors or Lindbergh versions pretty cheap so there's isn't much to lose if the frustration level gets too high.

I think that other magazine did a review on this kit.

Marjorette also did a GT40 also which may not have as many quirks as the Cobra.

I think so. None of the later issues have the GT40 type smaller window.

It's never too late. Two of these I built a long time ago and the J car more recently. Are they a pain, yes, but I'd say it was worth it.

Was there decals for the battery on the sheet? I think some of he kits had the Autolite one. Youcan still get the great decals made by The Last Detail for the Revell 69 Mach1 on Ebay from a guy in Australia if you are going to build that kit.

Looking very nice. You would have thought I would have built one by now. I will eventually get at least one of almost every early (65-73) stock Mustang built. It's too late for the 50th and 55th but maybe by the 60th anniverary. I did manage to pull together 50 built kits for the 50th by including all scales from 1/16 to 1/43 and displayed them at the NJ NNL in 2014.

You should come to a meeting. I have been a member for 30 years and it is a great group of people.

Very nice. Then white interior really stands out. How is the engine coming along? A dumb question. I am bad at remembering names. Have you been to any MAMA meetings in Greenbelt MD?

Nothing too original. I chose an EBAY name about 20 years ago and it stuck. Combo of Virginia and Mach1. I have owned two 1972's and a 2004. I tries to get personalized license plates and someone already had them. . So I got Mach1VA instead.

Usual hype and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Note to any team: Blitz Blitz blitz. Go down swinging not back pedaling.

Two more interesting paint schemes.

Saw this on Facebook from the land down under.

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.