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It had been years since I built the other ones. They were all a challenge.

You were way ahead of us and Monogram, Gary. I sort of did the same thing except I had to use a fastback conversion part. The putty dried out after a few decades.

Nooooooooooooooooo

It happens to the best.

A few of these I built over thirty years ago. Build the Aurora one for extra credit.

I sense a trend here lately. Excellent job and the engine looks very realistic.

Never give up. Just curse a lot. I wanted to finish this one since I have built all the others (MKI, MKII, Gulf, and MKIV).

I'll be straight forward. The spoiler is on backwards. It is basically the same spoiler on 69-73 Mustangs and the front edge is the flat part and the back part is tapered.

Let's not forget the Gunze kit and the MiniExotics resin body. They are next to a Revell, Monogram and Wix cobra.

Thanks for posting the pictures. It's one of the few color ones I have seen.

Is the rear spoiler easy to remove? Look at the picture above for how the factory mounted them. You would be surprised how many real Fords I see with the spoiler facing the other way

Hence why they are still in the packaging.

I wish I could even say the Warren Tope has a 351C but as SAE covered in the Ford engine issues, there isn't a true 351C in 1/25 scale in any 65-73 Mustang kit. Of course the Revell Mach1 has a 1/24 351C and the Torino the correc for 71 429CJ. The MPC engine are 302s (ok for a coupe or convertible or base Mach1) with single exhaust or the 428 which of course last saw a Mustang engine bay in 1970. So are there any alternatives? I have considering having my one and only Scale Modeling by Chris 351C cloned. I have however come across later year Mustang kits (74 to early 80's) that have a 351C that were either a drag engine or could be made to look like a street 351C. I alos have some Nascar kit 351Cs as raced by Roush which I can probably use with some mods and took a diecast apart that had a 429 CJ . Some of these 71-73s may end up curbside but I hope to at least have most of them have a decent looking engine. As a test I grafted a 69/70 Revell engine bay into the MPC which of course meant chopping up some of the stock chassis. I have not experimented with other kits to see if the engine chassis would kit (69 Shelby e.g.). Kevin from Missing Link and Brad from HRM cast up some very nice parts from my master pieces of seats, dashes, door panels, center consoles, space save spare, etc.. So with some old Fred Cady decals and Keith Marks I can make a decent 72 or 73 Mach1 or 71 Boss 351 (with Kevin's chrome bumper and grill), a 72 Sprint, an Europa, a coupe and convertible (my conversion) and some plain Fastbacks. I think most of my other projects are on hold while I concentrate on build these 13 models. I'll post updates as I make more progress.

You picked the right color.

What SfanGoch said. I forgot where the picture came from.

Not what I was going for but sure looks similar.

Yes but JC and Cobraman start half of them. Just kidding guys - any Cobra is a good Cobra.

I thought that was a deal too good to pass up.

The Lindbergh kit is a snap kit toy that could be useable with perhaps a 1/24 289 chassis. Of course you can drop a few bills on the HRM kit (worth the money) or the other resin kits. Give that only six were made is probably what keeps the model companines from spending on tooling. The Gunze kit would be a start but it has issues and was not a cheap kit even in its day. The legacy of the real cars does make them one of the most dreamed about cars of all time and has been copied (Superformance, Factory Five) as well as McClusky and Shelby making continuation cars because they are still cool looking over 50 years later.

I bought it as is on Saturday so you are probably right- added on scoops ut how dare they use Chevy decals? It came with the box and instructions and still had some of the unique custom parts on the trees so I figured it was worth the $30 investment. I plan to make a stock 65 fastback using a few parts from the 66 coupe.

Here is original AMT body.

Good use of the Molotow pen. You were lucky to find a complete kit.

Great job. I can attest that this kit is a challenge but I think we both did IMC proud.

Slowly making progress on getting most of these bodies ready for paint. I thought this was a cool way to show them as one group.

Those are some top notch cars for a local show. Very nice.