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Pretty in pink. Looks like stock ride height.

Agree very nice and ditto on the wheel comment.

There is nil adjustment for ride height unless you do some major cutting up of the one piece chassis. Remember back in the day with 15 inch wheels you had a lot of fender clearance.

I have several but they are pretty much the same - just curbside kits. I would pick whatever year and body style your prefer. This is the Testors one which is pretty1 nice.

Fantastic build. I had a gold/black 69 GTS 440 auto on column with vinyl roof and bench seat about 40 years ago. I should have kept that car.

More changes to the front end - widening the opening under the grille and the back had 69 taillights so they have been replaced with ones form the 1/32 Mach1.

Especially those driving a Mustang. I had to laugh at this box art from Japan.

I am pretty sure these sold for a few dollars back in the sixties so I doubt it came in a cereal box. Collectors of these oldest diecasts are dying off so the market is weak. A mint example might go for good money ($75) and one in this condition is probably worth $25. 1/43 models were never really popular in the US and the brands available today (Spark, Bizarre, IXO , etc.) are much more accurate and available in many variations and are not something you give your kids to play with so they all tend to be in perfect condition.

I could not stand the front end so I did rough surgery to get some headlights close to wher they should be.

If I had a spare 70 front end I think I would graft it on. And we all complain about the Revell front ends ;-)

Picked this up on Ebay for $21. It's an interesting hard to find unbuilt kit that has would need some serious modification to make it into a decent replica of a Boss or Mach1. I am going to try and rework the nose a little but will not spend hours on a kit that has a place in model history but is just a sloppy attempt at even being close the MPC and AMT offerings in that era. The red one is a MPC built up I picked up somewhere along the way.

You are slipping Ray.

That last picture reminds me of the Mad Max police car.

You never know what you will find online.

Hard to tell if both are the same car due to the shade of yellow and that one appears to be missing the snake emblem.

Petty drove a big block car on short tracks but it was too nose heavy and they handled like poop.

It's cheaper. For books and videos. Etc.

The Hoonigan would be pretty hard to replicate. On the other hand, seeing the craft glitter paint it looks "out of scale" but perhaps it could be a base coat for more coats. Try experimenting on an extra model. Just my two cent opinion.

Nice to see an older and to find and expensive kt built. Nice job.

Welcome and enjoy our madness.

No complaints if it turned out like this.

Are you doing any particular driver or just a Saturday night special?

Hopefully a car museum will realize these are one-off masterpieces and want to display some of them.

A lot has changed for the better. There is a nostalgia trend which does mean many of the kits we loved 40-50 years ago are based on promos and are far inferior to ones made in the last 20 years. However, the chances of newer and better "replacements" for older is probably just not going to happen as long as the old molds are still around. The high prices of rarer kits can be a downer but all in all I would say we have a lot more to chose from than 40 years ago. The aftermarket is a whole other story and seems to be as active as ever with so many choices to build things the large companies will likely never mold.