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About 20 years ago I cut out the hood from a Johan funny car and Norm fro R&MofMD made some copies for me and a few others for the AMT/MPC kits which I used to make a sprint and Eleanor. As for the Revell kit you may have to wait until the 73 Eleanor version that I assume is going to happen. Perhaps one of the 3D aftermarket companies can make one. I’ve already bought one of the wide body kits for the Revell Boss/Mach1 kits so printing the flat hood should be pretty easy. The only other source for the hood I know about is when Motor City Resin Casters had a coupe conversion kit but they are off of business. Perhaps Gerry Chevailer will make a flat hood but he is focused more on the far superior Revell Mach1/Boss kits instead of the 50 year old AMT/MPC kits.

We have doors.

Very nice. Just add a GT gas cap, GT wheels center caps and a lower body stripe and you have a GT sportsroof. Naturally Ford did not sell many GT models that year with the new Mach1 selling briskly and the Shelbys being another alternative.

Beautiful paint and the gauges look great.

Those are for 1:1 cars right?

Our forth group member Robert has made great progress with the chassis with painting, assembly and drilling 300 holes in the seats and using a silver fine tip sharpie for the metal rings in the seats. I purchased a set of tire decals from Indycals so when we get to that step we will use them instead of the kit one. The next update will be in two weeks. Robert mentioned the distributor that was added may cause some clearance issues which I guess is to be expected as it was not included in the kit.

Here’s another Mustang build (shocker I know). The Florida humidity was not very cooperative with painting but I pushed ahead as I have a good supply of these kits and I wanted to finish something before I pack up all my kits, paints and tools and head west to Arizona. I used a few parts from the MCG photoetch sheet (grille, snakes and gas cap) and one of the kits I has had such bad chrome I stopped it and painted the bumpers black. The only extra plastic part used was some emissions tubing from another kit for the 428 engine. I thought the MCG wheel center caps were really nice but since I went with mag wheels I used them on a 1/16 Nichimo GT500 kit I built many years ago. Thanks for looking.

Have you tries clicking on the mark site read at the bottom right/. Your pc or whatever you are using might be trying to load every unread post which could be hundreds.

Cool. I started the build before the Revell kit came out Looking forward to see your version. I’d love to see someone do decals for these other 71 Prostock Mustangs (Polaris and the Norris Ford)

Keith’s are less expensive however if you compare the same sets you can see Rays includes a lot more “extra” ones. I guess it depends what you need or want. I have not bought any from Keith for a few years so I’m not sure what his prices are now.

My apologies if I did not post the completed build. I think it was over a year ago that I built this.

Joseph Morgan is the North America distributor. Keep in mind he places prepaid orders with Neal “Ray” Aldenhuysen in the Netherlands who has a printing company produce and ship them to Joseph who then mails them to customers in the US and Canada etc. So while the shipping cost might be only $10 USPS with tracking for multiple decal sheets, expect several months for the order to get in the cue, be printed, shipped bulk to the US and then to the individual customers by Joseph. I have ordered a couple of times and the decals are a great product. Sometimes there are extra sets in Josephs stock and those can be shipped asap an he also sets up a booth and sells at several model car events. You can email Joseph with a questions. I usually contact him via Messenger.

The Blue Crescent kit despite the box art top that depicts a Drag racing version it’s too bad that one was not reissued as it would be far easier to build it as a factory stock or Prostock racer from that kit. The collector prices for that version as pretty high.

Welcome. I used to live in Northern VA and go to the Maryland Automotive Modelers Association meeting every month on the third Saturday. Check out www.mamasboyz.org for their meeting location. The website has all the newsletters published since the late 1980s. ?

This kit had me puzzled the more I look at the funny car bodies of that era. There are plenty of pictures of 69 Mustang funny cars but it seems like not very many 70 ones as there was probably not much incentive to switch to a slightly different body. Slixx has decals for a Frantic Ford funny car but like the funny cars of the era that had fiberglass bodies that were altered to fit the Logghe chassis. So to try to build this kit as a funny car seems out of the question without an appropriate body. I’ll put the kit aside and use the stock body with the Revell Boss 302 chassis and interior to make a factory stock Mach1. The engraving of the lower panel with the Mach1 lettering is very nice. There is a pair of Shelby ten spoke deep dish wheels in the kit for the front wheels which in interesting and four chrome inner wheels. Bottom line is I guess AMT was adapting to the popularity of funny cars in the late 60s and early 70s and figured what kid is going to question why they used a completely stock 70 Mach1 body with a funny car chassis and simply added an aerodynamic front end to make it appear like a funny car of that era. As others had mentioned it would have been nice to see all of the parts included to build a stock 70 Mach1 but I guess nostalgia won over this time.

Nice score on the UPC kit. It looks similar to the LS kit but I can see the difference in the front. By the way have you built one of the Lemans Miniatures MKI resin kits? I have one in my stash in storage.

Our third group member Danny is making great progress. Ed did the excellent gloss black paint as seen in the 2nd update above. Danny scratch built the oil lines from the oil filter to the engine block. I should be posting more updates in 2 weeks after our next Model Creations meeting.

Nice job Michelle. Several years I decided the best thing to do with a Palmer/Testors Mustang kit was to do a Road Warrior version. I did not make it RHD but that would have not been too difficult.

And you probably never will again. ?. I guess someone thought just an opening for an air intake was boring so why not use a 70s funny car one. The blower looks a little offset to one side which is even more confusing but looking again I think it is the angle of the photo.

Thanks for posting. Looks like a nice show.

Check out www.micromacromundo.com They have a large store in Miami and retail hours and carry a lot of kits and paints. The new location is a little tricky to find but it is worth checking out and you can see their inventory inline.

Beautiful build. That was a very rare color for the Boss 351.

Picked up a nice trophy today at a show in Fort Lauderdale. There was a nice variety of cool cars including various years of VWs. Probably one more show before I have the car shipped to Arizona to the house. Three years of apartment and condo living in Mimi has been enough for me.

That’s a bummer and yes I know thus thread is nine years old. I guess some of theses kits have Ben reissued but I’m not sure if any changes have been made. I guess I’ll have to read some of the current reviews.

I was seventeen and probably too shy. I did meet Jungle Pam about 20 years ago but don’t remember getting hers either. I do remember if you brought a model for the MPC contest you would get in free so that was probably my primary motivation.