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  1. JJ Deuce
    got a couple, for sure. One is a replica of the '69 Camaro my dad sold when I was about 5 years old. He still feels remorseful when I mention that it was my birthright. ? I've got the kit and most of the necessary parts to build it as accurately as we can remember it. 350, 2 bbl, TH350, flat hood. I need to configure some header mufflers and straight pipes, and build the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH thing. Similarly, I've got everything I need to build a replica of my former '69 Corvette coupe. 350, TH400, small block hood. Now that I think of it, I've also got an '84 Cutlass, with a flat hood, earmarked to be a replica of my first car, and a Dobbertin J2000 to donate it's front clip towards a replica of my unfortunate second car.
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    eager to see this one. Reminds me I need to finish my own tiger build
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    very nice - the "Hemisfair" plates always strike a chord for me, because it was in San Antonio. A little before my time, but I still like the connection. I bought a bunch of texas plates for future builds from 67-72. I need to find a good '68 project so I can use that tag. Nice touch with the inspection sticker. But I'm not surprised you got that detail too!
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    just going back and looking at the pics, I'm a little disappointed that I didn't notice the Texas plates before!
  5. JJ Deuce
    just beautiful. fantastic work!
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    yeah I found both of mine on ebay. The first one was expensive but less than I'd seen in a while. the second one was not too crazy of a price, and I was familiar with the seller. I'm going to sell the one I have that is sealed, and go ahead and build the opened one.
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    my dad explained that this morning. "when one person sneezes, 100 people s**t!"
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    I could swear I've posted in this thread but I couldn't find it. Regardless, I'd say the Jo-Han Pro Stock Maverick is my holy grail, but I have two of them now, and there's a couple of people with WIPs of the kit in the Drag Racing section. Guess it's not *that* rare.
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    Picked up another of the JoHan Maverick. This one is open but complete. Probably going to build this one and sell the sealed one I have.
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    right. I understood the question to be whether kits had been issued with the show/movie tie-in on the box. I wasn't aware of the CHiPs kit, but like the Rockford Firebird, you could use almost any 70s Firebird/Trans Am as the basis for either tv car since they varied so much over the course of the series.
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    Rockford's firebird. Poncharello's Trans Am
  12. JJ Deuce
    gonna need this one then. I have a 1:1 Westinghouse cooler in my backyard. I guess I could build a model of my friend's ranchero with the kit.
  13. JJ Deuce
    I could be wrong (it's happened before) but I think it would be an inline-6. The 300 was 4.9 liters, and I believe the only other displacement for the truck 6 was 240, but that would be less than the 4.6L you mentioned, and I believe it was out of production by 1977 also. If the inline is correct, the 6 from the Moebius F-150s would be a good start.
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    I agree. The manual gearbox issue is frustrating to me. It's hard to find a new car that even has it as an option. Even then, you usually have to order it as dealers won't stock them. Couple that with people that just aren't even interested in driving or even owning a car. As to mechanics/bodymen, it seems all the trades are suffering from a lack of new entrants. Plumbing, welding, etc. So much emphasis on college and tech for the younger crowd is stifling the fields where we have so much need for new blood.
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    I know this is an old topic, but I found this on the auction site: it appears the builder used the Boss rocker covers but the SOHC front cover. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-AMT-Maverick-Pro-Stock-Outlaws-Model-Kit-Body-Engine-and-Chassis/164012154737?hash=item262fe2df71:g:FGoAAOSwK9heCnwr
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    Yep. I have all the cars going back to 1991 or so. most of the pickup series also. My aunt used to buy them for me every year, and then my mother-in-law started but it sounds like maybe she didn't get this year's. Maybe I should hit the hallmark store tomorrow just in case....
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    man this is looking great!
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    looks great! the Sharks are my favorite Corvette, and I think the Revell '68-69 kits are my favorite to build. Nice work - you even got the grills correct in black like the 1:1. ?
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    I was pleasantly surprised with it. I probably wouldn’t have purchased it if not for the go-kart. I like the detailed chassis since I was able to lower it like I would a real truck.
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    Started this kit a while back, and finally have a little progress to post. I felt like the truck sits too high out of the box so I wanted to lower it. I modified the spindles to drop it about 2 scale inches, and cut a coil out of the springs on the trailing arms. Last night I assembled the chsssis, and this morning I mocked it up to see if I'd gotten the results I wanted. It sits just about how I had envisioned, but I'm still not sure on tire choices.
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    The (Keaton era) Batmobile kit had the blank sidewall tires initially. I remember reading a tip in the old AMT Blueprinter, that the tires from the Batmobile kit were the same size as the slicks that came in the Pro Street '66 Nova kit, if you wanted to build a road-legal Nova. I assume the treaded tires then made their way into the other pro-street kits that came later.
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    2016 Toyota 4Runner.
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    got a couple of old MPC kits recently, both red. 1983 Toyota Supra 1982 Plymouth Horizon
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    If that engine is included I'll buy a couple of these.
  25. JJ Deuce
    Just made a spreadsheet because I knew I had several duplicates. Overall, a little over 60% of my total stash (52 kits at the moment) is duplicates. Of those, almost 20% is one kit, 10 copies of the Revell ' 69 Corvette (in a few variations). followed closely by 5 copies of the Revell '69 camaro (9.6%). I need a dedicated hobby room. For now the kits and supplies are stashed in my mechanical room. I have an outbuilding with a/c we use for a gym, mostly. I have thought about setting up a permanent workspace out there so I don't have to clean up kits mid-build.
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