magicmustang

Looks like a Parts Pack of a tool chest(s) for a diorama, to me.

I too, received a set of parts from A & M Hightec today. I believe they are from Bill Allphin AK: gtx6970. Thanks Bill.

This is on Ebay, right now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Belly-Tanker-1-25-Resin-Body-Fremont-Racing-Specialties/323068531863?hash=item4b38629497:g:qQYAAOSwcUFZm4CU

Did as you suggested. Turned out pretty good. Had this AMT '57 Fairlane kit for 40 years, maybe I'll finish it now. Using the gasser parts from a Revell '57 Ford gasser that I got at HL for $7.50 on clearance.

Thanks for the heads up guys. Got an AMT '64 Impala for $6.75, MPC '69 Baracuda for $7.50 and a Revell '57 Ford Gasser for $7.50.

Thanks I figured someone would know. Am in the process of cutting the paired units and repositioning them 90 degrees.

Found a fuel injection unit in my engine parts box. I think I can convert it to the Y-block one. Can't remember what kit it came out of. Any idea?

Never mind. I made my own.

Hey guys, anybody got a spare muzzle brake from a Tasca or Tamiya 1/35 British Sherman Firefly? Saw where they have two in the kit, one round holes and one square holes. Could use either one. Please advise.

Yep, it has a correct roll bar, a cb radio as well as a whip antenna that the glue kits did not.

This is why I scan these threads daily. To get helpful info on how to improve a kit. As per your suggestions and iBorg I have been hard at work trying to improve the AMT Trojan Horse kit I have. I have fitted in a rear window flush, same with the front windshield (my idea and a lot of sanding), sanded down some the front wheel bumps, straighten some the lower side panels (iBorg suggestion), raised the rear axle mounting point to lower the stance (my idea), added a '70's Revell funny car drive shaft, added 426 heads and valve covers, added thicker headers, widened the fuel cell, found a gas pedal, cluch pedal, shift lever and better fire extinguisher from the parts box. Now if it will warm up some (9 degrees yesterday morning in Plano,Tx), I can start to paint. Thanks guys for the helpful advise.

There were 14 in the Funny Car series. Pic does not show the Corvair, Allison Thunderbird or Piranha. There was another thread recently about this, that is where these pics came from.

Yep, they used whatever they wanted to. I will probably not get a new release of the Dyno Don Cougar because I know from the past that the chassis, rollcage, and floorpan are not correct for that car, even though they show the right one on the box. Even Epay makes you give a refund if what you ship is different from your pics!

But they teased us with a certain chassis on the box art and a different one inside the box. The chassis shown on the box was used in the '68 Color Me Gone Charger funny car, so it was available. Lazy or careless?

But they put the early logghe chassis inside the kits instead of the later one shown on the box. Same thing in the Dyno Don Cougar kit. Compare pics.

Hey Snake, here's one that I did years ago. Moved the wheelbase back to stock, added a Fireball 500 grill insert and used a Polar Lights chassis/roll cage with MPC tin and floorboard. Slixx decals.

Kenz & Leslie AMT (MPC) FC chassis (upper pic) vs. Polar lights FC chassis (lower pic). Although I did raise the Polar lights roll cage on mine, it seamed a little squashed to me in this pic.

Here's a pic from Fotki. The roll bar cage is closer to the Polar lights chassis than the Kenz $ Leslie kit rerelease (which is closer to the later '66 Comet chassis and roll cage) . Don had a three post roll bar in his '66 Comet (as shown above) until the body blew off at high speed (grazed his helmet) and he then went to a four post roll bar.

You mean like this?

I agree, the current Polar Lights funny car chassis would be more correct for Dyno Don '68 Cougar body.

Will it have the correct '68 Logghe chassis as shown on the side of the original box, or the incorrect '67 Logghe chassis that was actually inside the original box and the Kenz & Leslie rerelease?

I used a Jo-Han Pinto (or Mustang) Funny car set, they are a good match for the double square tanks Fred used.

There's a chassis photo if you don't have it.

At $14.99 for a part and with an average of 80 parts (?) per kit the pajama part dealer could make over $1200 a kit, potentially. I just try to filter out the parts dealers. That being said. There was a saying at our model club by the swap meet dealers: "You will soon forget what you paid for one, but you will never forget that you don't have one".

I try to get two of any kit that interest me, one to collect and one to build. I have about two hundred more in storage boxes.