Mark

No convertible, promo or kit. '65 marked the start of AMT not trying to do every promotional as a kit...there were Bonneville and Olds 88 convertible promos, but not kits. And the Mustang was done as a convertible with separate hardtop as opposed to individual kits for each body style. Same for the GTO. Both probably should have been issued as separate kits for each body style, they would probably have sold well enough to do that.

I've done a couple of them, it is literally seconds. Same goes for the AMT prepaints. Nothing else seems to get through, but the 91% is the Kryptonite for that paint, whatever it is.

Day 2 generally describes mild changes made to a new, or nearly new, car shortly after someone takes ownership. How many people bought a new car and swapped engines right away?

91% rubbing alcohol will have that paint off in seconds.

That's why I said "changed". The '32 Ford roadster in the same series had a "Boss 302 Mustang" engine that was still a Pontiac mill.

When I was doing some "might be the last shopping I do for a couple of weeks" yesterday, I did remember to grab a bottle of Loctite super glue. I didn't remember how old the current one is, though I usually write the purchase date on the label. Forgot to do that with the current one.

Monogram "changed" the engine from Cadillac to Olds for the Tom Daniel "Boss ABone" issue. They also called the transmission a Torqueflite. Torque tube, yes, Torqueflite, no.

Too, I'd cut the grille first, then make the shell fit the grille.

You will need these hubcaps from the roadster kit...the other AMT '32 Fords are V8 cars and have hub caps with the V8 logo.

A lot of those kids don't really get meals anywhere except at school, even though the parent(s) are usually on assistance, and are home all day, and already get the assistance with the naive notion that it might actually be used to help feed the kids...

I've got to get back on this. Polar Lights body with a fairly major alteration (besides the wheelbase). Chassis might come from a Lindberg '64, or MPC '67 Charger (originally from their '65 Coronet, with alterations to the fuel tank area which will be removed anyway)...

I would drill through the center of the pin heads, going with larger bits until the chassis loosens. The builder did a decent job of painting that kit, my guess would be that they weren't heavy handed with the cement. As for the windows, Okey (who bought some of the remaining Jo-Han assets years ago) was selling loose parts like kit glass. To my knowledge though, he never had the F-85 coupe glass. He may have had the station wagon piece, but the windshield doesn't fit the coupe. Truth be told, all but the earliest run pieces don't even fit the wagon very well. Try an AMT '66 Nova windshield (some builders used F-85 windshields in Novas, to lose the molded-in mirror detail which was later removed from that kit). Second choice will be to make your own.

The Master Modelers Club didn't include kits, it was mainly a magazine. You also got a t-shirt iron-on with the club logo. There was one in the early Sixties also, both of them just faded away.

The illustration of the Rebel was used on the side panel of the original issue box (with some lettering on the side of the car). I'd still bet that the flyer is faked up though, the Rebel was never done as a friction or promo. I'm not positive but I don't remember any '70 frictions either. And where are the Hornet and Maverick?

All food potentially belongs to the dog, up until the moment someone actually eats it.

Do you have the actual flyer? Something looks funny, the font used for the car names is different from everything else. Jo-Han didn't make a Rebel promo or friction for '70 (or '69) either. The illustration of the Rebel is off the early Eighties reissue box. I have an original kit but will have to check it, to see if that illustration is on it also.

Probably more available, at a more favorable price. For 1/25 scale plastic though, '39 and '40 hoods (especially those from the AMT kits) are probably the ticket.

I'd guess a '41-'48 Ford hood, narrowed. The strip down the center is likely covering where the two sections meet or overlap.

The flat box issue mentions those parts in the instructions. That issue has extra clear parts including a fuel container, that aren't in the regular box kit.

I bought my first new car (also the first car I bought) in '79. First choice would have been a Firebird like James Garner drove in The Rockford Files. Probably wasn't going to happen anyway (the insurance would probably have killed the idea) but the '79 styling definitely killed it. I don't think Garner ever used a '79 on the show either...the last handful of episodes had him in a white GMC Caballero as I recall...

Revell never made a Cyclone. AMT made a new '67 kit that shares chassis and engine parts with the '66 Fairlane kit.

One of many fishing expeditions clogging eBay, which is why I don't spend much time there anymore...

Actually, the 3W coupe (and possibly the roadster) have some funkiness going on with the trunk panel lines. The panel between the roof and trunk lid on the 3W doesn't have a panel line, but it is "stepped" leaving the "tulip panel" slightly higher than the leading edge of the lid. I used that "step" as a guide to scribe in a panel line, then knocked that panel down level with the trunk lid. It's a small short cut with the tooling. Too, I have seen more recent production 3W kits, the body tooling seems to have a lot of wear and slop to it. Early, cleaner kits can still be found, those will have cleaner bodies (still need to scribe that upper deck lid line though) and tires with the Goodyear lettering which was later wiped off.

None of the Revell Deuce kits (5W coupe, 3W coupe, highboy roadster) have rumble seats. The 5W has a separate trunk lid, but it isn't hinged nor are there parts to finish the trunk area.

I used to sell some of my brother's stuff when I set up at shows and swap meets. The day after one of them, I dropped by his house to give him a couple hundred bucks. Right after I gave him the money, he told me to go for a ride...we went to a department store, he grabbed a cart, wheeled it down to the appliances, grabbed a microwave oven and tossed it into the cart. Another time, he came back from the York train show to a dead refrigerator, another trip to Hershey resulted in replacing a washing machine the next day. Me, I got laid off last May (knew it was coming for about a year). Got the check for my accrued paid time off (about six weeks' worth) the same day I had the front lawn torn up to replace a collapsed clay pipe taking the waste water from the house to the sewer. Pretty much the same amount as the PTO check...