Snake45

Yeah, that's cool. It would look even cooler on the '67 front.

VERY cool! You just don't see enough '60s Chevies in this section. Well done and model on!

Thanks! I checked and neither the '65 or '66 fastback kits came with the staggered 2x4 setup, although the HT/convertible kit did. But the carbs on that are much closer together, and staggered the other way. The model came with the kit's optional Weber setup, which would be just about right for B/FX.

“To defend: this is the pact. But when life loses its value and is taken for naught, then the pact is to avenge!” Fabulous!

I like where you're going with this. Drive on!

The back end of the '68 was more attractive than the '67, but the front end was just "change for the sake of change" that was no improvement at all on the magnificent '67. Blasphemer! Heretic!

Beautiful, thanks for showing it!

Bought these both from that guy on eBay who takes nice old complete models and dismantles them and sells them part-by-part in an attempt to squeeze more dollars out of them. I HATE that, but it is what it is, so I played the game, and got these two bodies for half to a third of what I'd have been prepared to pay for the whole models. Both bodies seem to be in excellent to perfect condition under the paint. I already have a green Craftsman '66 Sklark under construction, so I'll probably build this body up using the parts from the dirt tracker kit, setting it up as a de-NASCARed street goon. Should be fun putting it on the shelf next to the factory stock one. No particular plans yet for the “Testors John Deere Green” Mustang fastback, but I'll think of something. Would be nice to have the interior tub and glass, but they would have doubled or tripled what I have in the body alone, and I can improvise, adapt, and overcome without them. I have a large stock of AMT '66 Mustang parts and am sure I can get something cool together out of it. Probably something more or less stock.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing them! I acquired the Grumpy's Toy IV in a trade with KHills a couple years ago. It's missing the hood and the front suspension, but these shouldn't be too difficult to replace. I don't like the SS stripe across the front end and am planning to take that off and repaint it.

And looks like a cold beer to boot!

Bought both of these off eBay last month. Had planned to strip and rebuild at least one of them completely, but they grew on me as survivors. The black one might have been built using B&W photos of the real Tasca Ford '65 Mustang A/FX for refererence (the real car was burgundy, but looks black in B&W pics). It was complete including engine and has the kit custom front pan and “Shelby” grille (the horse is running the wrong way). OB had drilled a couple odd holes in the hood for some reason, and had hogged out the rear wheel openings to the rear. He then drilled new wire axle holes in the chassis to rear of the original holes. Did he misunderstand the direction in which these cars' wheelbases were altered? It wouldn't have been a huge deal to graft in new wheel openings (or even repair them with sheet styene), but by this time the decals were growing on me so I decided to press on with preservation/restoration, and hope that the black paint and black slicks would serve to hide most of that. The GT stripes on the rocker panels were in such bad shape they couldn't be saved, so I scraped them off with a thumbnail. The rest of the decals I zapped with two treatments of Solvaset, which laid them right down and eliminated about 90% of the “silvering.” Not perfect, but acceptable enough for a survivor restoration. Had to touch up the TASCA FORD decals with some light yellow paint. Polished the black paint on the hood, upper fenders, top, and trunk with Wright's Silver Cream. Had to leave the sides alone due to the decals, of course. Painted the grille black and Silver-Sharpied the chrome body trim. Painted the mag wheel spokes with Model Master Steel. Both these Mustangs came with solid vinyl Firestone slicks—skinny ones on this one, wider ones on the green car. I swapped on the wider slicks from the green car. The interior got a good cleaning with soap, water, and brush, and some minor touchup on the black/white borders, but otherwise I left it alone. Aside from drilling new holes as low as possible for the rear wire axles, I did nothing else to the chassis or engine. Not perfect, but good enough to sit proudly on my “Survivors” shelf. Someday I will probably come up with a cool Thunderbolt teardrop hood for it—black should be easy to match. “Black is black.” The green one, advertised as a “funny car” (the wire axles had been jury-mounted under the chassis), hit me very close to home. The AMT '66 Mustang fastback was one of my very first model cars back in the day (somewhere between the third and the sixth, near as I can remember), and I had brush-painted it with Pactra Leaf Green, which is exactly the same way this one appears to be painted. And I had cut out the roof vents, just as had been done on this one! It is definitely NOT my old one, as I repainted and rebuilt it around 1969 and still have it in that form (and it's due for a restoration soon), but this model looks so much like my original that it's absolutely eerie. (It also looked MUCH better than the pics on eBay had led me to believe, but more on that later.) So I took it apart and cleaned it all up, and gave the hand-brushed Pactra Leaf Green a light polish, being careful to stay away from the sharp edges, which were already showing white plastic through. The next big job was to clean up (with very small files) the crudely hacked-out roof vent holes, and then I made Shelby-like windows from the curved side window pieces from the AMT '72 Nova. I cut and filed these VERY carefully to be a near-perfect press-fit into the body, and each one took me about an hour. I carefully press-fit them in place, and then hit the edges with liquid cement on a detailing paintbrush (from the inside). Disaster lurked at every step of this process, but it all came off with remarkable smoothness (for me, anyway). I cleaned up the unpainted white interior but otherwise left it alone (for now). I removed the extended axle mounts on the chassis and rattlecanned the unpainted chassis flat black (and the part of the interior tub that would show through the rear wheel openings). The tires and wheels were replaced with slot wheels from the AMT '59 Corvette and genuine 1966-vintage vinyl Firestone Supremes from my growing stash of original '66 Mustang parts. The body had been lightly customized with the kit custom front and rear pans (bumperless) and Thunderbird taillights. This doesn't bother me as these parts are kind of cool looking and add to the vintage survivor vibe. Of course I did the window trim and body chrome with my beloved Silver Sharpie, and detailed the Shelby-ish grille with black. The Pactra Leaf Green needed some touching up in places (most notably on the windshield A-pillars, which had been incorretly completely painted silver, like a convertible). I found that Krylon Short Cuts Hunter Green, decanted, was a darn good match for the Leaf Green—almost perfect. The restored/rescued model looks better in person than it does in the photos (usually things work out the other way around for me). In the pics, the brushed Leaf Green paint looks a bit blotchy, with light, thin spots, and the touchup Hunter Green is more apparent. Viewing the model in normal indoor lighting, the color looks very uniform, and brush marks and other flaws are hard to spot, except of course for the white styrene ghosting on the sharp edges. (I'm hoping someday to find a way to touch those areas up that won't look even worse than they do now, which they would if I'd just tried to brush some paint on them.) I like this one a lot; it makes me happy and takes me back to a younger, happier time. I hope to get my original, repainted one restored soon, and it'll be fun to display them together—a rare case of “have your cake and eat it too.” Thanks for looking, and as always, comments welcome! I tried a few outdoor pics (no flash) to see if that would reduce the blotchy look. Well, maybe a little, but it still looks better in real life.

No you don't. It fits horribly and even if you get it mounted, it looks awful. Replace the whole thing (both clear parts and the canopy frame molded into the fuselage) with one of these: https://www.squadron.com/1-48-Squadron-Canopies-F4U-1D-Corsair-SQ9504-p/sq9504.htm Come to think of it, I MIGHT have an extra around here somewhere. Can't promise I can FIND it, but I'll look. Drop me an email: SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com

Now, see, I consider the '65-'67 Impalas the BEST looking of all time, the peak of Impala styling. The predecessors weren't nearly as good looking, and after '67 they started going downhill. (And I got my driver's license in a '70!)

Very cool! I've always thought this car was the inspiration or jumping-off point for the original Meyers Manx dune buggy. The Manx reminds me of one of these, customized and "cool-ified."

Very nice! I always enjoy seeing the old Tony Nancy kits built. Well done and model on!

It is the Supernatural kit, though, right? WOW you got that together fast. Well done and model on!

Amazingly clean build! Well done and model on!

I have a giant can of a nice Rustoleum metallic blue I'm gonna use on something eventually. Maybe it'll play nice with that. Meanwhile, I'd like to repeat that the Rustoleum clear I bought was NOT the stuff you recommended. They didn't have that stuff, so I tried something else, which didn't work out.

Just laid the fifth coat of Testor Clear Gloss Lacquer on the Mustang. Seems to be clear and shiny. Will let it dry out 24 hours and then see if there's enough on there to polish out yet. Feels like I've used more than half the can already so I'm hoping I don't need any more. We'll see what happens. Fingers crossed, knock wood, and all that.

I'm hoping to restore the Slingster body to stock-ish, and build a street rod around it. Meanwhile, I really dug that "Little Honker" thing above. Maybe I'll use the less-detailed Jawbreaker body and do that or something like it on the Slingster frame.

OMG you MUST see it as soon as possible! One of my absolute favorite movies of all time. I have the special DVD box set with all the extras and goodies and this thread reminds me I need to watch it again soon. Taarna....

Radar (radar radar) rider! You can hedge your bet on a clean Corvette To get you there right on time Sweet ride, dude! Well done and model on!

Thanks all! Much appreciated!

The ex-MPC '57 Chevy flipnose, which I believe was recently reissued, has both the straight front axle and fenderwell headers.