Snake45

I knew that. Just didn't know how many others here did.

Sweet! I'm planning to do something similar with the Impala. Instead of rebuilding the wheel openings from scratch, I'm planning to chop them out of a common Revell '65 Foose donor.

I'm sure I will. And just in time, too!

That hood does look good, and your stance looks like just about what I'm trying to achieve with that glue bomb I'm resurrecting. Drive on!

IIRC, there really aren't all that many swastikas on German armor. Maybe on flags, but on the tanks themselves, not so much. Iron crosses sometimes, but even those weren't on everything.

I just ordered one today! Also have a glue bomb in BAD shape. Count me in, and I know EXACTLY how I want to build one.

Y'all talked me into it. I just ordered one.

You are what we call "clear on the concept." BTW, you're looking good--I thought a couple of your pics were the real car! Drive on!

Thanks Tim. Haven't looked in the new box yet to see if the phaeton body is still in there. Doesn't matter to me...if it IS in there, I'll have it up for trade.

Yup, that's the Silver Jade all right! Just looks so right on that car. (For years I called that color "Grande Green" because I seemed to see a LOT of Mustang Grandes in that color with black vinyl top, another good-looking combination.)

Very nice! Good color for this car. Well done and model on!

Very, very nice! You're inspiring me to dig mine out and actually build it. Well done and model on!

Not bad at all. Your painting of the cowl vents white makes a big difference, and puts you ahead of many builds I've seen of this kit. Well done and model on!

Thanks for the input. Another possibility at this point (depending on how the bodywork comes out) is to just paint it matte olive drab and call it WARBIRD. "Warbird" today is a common term for an ex-military airplane (such as WWII fighters and bombers, etc.) but it didn't come into wide use as such until the '70s. The first time I ever heard the term was when Revell started using it for their constant-scale (1/72) WWII and WWI model airplanes in the early/mid '60s. I clearly remember the full-page Revell ads in Boy's Life magazine that highlighted the new airplane kits under that banner. (Lotta classic Ed Roth stuff in those ads, too.) Google-image "Revell warbird" and you can see vintage Revell box art with the WARBIRD logo on them. Might be fun to try to copy that font/logo.

Pretty sharp! Is it Fathom Green with a black fiberglass hood?

Force, you're not listening to what we're saying. No one is arguing that Hemis were/are NHRA-legal for Super Stock for 1968 only. But NHRA Super Stock was not the only game in town in 1969. There was the NASCAR drag circuit, and there was UDRA, which had something called Ultra Stock, and there was AHRA Super Stock/Experimental, all of which had rules very similar to what evolved into NHRA Pro Stock, and then there was the match race circuit which was whatever the racers themselves agreed to. And even in NHRA, cars that weren't quite Super Stock legal still competed in A/MP or B/Gas. In fact, I've got photos of Sox's Cuda, Jenkins' Camaro, and Landy's Dart all running as A/MP or B/Gas in 1969. If my scanner were working, I'd be glad to post a couple pics of S&M's hemi Cuda with '69 sheet metal on it.

That's the fact, Jack!

Oh man, for 50 years I've wanted to do a Silver Jade '69 Mach I with the gold stripes. This might be the year!

Me too.

Didn't get it The PM system is hit-and-miss for me. That's why I put my email in the post above.

"We've got one heavily armed recreational vehicle here, man."

I always ASSUME JADA stuff is way oversize--at least 1/22 if not bigger. I've seen they have a '69 Dodge Daytona Charger listed. Would like to see that in person sometime. If they shrank it to get it in their standard box, it might actually be somewhere in the ballpark of 1/24-1/25.

'65 hoods didn't have scripts. The only C2 Corvettes with scripts on the hood were the '66s. Let me know what you're looking for in trade for it. SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com.

Will it come apart? Does the interior come out? Will the glass come out, or is it glue-bombed into the roof? It can easily be restored using pieces from a common '63 reissue (the '63 hood would have to be modified, that's all). You've got a semiprecious gem there!

Seems to be an original AMT '65 Coupe annual--very desirable! Sweet find!