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This isn't going to be a wheelstander. The chassis of the AMT HUG is actually closer to the '65 Barracuda raced by Tom McEwen and others (I seem to remember McEwen crashed it?). This will be sort of a 1966 version of that car. In my head the paint is two-tone green. Trying to think of a good name for it. Am considering using WARLORD. I always liked that '67-'68 Cuda funny, and actually saw it on the road on its trailer once when I was a kid. Near as I can tell there wasn't a previous version of that car or name, so I'm thinking in terms of a phantom/what-if 1966-67 racer.

Great project, MagicMustang! You're in--GITTER DONE!

Exactly!

Very, VERY nice! Very impressive work! Well done and model on!

I believe that kit is out as well. I think you can even buy the two as a set, with a trailer.

Here's what's left of my original, first-issue AMT '66 Barracuda "Hemi Under Glass." I built it back in the day, painting it Candy Pagan Gold (don't remember if it was AMT or Pactra, they both had the color) with the black parts IIRC hand-painted Testor gloss black, or maybe crudely masked and sprayed, I don't remember now, but it didn't look very good, so I took the body off and replaced it with a new AMT '67 Barracuda body. Then I stripped the '66 body. I must have had the idea to build it stock-ish (more or less) and put it on the unused '67 Cuda chassis, because I tried to cut the hood out using a Craftsman shop knife (box cutter). I pretty much screwed up that whole panel line in the process, and still didn't get all the way through. At some point over the years I lost the glass and all other body parts of the '66 HUG, and all the unused parts of the '67 Cuda (I do still have the body, but it's got a couple cracks and breaks in it now). Maybe 10, maybe 20 years ago I ordered replacement grille/front bumper, rear bumper, and taillights from Modelhaus, which are in the little bags in the pictures. I was still intending to make some kind of street cruiser out of it. In the meantime, AMT reissued the Hemi Under Glass and I picked up a couple of them, which I still have unopened to this day. I'll use the body and new chrome from one of those for my street bomber, if I ever get around to building it. Also in the meantime, I found and "rescued"/restored a yellow '66 promo which was in nice shape except for very worn chrome. Started thinking about using the shiny Modelhaus chrome to replace the worn promo parts. So then I started thinking about making the old original HUG body into a front-engine first-generation funny car, perhaps on a frame modified from an AMT Double Dragster. Still want to do that, but in the meantime, I think I'll restore the original HUG frame and put the body on that. Thinking of using the bad chrome parts from the promo and painting them silver. Will have to make the glass, I guess. The body is in MUCH worse shape than it looks in the pics. In addition to the damage to the hood area I mentioned earlier (red putty has now been applied to try to fix), there are scrapes and scratches and gouges and chipped edges all over the thing, and the C-pillar was cracked/broken clear through on the right side (though very cleanly). Almost every square centimeter will require some kind of smoothing, filling, or refinement. This is fun work to do while watching TV. Instead of having it ride high like the HUG, I'm going to try to drop the front end into a bit of a rake. This might be as simple as mounting the front axle on the top of the elliptical springs instead of under them. We'll see what happens.

And here it is. Don't remember when I started it but it seems to be an early '90s boxing. Probably started it sometime in the '90s, or maybe early 2000s. At any rate, I haven't worked on it in a decade. All the hard work is done. I filled and rescribed the incorrect door line, and put a lot of work into making the hood fit (and then glued it solid). The "primer" is Model Master FS36231 Dark Gull Gray, the standard color of US military aircraft cockpits since the 1960s (and which I usually always have on hand and ready to airbrush), and will be the final finish. So with 85%+ of the work done, why isn't this finished yet? You have no idea of my ability to procrastinate. In fact, procrastination is one of my superpowers. I think sometimes I might have been bitten by a radioactive sloth as a teenager.

Please do, and let's SEE some of it.

How many do you need? https://www.google.com/search?q=cal-fire+bronco&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPkqrHnNXeAhVC_IMKHSgsCeYQ_AUIDygC&biw=1650&bih=856

It wasn't a military mod, it was strictly civilian. Though I think I've seen some military 119s with jets under the wings. Or maybe I'm thinking of C-123s. BTW, if any of you Scale Masochists wants to do a detailed 119 model, I'm pretty sure I've got cockpit shots. It's pretty cool--you have to climb a ladder to get up there.

Very cool! So that's another addition to the 21st Century Mustangs list.

And if you're having trouble stopping, it's because you have no brake master cylinder!

P2Vs are a favorite of mine--I think they're around 4th or 5th of my Best Looking Twin Engine Prop Aircraft of All Time. They're just beautiful!

I'm planning to build an old MPC Switchers '32 5-window as a drag gasser. It doesn't have a stock '32 frame, but you cant see that with the full fenders on anyway. And then I'm going to build one of the chopped issues of it--either an AG or a Coddington issue--as a drag altered, since the non-stock frame doesn't matter there. I also happen to have a spare AMT '32 Vicky body, which I might try to set up as a "switcher" for one of them, probably the gasser.

Mine too, but, uh, SHELBY! Also, they're just hella cool looking.

I was surprised to see they still had the grille for the '67 Comet Cyclone available. You need this if you want to convert the more accurate AWB funny car body (the eventual fate of the '66-'67 annual tool) back to stock, as the original grille was molded in two pieces with a separate insert for the center, which was not included in the AWB FC kit. The Modelhaus part comes with the center section already added. (I got one on Final Sale Day.)

Oh man, I hope he had them insured.

I could possibly be traded out of it. I also have a very restorable built Mono '58 T-Bird with the double-bubble installed that I have even less interest in and could easily be traded out of, if either of you is interested in that. Email me direct at SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com and we'll see if we can work something out.

Welly 2007 GT500, $10 at Rite Aid. Maisto 2011 Boss 302, @ $12 at Hobby Lobby with coupon (kit). Both got the standard Snake-Fu touchup treatment. Had to do a little filing on the windshield of the Maisto 2011 to get it to pop into place, but otherwise, took less than 2 hours to build and detail the kit. Only problem with the Welly 2007 was the headlight covers. I decided to remove them and cut and polish off the mounting stem, and then had some moderate pain remounting them. Not sure it was worth the trouble but oh well, I did it. Didn't take any solo pics of the Maisto 2011 Boss because someone else already posted good pics of one here a few weeks ago. I like these both. $22 and change, maybe 4 hours total time, and I have two nice models on the shelf that I wouldn't have bothered to spend $30+ and 30+ hours each to build. And even if I did, mine wouldn't have looked much if any better than these. Good deal! As always, comments welcome.

Lessee, I have a Monogram '58 T-Bird I have no interest in building. Also have a Revell '80s or '90s Pro Street T-Bird I have no interest in building (only bought it to use the chassis to make a '65 Mustang pro street that I also lost interest in).

Glad to help! I'm still trying to figure out exactly where to make the cut. It has to be back of the rear wheel flares somewhere. I seem to recall that some narrowing or widening of the Revell tailpiece might be required to mate up with the width of the MPC body, but it's all definitely do-able.

Here's a '55 Chev sedan delivery (-ish) I built from the Nomad kit back in the day. I intended it as a street freak but I guess with open fenderwell headers, it's more of a gasser. I still have it--need to dig it out and lay some survivor love on it sometime.

If it helps, here's a survivor MPC '66 Vette drag car I recently restored/rehabbed. The body is very, VERY close in size and shape to the AMT body. As you can see, I didn't radius the rear fenders (and neither did the original builder). So that's what it'll look like. You could always go with a slightly shorter slick, or raise the body on the frame slightly if you think the clearance is too tight.

Looks good! Model on!

FordF-100 and VintageFord, you're both "officially" in the build. GITTEM DONE!