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No, have never tried that. I polish with Wright's Silver Cream, a silver polish available at Walmart and where house-cleaning stuff is sold. It works great on both paint and plastic.

I never receive any notifications. I must have them turned off. Good. I get dozens of them a day from another board, and they drive me crazy.

Been working on rehabbing a glue bomb AMT '65 GTO and wanted to see what others had done with this kit. Ran a search in this section, and in Under Glass, and then on the whole site--nothing! "No results." Apparently GTO is too small a term for the site search engine to deal with. Thousands of hits on Pontiac but 99+% of them of course have nothing to do with the kit I'm interested in. Have read a lot of comments here and elsewhere about the emblems are screwed up, and most people recognize that the headlights in the reissues are just wrong, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone complain about the taillights. They're awful! In fact, the whole rear end of the thing is pretty messed up. Gonna see what I can do to fix all that up a little. So, anyone got pics of completed builds of this kit, or any other ideas or tips about it?

And then there were the Three Big Barbs of the '60s: Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, and Barbie Benton.

And don't forget, it's not even always necessary to Quote. Unless you're addressing some particular point, a simple Reply works fine.

Hughes didn't design it, but as head of TWA, a major customer, he was allowed a certain amount of input/influence in the design stage. The story goes that he in fact had quite a lot to do with the design and layout of the cockpit and controls, causing considerable delay and expense in the process.

I'm starting to consider Tyra Banks the very best part of America's Got Talent.

Very nicely done, and your Sabre and Mustang look great together.

Very nice! I like that saddle/tobacco color on the interior. What paint is that?

Thanks! Ironically, my very first impression of the paint on this one was that it was so good, it might have been possible to take the thing all the way back to factory stock. Well, so much for THAT idea. But I'm kinda getting into these late '70s drivers/street bombers. I was driving a '69 Camaro myself at that time....

Wow, that's looking really, REALLY good! Drive on!

Our Air Guard unit flew them until 1972 (replaced by 130As). I don't know when they first got them, '64, '65, maybe? Before that, they had 119s. And before THAT, F-86s. (As one of Dad's friends once told me, "You never saw such a sick group of fighter pilots in your life as when they turned us into an airlift outfit.")

Love the distressed body, but the rear wheels seem excessively large.

After polishing, the "flake" is pretty close in real life. It doesn't look nearly as flaky as it does in the flash photography. Repainting the whole thing would have defeated the whole purpose of the exercise. I could have just started with one of the brand-new kits on the shelf. The fun of these things is to see how little I can do to it to get it looking marginally acceptable. Perfection is not the goal, just improvement to a somewhat satisfactory level.

I had the same thought. The paint looks like the same, and so does the building style and overall "vibe." (Comically jacked assend, etc.)

Now that you mention it, it might have been.

Yes. Would also work for the front half. In fact, would work MUCH better for the front half than the Revell '67 roadster kit, which has visibly misformed front fenders. Use the '67 for the gills back, and the snap '63 for the extended front forward.

Thanks for commenting...was beginning to thing I was invisible. As a special thanks, here's a link to the aforementioned Charger.

Better yet, they're BLACK, glorious black, not blue, red, yellow, or some other jivetime non-factory color.

I'm pretty sure Car Craft did it in 1967, or maybe very late '66 or very early '68, complete with one of those cool "x-ray" drawings they'd do.

Wow, what a clean build! VASTLY exceeded my expectations when I clicked the thread. VERY well done and model on!

I completely get that. Although I came to like Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers) even better.

That's about as good a profile shot of a '67 Vette as I've ever seen. Sweet!

The AMT hard top is NOT a drop-on fit on the Revell body. I know Ron Hamilton made one work; maybe he can offer suggestions on what tweaks or mods he made to get it on there. Actually, the Revell '67 Vette roadster body is so badly shaped that if you can come up with the AMT Prestige '63 for the hard top, you'd be better off grafting the Revell '67 gills into that body and doing whatever else is necessary to convert it to '67. Just sayin'.

I assume you don't want to scratchbuild those '67 gills. So.... I'd start with a Revell '67 roadster body--a cheap glue bomb if you can find one. Chop off the front end just behind the front wheel openings and throw it away (its shape is wrong anyway). Now get a cheap Revell snapper '63 body--roadster or coupe, doesn't matter, and again a glue bomb will work just fine--and figure out how much of the front end of that you need to chop to give you the length you need. Glue it on and blend it all in. Don't forget to fill the vents/louver indentations in the '63 hood (which is molded with the body on the snapper '63s). That'll get you started. Others might be able to help more with the tonneau and related bodywork. Do you have a wheelbase dimension on the car? That would be helpful. I believe an old Car Craft magazine did a story on the car, but unfortunately I don't have it.