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No worries David, I'm an old hack at this sort of thing.?

Well, over the last few weeks I've made the new cowl grille and installed the windshield and rear window. I've also started on the engine a while ago and have decided on the dress-up parts and injection from the AMT '70 Impala kit. I'll have to wait until the engine is installed before adding the injector tubes as they'll need to be cut to fit under the hood.

Wicked build ??? Love the color, I'll have to keep an eye open for some of that. have a resin one of those too. Mine has the tail lights molded to the body, you say you got a set from Modelhaus so I assume yours were separate?

That's odd. I never really had that problem with mine. But then again, mine didn't have the extent of modifications yours does Alan.

I don't want to hijack Roger's thread but,, Here's my uncle Walter's '62.

The back ones are nice but the fronts don't look like Cragar S/S to me. Those rounded spokes look more like a torque thrust style wheel. That said, combine the rears from that kit with a narrower pair from something else for the front and you'd have something.

Looks great. Love that paint in the sun.

Try one from an MPC '59 Elcamino. That should be the right shape.

Quite creative Patrick. I look forward to getting one or two of these when they're reissued next year.

Looks good Steve. The color look great on the hood with the clear on it. The trim peice between the rear bumper and tailgate looks excellent. Hope that Molotow ink doesn't bleed out into your clearcoat though. I've been thinking about that engine height. I think if you had taken some height from the intake manifold so the intake plenum sat down lower, you could have gotten away with a lower scoop or possibly no scoop at all. But you know what they say about hindsight. ?

The AMT Baldwin/Motion '70 Camaro has a set of Cragar S/S that are wide and narrow.

AMT '65 Fairlane

Excellent score there Rick. Who made that Malibu? it looks really good.

Looks great. Just love the paint ?

Billy Gooche made copies of those decals. I understand his daughter sold them after he passed away. I did buy some decals from her on e-bay years ago but they stopped selling on e-bay. IIRC, some of the members have bought decals from them more recently, maybe someone can tell you how to get in touch.

Yup. not a great look. Picked this up at a community "yard sale" several years ago for 5 bucks. But stuff like that can always be fixed.

I have an MPC '68. I don't have an MPC '69 or '70 but I do have a full run from '71 to '76. The '68 chassis and engine are carried over from the '68 up to the '76. No, MPC didn't do a '67. BTW, I believe the '73 body did not carry over to the '74 up "colonnade" cars. Besides the obvious changes like the roof, front and rear bumpers/ grill etc, stuff that didn't need to be changed was such as windshield trim and even the shape of the wheel openings is slightly different. Even tooling marks inside the body are different. I think the '74-up was a new body

%100 sure. It was run as the Ventura for a short time and then converted to the Nova. It wasn't uncommon for MPC to do that back then. The '71 GTX was converted to the '71 Road Runner mid year. Also the '71 Demon was changed to the '71 Duster.

They have reissued the early 911s. I picked up a '67 911r last week and have one of the '69 911s kits waiting for me at the hobby shop right now.

Can I get a "Harrumph" for the honorable member from Atlanta! ?

There's one on e-bay in that box right now showing the contents. Looks like the same Carrera body and wheels. ,, As does all the pics on the side of the box of the actual kit. Looks like the only way to get a correct R is to bash this one with the '69 911 as you said.

Picked up one of these last week. Really disappointed in this one. Instead of the slim body and all the wheels of the same size, it has the flared fendered body and wider rear wheels same as in the '73 Carrera kit. Also, the tree with the headlight bezels and door handles, etc. is plated in my older kit, not in this one though.

I didn't know what I'd started when I sent that tip in to Scale Auto all those years ago, did I tom. ? I should be getting kickbacks from the plastic spoon companies. ???

I got some florist's wire from Michael's. I think it was 16 gauge but I'm not sure.

They were available in 1964. Have never been reissued but there's a few on E-bay right now. Expect to pay over $110 for an unbuilt one but I just picked up a lot of built ones and pieces for what you'd pay for a couple current kits. Looks like you're from Calgary?