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Yes, but the BBC Life on Mars though, NOT the American version.

The kit is not supposed to be the "Imposter" Impala It's supposed to have the look of an Impala that was on the show. The kit is just the regular '65 Impala kit with wheels decals and some engine dress up parts added. The engine is a '65 era 396 big block, not any kind of an LS. Here's a link to the page I got the pics from. https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1965-chevy-impala/

Super build. You don't see many of those built, especially to such standards. I wonder if I'm the only one who caught the reference of the first line though. ? Loved the show and have been wanting to also build the car.

Man !! That's clean !! ???

Yes. The body was used to make a couple NASCAR kits and kinda restored back to almost stock in the early '80s.

Takes a little trimming but, , , With a little work you can get everything,including the glass from the Revell kit into the MPC body [AMT never made a 2nd gen Firebird] The decals are from Keith Marks and hood and scoop is from Missing Link. It'll be painted dark silver with red interior.

That guy from Nova Scotia?,,, I've seen him in person, he's an idiot.

Easiest way to tell the "Super Charger" reissue from an annual is the fender openings. The annuals had a character line around the wheel openings. This was smoothed off for the NASCAR version and not replaced when the kit was restored.

Revell '64-'66 Chevy pickups.

That's actually the old Monogram 1/24 scale van. They were a pretty good kit. Built up easily and looked great but the OP was asking about 1/25 scale.

BTW,, Here's a pic with almost all the AMT custom van kits. The "Candy Van" and "KISS Van" are missing from this page. It's be neat to see all these reissued.

I don't know how correct this is but I seen last week that the "Foxy Box" version of the AMT Chevy van is supposed to be reissues soon. I would have preferred the "X-Tasy" version with it's colorful decals but this is kinda cool for the nostalgia factor.

The bottom of the body was made that way so you could get the interior and chassis up into it. A concession to the original metal body which you wouldn't be able to simply stretch out to get the parts in. An easy fix though is simply trim some off the sides of the chassis plate and bend the rockers and bottom of the doors in slightly to the correct shape. I never really noticed the rest but I think it still looks good for what it started as.

Just treat it like any other hot automotive lacquer. Whatever clear coat you usually use will work fine. They're just a hot lacquer, nothing special. What you use under them depends on what you want to end up with. Silver and gold are the most common choices but when I use a candy I like to use a light metallic version of the color under it. Metallic pink under red candy, light blue metallic under candy blue etc. You can get evener color that way ,, less blotchy and use less candy to get your final color. Here's that purple over a lavender metallic base I mixed up for it. You can also get different colors depending on your base. A gold base under candy blue will give a green or aqua color depending on how many coats of blue you put over it.

Funny the Astro 1 should be mentioned in this thread. It was made into a drag car using the same chassis/engine as used in the "Sand Cat" and the Piranha drag car, also mentioned .

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Isn't that thing supposed to have 2 Buick 430 engines in it Dave? I've seen the instructions for the kit, the engines look pretty simple. If you have one handy, could you please post a couple pics of it. I'm curious to what it looks like.

That's looking great Rick. Not sure if you noticed or not but the grille's upside down. The rounded corners are to the bottom.

Git this in the main yesterday. I've been wanting a DC-9 for a long time as it was the first plane I was ever in. As common as these planes were, I'm surprised at how scarce models of them are. I just need a set of Air Canada decals for it. Now I'm looking for a DC-8 to go with it. If anyone has an unbuilt one in 1/144, maybe we could work a trade??

All the kits released after the mistake was corrected have the correct grille. That's pretty well all the ones after the first 2 drag kits and the stock kit with the blue Modelhaus resin builtup on the box.

Very nice. Love the green.

Ya know. This whole thing makes me want to move my '57 Nomad project up to the front of the line. I got an old built AMT '57, an old built AMT '55 Nomad, a rechromed Revell '57 Nomad rear bumper which I sectioned to fit the AMT body and a rechromed front bumper which I seprated the part that attaches to the hood and removed the mold seams from. I hope I can make something presentable from all of this. Might even fill the hole in the firewall. ?

I idid put the Pinto on hold for the moment Carl. I had too many projects on the table. But it'll be coming back soon. ?