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Snake, those green Cobras aren't that hard to find. It's the "Reggie Jackson" series you're looking for. There's 5 on the bay right now.

Looks good. I did mine in the same colors. One thing to look out for is the tail lights. Seems they want to be a touch lower on the inner ends than the outer ends. Most of these Camaro kits I've seen built have this problem, including mine. I never noticed it until after the car was finished and I looked at the pics I took of it.

Another little quickie curbside build. A friend of mine [YES, I have friends ?] gave me this a couple years ago. I had started stripping it but floods happen and when I wanted to get back to it, I couldn't find the bumpers. Anyway, I got a nice pair of bumpers and a so-so set of windows for it off the bay last week. Plans are for a simple build with candy green paint over white pearl for the body and maybe darker green candy over silver flake on the roof. The KH spoke wheels from the AMT '66 Mercury with white stripe tires. I may try thermoforming a couple more rear windows from the one I have as I have another coupe that needs a rear window.

Snake, Indycals has Lotus decals for a few cars. I don't see a 33 but there's a couple other cars that are close. They do them in a few scales including 1/32.

Would the wheels from this kit be close? Or maybe this?

Very nice !!

The AMT kit represents the uncommon "camper special" which had an extra long wheelbase, not the regular long wheelbase you usually see.

#1 is from an AMT '64 Pontiac Tempest annual.

Beautiful candy paint. Really makes the car come alive. ???

That's what gave me the idea to use the Ford engine. I remember back in the mid to late '90s one of the rodding magazines did a Caddy engine buildup article using the Ford parts with adapters.

Years ago Ken Kitchen cast a 60's/'70s Cadillac engine. I had done reference on the engine and mastered the valve covers. It was based on a 429 Ford and was supposed to have been modified to look more like a Caddy unit but Ken didn't make the mods I suggested. Still pretty close but not 100%. I understand he doesn't cast them any more though. Pics from Ken's fotki,,

The #1 wheels are Johan '77-'79 Coupe deVille.

So, This would be a 429 then? The distributor and alternator makes it look like a mid-'70s engine.

The whole engine's incorrect, not just the air cleaner. It's just the Olds engine from the Toronado with "CADILLAC" script added to the valve covers.

'70 "el Camino Grande" full size I built a few years ago. Stretched the wheelbase a little and did a lot of cutt'n and paste'n to get the proportions right.

Haven't polished it out yet but the paint is finished. It's just sitting together loose here. Definitely not going with these wheels, they just happen to be on the chassis when I got it. Haven't decided on exactly which wheels I'll go with yet.

I've been building a small stash of airliners but this is the first one I've built ,, and it took years for me to finish. Rodan kit. Pretty simple really. good for a beginner like myself. The decals were a bit of a job though. The window holes in the red line decal didn't line up so I had to cut it in sections to fit right, plus the red decals were fragile and tended to want to break apart. Luckily good old Testors flat red was a good match for touchups. Also, all the little white stars are separate decals. Took hours to apply them.

Hey Murray Hi from the Maritimes. ?

The 5.0 engine in all the Revell '32 hot rods has one of those compressors.

Sweet !! Love the color on that.

Marty, have you guys thought about offering a transkit to backdate the available Dodge van to a mid'70s version. There seems to be some interest in vans again and we know the chances of Round 2 backdating the kit are slim to none. Maybe also offer some options for it like a fender flares and air dam kit and possibly a custom tube grille front end.

Sometimes you can't. But sometimes there's slight changes made over the years or possibly the annual was molded in a unique color or there were unique parts in the original not in the reissue. For instance, annual AMT '69 Rivieras had a vinyl top, the reissues were smooth. The JoHan '69 Road Runner annuals had a correct '69 interior but the reissues had '70 interior with the hi-back seats and different sew pattern. You'd need to be more specific Carl. A lot of the reissues are direct copies of the original from the same molds so there'd be no way to tell for sure

It's not caused by too hot paint. The paint just makes it more visible.

That's exactly what Casey said, it's where the plastic meets in the mold when coming from different directions. I bet that's a nice coat of Duplicolor lacquer that you sprayed on that hood and the texturing and line wasn't there before you painted it. Every plastic kit has that somewhere, not just the new ones. It's just a matter of how the plastic interacts with the paint. A couple light coats of BIN over the primer to seal it before the color coats and that's not an issue.

2713 in 1977 and 2453 in 1978. A very rare car for the '70s.