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Yes. That's the second tool MPC cut to keep up with demand for the Blackbird kit. It's the same kit that's out now in this box,, The '79 that's been out for a couple years was the annual.

They're really easy to make. But I think you mean 90 degree boots as shown in your pic?? First I made a simple jig. I cut a slit in a peice of plastic to hold the boot material. Then I cut that off at a 45 degree angle so the slit is the length you want your boot. Cut a bunch of peices. Normally you need 2 per end so 4 per wire. 16 for a V8 plus 4 if you have a separate coil so 18 pieces total. Put 2 pieces on your plug wire so the angles are pointing at each other and make a sharp 90 degree bend between them. Shove the pieces together aligned so they form the 90 degree boot and secure it with a drop of super glue. That's all there is to it. But, you might want to use strait boots on the plug end but it varies BTW, I can't take credit for this technique. I was told about it years ago. So long ago that I can't remember who it was that told me about it.

Anyone else look at that and think "TURTLE POWER !!" ?

I dig it Michelle. ??? Leave off the white hood stripes and add a set of Magnum 500 wheels with white letter tires and it'd be a replica of my old Nova.

Just incredible Marcos !! ???

This is my original '74. Hopefully, you can see the character lines around the wheel openings in this shot.

Well, she's up on wheels. Just details to do now.Again,, MPC cab and interior and rear fenders. Revell chassis, engine and box.

I have a couple bottles of the stuff only because my local shop stocks it instead of Testers. I haven't actually used any yet. One thing about it is you HAVE TO use their thinner. I usually use lacquer thinner but it doesn't mix into the stuff. Alcohol won't mix into it either.

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 .