Can-Con

Big '69 Ford. Note the hood.

Now there's something you don't see everyday. ? Nice work, I was following along , cool to see you replicate your old ride. BTW, I did see a '79 painted just like that at a gas station a few weeks ago.

On the earlier cars, yes but for '79 it was on all Novas. My Nova was as base as could be but it did have that chrome.

got this far this afternoon. Cut the top off with an X-acto saw and added a small tab of sheet plastic to the underside of the back of the opening. I was originally going to cut the sail panels from the back of the roof also but as it turned out, I didn't have to. I just made a relief cut up each side so it would spread apart. I just sank the sail panels down at their forward ends and pulled the main part of the roof up. In the end I'll have about a 2 to 2 1/2 inch chop. When the sail panels are solid , I'll cut the base of the A-pillars and vent posts away, make notches where the cuts are. When I glue the top of the windshield frame back to the roof, the bottom of the pillars will slot into the notches.

Gareth, don't forget the trim on the front edge of the hood and fender extensions. It was standard on all models Nova in '79.

Um, no, not really. It's at least twice as big as it should be. It's the first thing I noticed when I had my 1/1 and compared it to the kit. [pic from the net, not my 1/1]

The emblem in the center looks like a Ranchero emblem but I don't remember any Ranchero kits with a hubcap like that. Maverick maybe???

Stunning !!! ???

Yes, same tooling with expected annual updates. There's one with a red car on the box too. IIRC, one's a '90 and one's a '91. This was from when Ertl bought out AMT and MPC

Perfect !!

Let me know if this doesn't work and I'll take a pic of the actual one I have.

The kit I have has a hood with '85-'90 Z-28 style louvers on it as an option.

Actually, I was referring to the real music they sampled from other real artists to use on their "works" For example, Puff Daddy using The Police's "Every Breath You Take" for his "I'll be Missing You" or Vanilla Ice using the bass line from Queen's "Under Pressure" for "Ice Ice Baby".

Sounds cool. I have a GTZ I plan to do some day it has a nice Quad4 engine.

Thee think about all of these kind of lists is it's just someone's opinion. Not a verifiable list like "best selling" that can be backed up with solid numbers. Still fun to see where your favorites land on their list though. Here are the albums I own that made their list,, Pet Shop Boys, 'Actually' #435 Dire Straits, 'Brothers in Arms #418 Blondie, 'Blondie' #401 The Cars, 'The Cars' #353 Peter Gabriel, 'So' #297 Devo, 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' #252 The Police, 'Synchronicity' #159 George Michael, 'Faith' #151 Blondie, 'Parallel Lines' #146 Bruce Springsteen, 'Born in the U.S.A.' #142 But there are some on the list I really should have like the Elvis Costello albums.

Kinda hard for me to forget them considering what my last name is. I did catch some flak because of the similarity.

Over the last couple days, I've started to get adds that are the full size of my screen. more than one in each thread. Dell desktop with 32" screen.

Well, if you likes that, how about this one?

Humm I see. All the pics I've seen say the ones I posted were sharks and the chrome plated ones were super sharks. But, yea, that would make sense. Looks like they were incorrect.

Got the frame painted and the front suspension attached. Used the kit suspension and just split the wishbone and attached the back ends to the frame.