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Looks great. well worth the troubles.

Nice paint Luke ! ??? Nice clean build too.

Looks good Steve.

Don't feel too bad, I know for a '79 Thunderbird project car in pretty good shape,, with a T-top,, for about what he's getting for his resin Thunderbirds.

IF, you want to be correct with the bird, you need the gold/orange one Keith makes. I suspect he'd sell you the sheet with the pinstripes separate as they're on a separate sheet anyway. The all gold bird is unique to the black S/E cars. , , and the later version does have the black as on the kit decals. Early ones were clear in the black areas like Greg's pic shown in his post above. BTW, all the hood birds of this design had black centers no matter what color they were. ,,, Except the later gold ones for the black S/E cars.

Same here but mine won't be a "master" for casting. It'll just be a one-off for myself.

Very nice !!

I've thought about this before too. My solution would be to find another stock car body and use the rear wheel openings as a basis for the new front ones. The shape is very close between the front and rear so should need minimal bodywork to look right.

Very nice

Another nice save Snake. I think the grille turned out particularly well.

No, he WAS a yam ,, and what a yam !!

I was just looking at my old Aurora/Monogram kit last night. I think I'm gonna build it as a custom and get one of these when it comes out.

I suggest you get some foil adhesive. I haven't used the gold much but I did find that it doesn't stick as well as the regular foil. That said, it's looking great so far.

What a sweet little roadster !! Love everything about it especially that it's built from spare parts. ???

Ray, is that the one with the lights and electric motor that went inside the engine block? My father got me one like that when I turned 7 or 8. As you can imagine, it was wasted on me at the time but I'd kind of like to take another crack at one if I could figure out just exactly which kit it was.

Look'n good Tom. Love the wheels you're using. The Jackman looking wheels look cool too. BTW, this kit never came with a console between the seats, just a shift lever and park brake lever.

Those are not the same wheels as shown on the new boxart. They have a flatter face on the spokes, not concave like a traditional Hurst wheel as shown on the box art..

True. It really needs the headlight area corrected. It was fine before the track car butchering and hasn't been brought back even though they already took a couple trys at it. New tail lights or just casting the tail lights into the rear bumper/grille piece would be a big improvement too.

I built this over 15 years ago. AMT kit with Revell Buttera T suspension grafted on the kit frame with scratch made crossmembers. 302 from a Revell '32. 2 spoke "banjo" steering wheel made from scratch. HOK Bittersweet pearl paint with custom mix Testors beige enamel.

, , And that's what makes building street machines and hot rods fun. everyone had different tastes and ideas on how they want their car.

I copied this from the Q&A section from pontiactripower.com " First, a 455 has the same deck heigth as the 326, 350, 389, 400, 421, and 428. That said, the head is the critical factor. Heads from 61 to 64 have different water passages, a different bolt pattern, and a different angle where they meet the intake than do the 65 and later heads. Therefore, what most people want is the popular 65 or 66 tripower to fit the improved and readily available 65 up heads. A 65 or 66 tripower will bolt directly to the 65 to 71 Pontiac heads. However, starting in 72, Pontiac has an extra exhaust crossover port in one of the heads. The 6X head is a mid-70s head and has this extra port. The 65/66 intake will not cover this port. There is no special intake gasket to accomplish this. The force of the exhaust is too intense for a gasket to stop. Best method is to have a machine shop fill this extra port while you are having the head work done. At least one customer filed this port while the head was on the car, using JB Weldand reports no problems. I am much more comfortable with the first method." So, id dosen't look like all that much work but I agree with Snake and the others, A good 4bbl would be much more common and just be a better choice for a street driven car at the time. The only real reason for a tripower over a well set up 4bbl would be for looks but even then it would look old and "out of fashion" for a car of that vintage.

Dual. And if I showed you a pic of the GMC and Chevy plates, cropped to show just the section between just behind the rear axle and where they grafted the section into the Chevy plate, you'd swear thet were from the same kit. Also. the raised ridges under the bed area are a touch wider on one. [forgot which even though I just looked at them 10 minutes ago ?]

So was the MPC long bed stepside. Both are from the same kit.

Oh, good , now I don't have to take any pics. , , BUT, just what should I do with all those pickup parts all over my workspace now? ?? Yea, it's kind of a mess. They just should have cut a new box for the MPC kit. I'm wondering if it doesn't have something to do with The Dukes of Hazzard? Last time we seen that MPC Chevy, it was "Cooter's tow truck". Maybe they didn't want to mess with a Dukes product and hacked up the AMT GMC instead? Just a wild guess there. I have no more ideas of why they did what they did than the next guy.