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I woke up in the middle of the night last night with the color ,,, light sage green pearl. Medium sage top. something along these lines. I think it works good with the strait, slab sides of the car, similar to what the Pontiac has.

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Got this in the mail from Steve G. [thanks again!] There were stickers on the seats, came right off like scotch tape. I'd been wanting a '64 Pontiac to do a mild custom ,, shaved trim and door handles and painted candy orange but the trim on this one is too nice to shave off so it'll be more of a stock build , just nice paint, lowered with white walls and some sort of mags. Gotta decide on a new color now though.

LOL,, too weird. Back around '98 or '99 I used the same set of wheels on this kit ,, painted the wheel black to match the car and left the rim and center "bolt" detail in chrome.

You're making me want to build a '69 Camaro, Snake ,,, a Revell '69 Camaro.?

David, something else to take into consideration is the overall length of the body a Parisienne is 216.5 inches long a Bonneville is 223.5 inches long So, there's a 7 inch difference in overall length. 5 inches difference in wheelbase. The other 2 inches is lost behind the rear wheels. To shorten the Bonneville body down to the length of the Parisienne can get quite complicated when it comes to the rear 1/4 panels because of the way they flare up just behind the door and then back down again. One of my uncles had a white Grand Parisienne Brougham when I was in grade school. Great looking car. Looked like the one in this pic but white with brown roof, white with brown inside also, buckets with console. Quite a rare car, I'd imagine. I've often thought of building something similar but just can't bring myself to cut into a 53 year old body. I see Vic's resin has a '68 sometimes , might be worth looking into. BTW, just to make things simpler, one inch = very close to 1 MM in 1/25 scale.

I have most of the trim now on the body. Just have the rocker trim to do. I'm also about 3/4 finished with the interior. I decided to go with dark blue as it was an available color with black body on these cars and it's a bit different. I have to do the area around the gauges and clean it up a bit. I also have the glass installed. I must say, the glass in this 50 year old kit fits incredibly well. Better than a lot newer kits I've done.

You could use the engine from one of the Olds 442s to make one of those miserable early '80s Olds diesels ??

A masterwork Steve. ?

That's not Linda Vaughn. She was never that good looking even in her prime.

Ah, yes, I did see those photos. What a candy store !! ?

Ya wanna know what I think? ,, Bill Geary and Juha Airio better look out ,,, there's a new top dog in town. ?

No, I don't believe they do still exist. They would have been updated yearly until '70, which was the end of the line for the Coronet kits. Yes, they were release announcements but they were apparently either testing the waters or based on mis-labled moulds, depending who you talked to. And, as others have said, obviously if they were out there they would have been reissued already. No one would have left an sure money maker like that in storage.

Left looks like AMT '65 Chevelle/Elcamino and the right one looks like the custom cap in the AMT '64 Mercury Marauder .

'S OK Jim, ramble away. I tend to do that too when the topic of '69 Rivieras comes up. ?

Thanks guys, ?

Great old survivor and excellent restoration. Kudos ! ?

Looks great in grey Randy. ?

Thanks Carl.

Seems there's been a lot of Riviera models being built lately. So to paraphrase Ms Joplin, "My friends all build Rivieras, I must make amends". ? To that end I decided to build a Thunderbird as sort of a "call and answer" to all the Riviera builds. Nothing too complicated. I had one of the AMT "Allison in Thunderland" funnycars for a while with plans to build a street car from it so when a pair of pre-built '69s came up on e-bay for a good price I jumped on it. I'll use the funnycar body, which is completely stock , for this build with interior and chassis from one of the builts. I now have the stock funnycar body painted and 1/2 foiled. Tamiya black spray with Testors wet look clear. I'm also picking away at the '62 Chrysler seen in the pic as it's a long term project but right now, this one's really speaking to me.

Great looking car. Excellent job on the trim and details. ?

I almost didn't open this thread ,, another '69 Camaro and all but I'm sure glad I didn't. That is one great looking build. Love the paint and the custom touches.

Excellent !! Very cool and I also dig the wheels. ?

Marc Nellis , a member on here does some red resin tail lights. He may do these, I don't know. But it's worth firing off a PM if you can find him. A moderator may be able to help with that.

The Monogram "Son of Ford" '32 has similar wheels also.