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I've never heard of one but isn't that what the blue body in these pics is?? Anyone know what exactly I'm looking at and who makes it? I've searched google and came up with nothing on 1/24 Jag 420. I know Airfix did one in 1/32 but this looks much bigger. Almost as large as the 1/25 and 1/24 bodys around it.

Great looking truck.

They both look great but I love the paint on the Camaro. I keep coming back to look at it.

Took these pics yesterday after washing a 1/2 pound of bugs off the front bumper. LOL I'm driving it weekly. It's had a trip to a local speed shop for a "tune up" and I'm down to interior and details. Still haven't gotten around to fabbing up the new rear wing yet. This is what I started with 4 years ago. , , , and as of yesterday.

NJ, Did you get the kink [or lack there of] corrected on the Elcamino Royal Knight decals?

Looks good. Seems like that bed and roof section fits the '65 better than the kit it was made for.

The suspension I used was salvaged from an old gluebomb A-Team van but the current police van has the exact same parts. They're almost the same in the 1/1 trucks. Not quite but close enough for under something like this. I was told that the real van A-arms are longer on one side because of the engine offset but the kit parts look the same length to me. It takes a bit of cutting and filling to notch out for the frame but it works. The parts I had were damaged so I made my own uprights so I got to get it as low as I could and keep the thing still looking close to stock and make it poseable. Here's a couple pics.

Hey Snake. I should have checked this thread a few hours ago. Went digging and found the hood. Good to see you already have one though. About the Riv wheels. The Astro wheels are still in the kit. The 1/1 wheels weren't aluminum, just stamped steel and plated. The Skylark wires are also in the kit. one of my favorite wheels. Oddly, the same two wheels are in the Silhouette kit but the wires are narrower so a regular size tire fits them.

I dug my old one out and it's just as you said. Exact match. I apologize for the confusion, like I said, I didn't know the chassis was part of the redo on the GTO. Too bad they didn't do a better job on the restoration.

I have a couple MPC ones finished. The black and silver was built from the '84 GMC reissue. Front suspension on that one is from an AMT Chevy van kit. I made the wheel centers. This one is the original '78 2 wheel drive kit. Lots of cutting and grinding on the chassis to get it this low. Engine is from a Revell '68 Vette.

One of the later issues. I didn't know they did a new chassis when it was restored. But then again, you didn't specify which issue. I do have a pre- mod stocker chassis but I'd have to dig for it.

I'm looking at mine right now. Very close but not a match. AMT GM A-body definitely, '65 Chevelle or Olds Cutlass maybe? Nothing I have anyway.

Yup. '62 '63 and '64 Impala, '65 Chevelle and '66 ElCamino have the Chevrolet block letters in the right style script for the hood. This is the '65 Chevelle set.

Wasn't arguing with you Richard, just saying. It's like most people calling Beaumonts Pontiacs because they were sold at Pontiac dealers. GM of Canada never referred to them as Pontiacs but everyone calls them Pontiacs.

We've always called them "Mercury Monarchs" around here Richard. Using both names. Maybe it's an east coast thing. We always referred to my fathers '67 as a "Mercury Rideau" [ that's pronounced "Re-d'ho" with the emphasis on the Re for our non-Canadian friends]

I concur.

Thanks Richard. They're decals.

You might , , , but then again,,,, In the interest of full disclosure, this did have a quick once over with Tamiya polishing compound, as I do with all my models.

Seeing that depression in the middle of the hood and the short creases just behind the headlights, I'd say '50-'52 Pontiac hardtop. Kinda hard to nail down the year exactly from that one pic.

I've been using Tamiya acrylics for almost 30 years. I just use good old rubbing alcohol for cleanup and thinning.

Those Apache wheels were also in a couple more kits too. The AMT '67 and '68 Camaro and the '71 and '72 Monte Carlo annuals and something else too that I can't think of right now .

thanks again everyone.

Not on mine. BTW, I was looking at the brochures for the '73 and '74 and I don't see any difference by just looking at them. In the brochures, they both have Challenger script on the grilles.

Just checked my '74 annual. It also has 360 Four Barrel on the sides of the scoop at the back . It also has DODGE on the front of the hood. Challenger script at the back of both 1/4 panels and DODGE again between the tail lights. Nothing on the grille. It also has 1974 on both bumpers.

I was thinking more along the lines of it was the person who wrote the article who goofed, they call it steampunk in the header.