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Looks great Jason. Love the color. Don't know how I missed this last month but I'm digg'n it now.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the comments, makes it worth the time posting it.

This has the V6 in 1/25 but also comes with a high[ish] price.

Thanks everyone. Yes, the wipers are photo etch. They may look a bit different because they were made by a company that usually does aircraft photoetch and these haven't been available since the '90s. [the name escapes me at the moment]

Unusual color for a Charger but it really works on it. It looks fantastic!

Man ! She's a real beauty !

The Revell '64/'65 Chevy pickups would also be a good donor for a 2 wheel drive chassis. They were very similar on the 1/1 trucks

Been working on this one on and off for around 5 years now. It's not perfect but it's done and I'm happy with it. Started with an old '68 cab and used a last issue '72 for the box and chassis plate. Both were shortened. Then the '68 trim was added to the sides and the tail gate and tail light sections were rebuilt to look more like the real trucks. Custom mixed pearl blue paint. Resin headlight lenses added along with tail light and backup light lenses made from scratch. The engine and most of the underhood detail ls from the '72 kit but I smoothed the firewall and added more correct inner fenders. Radiator and shroud is made from scratch. Interior is stock '68 with shift and signal levers added along with flocking. Pegasus wheels and tires with Cragar SS centers added that I made and cast. She's not a 100 point build but I'm happy with it.

I remember those Uniroyal commercials from around '73/'74. I guess they worked because when we came back from Vancouver Island to New Brunswick by car in '74, dad had put a brand new set of Uniroyal white wall radials on the '68 Electra. I'm wondering how well those Elcamino "Royal Knight" decals will fit the 1/25 MPC kit I have. There's one in the brochure for that year in dark red/burgundy with the red decals that looks great.

The Monogram and MPC are both nice. Contrary to what some might first think though, the MPC probably has the edge in detail over the Monogram this time. Here's a link to the instruction sheet of an MPC Fox Mustang at the Drastic Plastic's fotki site. http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/mpc-instructions/1-sort/mpc-wild-breed-must/ The only Monogram Fox Mustang I could find on the site is the "New Monkees" kit. But it will give you an idea of how the Monogram kits build up. http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/monogram-instructions/tv--movie/monogram-the-new-mo/

IIRC, the '82 Camaro was blue but I've also seen them in red , yellow and white. There was a black Firebird street machine kit with a blower through the hood in a 3-car set and a black Firebird S/E. [just the T/A kit with a flat hood. BUT it is definitly a Revell 3rd gen F-body. I'm kinda intimate with what they look like as I spent some quality time last winter replacing the floor in my '85 T/A.

Second vote for Elm City. It's my local shop and I've known Scott for about 20 years now. Long before he owned the shop he was a member of our local club so he knows models, not just sells them.

She turned out beautiful Steve.

IIRC, Ross Gibson passed away a few years ago. Like they say, if you see a resin product you want, get it then because you never know when it will disappear.

Very sharp.

How about the large size wheels and tires that AMT put in thier "Resto Rods" serise. They're already all on separate trees as they were just added to the original kits. I know some people don't like the tires that came with these wheels but I think they look OK, better than a lot of kit tires I've seen anyway. The ones in the Cougar and Chevelle were kinda ugly but the others looked good.

I think I'll pick up one for parts to restore this beastie. Took a fall after these pics were taken and some of the fragile suspension parts got broken. BTW ,,, I had one of the square grille ones back in the day and cut the front fenders and hood from an MPC CJ5 and put on it. IIRC, it fit right up with no needed mods aside from reinforcing the glue joint. Makes a cool looking custom that still looks almost stock.

A quick Google image search shows that they did indeed use those Monacos on the show as a "hero car" that "The Shat" drove. But there were also larger dodges and at least one of the smaller LTDs too.

Here's one I did on commission a few years ago. Not a hard kit to build, pretty strait forward. I did swap out the engine on this one and add some extra details to the engine bay as the 1/1 had a small block and the kit only has a small block. IIRC, I shaved off the emblems as they didn't match what was on the 1/1. The tires are from another kit. Probably did a few other things I can't recall right now, it was over 10 years ago when I built it. I have an original built-up too and there's a few more differences than Mark mentioned. The biggest being the glass parts. The current issue has separate windshield and rear window. The original had a 1-peice glass with the windshield, back and side glass all as one part, similar to what you'd get in many Japanese kits today. The stock rally wheels [shown on my build] are much wider now than the original. Also the front metal axle was replaced with shorter plastic pins and corresponding wheel backs. The seats are new with slightly wider pleats and the front ones are 2-peice with headrests now. The originals were one-peice with no headrests. There's probably more differences but that's the most noticeable ones to me.

Wish I had known you 13 years ago when I sent that tip in to S.A. Bill, I wouldn't have bothered. Just burn's my biscuits that almost everyone including, I see, one of the model paint companys does it but almost no one believes that I sent the idea to the magazine and I'd never seen anyone do it before. Heck, I don't even do it unless I want to see what 2 colors look like together before I waste the paint on a body.

Looks like it's the MPC "Tiger Shark" showcar. Hotwheels did a version and called it the "Python". I think that's what it is.

Huh. I'm building one too. All I had to do is sand down the ends of the dash a bit so it wouldn't spread out the interior bucket and everything just slid right in place for me.

Rick, if you need a proper set of grilles for that '71 look no further than the old MPC Dukes '69 Charger kits. Those grilles are wrong for a '69 but correct for a '71/'72. They fit right in because it's the kits they were made for. I used a set in my '72 annual rebuild.

Do it right up. They ain't that rare yet.