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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.

I concur with Bill.

Great save Raoul.

Snowy day with nothing to do except work on models. but before I go start on that I thought I'd post an update on my T/A. Haven't touched it since Christmas as it's too cold out in my garage now but I had done some work on the paint before putting it away for the winter. Wet sanded it with 400 , 800 , 1000 then 2000 grit paper then buffed it out with 3M compound. Turning out pretty good but I should have done more prep on the doors before painting. There's some small waviness that's more visible now that it's shiny that I didn't see before. I'm gonna try spraying a few more coats of clear on the doors and block them out and buff then out again when it warms up. Hopefully, that will take care of it.

I've been doing this for years too but I use sheet plastic and make them as big or small as I want and in any shape. I just glue the wet or dry sandpaper right to the plastic block with superglue.

The windshield from the AMT kit "might" fit. Hard to say 100% with resin. The rear window would not fit at all, wrong roof style. If it were me, I'd find a cheep Lindberg '61 Impala or an AMT '62 BelAir and swap the whole roof section. They both have the same roof as the Olds in 1/1. That way you're pretty well guaranteed the glass will fit. Loads of work though. You could always check the fit of the glass from the Chevy kits and the windshield from the Pontiac, Heck, you might get lucky.

Anyway, gotta go run the old snowblower through the yard for the third time this week. Later.

Bill, why do you think you have to educate me on how a turbocharger works anyway? Contrary to what you might think, not everyone on this forum is an idiot. I'm one, sure , but not everyone is. I know from reading your posts over the years that you are trying to be helpful but maybe being confrontational when you try to correct someone may not be the best way to go? "Yeah, I've heard of draw-through. And blow-through. And I've designed and built and tuned them. Have you?" seemed very confrontational to me, especially the "Have you?" part. The OP asked a question about a model and I posted a couple suggestions on what was available. I'm no mechanic and I don't pretend to be, but I do know something about plastic model kits, which is, they usually don't run no matter how accurately they are built. I really think the problem here is you are talking about real turbochargers and I'm talking about little peices of plastic which are supposed to look like turbochargers and they are not the same thing. Anyway, You know you are not going to quit the forum. You've been in a lot bigger dust-ups in the past and will be in more in the future. I still consider you one of the few friends I have here so I hope you're not to P'd off.

Atta boy.

No Bill, I don't have any knowledge on the subject whatsoever. Never had a turbo equipped car, never worked on a turbo equipped car and have only rode in one turbo equipped car and that was a Chevy Cruise. Does this mean I shouldn't have posted in this thread? If so, I apologise. I will make it a point to never post anything in any more threads past a generic "atta boy" or "good job". But I do know what came in what kit and how to look at a picture. Like I said in my last post, it looks like the Monogram kit setup is missing a pipe from the compressor to the manifold, is that right?

Atta boy, nice work so far.

What? you guys never heard of a "draw thru" turbo setup? But, yea, the Monogram setup is missing the extra pipe that should go form the compressor [where those air cleaners are in the ends] to the manifold. http://www.dailyturismo.com/2013/04/05k-new-old-stock-martin-turbo-systems.html

That's because I can't find any good pics of turbo'd big blocks. Would they work any different Greg?

Snake, some of the AMT modified stockers from the '70s had a BBC with a Tarantula manifold. I had a Gremlin like pictured below with one, I bet some of the others also had the same engine.