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The Revell Foose '67 Dodge Coronet R/T has a big set of Magnum 500s in it ,, too big maybe. They seem to scale out to 24 or 26 inches, too big for me. I bought the kit just for the wheels then traded them off when I found how big they are. The old AMT "Black Force" snap kit has a big set of steelies with baby moon caps if you can find one that hasn't been pirated of the wheels.

Nice save John.

Nice, gold always goes well with green.

Another kit with them is the AMT '72 Chevy pickup. There's 2 sets in that kit, plain and chrome. But the detail is a bit softer than the MPC ones. Those are actually the ones I'm using on my '68 Chevy pickup build.

MPC /AMT '84 GMC pickup , '80 Monte Carlo, any of the MPC/AMT late '70s-'80s Elcaminos

Looks like most of his stuff IS the old R+R stuff and IF i'm right, he may actually have the R+R '65 but just not offered it yet.

Hey, I hear ya. But I'd be more concerned with the hood missing the large crease right up the center and the vents not being positioned evenly. The kit actually started off as the '82 annual and came out in '81. Then updated every year the 3rd gen was made. The Knight Rider kit was done along side the annual for most of the kit's life. That's why only the first '82 annual kits had the solid top. The T top was added for the KR kit in mid '82 and both kits had them ever since. They made some shortcuts. The hood was the original smooth hood that was in the '82 to '84 kit then given the vents [poorly] for the '85. The wheels are not actually the lace spoke GTA wheels, those wheels were in all the previous 3rd gen Firebird annuals, the '79 and '80 Monte Carlo annuals and a few of the Elcamino annuals around that time as the optional wheels. So, yea, the kit has lots of "issues" but from spending lots of time under my 1/1 '85, I can tell you the rear suspension , aside from the missing parts I mentioned above is pretty accurate to the real cars. BTW, here's mine right after the new paint a couple weeks ago.

Hum,, aside from the lack of the torque arm attached to the transmission and a panhard rod, looks pretty close to me.

Late '70s/early '80s MPC annuals had some of the best small block Chevy engines. Look in thier Chevy pickups, Elcaminos and Monte Carlos. Lost of seprate parts like the fuel pumps, water pumps and timing chain covers. Usually they even are 2bbl carb engines with auto trannys for you base model builders.

They're the '79 kit now. Those annual kits were updated every year so the previous years could no longer be issued. [BTW, the '77 Blackbird is a separate mold ]

Does anyone at these companys do any research anymore?

Pretty sure R+R resin used to have a '65. But the owner dies a few years ago so no more are being produced. They say only about 5% of resin kits bought actually get built so one may come along.

It's the "Wheeler Dealer" '79 Monte Carlo. Picked it up a few years ago at a show. It's built and painted almost exactly how the one I had when they came out in '79 was done. Only difference is I used the common Testors bottle blue paint on the interior of mine which is a bit darker than what was used on this one. So it was just sitting on my table while I worked on my truck. Got board and took a break from the truck and sat the MC on the big Cragars. It just looks so "right" sitting on the table like that. I have a couple other projects on the go right now so it'll wait until I get one or two finished before starting on this. I'm thinking keeping it black and using the Cragars and tires on it now and going mild touring look.

First thing is, those tires are not rubber, they're vinyl, as most kit tires are. I have a set of tires on a Corvette I used white testors paint on that I built in the early '80s that are still sticky. Lacquer and acrylics will dry just fine on those tires. You could try spraying the tires with a couple coats of lacquer or acrylic dullcoat first, then the jell pen should work fine,, but I'd try it first because different brands may work differently. Or just use an acrylic. I did these white walls with acrylic and they worked just fine.

Mostly just out of the box with a strait pin shift lever and wire signal light lever. Brake and gas pedal made from scrap sheet plastic and some flocking for carpet.

Ok, good to know. I'll still be using the '88 up pickups as chassis donors for the older trucks if I can get them though. Such nice suspension and engines, makes nice street trucks.

Sweet Charger. The owner must be extremely happy with it, I would be.

As I understand it, the mid '60s trucks' front suspension was almost identical to these trucks ,, probably the '88 up generation too. So. one of the Revell '64/'65 trucks front suspension should be good and the whole chassis from an AMT '88 up short box should be really good for this too.

Hi Fred, My technique is pretty simple. I take any old headlight I want copies of and place it face down Then take a peice of aluminum foil and place it shiny side down over the headlight Press the foil down onto the light. I use a soft pencil eraser to help get all the detail into the foil I can. Do this several times and get a bunch of good foil copies done. Flip the foil over, this is your mold for the lights. fill them up so they are just slightly rounded over with your resin and set aside to harden. After they're hard you can trim off the excess foil and resin and use them as is, the foil makes the reflector. or you can peal the foil off and use them as any regular clear lens.

Thanks again everyone, Here's a link to the finished truck,,

Classic Industries has it in spray cans. $16.99 a can. PP809 - 1968 M46 Ivy Gold OER® Color Coat Spray 12 Oz. Aerosol Canhttps://www.classicindustries.com/product/1985/pontiac/firebird/parts/pp809.html

Mark, Please PM him or post in his thread, Thank you.

Very nice !! Perfect colour and clean workmanship, just beautiful.

Finished up the wheels and got the stance dialed in. Also finished the front of the cab and glued the box and cab together. The headlights were drilled out and replaced with a couple of my resin ones. the bumper was shaved and replated. I modified the mounting tabs so it would sit about a scale inch higher. Didn't quite look "right" before.

Snopes pretty well debunks that whole "Nova in spanish speaking countrys" myth pretty well. Here's a link , interesting reading. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp