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looks like their regular D in a 19" aluminum sleeve. The tires look like the ones that come on a lot of their 19" wheels too.

Sure,,, Actually, it's a lot farther along than in this pic. It's only a few more hours work away from being ready for paint now. Here's what it looked like when I got it home,,

Pretty close to what the 1/1 should look like at the end of this summer. The paint turned out a bit darker than the 1/1 but that may be lighting. No engine shots, nothing to see, all black, . anyway,,

Looks like these ones from Plamoz are prettyclose. http://plamoz.com/products/124-570s-design-a-f19-r20-wheels-tires-set Or Pegasus Elites. Either one could be widened with a set of of the right size sleeves.

I also have one of those, built when it was new. One of my cousins had the MPC curbside kit, which was also supposed to be 1/24, it was noticably larger than the Revell kit. The real cars had a wheelbase of 102.4 inches. If the kit wheelbase is approximately 104 mm, it's 1/25 ,, if it's approximately 108 mm, it's 1/24. When I re-do mine it'll be similar to the incredible jade green one I seen on the net a few months ago ,, any colour choice for yours yet? Oh, and I agree about the carburetors ,,, they're shite.

I would expect,, But would also definitely go for a,,

I thought I'd show the taillight panel I've been working on. Started with a kit part from a different year and cut out the backup light areas and replaced them with clear stock, then fogged the back with lacquer thinner. Sanded it all flush and added a couple coats of Tamiya acrylic clear to smooth it all out. Then I added the bird decal to the center and the grid lines with pinstrip decals , gave it another couple coats of clear. Not perfect, grid lines should have been thicker but it was the only pinstrip decals I have, but not too bad, I think.

Looks like Grabber Orange to me Monty.

Just perfect !!

Very nice. You did your homework and detailed them out correctly. Great work. While both are nice, I like the '69 best. Probably because I liked the real one I had so much.

The Cobra kit may be over 50 but it still builds up nice. Takes a lot of sanding to get the tops of the front fenders right though. Only thing not from the kit on mine is the tires.

IIRC, the MPC Camaro and Firebirds were the first appearance of thier infamous BFG Radial T/As, which was a pretty good size for the kits. The Revell kits had narrow rubber tires, maybe appropriate for a base Firebird or Camaro but too small for a T/A or Z-28. I never had one of the early 3rd gens from AMT or Monogram so I can't comment on the tires. I do know the standard size tire for a Z-28 or T/A was 215/65-15, so not really a low profile tire compared to what we have today. That's the size of the Eagle G/A tires my T/A's wearing in this pic, as you can see, not what most people would concider "low-profile".

Been thinking about it all day at work, I think I was out of line, I know you were only joking and I shouldn't have let it bother me. I apologise.

Now, why do you have to be like that?

Humm ,, now I'm wondering how the white walls in the new Pegasus wheels will hold up over time???

Revell visible Turbo engine. IIRC, based on the early Fox Mustang engine.

No John, they are all MPC designed parts even though they were labled AMT. Ertl bought out the company at about that same time. it takes years to get a kit from design to production. They had to be designed long before the buyout. The pro street parts were in the first issue of the '69 GTX hardtop. Exact same parts. Designed by MPC at the same time they designed the stock kit. The first kit in the series was the '68 Road Runner, it came out about late '88/ early '89. and the pro street GTX came out somewhere around '92/'93.I remember because I had to build a model of my brother-in-law's real '69 GTX and I had to buy both kits to get the parts to build a non-pro street GTX. The '70 Coronet came out a few years later. it was just the body and interior mated to the other kits chassis. The windshield is also from the '68 Road Runner kit, that's why it has to be cut to fit right. BTW, you can't tell anything about these kits from the color of the plastic. The first issue of the "new" '70 Coronet I have is molded in the brown plastic as well as at least 2 '68 Road Runners I have.

Jeremy, the "Blackbird" decal sheet Keith Marks makes is very comprehensive, including all the pinstriping that the special edition 1/1 cars have. Although true, the pinstripping wouldn't be long enough for a 1/24 body, I don't see any reason you couldn't still use the bird decals and lettering from his sheet. Although slightly smaler, I don't think anyone would notice the difference unless it was placed beside a kit with the 1/24 decals . Besides, Keith's decals would be printed in metalic gold as opposed to the non-metallic of the kit decals

I know how you feel Dennis. I feel the same way about all the resin boat tail Riviera kits I've seen. Not one of them got the roof and rear window area right, and that's probably the most distinctive part of the car. I haven't built any. When you're intimate with the design like that , it's very hard to ignore. Too bad Revell dropped the ball on that body, the rest of the kit is great. I'm not that intimate with the Mustang body, it does look off to me but I'll probably build it eventually,, unless Revell sees fit to correct it somewhere down the road, then the kit I have becomes a donor chassis for the old MPC Mustang I built when I was a kid.

John. You seem to be talking about all the same kit. and it's all rebranded stuff from MPC. There is only one '70 Coronet body, it was originally from the MPC annual. The chassis now under those Coronet kits was originally MPC, not AMT. They were designed years before Ertl bought out MPC and the first issue of the '68 Road Runner kit that the chassis came from was one of the last kits MPC designed before Ertl took them over. Nothing AMT there except the name.

I think you're out of luck with that one Tom. But. like you said, easy enough to make. Just cut the spokes from sheet stock in 1 piece and add to the face of another set of wheels. You could add the character lines with the back of a #11 blade the same as you would for door or trunk opening lines.

There's a couple they could have come from. The AMT '63 Impala and one of the Monogram '57 Corvettes come to mind first. I'm sure there's a couple more that had daises but not as common.

The AMT VW Sirocco has 13" wheels, including a deep racing set. They're the mesh type but you may be able to cut the rim away from the centers to use on other style centers. But looks like the Aoshimas are pretty close to your wheels anyway.

Hey, you got it done,, looks good. Did you get the bubble tinted on the first shot?

I'm pretty sure all the resin ones are copies of the original AMT kits.