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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.

I don't have to, I know what they go for but that's not an original AMT kit. I also know that's a ridiculous price for a 1/25 resin body with just the bumpers and hood no matter what the subject. Yes, AAM used to sell a Cougar. So did R+R Resins. Unfortunately, both are out of business. There were a couple others that did resin Cougars too.

85 bucks seems kinda high for a body, bare bumpers/grille and hood. I got mine from Modelhaus for under 60 and it included in interior and plated bumpers. Glad I got it when I did.

Mark, the "V: is the speed rating of the tire, it has nothing to do with the size. It means the tire is rated good for 135 MPH. The 50, 40 and 35 are the "aspect ratio". That's the height of the tire in % of the width. There should be another number, such as 205, 225 or 245 etc. that would tell you the height of the tire but AMT never put them on the tire so it's hard to say exactly what they're supposed to represent. Anyway, some of the Monogram "performance cars" from the '90s had them such as thier Formula Firebirds and Porsche 911 kits but the sidewall detail was completely different. Lindberg did some Gatorbacks too and put them in a couple of thier kits. Some of thier '40 Ford coupes and '34 Ford pickups had them. They might fit your wheels a bit better but they're not molded quite as nicely.

Just checked , the 35s are slightly wider but the same height. The 50s are slightly smaller. I don't think they made ZR 60s. Monogram also made Goodyear Gatorback tires in a couple different sizes but in 1/24. One may be the height you're looking for but they'd be too big for the wheels you're using. The rims would fall right through the openings.

The Revell Glidden Motoecraft Thunderbird has them. IIRC, the kit is 1/24.

Another little update on the 1/25. Finished up the interior this weekend while keeping an eye on the high water levels in the river and my basement. The paint is a bit shinier than I'd like on the seats but my old spraycan of dullcoat seems to need replacing. The shades are pretty close though. And a mockup with the glass tinted and installed and the interior in. BTW, the bodywork is coming along well on the 1/1. I think if I hadn't had to stay home last weekend on floodwatch, we could have had it almost ready for paint. I picked up the paint, decals and new window sill felts over the last month so I pretty well have everything I need to finish up the outside now.

It does affect Japanese kits sometimes too. I have one of the Hasegawa '66 Pontiac Bonnevilles with those beautiful whitewall tires. The white is styrene and it's now quite melted and deformed in the tires.