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Sorry, forgot to mention, I opened the doors. I was the original buyer/builder back in the '80s so I know for sure it's the MPC kit.

That's the kit the white painted remains are from. I'm sure now that the unpainted red car is the IMC/Testors car. Thanks.

OK, I think I found it ,,IMC/Testors kit.

Thanks guys, but it's quite a bit different than the remains of the MPC kit I have. Here's a few quick pics so you can see the differences.

Very interesting read. Loads of info , thanks guys. I have one question though, what do I have here? It seems to me I was told years ago but I just can't remember.

I just did some comparisons myself and Raoul and Snake are both right . The new '72 kit body is narrower than the '70 or red '80s '72, but only by about 1 mm across the widest part of the bumper opening. [about 70 1/2 mm compared to about 71 1/2mm for both the red '72 and the '70] The '70 bumper fits its body pretty well, also almost as well on the red '72. The new body is off a bit more but it still looks OK. Unfortunatly, both of my '72 bumpers have already been narrowed and are mounted on sprue , ready for replating so no point in measuring them. But I do believe they were noticeably wider or I wouldn't have bothered cutting them down. BTW, the timeline on these kits is actually a bit strange. The original '72 was modified into a race car in the '70s and back to a street car in the early '80s.[red car] Then it was modified again to the '70. The current '72 actually seems to be a different body. If you compare the red body with the current one you will find a lot of small differences,

I think they have a special on right now with a 6" garlic cheese fingers too !

Quite right Snake. Only Buick used those wheels. They do look very much alike though. The difference is the spokes on the Buick wheel are concave while the Magnums are convex.

Joe, I'm tell'n ya, the ones we have here are not the same as anywhere else in the world. If you're not from here you just won't get it. Ask any transplanted Maritimer . LOL You'll just have to take my word on this one.

Although similar, donairs and gyros are not the same thing. You can get them with Tzatziki sauce but usually with donair sauce which is sweeter and loaded with garlic. Also donairs are made with ground beef, the others are usually lamb.

I wouldn't worry too much about that seam. Most transmissions have seams in the cases. ,, of corse any pans molded to them should have the seam removed.

Here on the sea swept east coast of Canada Greco Donair is King!

Thanks Ron. There really isn't that much difference is there?

Would it be possible for someone to post a side by side comparison pic with the Monogram fastback and the AMT 1/25 coupe? I don't have any of the Monogram fastbacks myself and would like to see just how much difference there is in size between them.

Speaking of photo etch, MCG makes a small set for the AMT snapper.

I'm in the middle of a 2 week vacation so I'm making pretty good progress. . Interior's finished and installed along with the tinted windshield. Chassis is all set up and the engine's about 1/2 done. Most of the original engine was too glue damaged to use so I'm using the small block from the current '63 split window kit as it's almost identical. Just keeping the original valve covers. They were really nicely engraved but one's damaged. Hopefully some of the injection hardware will hide most of that. The taillight bezels were too damaged to save so I made new ones from some hollow plastic rod. It was slightly too large to fit in the openings so I used my cordless drill as a lath and turned it down with an X-acto knife until it fit neatly in the openings. Then I glued the rod to peices of plastic to hold them together and strait and trimmed them to fit. I just sprayed them with a coat of Alclad gloss black and will clean up the edges a bit more and give them another coat when dry then Alclad chrome. The original custom lenses will be cut to length and reused.

Yes, the old MPC annual bodys were accurate in that area. If you compare the newer kit with pics of a 1/1 you just can't un-see it.

That AMT '71 Duster kit is a good kit but it has serious proportion issues with the rear of the roof and rear side windows.

Very sharp Raoul. I like the red and silver combo.

Looks like Weird Al to me.

I have the Z and the T/A kits. I had a 1/1 S/E and tried to get a hold of that kit for years with no luck, that's OK though as I found out later that it's just the T/A kit with a flat hood. Same body as the T/A with the fender vents and wheel spats. Still pretty nice kit if you swap a proper small block Chevy engine in them. and the T/A body looks pretty accurate to the 1/1 '85 I have out in the garage.

Revells or Monograms? The Revell kit is nice ,, except for the totally incorrect "Pontiac like" engines in them. and there's just something off on the front of the Monogram Firebird kits.

I do that kind of stuff with my Dremmel all the time and have in fact done that grille in the past. Just go slow. using a barrel sander, make light passes over the back . Don't try to take it all off at once, light passes will get you there. You'll be able to tell when you get close to being through. You'll be able to see the pattern of the grille where you're sanding. You can stop before you're completely through and finish opening the holes with a sharp #11 X-acto . Good luck.

I like Volare Road Runners. Hey, ya gotta like a car that gets ya on a magazine cover, right?

That is absolutely the best build I've ever seen of an RX-7 period !