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Drilled out the headlights moulded into the grille and replaced them with a couple of the ones I cast in clear resin.

Here's the pics of the Revell engine. Not the greatest. I don't remember any belts or accessories at the front of the engine either.

later issue of the Revell Thunderbolt Fairlane with the stock flat hood.

There's a few people making resin Falcon kits. I'd try to get just the body from one and use all the good parts on it.

I have a built one I've had since new. I'll see if I can find it later and take some pics. IIRC, the engine was kinda basic, short on detail like the cam cover script but probably could be detailed out to look good.

I made these about 10 years ago. Kinda hard to tell in the pics but it's strung with a few strands of my wife's blond hair.

The emblems wouldn't be a problem Snake. MCG has a PE sheet for [IIRC] '65 to '67 Vettes with all the needed emblems and the different gas cap covers for each year. I would have got the set for the '65 I just finished but I was going for a mild custom look so I didn't need them.

Microscale makes some incredibly thin stripe waterslide decals for HO scale trains. They label them as 1 and 2 wide inch strips so whatever HO scale is,, so they'd be 1/87 and 1/43 of an inch ?? I'm not sure but the ones I have are thinner than the line from a Bic pen. They come in several colors too.

If it were me, I'd use the '84 chassis. The Blazer chassis is not bad but too short a wheelbase even for a short box pickup, you'd need to stretch it . That generation chassis isn't all that different than the earlier one and it will build up with a stock 4X4 height, all you need to do is not use the seprate lift blocks at the ends of the springs. That chassis is actually quite nice of you get rid of those stupid lift blocks and 1/20 scale wheels/tires. As far as the inner fenders go, cut the ones from the cab and use the ones molded on the chassis, they're correct for that generation pickup, the ones molded to the cab are not.

To me, and I've only seen pics of these real engines ,, it looks like a "B" engine with Poly intake and associated parts, like the distributor. So, how close to a stock engine would it be if you swapped a regular "B" intake and distributor onto the kit engine? Would that make it passable?

Nice start Bill. I'll be curious to see how you tackle the rear window. I've been thinking about doing a '67 road racer coupe for a while but that back window issue is a bit more than I'd want to take on right now and all the resin bodies I've seen have the '65/'66 rear window area.

Got the chassis pretty well sorted out. Front suspension's glued in and everything's set up how I want it. With all the modifications , I'd say the truck will be dropped somewhere around 10 scale inches in total. The rear window mounts in from behind to the back of the cab as is usual with these old kits. It just didn't look right to me recessed so far into the opening so I cut it down to fit flush in the opening. I've roughed in the bed floor to where I want it. It's channelled a couple scale inches up in the bed sides so the bed assembly will sit down over the frame and look to be in the stock position. I also had to take a couple scale inches off the top of the frame rails to pull this off.

Sorry for the late response Chris,, it's from a Revell '69 Vette with the transmission from the parts box.

Must have missed this one somehow, Love'n it now though! Man! that green really pops!

That looks great Gary. Yea, those wheels look just right with the white stripe tires and green paint. Very "period perfect".

Bob, I made the grille from sheet plastic. Used 2 thicknesses cut roughly to shape and stacked together. I put the thicker peices in farther than the thin ones so the thin ones formed the bars and the thicker ones formed the spaces between them. Cleaned it up with files and sandpaper and alcladded it.

Thanks again guys !

Thanks everyone.

Just Fabulous !! That color looks great on that car but you can't really go wrong with a Riv.

Yes, they are. There's another set in the Cushenberry Silhouette custom kit. Those have a narrower front half but look exactly the same if you sand down the back of the fronts like I did. In fact, that kit also has a set of Astro Custom slotted mags same as the Riv kit. I've always wondered how both kits, so different, ended up with almost exactly the same wheels

Actually built this several years ago. Thought I'd repost it for those who haven't seen it. AMT kit, of corse, Mostly from the box but with trim shaved and a scratch made custom grille. I also cut the headlight grilles away from the front bumper and used a set of the custom ones included in the kit for more realisn. Paint is HOC candy pagen gold.

None of the resin ones got the roofline right. It's one continuous curve from the windshield to the tip of the trunk. They all have a kink at the top where the roof transitions to the rrear glass..

I first heard that rumour on the Drastic Plastics club chat room several years ago. Heard it was Revell and it was to be a companion kit to their '77 Monte Carlo low rider snap kit. Never heard anything about it in years though. I used to own a 1/1 '72 so it's of particular interest to me.

Go with the Olds. The '64/'65 GM mid-size convertibles have a different shape to the tulip panel between the trunk lid and top opening than the '66/'67s do. The '66 Olds is the more correct for your purposes. Plus, the Olds also has an up-top, the GTO does not.

That may be part of it but I think it's also because people my age are starting to be the "old fogies" with the disposable income to be able to afford the cars we always wanted. For us the traditional "muscle cars" were a thing of the past when we finally got our driver's licence and the cars of the '70s and '80s are what we grew up with. Last year I finally got one of the cars I had always wanted when I was young, a '85 Trans Am. I was 20 when these cars were new and "the" car to have. I could never afford it back then but I have one now. I'm thinking it may be similar with kits. These old MPC and AMT annuals from that era where what we seen on the streets and built on our desks when we were kids. The cars from the '50s and early '60s were just "old cars" to us. We didn't identify with them like the older people did. So, now we're building these cars from our youth, just like the older generation did ,, with modern tech when possible ,, just like the older generation did. And I suspect the generation to come will do like wise ,, just like us.