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Finally finished it up. Can't say I'm 100% happy with how it came out so I'm gonna consider this a trial run for a better buildup next time. Not a horrible kit but I think the tail lights on this one should have been moulded in with the rest of the rear chrome as you can't really see much red on the real ones anyway. The headlights really need to be retooled again too,, correctly this time. I have a Modelhaus copy of the original front bumper/headlight part, which looks much better but I opted to save it for the next go at the car and used the part from the current kit which is not awful but not as good as the original. Paint is Scale Finished '65 Tiger Gold with Testors semi gloss black. Wipers and front fender emblems are photoetch. The rear fender GTO emblems were supposed to be PE too but I lost one. Decals from the Polar Lights '64 GTO were used instead. Red line tires and door mirror are from the parts box. I also dropped the hood as I was carying the car to my photo setup and took a big chip of paint off the front tip. Grrrrr indeed! LOL

Kevin, If I may ask, what are the differences? I've looked at the pics several times and I just can't pick them out.

Mark, unless something was changed since it was last issued, the wheelbase of the chassis plate matches the wheel openings on the body as they should. This one was built from the last issue. On the Chevy chassis, Back then, the various big GM cars used different chassis under each make. The Chevy chassis would be different than the one under a Pontiac [unless is was a Canadian Pontiac] Of corse, this dosen't explain the wheelbase question. and, with that said, I doubt many people could tell the differences in the chassis between the Chevy and Pontiac anyway ,, I know I couldn't.

Very nice. I'm sure your customer will be very pleased with it. BTW, AMT did do a '65 roadster annual back in 1965 ,, I'm restomodding one right now.

Yes, LMK does their own plating. They've done a couple trees for me and they turned out fine. I used to have Chrome+ in Quebec do mine but Louis hasn't set back up for plating since he moved to a new home several years ago. Too bad since he did excellent work and charged less than 1/2 what the other platers charged. Plus he's in Canada so that made shipping a lot easier for me.

IIRC, Time Machine Resins did a full kit '67 or '68 shortbox fleetside. I seem to remember it on their e-bay store site but there's no listing at all there right now.

Yup, you guys are right. I have the sprue from the 1500 stepside right here in my hand and the engine/tranny is the same as the one in the pics. I read in the review of the 454 kit in one of those model magazines that they just switched heads and associated parts to make the 455, guess not.

Just checked my unbuilt SS 454. The sprues are indeed from that kit ,, but the unattached engine/tranny halves are not. BTW, back in the day, AMT just added the parts to the kit to make the engine look like a 454. Same old block/tranny, etc. as the small block in the other pickup kits. That's where the small block exhaust manifolds came from, they just weren't blocked off like some of the other small block specific parts.

I's been pretty popular to be down on some of my favorites from the UK but I still like them and listen to the albums ,, er,, cassettes. And, of coarse,, Don't ya just hate it that Harry told me how to post videos? LOL Being born in '65, this is what was on the radio in my teens so I guess it's what sparks the fondest memories of my youth.

When the AMT Sunbeam Tiger kit comes out, it should have a very nice set in it also.

Coming along pretty good. Just have to finish the repairs on the rear panel. The original builder used the 6 tailight custom option and it was broken around the openings. That's the last part of the bodywork to be finished now. The revell snapper kit interior is a pretty good fit after some minor modifications.

Here's a better pic of the front and interior.

Yea but when's the last time you seen a '57 Chevy 4dr hardtop? It's got to be one of the rarer body styles of '57.

I've seen a lot worse than that.

Here's a couple AMT kits that I cleared with the Testors . Sprayed it on pretty heavy strait from the can too.

It's 1/24. The old Revell bug from the '70s was 1/25. I've been tinkering with the Spiderman version I have of the Herbie kit and it's the same size as the new tool 1/24 Revell bug that came out a couple years ago.

Looks great ! My dad's best friend had a white '67 hardtop in '73/'74. Still remember the tour of Vancouver he took us on in it back then.

I just went in, let's see if anyone else does.

Yes. The '77 Ventura Sprint came out then MPC retooled it into a '77 Nova. Same chassis, most of the engine, interior and glass . Just new body and chrome for the Nova.

Dan, did I do something to offend you or are you just trying to start a fight? I did not know that, I had checked the "Vette brochures starting at '7 and going up to '77 and I seen no mention of them in the literature. . I find your post offensive and think you could have easily have worded it in a much more mature manner.

Funny thing about those wheels is they wern't actually available from the factory until sometime in '75 or '76. MPC put them in as the custom option and based them on the wheels that were on the 4 rotor wankle prototype from '73. [AKA " Aerovette" after the wankle was swapped out for a regular V8]

Just because you can see color on the edges of the glass does not mean it's necessarily all the way through. Here's a pic of a couple I tinted a few years ago with Tamiya acrylics. The edges look green like it's all the way through but I know it's not as the only color on them is what I sprayed on the inside surface myself.

Looks great. BTW, what are those wheels, I could use a couple sets of those.

The front and back bumpers , back grille and tailights on this Lincoln are Modelhaus. I've never a problem with thier plating.