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That's gonna be a sharp looking little truck in that color combo.

Nice job Chris. BTW, that "mystery body part" you thought might be a visor is actually the apron that goes between the bumper and grille of the older versions of the kit.['78 to '80]

Interior's all done. Simple Testors semigloss black with some flocking and detail paint. I was surprised to see that the entire shifter was chrome or stainless, no black. Here's the scratch made part. A header panel between the radiator wall and grille. Just some sheet styrene and a bit of evergreen stripping.

I've been working on this as a master so I can cast a couple sets for myself. Just the centers part, I'll cut the centers from a set of Pegasus "Ts" for the rims.

Detail painted up a set of rally wheels and dug out a set of red lines to see how it would look. I haven't detailed out the interior or chassis plate yet, this is just a mockup to see how the wheels and tires would look.

Looks really great, super clean build. Love the color combo too.

That's just about as perfect a build on that kit as I've ever seen. Everything is "just right".

Maybe the earlier ones were true "knockoff" style wheels? The '67 wheels are regular 5 bolt with the matching cap. That could possibly explain it.

Are you sure Bill? ,, It shows them as an option in the '67 brochure. [Although they have mistakes in them sometimes too]

So, if you're right , then they repaired the inside part of the body mold after running the racecar versions and polished it out again? What I'm saying Dan is there's no evidence of any tampering on the inside of the bodys at all that I can see but if you're right then you're right. I'm not gonna argue with you about it.Really not worth it to me But you could at least spell my handle right

I think the Missing Link wheels look the closest. They don't have any listed right now though. They look like this,,

Um, Yes Dan, a new body was cut for the current '72. It's not the same body used for the '80s issue of the '72. Not sure how to explain this,, but,, The Super Stocker kit was first issued way back in the early '70s. Way before the kits in question in this thread. Don't know if you're aware of this or not but there was a seprate '70 done by MPC back in 1970 or so. It and a '69 Firebird hardtop were done curbside style with thin wire axels to race down ramps, kinda like 1/25 scale Hotwheels cars. I understand both were quite rare. I suspect that's where the body for the super stocker came from as there's no evidence that the wheel openings were repaired on either the red '72 or the '90s '70 issues. BUT, if you have the super stocker issue [I don't] you could check the inside of the body to see if any tooling marks match any of the other issues or if it's polished inside.

I don't think that's quite right. The red early '80s issue of the '72 used the same body as the clear bodied Pearson nascar. You can tell because the inside of the body's polished. Same with the late '80s issue of the '70. Looks to me that the '72 was backdated to the '70 and then a new body was created for the '72 sometime in the mid to late '90s.

That's very intresting Bob. I knew they did a new body after running the '70 sometime in the later '80s but never thought about comparing for width. I had always thought the bumper was too wide right from day 1 with the first '70 annual. Thanks for discovering this little bit of very useful info.

Quite right Curtis. MCG script. P,E. wipers too and I carefully cut away the door handles so I can alclad and reattach them.

So, here it is with the paint and foil all done.

Thanks for the tip Snake. I never noticed that. Too late to fix now though, paint's all done. I have a couple more copies of this kit so I'm thinking I'll do another one with more corrections and put this one up on e-bay as an experiment to see how it does.

I've been wanting to do one for a while. Got a front bumper from Modelhaus and some Tiger Gold paint from Scale Finishes last month so I started on it last week. Turns out glueing the top on wasn't that hard. Just need to keep it lined up properly. After it was fully dry, I filed a small trough where the roof meets the windshield and glued in a small strip of plastic to fill the seam. Also added the trim and seams for the vinyl roof. I added some detail to the sides of the hood opening. It's really easy to do but seems not many people do it.

I have 2 of those bumpers cut down and mounted on my tree that's being sent of for replating. One of the red '70 bumpers and one from the last issue of the '72. They are different bumpers but I really didn't notice one being any wider that the other.

The "Killer Cuda" I has was molded in white.

Man, I'm really liking that. I've been wanting to do something similar with the kit for a while and yours is really inspirational.

I think I'd have waited for Modelhaus to start taking orders again before sending "Mr Reilable" any money. At least you'd be sure to get your parts eventually.

Think of the hemi valve covers as a "bonus". They've been opening up the blocked areas on all the parts trees lately so that's why some older kits have extra odd parts. BTW, I like Buicks too. Took my driver's test in a 455 LeSabre 4dr sedan. Owned a '73 Centurion coupe, '70 Skylark Custom cvt., '69 and '72 Rivieras. Have a '68 Electra 225 Limited now that's been in the family for over 40 years.

Love it, very patriotic Which kit did the wheels come from?

Before doing anything rash, you should try taking that haze off with some polishing compound. Usually, that's just the fumes condensing on the surrounding surfaces and will buff right off.