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Ah, yes. He was a great customizer. Definitely a trendsetter in the field.

This is a project I've been thinking about for a couple years now. Originally I was going to swap the formal '69 roof with the fastback '71 roof but I see that's been done already and I wanted to do something I hadn't seen before. SO, I'm doing a convertible in the vein of the '62-'66 where the top hides under the hard panels behind the rear seat instead of just being covers with a boot. I'm using pieces from a couple kits. The body wasn't too bad but I only have one spare chassis for this generation Thunderbird kit to use and it's a major glue bomb. I do love a challenge. The custom front and rear ends are from the '68 kit. The front pan is the same as the one in the '69 kit but the rear is quite different as the '69 went from the '67/'68 full width tail lights to more common rectangular units. The '68 custom tail light and front grille features huge Thunderbird crests which I love the look of and is the main reason I wanted to build this. So, here's what I'm starting with. An original '69 body and interior and the glue bomb chassis. , , and what the custom front and rear ends look like. The roof cut off, , I cut the package shelf from the interior bucket and glued it in place in the body then added some sheet plastic to fill some gaps then puttied it all up. I scribed new panel lines in the deck mimicking those in a '64-'66 convertible. and in primer almost ready to start painting. That was the easy part, now to start on the chassis. I did get it all cut apart with the help of a X-acto saw blade. , , , to be continued,,,

Hey, it's not like someone disagreed with you about calling Bareass a "designer". ?

I OWNED one.

I had an actual '76 Caprice Classic Landau, it definitely came with a 454 from the factory. The kit engine is actually a carry over from the '68 Impala kit along with the chassis plate.

I took a set from an MPC '72 GTO, separated the center from the rim from the centers by grinding from behind with my Dremel. Then I did the same thing with the M.P. Spider wheels that come in the '80 T/A kit and combined the GTO centers with the T/A wheel rims.

Like Les said above, 99% Isopropyl alcohol should do the trick. Just moisten a cotton ball or piece of paper town and bub until all the paint is off.

OK, so, Here's a pic of the Cabriolet fender unit with the exhaust holes filled with a piece of sprue. ,,And here's the primed body sitting on the primed fender unit with the spare tire wells that came in the kit. I'm flip/flopping on which fenders I want to use now. as well on paint and engine choices. ? Thinking about the hopped up strait 6 from the AMT '51 Chevy now and deep metallic brown for paint but ??? Also, the like new rear doors a friend sent me for the project.

Here ya go Dan. The round headlight grille is from my MPC '78 re-builder. As you can see, the bezels for the round headlights are a lot larger then the square ones. The grilles them selves look to be the same height. I guess you could modify the ends of the fenders, hood and filler panel between the grille and bumper so the piece could fit but it would be a lot of fiddly work.

Dan, the square headlights were only on the '79 cars. All others had the round headlights.

Cougar might work. I know the Revell '69 won't work, curvature is wrong. Tried it on my AMT '70. Ended up cutting down one from a Monogram 1/24 '70.

He's looking for these ones.

Um, guys, where would it come back from? No '76/'77 Grand Prix model was ever made.

They are not exactly the same colors, Monty. War Bonnet Yellow is a unique Corvette color. You can check here. It gives you a lot of codes for the colors so you can cross reference and it also gives some pics. https://paintref.com/index.shtml Placer gold https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?color=Placer Gold&tditzler=2339&rows=50 War bonnet yellow https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?type=sample&ditzler=2351&syear=1971&smanuf=GM&smake=GM&smodel=&sname=War Bonnet Yellow&name=corvette19712351a&scomm=Corvette

Thanks for posting that Dennis. Those are for the factory Chevy SS caps. I was hoping they would have put in a set specifically to replicate the actual Cragar caps. Oh well.

"Scalemates" motto should be "Some of the info, some of the time, sometimes correct ,, but not always". ?

Dennis, could you post a pic of the new decal sheet please? I'm hoping it has decals for the centers of the Cragars. I's do a trade with you but it looks like it would cost both of us over $20 each just for the shipping. ?

That was never in question Dennis. I was ONLY referring to MY OWN car which does not have any computers. I don't know how that could have been mistaken that I was referring to ALL 3rd gen F-bodies but it seems it did. I think Sean and I have the misunderstanding straitened out ?

Hey Bill, you know you can't receive messages? I tried PMing you, no go.

Sean, why on earth are you arguing with me about this. NO, I did not buy the car new. I DID buy this carb and installed it. It's exactly the same as the one I took off except it has all the missing linkages and choke that the old one didn't. Also, it's a Canadian car. Canadian LG4 engines didn't get the CCC system. It doesn't matter anyway, I said "MY CAR" , not '85 Trans Ams in general or any other cars,, "MY CAR". Sorry if you mis-understood my post, I was only talking about MY CAR, which I do know and understand what is under THAT hood.

Yes, it's an HEI distributor. I didn't say it wasn't, I said my car does not have any computers in it. [copied directly from my posts above ,,,] "No computers in my '85 Trans Am, Bill. The most advanced piece of electronics in the whole car is the cassette deck. ?" "Mine is an HEI ignition but the earlier version with no electronics added."

There are no computers attached to my engine.

Mine is an HEI ignition but the earlier version with no electronics added. BTW, never said it was exactly "stock", now did I ? ?

Only the HO had the electronic Quadrajet, mine's the base model.