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Definitely. That's a poly intake on a wedge engine. Note that you have a rad hose on both the intake manifold and the water pump. The poly engines had the distributor on the back That has to be a wedge engine with a poly intake.

The 361 is pretty well the same engine just with a slightly larger displacement.

Looks to me like a 350 wedge with the 318 poly intake for some reason. Note that the intake AND the water pump both have upper rad hose fittings. The valve covers are definitely 350, not 318 though. If I do another one, I'm just gonna get a nice wedge intake manifold and call it good.

Another little mockup ,, In the memorable words of the incomparable Colin Hay, "It's just overkill" The hood should fit down no problem, right , , right???

Nice color. Fastback Rivs look great in almost any color though. ? BTW, the engine does look undersize but I have owned a few big block Buicks , a couple Rivs, including a '69 and it's about right. Always looked small to me too but I measured the kit valve covers and compared the size with the real set of Stage-1 valve covers I have hanging in the garage and it measures out to scale.

That's exactly what I'm doing right now.

I agree. This has been my experience also. , , and, yes, definitely prime before paint.

grinding all that trim off is a pain. I know. I used a barrel sander on my Dremel to remove the trim from the one I built. I didn't put any back on though. ? [please let me know if posting the pics of mine are out of line and I'll delete them.]

If you need any reference pics for the '85 Trans Am, let me know. I can take some for you.??

Little Motor Kar Co, IS still in business despite the rumor that started a few years ago that Dale stopped.

Thanks Rex, that's what I had thought ,but , as you say, there seems to be a lot of them that never came from the factory that way.

Mike, how is the kit? I know Revell had a habit of just blowing up their 1/25 kits to 1/16 back then but I don't think they had a 1/25 scale CJ-7 at the time. What I'm wondering is how close to the 1/24 Monogram kit does it look? I know they were competing companies back when that kit was made but I wouldn't be surprised if Revell just cribbed the Monogram kit and blew it up to 1/16 scale.

Did the Mach1 ever come as a convertible? I don't think a Boss did but I may be wrong about that.

It's a moot point if you can't find someone willing to actually do the plating. As I said above, Dale Horner who owns Little Motor Kar Company advised me against it as he's not having much luck with it. BUT again as I said above, he may have figured something out since I had talked with him. This is the main reason I got the Revell spray stuff. Needs no undercoat so less paint to obscure details on parts I can't have plated.

Ah, the infamous Pledge "polish" ,,, That is actually an acrylic clearcoat much like the Tamiya acrylic clearcoat in the bottles. A "polish" works by taking off material as the McGuire or Tamiya polishing products do.

I remember my Dad and uncle George putting together one of the Rolls Royce kits and giving it to me when I was very young but the first one I can remember actually having for myself was an aurora "Demolition Demon". Can't say I remember if I glued it or not myself but I think I did. I do remember [kinda] gluing together a couple Lindberg "Sparkle Speedsters" myself. This would have been right around the time I started school so I'd have been around 6. I don't remember exactly which one it was but I do vividly remember that sparkly plastic.

The thing that most people don't understand is there are several different types of lacquer, about a 1/2 dozen, maybe more. Some are hot like the nitrocellulose lacquers that were used on cars and others like the waterborne ones that are relatively neutral. The ones made for hobby use are usually the cooler waterborne types. [There's also a few other types I have to use sometimes for work meant for use on wood etc. but we don't need to mention then here.] just earlier today I sprayed some of the Testors clearcoat flat in the blue label as shown in Greg's post on the very glossy dark red Testors bottle paint I used on the interior of the Volare I'm currently building, pretty heavy coat too. No problem at all. No way I'd even think about doing that with an automotive product.

I agree as I grew up with those cars, except for a couple points,, Jo-Han did do '72-'75 Cutlass coupes although the front end on the later ones was incorrect and Revell did do a stock[ish] '77 Monte Carlo. It was basically the same as the other issues but has stock wheels and tires. The rest of the kit aside from the adjustable chassis setup always was stock.

A few more pics. painted and decaled. They were a chore to put on and need some touchups before clearcoat but they're on. Rear tires and suspension are set. This will be the final stance. Did a simple 4 bar setup for the rear suspension using the kit rear end and the tabs molded to the frame to hold the metal axle. I have a pair of coil-overs with the paint drying to put on later.

OK, I have all 3 kits in my post above and just checked them out. The '67 r does have a roll bar and flat engine cover. The '67 and '73 both have a pair of racing seats but neither set is like the ones in the pic above. Possibly one of the "Fast and Furious" tuner kits might have a similar set. All 3, the '67, '69 and the '73 bodies seem to have the same wheelbase. At least the wheel openings all line up with each other perfectly. I guess this means either the '73 or the other 2 have an incorrect wheelbase. Matija, if you want to see pics of the parts trees, let me know and I'll take some and post them here tomorrow.

The Fujimi '73 Carrera RS would be the best starting point, I guess. I'm not all that familiar with the cars as I am with North American ones. Not sure if it's been reissued or not. The '69 911S and the '67 911r have both been re-released in the last couple years but all are hard to find though.

Plus most [all?] GMs turbine cars from the '50s and '60s were called Firebirds so the name was associated with turbines at GM. MPC probably thought it was a natural to put a turbine in a car with the Firebird name.

Cool. My uncle Walter has a real one of those in about the same color as the plastic of that kit. ?

Picked up one of these at the Atlantic Nationals car show last weekend. Something different for me but I've always liked these GT cars. Nice curbside kit and I think I'll see about getting some more of the kits in this series.

Pete, if you were planning to have them plated by Little Motor Kar Co, I'd get ahold of Dale and ask him about it first. I asked him about plating printed parts last year, he told me he wasn't having very good luck with them. But, best to ask for yourself, he might have figured it out since then.