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For those who haven't heard of this, there's several videos on YouTube showing people soaking old plastic parts in various peroxide solutions to bring them back to white from that dirty beige plastic turns with time.

That's unfortunate. I was hoping you had found a good single headlight grille for the kit. The one in the old ambulance kits was awful, no where near correct. I know a lot of people would like to have the base model grille for commercial style builds.

So, you didn't know the whole front end including the fenders and hood were completely different, not just the grille and bumper, Mike? I seen your post about getting an older grille for it and wondered about that as the grille in the kit was the same as the first year of the makeover. Thought you might have found a single headlight base model grille for it.

Yup, looks like '72-'77 birch green ???

Check out the Didspade colors they have too. Looks comparable to the HOK stuff but 4 bucks less per bottle. I've never had a chance to try the stuff though.

Scale Finishes carries some HOK pre-thinned airbrush paints but man, they're kinda expensive. $14.99 for a 2oz bottle.

Looks great Rooster but that's an '80, not a '78. ?

Well, please keep us posted. Interested to know how they are quality wise.

Try STS Decals. They custom make decals. They're making a sheet up for me right now. https://stsdecals.com/

James, this website may be of some help. At least it's interesting. If you put in the year and model it will show you all the colors thay came in that year. You can also narrow it down more if you like. After you do that you can klik on the color and it will show pics of Porsches in that color. I have ran across a couple colors they don't have pics for but very few. https://www.rennbow.org/colorwiki

I've never built one. I don't personally think it' s a particularly attractive car but I've always thought it was a reasonably good kit considering it was tooled up 50 years ago. If you think that's "trash" compare it with some of the stuff Revell was putting out at that time.

No, sorry Les. None of those Buttera kits had separate doors. They did have separate inner door panels though. [IIRC you call them "door cards" across the pond. ?]

Maybe you should move to Canada, Bill. We have maple cookies. ??

The Monogram Monte Carlo SS kits have a really nice Quadrajet. They also have the TPI setup so you still have a complete engine in the kit if you pirate the carb intake setup

I have the Targa sister kit so I'll be following. One thing, if it's like the Targa, watch those wheels and tires. The rears are slightly bigger then the fronts. I found this out the hard way when I noticed my kit has 3 of one and only one of the other. ?

Like I said, Doug, I'm not that much up on those engines. Just saying what I would do to make it look right to me. This is what the engine looks like with the valve covers on. They look like B-block covers to me, definitely not A-block covers or heads with their distinctive saw-tooth lower side. I know the thing is neither fish, not fowl but, any ideas what else to do with it besides completely replacing it to make it look presentable?

If it was me, I'd get an intake from a newer 383 or 440. That would get rid of the extra hose fitting. Put the distributor in the normal 440 placement and the rad hose on the water pump and that should give you a reasonably correct engine. I'm no expert on those early Mopar engines but going by the pics I can find on-line it should be about right. Someone more versed on those cars could tell you better but I'm pretty sure that's correct.

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.]