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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.]

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.