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What exactly did you do, Roger? I can see it looks much better but I can't exactly tell what you did.

I've never had the Sunrunner kit. It shows the square headlight grille on the box and on the instructions plus I've seen pics of a stock Ford van molded in yellow with that grille so I figured it would actually have it in the kit.

Possibly and at least partly true for sure but I always figured Mopar was trying to make those cars and the AAR Cudas look as much like the actual track cars raced in the Trans-Am serise as possible.

So does the "Sunrunner" and "Sorcerer". Same kit, all the same parts, different decals.

Most people call a chrome 5-spoke wheel with spokes of that shape "Cragars". Like all snowmobiles are "skidoos" and and all personal water crafts are "jetskis". No big deal and 99% of the people out there wouldn't know the difference. I've had to do "close enough" many many times myself when the exact part isn't readily available. ?

Motor City Resins made a nice 1/25 one but I don't know if they're still in business.

Oh, OK. If those are the wheels you're looking for than you're not looking for Cragars, those on the car in the pic are Appliance "Steel Spoke" wheels. They do look a lot like Cragar S/S wheels though. The wheels in the kit are a factory wheel offered on Mercurys for a couple years.

Oh, I wasn't even considering that abomination.

The grille that's in the kit is the same as a '79. They didn't change much until '86 or '87, and then they didn't change much as by then Mopar was probably concentrating more on selling their new minivans.

Those are not 20 inch. A lot of those Camaros come FROM THE FACTORY with 20s. Those are 32 inch.

Looks great. With the name though, I'd think green paint would have been more appropriate. ?

, , , and people used to flip if a model kit had beer company decals in it. ??

But dont'cha miss those florescent pink double wiper blades and self-stick phone antennas ! ?

I think the biggest problem with selling the street machine '57 Chevy was they didn't make it clear that fantastic chassis and engine was in the kit. Just taking a quick look at the box and you'd think it was just the stock kit with a set of Vette wheels and tires and some dress-up parts on a belly button big block engine. I think a set of slightly larger wheels/tires in a more popular style and the underside painted to best show off the unique chassis and it would have flew off the shelves. BTW, at the time, I had no idea about that chassis or I would have bought at least 3 for chassis donors for other cars.

That setup came in the AMT early '90s Ford pickups. There's a very nice set of "Holley" valve covers in the kits to go with them like in the pic below.

Hilborn and Weiand are both spelled wrong also.

Yes, it's a transparent paint with some metallic flake mixed in, meant to be used on turn signals. No reason not to use it on a body though. That body looks really good to me.

The Road Runner kit came first and it shares a lot of parts and the instruction sheets. All the instruction sheets for AMT kits that use that chassis and it's pro street version share the same mistake on the instructions.

Beep Beep horn. Came on Road Runners and made the "Beep Beep" sound like the bird in the cartoon. They were lavender in '68 and just black afterward.

I'm just foolin around Bill. I know the stuff definitely isn't "Modelhaus" quality ,, shucks, it usually isn't even Flintstone quality but at least it isn't TKM "quality" .[and I use the word "quality" pretty loosely?] None of the ones I have are really that bad but then again, I did buy them in person.

Here's a mockup of the chassis with the engine sitting on it's mounts. I still have to add the front shock mounts before I paint it.

Not on those Mopar engines. Peter. They have a pan covering the valley and the manifold sits above it.

Yea, terrible, terrible , just awful stuff. No one would be able to make anything out of any of those. ? I have a few more I'm working on from time to time.

Just perfect ! ???

Looks right to me Stu. I think it's just the way the model was painted. missing the body colour around the headlight bezels that makes it look off.