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Oven cleaner will take that right off. It seems to actually dissolve the thin foil and since they're unpainted, you don't need to worry about ruining the paint.

Very impressive work. Great movie too. Pretty well the whole male cast of SCTV was in it. A lot of the voice actors names would be familiar to those who grew up in Canada with our Canadian made TV and movies like Don Francks, John Vernon and Harold Ramis and produced by Ivan Reitman a couple years before Ghostbusters. Incredible soundtrack album too.

That's correct. Lincoln started using the 460 in '68 and was the only engine available in the Continentals in '69. That's supposed to be a 430 in the '65. 462s started in '66 and were standard in Continentals until '68.. This is the engine in the '66 -'69 kits.

The '66 -'69 Lincolns were a completely different body from the '65s. The only thing the kits could share would be the chassis plate. Engines were different too.

Yea ,, looks like some cowboys had their way with those wheel openings too, Rex. Hogging out those wheel openings for big drag slicks must have been pretty popular back then.

You may be right about that Patrick. I'll give it a try anyway.

Actually, It's this version I'm thinking of, Kit,

Almost ready for paint. Just need to fix that A-pillar. I think the 1/4 panels will need a bit more work too but just minor final smoothing out. I really should do something about that rear pan though. I'm pretty sure I'll be using the rear bumper from a Revell '69 Mustang or Shelby so the kit pan, which is molded to the chassis plate , will be too short for the new bumper. The repairs on the rocker trim at the rear wheel openings turned out OK. I was dreading that part. And I think I should sharpen up the lip on the rear wheel openings to match the fronts. The rears look quite "soft" compared to the fronts.

Yea, I would never mix lacquer and enamel, and especially never paint a car model with such witches brew of a mixture. ?

Or you could use this site to find the color you want in hobby paint. Looks intimidating but it's really easy, just follow the instructions. [as model builders, we all know what instructions are. ?] https://www.spotmodel.com/color_finder.php?settings=[35.1,100,53.1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1]

Didn't the original issue of the '62 Vette have correct headlights? Anyway, I have a Revell one so I'll be building that first. BUT, , IF, AMT includes this liscence plate, maybe I could snag a set from someone., , As a favor. ?

Thank you you for taking it in the manner it was meant Luc. No ill intent was meant, simply a correction, nothing more, nothing less.

Seriously Tom, You don't think after all these years being on this site and Spotlight, I know Luc is Belgian and is able to speak quite well in english, and I'd suspect a couple other foreign languages. If you were standing right in front of me and called them that I'd correct you too.

Looks good Steve. Is that anomaly only on the Bonnie convertible or is it on the hardtop also? I never noticed it on the Grand Prix I did and not on the Parisienne either of course as it's basically a GP with the top and cowl from the Impala.

Looks great !!

Good to see you back Snake. For some reason, it says you can't recieve messages. Sucks about the Mrs. cleaning up your workbench. I told "The lovely Mrs. CanCon" about that and she says "Oh No, she knows enough to never touch my workbench", and she never has.

Thanks Joe. No secret on the paint stripping. I just put it in a large zip-loc bag and hosed it down with Easy-Off in the pump spray bottle. It's thicker than in the spray can, more like a jell so it stays on the parts better.

I'd definitely say that's an MPC Rex. Nice one. Most of the '69 parts should fit right on there, including the bumpers. The hard parts are the front grille and rear tail light panel. I suspect it's short like the current '69s are but if you get ambitious you could lengthen it with pieces sliced from the doors and roof of the '69 donor's body.

Here's a pic of a '61 Olds 88 engine

For a stock engine, the only one I can think of that would look correct is from the JoHan '63 Olds Starfire. Pretty crude but it's the only one with the correct stock valve covers. The hotrod engine in the AMT '40 Ford sedan is also an Olds but it also looks earlier. Personally, I'd just swap in a later engine from one of the 442s but that wouldn't be very "stock".

True, sometimes the journey is bad and sometimes it is good. Does it matter if the journey leads to your mother-in-law's bedroom? ?

Not exactly sure what you're asking Carl. But, yes, I'm gonna get the rest of the paint off that I can and rebuild it into a rod using the unique parts there and some new replacement parts.

This thing was so old that anything that wasn't already off just fell off in the oven cleaner. I got lucky. I've had some where I had to get out the razor saw and cut them apart.

Looks a bit better now. Still needs a bit of fine tuning but it's almost there.

Well, it's all apart. Still some paint still being stubborn so back in the oven cleaner it goes. I have a couple fresh frames so I won't bother trying to work with this one. So, here's what I seem to have. Main body and doors and floor,, I'm pretty sure are from the Revell '31 sedan delivery. Fender unit, hood, radiator and chassis are AMT '29 Roadster. Cowl, AMT Ala Cart. windshield, dash and firewall,, seem to be MPC '29 Woodie/pickup. I'm not bothering with that cowl assembly either. It's pretty rough. I'm going to use the cowl, dash and windshield from the roadster pickup cab in the MPC '29 kit that was just issued. No point in messing with roached out old BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH when I have brand new parts I can swap in that I'd probably never use otherwise.