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  1. I've been trying to find that kit, but not from EBay where they're all more than I want to spend!

    The A-Team and Knight Rider. Two shows that totally remind me of my youth. Unfortunately, when you go back and watch them now, they don't quite hold up. Especially Knight Rider. Wow. Just wow.

     

    That's so true, I use to watch Knight Rider more than scrambled cinemax. I tried to sit through an episode awhile back and I found it to be an impossible task. I'm not sure how a watch can pick a dead bolt lock, but okay.

  2. Wow, this is terrific. My father in law collects the 1:1 Civics, he drives them everywhere and boasts about the gas mileage he got when he gets there. Anyway, back to you, super clean build, and your photography is great too. 

  3. I need a little break from body, so I'm going to get started with frame and suspension. The Boyd's 57 Chevy has a cool frame that I think will work nice as a doner. I cut it up and resized it.  

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  4. I felt like the body needed some ground effects so I grabbed some styrene and started gluing. We'll see where this goes, but I think I like it.

    I'm wanting to go for a 66 with modern styling, so I shaved the door handles, emblems, and the molding around the new top, and I pitched the window vents as well. I picked the cowl style hood from a 67 Impala.  I'm really digging the stance and that Camaro rim. Oh, I also smoothed out the pillars like a newer car, I guess this means I'll end up flush mounting the windshield, no idea how I'm going to do that yet, I'll fight that battle when I see the white of its eyes.  

     

     

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  5. I filled the gaps with some styrene and did what any respectable body guy would do...added a few gallons of putty.

    The roof is a really good fit, almost too good of a fit, so therefore something is definitely wrong. Anyway, I really like the tires and rims on the Camaro snap kit, those Chevy rims look cool on a Ford.

     

     

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  6. I've never posted a work in progress before, so this may end badly.

    My model station is in a transition period, and my photography has reached a new low.

    Now that I've set expectations really low, we can get moving on this. 

    I'm taking the 66 Mustang, removing its top and replacing it with the extra top from the 57 T-bird kit. 

    The suspension on the kit is terrible, so I'm leaning towards making this a pro touring, air bagged, big rimmed, modern ride. 

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  7. I "finished" this last year, it was one of those that sat unfinished for a long while. I butchered the original black paint job, and threw it back in the box, defeated.  After watching how normal people don't let that stop them, I eventually felt like I owed it to myself to get it in color and call it a "searching for a sponsor" FC.

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