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  1. Joe Handley
    My 200 has the 3.6l and the JS Body 200 and Avenger were the lightest cars you could get that engine in, I also discovered that the 3.6l with the factory flex fuel tune LOVES E85 as well as sounds dang good with a Flowmaster Super 10 muffer. While this was an Illinois tagged 200 in this video, it's not mine, at one point the car had the Mopar Avenger/200 CIA, Flowmaster Super 10 muffler with the stock resonator in the middle, and an E85 tune specific to this car.
  2. Joe Handley
    So I can eventually put regular sand paper on the sanding heads for the PediPerfect, eventually....... No problem there Casey
  3. Joe Handley
    I just so happened to buy 2 of them and a couple of the afore mentioned Chevy Van kits back in 2012 and when this club build came up, I knew 1976 kits, new or reissues are few and far between without hitting the shows or the www and decided to use those. Could be worse though, the only club members younger than me were born in '79
  4. Joe Handley
    Picked these up over the last couple weeks, only paid $1.00 for the PediPerfect too!
  5. Joe Handley
    Very little actually! The rear is stock height and those steamrollers juuuuust fit and I just had to redrill the front axle holes just above the stock ones and flatten out the boss that comes out to locate the stock wheels. It'll be more effort to get the piano wire to make the axles from then cut those down to fit as well as making that Recaro style rear seat from the Fairlane kit fit the Gremlin interior tub!
  6. Joe Handley
    Finally got around to start mocking up the stance I want for my C.A.R.S. in Minature Christmas 2018 build. We're building "Cars from the Year You Were Born" and having been born in 1976, I'm kinda limited on interesting things to build that are interesting. I had a couple of these AMT '76 Gremlins laying around as well as a couple 70's Chevy Van kits and decided to start with one of the Gremlins in a psuedo ProTouring build with the stance from the 70's Pro Stock Gremlins and rolling on the Pegasus Centerline style wheels. Right now I'm going to keep the 5.0l AMC V-8 with some of the NASCAR goodies from an AMT Matador unless somebody knows of a 1/25 scale Jeep 4.0l that just might fit. Interior wise, I'm planning on modding the tub to fit the seats the Vette/Recaro style seats from the AMT '57 Fairlane 500 kit, as well as the aftermarket shifter and Viper-esk steering wheel from that kit. Here's what I have so far.
  7. Joe Handley
    Kinda thinking it's good I'm no longer with them then.
  8. Joe Handley
    Um, it's been put off until Friday the 13th?!
  9. Joe Handley
    Lol, not sure, I was even thinking of some sort of bright green! I did find that they seem to be hard to find like that on Google too.
  10. Joe Handley
    I broke down and bought one of these at HL tonight, have a weird desire to build a late 80's monochrome pastel custom ElCamino now that I see this kit is available.
  11. Joe Handley
    Well, that is a good possibility then Jeff, maybe once the court's decision on Revell is made on 4/10 and any new owners take over, things will start up again.
  12. Joe Handley
    Wonder if they didn't have as many of those on hand when things went south compared to the other kits.
  13. Joe Handley
    Wouldn't mind seeing a modern version of this movie truck done with one of those beds.
  14. Joe Handley
    I like that, a whole lot! After watching the Leno's Garage with one of the surviving K.I.T.T. Firebirds from Knight Rider, I want to do a ProTouring-ish K.I.T.T. now too........ended up buying a a second one at Michael's this afternoon So that will make for a Lead Sled-ish Lincoln Futura, a Dark Knight themed ProTouring '66 Batmobile, and now a ProTouring K.I.T.T., a Street Hawk and a Happy Birthday General Lee inspired '69 Chargers (both black, the former with Turbines and antenna, the latter in black with capless steelies), think I need help....................
  15. Joe Handley
    One thing I noticed with the step not lining up with the cab, take a look at the Square C/K trucks I posted, the set is just as out of line with the bottom of the cab as on those as it is the 2018 Sierra. Don't get the bagging on the square openings either, don't see much wrong with them.......now that ugly first couple feet and 22" wheels on the other hand...............
  16. Joe Handley
    I wouldn't be shocked if that was the case, I swear the bed portion of the different brand stepside bed assemblies were all used from the 50's into the 80's until GM started using those 'glass sided "Sportside" beds in '88. IIRC, those Sportside beds fit the '68-'72 Shortbed chassis surprisingly well.
  17. Joe Handley
    Honestly, I think the cab might make up the difference there. Honestly, I dig the look too.
  18. Joe Handley
    That looks a whole lot like the '73-'87 stepside bed!
  19. Joe Handley
    Thanks, I was wondering about that. To be honest, I like the kit snowflake wheels as well as the disk wheels from the anniversary kit and wondered if there might be some way to get a tire and barrel then place the stock rim face in the center of it, kinda like some of the 20"+ lowrider wheels where it was the normal "Dayton" style wire wheel in the "23in" barrel.
  20. Joe Handley
    Don't even know where to look yet!
  21. Joe Handley
    Finally opened the 1/16 '79 Firebird I bought a few weeks back, thought I'd take a few pics of the baggies to post up here.
  22. Joe Handley
    Is there anything out there for the 1/16 MPC Firebirds in resin or 3d printed? I've already picked up the '79 at Hobby Lobby a couple weeks back and have been thinking about the '82? Firebird kits too. Kinda want to go more of a ProTouring/Street Fighter look with them.......although if there was a K.I.T.T. conversion for the 3rd gen...........................
  23. Joe Handley
    I've seen those same rims in the GM '77-'96 B-Bodies and they even fit the Astro and Safari vans before those went to 6 lug that last year or two they were in production. Recently I saw a mid-90's Express conversion van that was wearing the '94-'96 Impala SS 5 spokers, kinda made me want to put a set from the Revell kit onto one of the Revell 70's Shorty G-Vans they brought back out a few years back too......
  24. Joe Handley
    HERB KING?! Just what what kind of herb he's referencing.........
  25. Joe Handley
    Was thinking the same thing.
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