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Very nice!!!

ROTFLMAO. This is one of my very favorite cartoons of all time! I've seen it a thousand times, and it cracks me up every single time!! Long live the wonderfully sick humor of Gary Larson!! (Thanks for resurrecting it here, Jacen! I needed that first thing this morning.) Jesse, Lots of good advice here, but to be a self-satisfying, happy and proud modeler ~ especially if you really want to earn and live up to the audacious handle you selected for yourself ~ pay serious attention to Derrick's sage words. Slow down, treat each part as THE model, assemble carefully, and model on!

Excellent!!

Sweeeeet!!

Love it, Jim! Great job of capturing the essence of Yenko. There's nothing sexier than a racing Corvair!

Love the color!

Looks great, Grasshopper. Especially the wheels and tires!

Thank you, Brandon! I appreciate your having my back.

Hey, you guys are great! Thanks to all who provided info. Found just what I needed, and in no time at all!!

I'm not challenging you or arguing the point, Junkman. I just indicated that I was relying on the website's identification ... not having personal familiarity to rely upon. As I said, I thought the lamps pre-dated '75 and even the car itself looked much earlier than '75. It's not unlike the common computer caveat: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Thanks, too, for the tutorial.

Those would be accessory driving lights; not what I'm looking for. See the image in the original post. Thanks.

The website that provided the illustration identified the car as a '75 Ford Taunus. I thought it looked earlier than '75. I knew also that Peugeot and Citroen utilized the traditional Cibie lamps that customizers and rodders seized upon. Thanks for the tip on the '66 Mustang ... I had forgotten about the Sonny & Cher components. And, when I get your bill, I'll send payment along ~~~ as soon as Johnathan has paid his! It's a zero-sum game.

Uhhh .... The shape. At that point in time, federal highway regulations in the U.S. allowed only round headlamps. Customizers were able to create new concepts by utilizing foreign components. As far as I know, the Cibie (french) headlamps such as this unit from a '75 Ford Taunus were the first non-round headlamps that found wide acceptance by rodders and customizers as alternatives to boring old round lamps. I'll bill you later for the home schooling. Thanks for the tip, Jim!

Remember Cibie rectangular headlamps? They were European and quite the rage for customizing in the 60's and 70's. I need a pair (1/25th of course). Can anybody steer me to any recent or fairly recent kits that have a pair? I don't need to buy or trade for them, I'm sure my vast stash includes some kits that have them, I just don't know where to look and I don't want to have to go through hundreds of kits if someone happens to know the answer. Thanks in advance!! I'll be semi-eternally grateful.

Well, actually, you're right! I do approve!! This is probably as good a build of a General Lee as we've ever seen on this forum. And that's no bull. Stay with us, Patrick. You'll go a long way. You've gotten off to a good start, young man.

Well, not a HUGE difference. They're both round. They both hold tires onto a car. There's more, but ... well ... you know.

Yep! BEAUTIFUL build! Don't know how I missed it before, but glad I caught it now.

Wow. Nice, Tom.

Beautiful!! Excellent build. Looks super-great in NotOrange!

Or worth less ... when they publish 40%-off coupons.

Hmmm ....

Saw it in person last Saturday. Gabe has a beautiful paint finish going on this build!! Gonna be nice when she's done!

Don't tell him stuff like that! It'll go to his head. Keep him guessing, grasshopper.

So warm and dry here, we been swatting snowbirds!

Hey, Johnathan! That gray, yellow and black thing under the hood is ... wait for it ... you're gonna love it ... don't put anything in your mouth you don't want the whole family wearing ... ~ ~ ~ ~ a rice steamer! :lol: You may resume breathing. (That's humor, Jim.)