Bucky

# real ones for me. '67 Firebird--400, 4 speed---convertible-----------'69 Bonneville--428, automatic---4 door---------'79 Trans Am--6.6(403 Olds),automatic. Sadly, all three were POS, but I bought them as used cars, so no telling what they went thru. I know the T?A was wicked fast!!

Nice little pile of Ponchos! Nifty craftwork going on, too! I once built 3 AMT Pontiacs at the same time. '65 Bonnie, '65 GP, and '65 2+2. Lotsa fun to do them together like that.

Over the past few years: Jennifer Aniston

Yup!!! That's about the time I had a crush on her!! LOL

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Searching for this one is wearing me out!! HAHAHA

A stunning rebuild! Looks great, all around! I bought a real one back in '78. Very much a factory hot rod!

Hope this one never suffers an engine fire!!

CCW-------Comments and Critique Welcome. I see that on a lot of posts with progress pics in them, and in posts with finished build pics.

I'm thinking those "pristine" sealed kits I have may need to be opened, and the parts and decals separated and protected. I'll never build all 895 of these kits, and when I start selling them, the new owner may well appreciate the fact that the parts haven't "melted" together!! LOL

[The car that made Lancia a legend. Daring to be different can be a gamble, but with a bit of grit and lady luck on your side, it can be well worth the risk. That’s exactly what the Bertone design house discovered when it parked a striking concept car outside of Lancia’s front door in a bid to poach work from arch rival Pininfarina. On that day the Lancia Stratos was born.] The above paragraph was taken from the following site: https://www.motor1.com/features/230125/motor1com-legends-lancia-stratos/

It takes the WEDGE shape of automobiles to the extreme!!

Early kits didn't have plastic wrap. Just two little strips of tape, holding the top to the bottom. At times, I would be shopping for just the right annual kit to build, only to find the tape had been broken, and tires, and decals missing from the kits. On the other hand, I bought an AMT '93 Ford F-150 kit from a hobby shop, still wrapped in the plastic, only to find out the entire chrome 'tree' was absent from the box! When I called customer service to see about a replacement, I was told the kit was no longer in production, so I WOULD NOT be getting a chrome 'tree' for the F-150! That kit is still on the shelf in the hobby room.

Correct!! From around 1970. Wild little concept car. https://www.motor1.com/features/230125/motor1com-legends-lancia-stratos/

Judging from the pricing trends on some of the internet auction sites, and other sites that sell kits, it sometimes doesn't matter if the wrap is still on a kit. I've seen a few opened kits bring more money than the same kit that is still sealed. Sometimes, even a gluebomb of a rare model kit goes for more than I want to pay!

That looks about like the same hood.

I'm thinking the front of these trucks are just fabricated to resemble a Camaro grille treatment:

Not really all that weird....kinda cool, actually:

I'm thinking the same thing about it being a custom hood.

I think I like the roof fin the best!!

Orange hood has me stumped. Do you have a grille that might match up to the contours on the hood?

I tend to agree with that. Or, possibly a 71 T-bird:

Sort of a "bait-and-switch" tactic. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I wudda been thoroughly puzzled to see something totally different. I went and clicked on an AMT '66 Imperial kit auction that had ended, and it switched off to a junkyard AMT '58 Ford. That doesn't seem to be very "similar" to me!! HAHAHA

You might want to make sure the hanger wire will fit thru the axle housing before drilling out the wheel backs.