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I see this reissue has the hood from the original '80s Satellite issue. I might have to get one of these, despite my aversion to the F&F branding... Neat idea with the bench seat, but before you get too far into it, I believe that pleated upholstery pattern was only used on buckets. The standard RR bench was like this: https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/colorAndTrim/1971/71_Satellite0010.jpg This one being optional: https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/colorAndTrim/1971/71_Satellite0006.jpg

Aside from the chubby fenders, the thing that leaps out at me is that the headlamp surrounds need to be recessed more into the grille, and the headlamps themselves should be recessed in the surrounds. They're almost flush in the kit. The bumper definitely looks odd too. Re the Chevy II, the windshield header is too low relative to the side windows, the roof looks too thick and the top is chopped overall. Look at the proportions of the rectangular door window versus the real thing.

Nice. I'm planning to use a Spalding Flamethrower on mine too.

It is, but it's about .080" too narrow compared with the SBF engines in the AMT '67 Mustang and the Revell '32 Fords and the heads have no detail at all. I'm building one now. I've widened the block and I'm using the heads and a modified intake from the '32 Ford kit.

A Ford Thames Trader, if anyone was wondering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Trader

The Opel Blitz used a metric tooled version of the 216ci Chevy engine, so it should be about the same size in scale, notwithstanding the 1/24 to 1/25 difference. From what I remember, the Opel chassis isn't really accurate for a US truck, and the wheels are totally wrong, having a much larger European PCD.

10/10 for observation. I figured people would be most interested in the photos. ?

The other thing everyone gets wrong with 1ton/wrecker conversions is the wheelbase. It was 133" for the 1 ton chassis, so in scale, 0.72" longer than the shortbed pickup.

Please let us know who these businesses are. We can then either avoid using them, or request that they pay some attention to packing,

Beautifully done.

Definitely AMT. Early trophy kits had narrow slicks with no markings; the Firestones came a bit later. I have some of the 9.00x15 ones in a soft rubber compound, rather than the usual PVC found in kits. I was told the rubber ones were sold as slot car accessories. AFAIK, Revell only had M&H slicks, in 8.00 and 11.00 widths.

Don't paint the front chassis rails black though, that isn't a separate subframe on B bodies. The K member and trans mount (middle part only of the trans crossmember) were painted black, but the rest was part of the body assembly.

That (marking as read) seems to have done the trick, thanks. Must remember to do that periodically.

Same here, still very slow on Unread Content.

I'm finding individual threads aren't too bad, but I usually have Unread Content as my starting page and that's taking nine or ten seconds to load.

Good work, you really captured the look of the thing.

That's a cool old truck. Is this cab still available somewhere?

OK, just seems strange to me to use a sought after, valuable early Dodge when the correct Ford body is current and available in abundance. Stranger still to put a lot of time and effort into a "replica" which isn't anything of the sort. YMMV, obviously. Have fun. ?

That would have been the logical choice, given (a) the real thing was based on one and (b) the Ford reissue is cheap and readily available. I'm not seeing any resemblance here - the hood on the 1:1 is flat like the original Econoline, continuing the belt line, not dramatically sloped down like this?

FE is a big block - completely different engine. The kit has a 5.0 small block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Windsor_engine Depending on how you dress it up, it could represent almost any small block from the early '60s to the end of production. AFAIK the EFI intake is the type found in a late '80s - early '90s Fox body Mustang. Trans is a Ford AOD 4 spd auto. I'm sure a Ford expert will be along soon to correct me...

The model is the easy part... there's one dead giveaway. The year is more difficult for me.

I had that Revell issue. The only difference vs. the Italeri kits was that the Revell version had hollow rubber tyres (which perished after a few years ? ).

$52.60 shipping for a bumper - I think he's ruled himself out of contention there.

If you were doing this, the Pontiac engine blue wouldn't be far off: The one in the OP is way darker - as you say, more like the Cobra colour. Also, a quick search only turned up models painted such a light blue...

Presume you know this, but the Parisienne was based on the Chevrolet chassis, so 5" shorter wheelbase than the US Pontiacs. The Revell '65 or '66 Impalas would be ideal donors for the chassis, but both have big blocks, so you'd have to swap in a 327 from another kit. I would think any resin bodies would be 1:25 to go with available kits, rather than 1:24? Your '67 Bonneville is almost certainly a resin repop of the original MPC kit, which was reworked for each annual release.