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Turned out great! Love these old import roadsters.

Thanks, guys. Although the interior was a bit of a headache I really enjoyed this build.

Great job, very nice build. The Super Bees are beautiful looking cars.

Good find, it cleaned up well. I like all the old promo text on the chassis and floor. Nice model.

That looks good. Very imposing looking car!

Nice build, very clean.

Nice old kit. Colour combo is good, I like that.

Looking good, I like the colour. One of my favourite kits is the Revell Mustang. So easy to build and look really nice.

Paint is stunning. Very nice build.

Nice work! It's a got a Studebaker look about it.

I did actually grab a bag of Maltesers out of the fridge shortly after first seeing the car, xD

She's done and looking ready to cruse on down to Santa Monica! This is the four door Supernatural Impala by AMT that I was originally planning on weathering, which would have been my first attempt! That didn't work out. I had an issue with the primer and also ended up changing the colour twice. It scared me off from messing around with it after stripping it back to the plastic, so instead, I did what I'm most comfortable with and that's factory fresh, or near enough. At the beginning, the kit went together quite well, until it was time to fit the completed interior into the body. Loads of fit issues, chunks of plastic had to be trimmed off the parcel shelf, dashboard, firewall etc, just to get the interior to fit. Because the floor is part of the interior it needs to sit behind the rocker panels. Also the front chassis legs need to fit on the locating pins of the front wheel tubs, but the completed front suspension on the chassis interferes with the wheel tubs, so they had to be trimmed too! Anyway, after all the fun and games I actually really enjoyed this build. I replaced the wheels with a nice set of Cragars but I had to slightly modify the hub fixings so they didn't wobble about. So there we are, a proper love/hate build this one. Loved the start, hated the middle and love the result:)That's two loves, which has to be a good thing!

Yep, I feel your pain, John. I had to leave it for a few hours and come back to it before I threw it in the bin! You're right, Nigel, I trial fitted the rear seat and door cards and they seemed to fit like a glove, until it was time to fit it after it was all glued together! Anyway, she's all done now and looking sweeeet!! I'll post more pictures in the completed section.

Looks like another kit where the firewall and dashboard has major fit issues! Not sure if you can see in the picture, but I had to cut a huge amount of plastic off the firewall and some from the floor where it meets. I also had to shave the edge of the dashboard to stop it interfering with the windscreen. I trimmed some more off the parcel shelf and after countless test fits it seems to be fitting ok now. Slowly refitting all the suspension parts back on now. Man, what a flipping hassle!

One step forward 150 steps back, Lol! Trying to get the body to fit to the floor is impossible. I have tried everything, and still it won't sit right. First I found the rear parcel shelf is completely the wrong shape and there was no way it was going to fit without cutting a fair amount off, that got the back sitting ok but I I need to trim the sides of the parcel shelf too to get it just right. The front for some reason just won't fit no matter which way I look at it.The front chassis legs with all the suspension components get in the way of the inner wings and forces the chassis legs downward but even with the chassis removed the interior tub wont fit. I've completely stripped the chassis now because parts were breaking off from too much handling, I have no idea where the problem is. I can't see where the fit issue is, it feels like I'm trying to force an interior tub that's from a completely different car!

Interesting build. If it's any good to you, I have a pick up tub from the '70 Pontiac custom? It's no good to me.

Because I'm using different wheels I've had to slightly modify the hub fixings and the wheel plates. The wheel plates are the original from the kit but not the tyres, they're skinnier, so the wheel centres, caps, whatever you want to call them, wouldn't seat flush to the tyre. I had to sand down some material on the wheel plates so the two halves would sit nicely in the tyre, but then the hub fixings were too long and the wheels were wobbling around, so I had to trim them back too. Same treatment on the front, but the wheels were rubbing on the steering rod and wouldn't face straight, there was huge toe in! To fix that, I had to use the hub fixings to space the wheel away from the steering rod by putting them the other side of the wheel plate, I then just used some spare hub fixings to hold the wheel in place.

I added a tachometer to the transmition tunnel cos there's hole there for, I assume, a gear stick or centre console? The steering wheel is from the Mercury Cyclone. It was the closest looking wheel I had to replace the mushed up original, but there we are, interior is done and looking not too bad:)

Thanks, Guido.