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Beautiful looking car and very nicely built. Outstanding detail, the foil work looks so clean and well done. Wish I could do foil work like that!

Beautiful. Turned out looking awesome. Absolutely loving the transporter all loaded up!

Pretty darn nice for a "lazy build" as you say! Love the colour, very nicely done.

Stunning colour. Those wheels look so much nicer than the stock ones. Very nice build.

Very nice colours. Love these '57 Plymouth. Like you said, when you've seen the movie you can't see it as anything other than Christine, haha.

wow, 1/72 scale! nice work. Sweet looking build.

The colour combo and wheels definitely give it that resto mod look. Very nice.

Love the John Player F1.

Nicely detailed. I like the painted rear drums and front discs, gorgeous looking paint too.

Knockout looking build, that silver looks so good. Nice touch with the rolled down window.

Beautiful! The light rain was just light enough to not look like giant bubbles, very realistic.

Very nice used look to this, lovely colour too. Nice weathering on the bumpers, and I really like the stock wheel trims.

ooh yes, now that's nice! Very impressive weathering. Lovely build.

Well, interior is what it is. The only colour I had that didn't look awful against the green was a light gold which I used on the seat panels. The black dash, console, handbrake, and door card wood inlays has toned it down in there just enough where I'm happy to leave it like that. I also made a small interior mirror and a turn signal stalk, they're the only mods I've done to the inside.. oh, and I lost the handbrake so had make that too.

Thanks mate. It's been a lot of fun adding all the little extras. Some kits are so bad I have to approach them with the idea of making it my own by adding extra bits and making them fit. It would probably end up in the bin if I looked at it as a kit with tons of issues that need fixing!

Palmer! That poor thing would probably need more than a few corrections, and still wouldn't look right afterwards.

I tried a few colours and none of them suited. I tried beige and found it looked almost brown against this shade of green. Oddly, the best colour that went with this green was my filler primer which is almost yellow! but I didn't want to buy a whole can of paint just for the carpet. I've stripped the interior three times. The detail, what little there is of it, gets less and less every time I strip the paint, so all green it stays, lol. though it doesn't look so bad now with the detail added.

Nice! I seen a later version in this livery when I was looking the car up in pictures. Cant wait to see it finished, it looks great.

The other night when I was test fitting the chassis to the body I found the wheels weren't centre in the wheel arches because of the front valance I made was pushing the chassis back. I cut most of the front chassis away which brought it forward and now sits snug to the valance and looks so much better, it also made the front not look so nose heavy, two fixes in one but in doing so created another! One of the rear wheels was now closer to the wheel arch than the other side. I thought maybe it's the one piece axle and springs, most older kits I've built with the one piece axle and springs never sit straight, but it turned out to be the interior tub. There are two locating pins on the chassis that the tub sits on, the drivers side one is ever so slightly more forward than the other, so when the chassis and tub are fitted into the body it kicks the right side rear of the chassis out just enough to make the rear wheels "crab" and there for blaming the axle, Lol. I cut the pins off and now the car sits straight and level. Sorry for the hardback book I've written here but hopefully it'll help others who want to go this far on the Pinto kit.

wow, nice! Wish I'd gone for a different colour now, not many other colours go with green in my case.

Thanks guys. Interior is painted, but, that's a lot of green! I'd like to add a secondary colour, but the thing is, nearly every picture I've seen of the Pinto has no contrasting colours in the interior other than the odd black dashtop. Literally everything in them is one single colour!

I'm almost finished with this now, just the interior left. After trying out some Torq Thrust wheels with white lettered tyres on it I'm torn now between stock and custom, lol. Might have to buy another and do one of each!

Thanks mate, it's a different kit almost, haha.

Yeah, the front wheels look way too big, in fact, all the wheels I have are too big for this car, Lol. I wouldn't be able to use the ones on the rear either. You can't see it in that picture but those rear wheels are jammed solid up in the arch, I'd have to modify the chassis to make them fit, though I did find some tyres with a low profile and they fit perfect.

Gonna look good with those wheels.