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Impressive looking build and very nicely painted, love the colours. Nice job on the roof, really nice!

Stunning looking Charger. Love the colour and detail, very nice!

Added a front valance cos it looked odd without one, but was kind of a waste of time cos you can barely see it when the bumper is fitted.

Thanks, Scott. Yeah, car manufactures made a lot of bold claims to big up an otherwise drab car back in the day. I have a Morris Marina, basically the UK version of the Pinto when it comes to "butt of all jokes" In the owners manual there's a section comparing the torsion bar suspension to that of the E Type Jaguar! lol

Nice work on the engine bay and underside, lovely colour too. The Revell '68 Charger is a great kit. Nice work for your first build in ten years.

Made a cross member, tie rods and steering rack. This is about as far as I'm going with this chassis, anymore work I might as well use a completely different chassis.

Got the engine wired, they be a little thick but better than nothing, also done my trim line for the vinyl roof.

Thanks guys. The chassis on this is weird, it looks sort of ok and fits the body fine, but man does the engine sit low! Even with the bumper fitted you can see a lot of the engine hanging from underneath. I can't push it up as it's pretty much hitting the hood and the axle through engine prevents any adjustment anyway, so it is where it should be. I'm not going to do too much to the chassis as it seems to be all sorts of wrong.

Funny you say that about the C4 bellhousing. The Type 9 Sierra gearbox and bellhousing, also Ford, is very rare and sought after over here for five speed conversions on older cars. Ford are great at making parts that make other cars better! Lol

Paint is looking really nice, and nice foil work too. Gonna look stunning with that red interior.

Found some pedals in my spares tin. The moulded in pedals were barely visible but I sanded them off anyway.

..so I made my own, and added a fuel pump, a better distributor, power steering and better looking belt system, and a nice pair of side draft carbs! I'll be wiring this engine too, it's not something do very often but this block of Lego needs all the help it can get.

This is an oil filter apparently!?

Thanks mate. I'm sure the simpler the kit, the more complicated I make it for myself!? haha, that I can live with, I just hope I'm not known as "That guy with a twitch in his eye" after this build! xD

Headlights in this kit are just lumps of chrome. I picked out some headlight lenses from my spares and will use the kits headlights as the domes.. bowls, buckets, whatever they're called!

Thanks mate. Where there's a break, there's a bodge. haha.

Thanks, Ray.

That is true. I may poke fun at these older kits here and there but I'm happy they exist rather than lost in a warehouse with other moulds that haven't seen the light of day in decades. I too would love to see a new tooling of the Pinto, but like you said, who would buy it? Be sure to post some pictures of your build when it's done, I'd love to see it.

The plastic water jug is twice as thick as what the kits glass is, so I had to bevel the rear of the hatch's window frame and the glass itself for it to fit flush.

Managed to sand and polish the ejector pin marks out of the side glass. The rear hatch glass was almost the size of the hatch itself! The glass literally looked like it was just pressed against the hatch from behind as apposed to fitting in the frame, so I trimmed the glass to fit inside... but I trimmed too much off and had to throw it:( Solution? cut up my old water filter jug to make a new one, Lol!

Put the ejector pins in the middle of the glass why not!

Thanks, Scott. I found removing that piece behind the grill allows the front to sit slightly under the hood like the real car, it's not meant to be flush with the hood.

Lol, xD

Got the side trim done. I used a custom grille from the '57 Fairlane in my spares that has very fine horizontal bars. I sanded the back of the grill until it was super thin and then cut the bars out individually, cut them to fit each panel and glued them on.

That looks cool, nice conversion. I much prefer the front end on this to the '77 version.