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Finally finished this one, Amt 1960 Ford Starliner which I now call Stratoliner. I think the inspiration came from the 50s dream cars and 60s bubble top customs. Body modifications include a filled rear seat area with AMT 62 Tbird Sports Roadster cover, grille and it's surrounding from AMT 56 Ford kit, extended hood and deck lid modifications with styrene sheet to fit the bubble top from Monogram 58 Tbird kit. Rear bumber is original with added round tail lights from spare part box, perhaps custom headlights from AMT 59 Elcamino kit. Paint is Tamiya Pearl green from spray can. Interior includes dash from Monogram 70 Mustang with extended instrument bezels and some extra chrome trims and some hood scoops just to get a bit more form in the top of the dash. Seats are from AMT 53 Stude and console is unknown piece from the spare part box as is the steering wheel with center bullet built from Amt 49 Merc custom taillight. Tires are from the kit with AMT 53 Stude wheel covers. Suspension is slightly lowered but otherwise it is untouched from underneath. Engine is the kit's 390 FE with 2x4 intake manifold. All and all I am pretty pleased how it turned out but as the paint is not polished and engine compartment is not highly detailed there is clearly room for improvement in the future. Kimmo

I actually forgot. I have also one more Johan kit which is unfortunately not completely finished. Slightly modified 68 Caddy with ZR1 Vette engine and suspension. Statred in 1991 and finished to this point 1998. Probably will never be completely done...

Thanks all for your nice comments!

This is a father and son project that we finally finished. Starting point was AMT Riviera lowrider kit and the idea of back date Revell Foose Cadillac kit where the modern engine, wheels and tires were left over. Riviera seemed to be a good fit for those. Fuel injection is from the spare part box and all the rest is out of the box including the lowered suspension. Engine was pretty high so the oil pan needed to be sectioned and the Buick's pulleys and belts used to get everything fit under the hood. Paint is just a spray can gold with clear (done by me with a pretty poor result...). My son did the BMF work and painted the interior and all the small parts. It was a fun project.

Wow, a great build and the paint looks really impressive. What type of paint you have used?

What a nice thread! So many rare models that I haven't even known to exist! Only finished Johans we have are these two 60 Desotos. Both are rebuilt. The red one by me in the early 90's at the age of 14. It is painted with color from my mother's old Saab 96. Blue one is built by my son a year ago at the age of 11. I had also built 64 Caddy in early 90s but I dismantled it to kitbash it with Monogram 59 Caddy chassis etc but it has been waiting for inspiration over 25 years... this fall I bought 62 Dart which will be hopefully started soon.

This build started as I happend to get just a body shell of 59 Camino and I realized that Street Art series kit that I have in stash has two sets of windows, clear and red. And as I already had the tailgate and taillights in the parts box and a scrap yard 62 Impala to donate chassis and hood I thought this would be a quick and easy build. Well, it took of course much more work and time. Interior is made of a modified 57 Chevy dash and seat and scratch built door panels. Engine is probably Chevy BB from MPC 57 Chevy. Grille is from the ElCamino kit and headlights are from AMT 53 Ford pickup custom grille with red lenses. Wheels are from parts box and I don't know the original kit where they come from. Tires are AMT in front and back. I was planning to make this a very raw street racer, maybe flat black, but eneded up painting it gold. Paint is just from the spray can with clearcoat on top of the decals. Decals are a mixture of Slixx and what was found from the parts box. I kind a lost the motivation when I realised that in some point a small part of the Headhunter decal had detached. So then I just put everything together leaving most of the details from the engine compartment undone. I am not very happy about my work on this one, but atleast I got it done. Thanks for looking. Kimmo

As a huge fan of 50s concept cars I really like this one a lot! What a great idea and execution!

Thanks for the tip! I'll ask him Kimmo

I managed to get a set of old built models from my friend including Johan 60 Plymouth station wagon. All the other models (mostly Monogram 57 Chevys, Mopar muscles etc. not so exciting models) had every single part but Plymouth was missing front bumber/grille assembly and also the rear bumber. Does anyone have these in their part box? Kimmo

Wow, really nice build! I have thought of building either 63-64 Galaxie or this 64 Mercury in a similar way. This inspires!

Wow, extremely nice black paint, like a piano! I like the color combination too. I also have one of these in the stash, looking at this makes me want to start it right away!

Very nice build! I have also built a AMT 66 HT in the 90's and had to do the same engine bay and chassis modifications to get it more realistic and it sure was a lots of work so I know what you've been through! Good job!

Great looking Caddy! My best friend owns an extremely nice Inverness Green Series 62 Flattop and we have been cruising with that a lot in our youth. Would be great to find this resin kit and build a copy of my friend's car for him.

Me and my wife both drive boring Toyotas as daily drivers so let's leave those a side and concentrate on our older cars. 59 Ford Galaxie. Bought this 1993 at the age of 15. It was a project car imported from Arizona. We restored it with my father and got it finished 1996. It has been driven some 25000 miles since then and has been very reliable car. 1957 Chrysler New yorker. Model I fell in love in 1990 when there was am article about a very nice example in Finnish American car magazine. When this very same car that was in the article popped up for sale two years ago just 10 miles from our home there was not much to do than buy it. 1959 Buick Invicta convertible. Almost as long as I have loved 57 Chryslers I have also loved 59 Buicks as I saw the front end of a project car in old cars sales yard close to our summer cottage. It is just so mean. As I had a dream of a late 50s convertible I bundled it to a one package: 59 Buick and a convertible. I have owned the car for 6 years. I am third owner and have all the original documents including the bill of sale from Vancouver. 1963 Buick Riviera which came as a trade for a 1996 Mustang that I had as a daily driver. My plan was to get rid of it soon but my wife really likes the car and don't let me sell. We'll, I quest it is a positive problem!