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Nice! I like your idea of leaving rest of the car almost stock with heavily chopped top. Top chop is very smooth, rear window area flows nicely towards the trunk lid.

Really Really nice build of my favourite rally car of all times. And great that it is late great Henri's Monte Carlo winner Delta. He did an amazing race then along with other Finnish rally heros Salonen and Mikkola finishing second and third. What a great time for me to be a 10 year old rally fan in Finland!

Great build! I really like the group B era rallying and it is nice to see models from that era. Your build is Tony Pond's 1985 RAC car, am I right? He finished third and it was Metro's debut race.

Great model from the greatest era of rallying! Well done! As a kid I watched probably 30 times VHS-tape from 1985 WRC season and remember well the Monte Carlo rally and how one of our country's legendary drivers, Ari Vatanen, won the race and Rohrl was second.

You are right. I had build and painted basically everything ready and was waiting a parts delivery where the exhaust pipes were coming and run into trouble when started to test fit those. Had to make a compromise with it and hoped no one notices😀 Thanks for feedback! Kimmo

Great looking build and very tasteful color and wheel choice.! Paint job looks excellent. As an old american car guy I have lately found my self liking these earlier JDM cars and I have one of these kits too and it seems to be of high quality. Too bad that Hasegawa kits don't have open hoods and engines. I have 3d printed engine waiting but it also needs the firewall and inner fenders so lot of work ahead but your build gives motivation. Kimmo

Wow! Customizing an Exner car is always risky and not always end up in a better looking car than the original but this surely is a success. I really like the idea of using 57 roof on it along with the other small modifications. And the color...can't get better than that in a late 50's custom. Well done! Kimmo

Great build! These 58-60 Lincolns are strange cars; they are in a way ugly but at the same time really good looking. I especially like the 58 as it has those heavily sculptured front fenders. I like your color choice and execution on this one and it makes me miss Modelhaus too even that I have never had a one single kit from them. Kimmo

Very nice! I like 59 Olds very much and this reminds a of one 98 flattop that was in my home town in the late 80's. Color combo and paint job is excellent on this build. Well done! Kimmo

This was my first attempt to build Revell 29 Roadster but most probably not the last. It surely is a nice kit. I replaced the, if I may say little bit boring, SBC with AMT flathead dressed with Replicas&Miniatures Eddie Meyer hop up kit. Fuel pump and exhaust pipes are also R&M resin parts. Chassis is built out of the box with a minor lowering. I also modified the front shocks and brackets because the headlight supports are bit too high up and wide to my taste. Now I got the headlights closer to the 32 grille which is from the spare part box. I used a spare part box instrument panel (I believe originates to AMT 57 Chevy), 40 Ford steering wheel and unknown gear shifter on otherwise oob interior. Interior is painted with a mixture of gloss Humbrol light brown and matt Revell light brown. I hoped it to be a bit more glossy when dry but seems like I put a bit too much matt color in it. Body is basically untouched and is painted with Debeer automotive acrylic. I decided the color after seeing a very nice 32 Coupe in the car magazine. I managed to get a pretty decent paint so it is not sanded but only polished with 3M and Mequiars polishing medias. It actually looks better in reality than in my slightly poor pictures. I had some struggle on the final assembly so I am not 100% happy how it turned out but it is the best one I have made since getting back to modelling after 25 years break. I would have liked to use Hallock-style windshield but I didn't have it then. Now there is one waiting for the next 29 Roadster which I hope to manage to build without the challenges I had with this one. Thanks for looking and contructive comments are more than welcome. Kimmo

Wow, a great build inside out! Very nice stance and color choice. I like these small UK cars as hotrod. My dad bought a Ford Popular (a cheaper version of Anglia) project in the mid 80s but he never started it. He would have restored it to original as me and my brother insisted a hot rod build out of it. Maybe it was easier for him to sell it instead of listening our hotrod talk. I think I need to find one of these Revell kits to full fill that hot rod build dream atleat in 1/25 scale. Kimmo

What a great build! I know a bit of 59 Fords as I have owned mine for 32 years,so I can confirm you have nailed the details well! I really like that MEL-engine idea in the cheapest 2d post body. It would have been a real sleeper. However over my 32 years career of reading about 59 Fords I have never seen any information or pictures about the MEL option. But then again I don't recall reading the 100% bullet proof opposite information either, so who knows maybe there have been some secret sleepers built by the factory or dealers? Kimmo

I have bought resin casted E&J headlights. Producer is The Parts box. Haven't used them yet but they seen to be nice ones.

Wow, one of the nicest weathering I have seen! I really like the idea of a replaced fender and hood. Gives a whole lot more realism to the model. Well done!

Wow, I like it a lot! Weathering is excellent, not too much or too little. Also tools and other stuff in the bed is just perfect! One of the nicest weathered builds I have seen.

Really nice build and definitely makes honor to your dad's Vette. A crazy idea came into my mind; how about building also the other versions of the car on your dad's 52 years ownership?

Really great and unique built! I especially like that crazy engine. Well done!

Pure perfection!! Excellent job all-round with spot on color and wheel&tire choice.

Thanks all for very nice comments! I realized that I had taken the pictures before installing front hub caps. Someone mentioned that this overlooked kit. I don't think this is a bad kit but should not be compared to more modern Revell kits. At least the chopped body is OK and saves a lot of work.

Wow! I like everything on this build! I have this kit in my stash and this gave me lot of inspiration.

I think I haven't posted this one here eventhough it has been finished some three years ago. I got this AMT American Graffiti Coupe from my friend and as I have never been big fan of that yellow film car I wanted to do something else. I got also a bunch of glue bombs and spareparts and there was several Monogram Lilcoffins in pieces so I decided to use the engine and wheels and tyres from those. I also installed the Lilcoffin rear seat and door panels. Dash was modified with gauge panel from that part lot, it might be from Monogram Boot Hill Express. Taillights are scratch built from clear rod and BMF. Suspension was slightly lowered by cutting the rear coils and modifying the front beam and thinning the upper leaf. Paint is a hardware store rattle can metallic blue with clear coat. It is straight out of the can without wet sanding and polishing. Thanks for looking Kimmo

Great build and very nice paint job. I really like your idea of not gluing the bubble top so you can change back to the original one too. I have the kit in my stash too but haven't yet decided what to do with it. Bubble top is certainly quite long and I used it for 60 Ford custom build. Had also a plan to cut in half and add chrome bands but left it as it is.

Really good looking 59 and great color choice! I have owned a light blue and white 2dht Galaxie over 30 years and if I would ever change the color it would be Geranium. I try to find my self restoration AMT kit to build a model of my own car but no luck so far. Kimmo

Wow, really nice job there especially with the BMF. It is great to see these old rare models which I didn't even knew to exist.