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That color is perfect for this car. I don't know how I missed the rest of the build thread on this one, but she's a beauty.

Sweet! This would be a fun one to take out on cruise night.

Sweet Ramcha...errr, Trailduster! The hood and grille swap looks good. I also noticed the resin scripts on the tailgate & fenders. Nice bit of work there. I dig it.

As a Fiat aficionado, I am both horrified and amused.

This. Is. Cool. I don't have the skills to do any work with figures, but I'm totally here for this.

That is one sweet Duster. The color combination is killer. Honestly, what Mopar doesn't look good in Panther Pink? This is one of my favorite AMT kits of that era.

She's an absolute beauty!

I really like this, especially in that color combo. Neat idea. Makes me wish I had one of these in the stash!

That is really cool! I really dig the color and the "Panel Cruiser" emblem is such a great little detail.

I should have mentioned that this was at Viva Las Vegas in 2019. I had the name of the owner at one point but lost is somewhere along the line. It's a really cool car and I'm a sucker for any big boat on skinny whitewalls and Astro Supremes.

Not exactly big fins, but this particular car is one of my favorite looking Impalas of that era.

Unfortunately, there are a number of accessibility guidelines that are not met on this site. Kurt's posted example is a good one, where the text is not in sufficient contrast to be read clearly by folks with vision issues. Not sure if that was a design error, or just lack of information.

Now that is one sharp Fox body!

The pic that Mike posted is the only shot I've seen of Shirley's yellow Mustang that had a clear view of the back end.

Sadly, my search turned up empty on that hood. You might want to post for it in the Marketplace Wanted! section.

I love that this was an option. When I read your initial post, I thought you were printing them yourself. Are those parts from Few Sprues Loose on eBay?

That article brought back some memories. Don Sherman was one of the best automotive journalists of the era.

I'm digging this. Nice bird bath hood. Can't wait to see the '74 grille. I first built this kit back in the "High Roller" days, with the Ground Hawg tires! I never understood Monogram putting a sunroof in the removable top, though.

I haven't been able to find good pics of the '72 car that aren't on fire, but here's a shot of the '71 car at OCIR and it clearly has wheelie bars. Also, she ran bars on the Cuda she borrowed from Don Schumacher to finish out the season after the Mustang burned. I can't imagine why the '72 Mustang wouldn't have bars, seeing that the cars she ran before and after that had them. But I have no photo proof, it's just a guess.

Oh yeah, that's the promo chassis. You can see where it's cut at the rear to fit. I'd guess this started out as the Snap Fast Plus kit since the wheels & tires are the same. Aside from geeking out on the different configurations of this AMT classic, I think yours is a really cool kitbash. Honestly, I've not seen it built this way before. Is it a candidate for a clean up and restore?

This is cool. It's always nice to see older kits being saved. I haven't had any Mongram GTX kits in my stash for a long while, but I will look through my various parts boxes to see if I have an extra hood.

A few more thoughts (after I hit the post button). Apologies. If you look closely at the pic, you'll see what appears to be the fleetside mounting slot, low on the rear of the cab, circled in red. This wouldn't be visible on the cab meant for the stepside bed. So I'm guessing this is a kitbash. Does it have a promo chassis plate? It has probably been shortened. Also, AMT gave us the Chevy extended cab in a few select kits, the recently re-released C3500 kit being one of them. That kit (and the 3500 promos) have no cab side trim. The side trim was only available in the early Snap-Fast Plus release of the extended cab longbed, and the associated promos. So I'm also guessing that this model was based on either the snap kit or a promo, as there was no full detail, glue kit of the extended cab C/K 1500 to my recollection. Again, we're talking about the 1990s AMT GMT400 platform kits, not the Revell Silverado.

AFAIK, AMT never produced an OBS Chevy extended cab shortbed, be it fleetside or stepside, kit or promo. It always surprised me, given that all the parts were there. That doesn't mean you can't build your own. I'm currently working on something similar starting with a promo of a K1500 extended cab long bed. The cab is paired with the standard short bed from the recent R2 release of the C1500. For this project, I only needed to shorten the chassis to mate the cab & bed, because I'm working with the promo chassis plate. It's going to be a curbside. While this works easily enough for the short fleetside bed, the stepside bed has mounting posts that don't line up with the mounting slots on the back of any of their extended cab trucks (which were only fleetsides IIRC) You can see the difference below. The cab for the fleetside bed is on the left, the stepside on the right. Here's a shot of the difference in the bed tabs. Again, fleetside on the left, stepside on the right. It would be simple enough to cut new mounting slots for the stepside bed in the back of the fleetside cab and fill the original holes. I'm guessing that's what was done with the original model posted. You could also cut/paste the lower cab panel out between the two cabs, but that seems like a lot of extra work. Some further investigation is in order, perhaps. PS- Revell did kit the extended cab/shortbed Silverado, but that was the '99-up GMT800 style, not the earlier GMT400 trucks.

Looking good. Really good.

She's a beauty!