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Thank you everyone for the compliment! Much appreciated! @mustang1989Thanks! This is the Round2 reissued '80 Pinto wagon kit from a few years ago which comes with real rubber tires with pad printed raised letters unlike the plastic wheels that were common in 1970s MPC kits. Also new kit means new decals that are safe to use, but if this was an original kit from 1980 the decals would have required a spray with clear coat or application of decal bonder because decades old decals almost always disintegrates when placed in water without those treatment. I needed to do the same for my '77 Pinto wagon decals that I also posted here few months ago.

Thanks to all for the kind words!

@slusherThanks! You might get to see my Pinto hatchback from Charlie's Angels join this Pinto wagon in the near future, as soon as I finish the build.

@bbowser Thanks! I'll be posting many more wood panelled station wagon in the future as soon as I can finish them.

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@Jim B I would love to build many other cars of the 1970s that came with wild interiors such as the AMC Matador Oleg Cassini or the Caddy Seville Gucci to name a few.

@kelson That's the decal sheet in that box.

@kelson Thanks! The Dart kit with this box art has the body decals to build either the Spirit of '76 or the Hang 10. Unfortunately the decal sheet does not come with decals for the interior. That's where Ray's Kits comes to the rescue. Unless you can make the pattern yourself or get that somewhere and print yourself.

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@Rattlecan DanThanks! Happy New Year to you too!

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@Falcon RancheroPerhaps you can grab another similar kit and that way you'll have both the lowrider and the stock version when you're done with that. I have a second kit that I plan to turn into the '90 to '92 Caddy Brougham d'Elegance four door.

This is my MPC 1/25 scale 1976 Dodge Dart Lite Spirit of '76. The decals are from Rays Kits from The Netherlands. I dropped in the big block 426 Hemi that was the optional engine that came with the MPC kit.

Get ready for an exciting car with cylinder deactivation! Here's my 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham V-8-6-4 Ever thought you would see one of these again in the 21st century? LOL. Like the original ad said, "Trust Cadillac to lead the way." It's the Revell lowrider kit modified, detailed, added scratch built parts, and finished by adding wheels from a promo '79 Caddy which rolls. Countless hours spent researching the real car. Pics from bring a trailer of surviving real rides was of big help. As you can tell by now I love Malaise Era engine bay with acres of vacuum hoses.

Beautiful build! I need to get one of these.

Nice!

Beautiful build!

Sorry, I forgot to add these pictures with the first set of pics. Here are a few more shots of this car after it was taken apart. I worked on this car in the same way I would try to improve a basic plastic snap kit. If anyone else have the same model you can also dismantle and detail it just like mine.

@W-409 He has the Car & truck list in his facebook page called Too Many Projects.

My detailed 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country Station Wagon. The car was taken apart and improved from top to bottom. This is a 1/24 scale die cast by Motormax where on the chassis and the box they call it a '79, but according to that grille this is a 1978 car. First year of this downsized Mopar wagon. As usual like all other Motormax models of this scale the engine bay and chassis are unpainted and molded in black plastic. Also in this car the interior was just molded in cream/tan plastic with not much detailing. Let's start with the interior. I added deep pile carpeting, the bed liners dressed up with Bare Metal Foil, complete dashboard detailing with simulated wood applique and chrome trim, seat belts, windshield tint, all door insert detailing including adding ash trays, one partially rolled up passenger side glass, painted indicator and gear shifter lever. The engine bay was first painted matching the exterior paint of the car and then the engine was spray painted, while the rest of the detailing was done with highly dilluted black & silver paint using thin brush & toothpick. These 1970s cars had acres of vacuum hoses and good thing Motormax molded in much of them. The underside of the hood was detailed and a simulated hood insulation was painted on. The chrome trim below the roof luggage rack was dressed up with Bare Metal Foil and so were all the window trims. Motormax originally applied silver paint to highlight the window trim but BMF makes the whole car more realistic.

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@LennyB @W-409 The model can be requested from Too Many Projects on facebook. It can take couple weeks for Dr. Robert Burns, the owner of Too Many Projects to create the body unless he already has one in stock because he's quite busy these days building many awesome models for hundreds of people. For this car I got the body, bumpers, and bucks to create the windows from him. Now once the car does arrive it can take many more weeks or months to get it finished. It can be a long journey so patience is required. If we find an existing plastic kit that can supply engine, chassis, wheels, etc that fits easily then that makes things easier and reduce build time, but if we have to scratch build a lot of the parts then the build can take a long time.

@Kah puts I'll be sharing many more AMC models as soon as I finish restoring them. Unfortunately many sought after AMC models are just not being produced today in plastic form, and if we find an old promo or a kit they tend to be rare and expensive which is probably why we don't see many AMC here. The resin models are not the easiest to obtain either, and when we do get one they are quite challenging to build.

@Dave Van Hopefully in the near future you'll get to see my completed 'coffin nose' '74 four door sedan.

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