OldNYJim

I loved the work you did on the rear end there - too cool!

Oh wow! What a cool build! I love how it's turned out!

Looks gorgeous so far! The paint and interior look great! What do you need to do next?

Looks gorgeous! The interor is really nice in particular! What color did you use for the interior?

Most boring looking muscle car I ever saw

Great insight, thanks Misha! Me too! Can't beat a Deuce! I wouldn't mind one of those MPC 32 sedans either, I've seen a few on eBay but they're usually more than I can justify

Oh dude, that SUCKS. Those mats are TERRIBLE for doing that, even on completely cured paint. I HATE those things now!

I heard that there's an international conspiracy to do with the boxes and that someone in China doodled on the box art so they couldn't color copy the boxes anymore. It's a secret tho

That's a cool build! But $1100 - wow! That's a big investment! Cool though, like I say, I love these little 500s!

There's a good store called Jan's on 96th (the east side) that has some plastic kits on the shelf too - the owner is kinda cranky but they have some cool stuff sometimes!

The Michaels in Manhattan (Avenue of the Americas) stocks a few kits and paint and glues...worth a look if you're nearby!

I was always kinda interested in this kit too, but Lord only knows what this thing actually looks like inside the box

I picked up a couple of those kits to build the racecar versions of this kit - as you correctly state they don't feature the parts shown on the box. Would've been cool if they did! Still a good source for this kit though, until we see a reissue!

Awesome! I'm gonna look at these too! Thanks Mike!

Thanks for sharing Kevin! There's some AWESOME builds there. I LOVE this! And this hearse is CRAZY! So many cool builds though! Thanks for posting the pics!

Seeing as how you've started building it, I'll give you $4 right now

Ahh, so Round 2 has the AMT tooling huh? Excellent - I hope they reissue it! Thanks Brett!

Is there a good place to view pics from the show?

I really like the AMT 32 kit - it isn't the most detailed comapred to the Revell Deuce kits, but it's still cool in it's own way! I remember, maybe 10 yers ago, they could be had for peanuts and everyone seemed to be stocking them but not any more. Best I can find is ones like this on eBay for $35 or so. What happened to this line of kits? Did AMT fold and they stopped making them? Is it considered a rare kit now? I kinda wish I'd stocked up when I had chance (and the extra cash)... It seems to be that the Vicky kit is slightly more readily available, and the more detailed buiding options for the chassis of that one are cool, but I DO like the 5 window body

Me too, assuming I could afford it. Very cool!

Who IS Pedro?

How cool! I love it! Great looking build! I need to build a 32 drag car of some sort!

What a great build Mike! I LOVE it! I loved seeing your work getting the resin body made - so inspirational! You should cast and sell a few of those bodies!

What a gorgeous build! I can't wait for these to get rereleased so I can put my own together - yours looks GREAT! Can't wait to see more progress!

A few little uninteresting updates have happened since I last posted - none of them interesting enough to justify a new post, but there's a few now so here goes... Started to fill the hollow rear axle - not sure what to use to fill the centre section - I guess some styrene sheet cut to the correct shape and stacked in there in layers I found an aftremarket three piece air cleaner in my parts box that I preffered to the kit one, so I used a round doodad (also from the parts box) to adapt that to fit onto the SBC that this thing comes with in the kit The stock headlights were too high for my liking so I dug some different ones out of the parts box and mounted them lower ...and filled the original holes with some styrene bar, then sanded smooth And I started work on a scratchbuilt dashboard - the original one is cool but I wanted something smoothed out with maybe a single gauge right behind the steering wheel. I figured it was easier to make a new one than carefully sand and fill the existing one, so I traced the shape of the original, cut it from some sheet and added some bead detail at the bottom. Not sure where to find a single gauge to mount in it yet - I'll have to do some digging Next up, I guess I need to find some primer and see how much bodywork I'll have left to do before paint - more progress as I make it!