Andria H

Bought this as a rebuilder from a friend, coated in dust and nicotine film. Some wiping with a Lysol wipe took care of the mess, I restored the chrome work and amazingly the original 30+ year old Bare Metal foil on the door handles & front/rear glass survived but the side window trim didn't, so I painted that. Interior was cleaned/repainted/detailed and reinstalled, engine bay with a period 289 V8 swap and wired dizzy ended up staying (battery was relocated to in the hatch...) and put on a set of billet wheels from an AMT/Ertl '57 Ford with parts bin Goodrich TA Radial tires. While I didn't carry out the whole build, I saved it from the brink of destruction along with a '94 Dodge Stealth promo model (thread to come) and added my own touches.

Nice. I'll have to try one. I actually love this era C3 but don't fit in any Vette easily.

the build took like an afternoon. The weathering took a week

Thanks Gene!

Can't wait. I have decals and a paint code in mind to make me a '79 Golden Eagle J10 and cut windows into the shell.

thanks all!

yep, and a very sweet one

Found all the Lincoln LSC specific stuff to the Revell pro stock. Working on the silver two-toning and vinyl top texture, keeping the hood with its scoop because I like it, added an old Revell Fox Mustang engine bay tub, and am going to use a Revell '91 Cougar XR7 parts kit to finish this kit as a luxury cruiser. I do have the light lenses for this and may just use Cougar light bases with LSC lenses for the headlights. Interior dash/door cards are all painted up and textured/washed and detailed. Dash details

Soraya Soraya's favorite place in this hot weather. I love the coloring/markings to her coat. Sometimes she likes to sniff at the flowers

Thanks! Only drugs I get at the pharmacy and used per doctor's orders. 🥰

Started with this kit I got off a friend. Not wanting to build the overdone "McQ" or "CHiPS" Ponch cars or a me-too stock blue or white one or even a '71-'73 conversion, I let my imagination and artistic talent run wild with this build. I weathered and cluttered the interior and added a padded rollbar, made the radio cubby look vacant and added a Mr Gasket style shifter. Added varmint nests and vegetation all around what was once a chromed out full-house H.O. 400 V8. Even the trademark eagle on the hood wasn't spared. Paint job on the car is made to look like a circa 1973-74 custom panel paint job on faded, rust-bloomed, sunburned Carousel Red paint with extreme thermal damage to one side/lesser all over. In fact, my back story to this is that it was used in a crime in El Centro California in 1978 after being sold new in Pomona in 1970, and ended up auctioned off to a guy in Casa Grande Arizona who left it in his salvage yard where it was recently extracted by a collector of old patina hot rods/customs/etc.

Start on this build.

Start on a 1/25 scale AMT/Ertl 1969 Ford Torino Cobra, painted in Krylon Dark Copper Metallic to approximate era-correct Dark Saddle Bronze Poly, with the interior to be done in a corresponding shade with black carpets & the rest built out of the box with only minor engine and chassis weathering & aged tire treads. I have the whole Class of '69 muscle car set (a 1999 Kmart exclusive) by AMT/Ertl to build. The '69 Barracuda is going to be a "secretary special" with a bench seat and 273/automatic, the Hurst-Olds will be detrimmed into a Cutlass 'S' trim level and made into a primered project in progress hot rod using leftover items from the Torino and Barracuda.

Thanks all, and especially to @Pierre Rivardfor chiming in. This kit will be here tomorrow sometime.

Got this kit on eBay (estimated time of arrival this Saturday or Monday) for a great price. I had been wanting to build the kit for probably 20 years, but Pierre's post about superdetailing this kit ended up taking me over the edge and made me seek out a kit. Ultimately, this kit is coming to me from Tucson AZ where it had been secreted away in an estate purchased by the seller since 1987. My intent with it is not to go as far with it as Pierre did, but to make a nice looking classic build that is higher to the fidelity of a 1920s/30s German sports car than the pic on the box of a grossly overrestored car. Some parts will be dechromed and painted, such as the wire wheels, dash, firewall, carburetors, and running boards, with the Dunlop Cord tires made into solid blackwalls, the seat and interior panels textured/painted to look like Mercedes' famous Rosen leather that they have used for most of their existence, and the overthick windshield glass will be replaced with a custom cut of clear packaging plastic. Vintage European license plates from my decal sheet stash will be used along with a 1940s-older style Shell Oil decal under the hood. This kit and the Bugatti Royale & the 1/16 scale 1912 Stutz racer, 1914 Mercedes land speed racer, and 1910 Model T Ford, could have been game changers for Lindberg, but sadly it took until George Toteff reinvigorated the brand in the 1980s/90s for them to be even taken mildly seriously.