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Very cool. The wheel and color choice is perfect. I like the way you shaped the rear deck too.

Dash in the real vehicle is 57 or 58 Mercury.

A few minutes with a razor saw, some evergreen and a rummage through the parts box........

There were Cougar station wagons, but they didn't arrive on the scene until 1977 and again in 1982. No 69 wagons though.

This is a good swap, but the 67-68 roof is different from the 65-66 around the back window.

Stolen from elsewhere. List of new releases for October 2012.

Steve Perry (Calnaga Casting) casts a 429, with a toploader trans: http://www.calnaga.com/Store.html (go to page 2)

I still have some ten-cent Testor's bottles. I probably wouldn't use the paint in them though.....

I will be driving up the 28th. Bringing Ron Ramsay. Gonna try to leave early enough to make it to Hollywood Jim's seminar.

Most Japanese cars sold in the U.S. in the late 60s and early 70s, when they had door-mounted mirrors, had little chrome pieces on the fenders to cover up the home-market mirror mounting holes.

My 2007 Fusion (2.3 4-cylinder/5-speed manual) calculates to about one MPG plus or minus what the display shows when I fill the tank. I reset the "average MPG" display and the trip odometer when I fill the tank. Average is about 25-28 MPG in mixed driving. My commute is about 60 miles each way, 65% mountain roads, the rest on the freeway. I have seen the display as high as 49.9 MPG coming down the grade between Mammoth Lakes and Bishop, CA. I don't baby it. This car now has 107,000 miles and still drives and handles like new. No major problems. What's fun to watch is the "instant MPG" display in my 91 Taurus (3.8) engine. It can show 99 MPG when coasting. Of course it drops to zero when you stop.

71 Ford LTD 2-door. 68 Mercury Montego MX 2-door hardtop. 72 Mercury Montego GT.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

More Sunfires..... And then:

Motor Trend called it the Fastbagon......

Um, no. Not even close.

Copier paper boxes have served me well. They hold 6-7 standard AMT kit boxes and one small Jo-Han box each. Fewer if you pack the larger Revell kit boxes. And they have a separate lid.

Your car came from the factory with a cold-air intake. Most of the aftermarket "CAI" systems pull in hot/warm air from the engine compartment and make more noise. Bah!

Fuel pump is basically in the same location on Clevelands and Windsors. Cleveland fuel pump has a vertical bolt pattern, Windsors are horizontal.

There was also an AMT Ford GT40 kit in 1/43

Blumpity blump.......

The Heller/Union 330P4 kit is way cool.

In the Law & Order series with Vincent D'Onofrio the boss has diecasts in his office in some episodes. I think it was "Joan of Arcadia" where part of one episode was filmed at Burbank's House of Hobbies.

Best Car in the World (IMO): 2007 Ford Fusion SE 4-cylinder/5-speed with Sport Appearance Package. Mine has 90,000 miles. Never a down day. No significant problems. Averages 26 MPG. Drives and handles great. It's all-day comfortable. No squeaks or rattles. It's not babied. I change the oil and filter every 5,000 miles. I get compliments on it even when it's really dirty. Best car I've ever owned.