Ron Hamilton

I glad to see what one looks like when it's built. I have had one since the kit first came out. I never built it. Maybe I will now. Thanks.

Absolutely.

That looks great!

It is actually a 68 Buick le sabre pursuit car. I can see the side marker lamp, the side sculpture, and the roof line.

WOW!

Interesting concept.

Great work.

My sister has an 88 Thunderbird Sport with a 5.0 Liter engine, I bought the Turbo kit to do the car. She still has it, and it does not look too bad.

I am going to do the same project, and I got the pieces I needed from Motor City Resin Casters. The door panels should be scratch built, as the original Johan kit piece does not have any depth. A center floor console also has to be scratch built, as there was never one in the kit. Jeff at Motor City Resin Casters will give you the pricing for what you need.

That's nice. I removed the 300 stuff from my body and added the Landau roof mouldings like what is in the brochure. I have not decided on the wheels yet, but I fitted everything and got it up on the wheels.

And worth every penny!

You should have gotten that Aston Martin.

I bought mine directly from Juha when they were in America at the NNL East last year. I pre ordered them. I have a 78-9 Cordoba too. I put a Landau roof on it. Now I have to decide on the paint color. I am leaning towards Silver, with a Black roof and hood, with a Red interior.

Wonderful build!

I did that with a 68 XR7GT. I cut that 67 Mustang 7 ways from Sunday to make everything fit. I also installed a 390/C/6 from a 66 Fairlane GT. It's in primer now. I have to decide on a color combination. I am considering Dark Green, Maroon, or Yellow, with a Saddle interior.

Wow! I still have one of those in the basement somewhere unbuilt.

That sounds like the base Road Runner Interior.

I have read this topic, and I have quite a bit of knowledge on the subject, being in the retail automobile business for over 30 years. The manufacturers and dealers are going after market share, and will use every trick in their arsenal to get it, such as huge rebates, special financing, and lease deals. As I tell my wife, if the vehicle is not what you want or need, it is not worth your investment. I tend to read the fine print in the advertisements, and those supposed $10-12,000 rebates are a combination of special option packages, dealer and factory discounts, and your having to use the corporate financing source. If you notice, the Japanese based manufacturers have also resorted to rebates and special financing with similar financing requirements. Just try to go into a dealershio and try to pay cash on the barrelhead for the car you really want, if you can find one. When I was in management at the car dealership, I was placed in charge of ordering the inventory for our potential customer base. We sold very few "basic" vehicles, as they sat on the lot the longest. Most of our customers wanted their cars "Well equipped", with all of the optional safety features, leather upholstery, aluminum wheels, pearlescent paint. The mentality was if I were going to pay 48-60 month payments, and a nicer car was $5-50 more per month over the payment period, I want the nicer car. I always thought that a 2007 Chevrolet Impala LS with no additional factory options was a nice family sedan. I ordered some and they sat for months. Elderly people loved them, but most of our other customers had to have more equipment. The same with pickups. We stocked quite a few base Regular cab pickups with 6 cyl engine, automatic transmission (standard equipment), air conditioning and am'fm/cd(also standard equipment). If that particular specified truck was painted other than white, they too either sat on the lot, as they were considered "commercial" vehicles" , or the manufacturer would not build them for us. These vehicle also had the smallest profit margins, so in some cases, we could sell a better equipped vehicle for less money. The same went for trade in values. Well equipped vehicles brought more in trade value, and so forth and so on. Times have changed. We want certain things, but factors out of our control keeps that from happening.

No. I f I have to, I will cut it apart with either a knife saw or dremel. I have broken parts off of a car, only to reproduce them in sheet styrene. Sometimes I will splice a piece from another model to make things work. I have ground away pieces., filled in sinks with putty or baking soda and super glue. Sometimes they have to be a custom. The only things I can't deal with are twisted, deformed, heavily glued and melted to the brink of not being recognizable, or burnt assemblies. Other than that, I 'll give anything a go. Recently I received a 2004 GTO in a raffle at our club meeting. It was glue-bombed together, and missing the engine. I was able to get it mostly apart, except that El Gluebombo glued in the head and tail lights. Of course the clear styrene was frosted and brittle from the glue, and I had to break them from the car. I have to make new lenses, for the head lamps. To add insult to injury, I found an unbuilt one in my collection, so right now, it been put was waay on the back burner. I decided not to fool with it as I have so much to work on. I'll use it for a painting experiment, so it will not go to waste.

I have the 69 Chrysler 300, The Marauder X100, and the 73 Riviera too. Excellent, but pricy.

This is a nice build. I still have one of those kits unbuilt in the bowels of my basement. I built one in the 90's similar to what you are building.

As a kid, I built my share of glue-bombs. About 20 years ago, a friend from work who knew I was into model car building made me an offer to sell me most of his childhood collection. He is about 5 years older than me, and I found out that we had similar tastes in cars. I bought the collection, after looking it over. Most of the cars were unpainted, none were sanded on, puttied, or cut up, but most had some sort of custom parts glued on, but in a neat fashion, and at the time, missing parts could be sourced from The Modelhaus, so making the deal was not a bad thing. It was 20 models in all from the early to the mid 60's, and I have finished just about all of them, posting them on the various modeling forums including this one. The last glue bomb I bought was a Force 440 Dodge Monaco 2 door Hardtop from MPC. I had a little time taking it apart, but it was actually not as bad as I thought. There were minor glue smears on the fenders, holes in the body where the bar light, and antennas were, and unfortunately the wheelbacks fused to the too deep reverse steel wheels, and a big hole cut into the hood. Fortunately for me, I bought an incomplete Monaco Sedan which has a hood. At this point any needed bodywork will be minimal. and I have the missing parts to bring it back to life. I have to make a tail light, as it broke when I removed it from the body. At this point I have several cleaned up ex-glue-bombs in boxes awaiting their turn to be painted and built. I really get a kick out of resurrecting them.

I have a Palmer 70 Corvette in the collection which I bought as a conversation piece. It is unbuilt, and not too horrible. I also have several MPC and AMT corvettes from that era that may be built, or end up as parts or trade fodder.

Speaking of Glue bombs, I have bought and restored more than my fair share. Two of such are original AMT 63 Impala SS Hardtops I have. One I bought at the Three Rivers Show , which was painted, and quite raggedy. I bought it a couple of decades ago, and fortunately for me, I also had my first encounter with the Modelhaus at that show, where I bought a set of tail lamps, and a boot for it. Yes, I whacked the roof off, as well as using the chassis and powertrain from the just introduced 62 Bel AIr kit. I lowered the suspension, and put a set of Buick Riviera wire wheels on it. It even had a lovely spray can enamel paint job on it. I displayed it until the windshield frame became broken, and now it has been disassembled, and its whereabouts are unknown. I know the engine ended up in a Revell '63, which I also turned into a 409/425 convertible, and the wheels ended up on a 67 Cadillac. The second 63 was unpainted, but had the glass welded in the roof where it left dimples. and it had the custom hood scoop and trunk scoop glue-welded on, and a set of custom bubble tail lamps welded in the tail panel. I have this one on my bench now to be fixed soon. The upside of this one is that all the emblems are crisp, and it was never painted. and I have most of the parts to bring it back to life as a street machine, and I have the ability to fix the roof, hood and trunk with no additional problems. It has been cleaned up, but no bodywork has been done. It will be rebuilt, even though I have 3 Revell 63 Impala Hardtops, and another later tool AMT 63, all unbuilt. I just like this one better for some weird reason. The detail is very sharp, and the satisfaction of bringing it back to life is very good. 2 of my Revell 63's are slated to become Z11 cars in the race livery of Malcolm Durham and Dave Strickler, as I have the Appropriate aftermarket decals, MCW Bench Seat interiors, and the engines from one of the several 62 Bel Airs I have. I really get a kick out of restoring glue-bombs. I will be spending most of the rest of my life doing them, but there are some I will not touch. Newly released subject matter, and heavily chopped up, lacquer checked beasts. That is a total waste of time, and too costly to fix.

Wow!!!! Great Haul!!!!