Ron Hamilton

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!!!!

Oh WoW!!!!

That Charcoal Gray with the Dark Red Interior looks great. The car does look better with the wires, and when I get around to building mine, that is the combination I am going with. I like that Blue with the Gray too.

I agree Steve. I am still going to make up a split bench seat for my 68 Plymouth convertible and Hardtop when I build them. I have to hunt down several non hemi, single 4 barrel V8s for my 60's Johan Plymouths and Dodges.

You are doing an exceptional job on that kit.

That is what separates the Masters from the Wannabes.

OW!

I have the pace car decals, and I took several pictures of a nice pace car at Carlisle Several Years ago. However, I am considering Red with a Red Bucket seat interior and a White up top. I have to make a set of skirts for it, as the previous owner cut them off neatly. I believe that I can either make the "Sport Fury" script for the fenders and the trunk lid or get someone to craft them if I cannot do it. The bench seat interior will probably end up in the Resin 66 Hardtop I have, like the one Steve Milbury just did a beautiful job on.. Unfortunately, my images are in Photobucket, and I am not able to pay their fee for now.

The Air Trax 73 looks to be a corrected 71. The roof looks great. On my All American 71, the roof is overly flat, and the rear fenders are too high. I corrected the rear fenders, and I want to redo the roof panel. I am thinking of grafting in the front roof section of a JoHan Eldorado Rancher with a sunroof, as I think it would be cool. When Fox aired the show "Second Chance" a couple of seasons ago, it piqued my interest in the car. Other than the red line tires, I think the car looked great. I want my model to look similar to this:

That looks great. My uncle in California had a Red 65 Sports Fury with a 426 wedge and a 4 speed. I only wish that JoHan had kitted the 64-68 Plymouths as Sport Furys instead of Fury/Fury III with an inaccurate bucket seat interior. I was able to find an old promo interior with a bench seat for my 65 Convertible project, However, the Sport Fury Convertible interior is gorgeous, needing some window crank and armrest detail to make it pop.

John, That one brings back memories of my Dad's first new car. A Sierra Gold '58 Impala. He had alternated between the 4-bar Lancers, and 60 Buick Wheel Covers on his car, with a set of Foxcraft Skirts. That car was so cool, and I intend to do my next '58 Chevy (either Revell or AMT) as his car, but with updated paint in the same color family, and the 4-bars, and a beige interior with white roll and pleat inserts and copper carpets. As if he still owned the car, and restored it in the 2000's.

Great work on the 67. I remember MD having 2 door 67's with the Olive Drab /Black paint scheme, with Red Rally Wheels That was one odd duck, but it was cool.. I have one of the MCW '66 Biscayne 2 door Sedans for a 1966 MD State Police Project. It is based from an old AMT tool that I bought well before the superior Revell kit came out. I may keep it, and use it as a pattern, as the roof is a little funky. I can correct it, as I did my 65 post sedan. I do not feel like chopping up a pristine 66 Impala SS kit. Keep up the great work!

I combined an original issue '66 Cyclone with a new tool Fairlane GT, as I bought several of them, and the Cyclone I had was a builder. t worked out pretty good, It's not finished yet, but it looks good so far. I have no need to buy the latest iteration of this kit, even though the box art is gorgeous. I have a couple of "builder " old tool '66 Fairlanes and several kits for such a project. At my building rate, it may get done in a couple of years, as I have several projects in the pipeline.