Ron Hamilton

great concept and execution!!!

I love it, and it looks mighty familiar.

Absolutely!!!! I just picked up one of these for a nostalgia fix. It does not look too bad. I am going to compare it with the MPC '92, and the Revell '85 that I have. I built and still have 3 of the Revell 1/16 Camaro Kits and loved them, and I did a MPC Pace Car back when it was new in 1982, and it is still on the shelf in all of it's dusty glory. I am going to clean it up, but not restore it as I want to preserve it as is. It's all there.

I saw one of those at our club meeting yesterday. I wouldn't touch it, as I was already not feeling well.

I love that Bird! I have done a '68 and a '71 Town Landau, and I have a '67, '69, 70 and '71 to do one day. That is one fantastic build!!!

Lovely!!!!

Beautiful!!!!!

Fantastic!!!!

you and me both. I had a white '83, a black '84 with the 5 Liter HO, and those loud red-Orange seats with "CAMARO" all over them, and a Copper '85 with a 5-spd stick for my demos. I got a kick out of all of those. I never had the AMT kit, just the MPC Indy pace cat that I still have. I may have to pick one of these up, and find a set of Decent Eagle GT Tires for it..

I've been there, done that, and am considering Fotki.

Yes I am looking for a new host. I cannot pay the price of Photobucket, and my old Snapfish account does not work. I did some work on the Bonneville, adding the Vinyl Roof Trim mouldings. The car is going to be a hodge podge of parts, as it has a Modelhaus hood (does not fit flush), and bumpers. It's been primered, and is ready for paint. I painted the interior Black a long time ago when I found a set of '67 Bonneville front seats years ago. I thought I had a complete kit, but I sold the one I had off, and kept this one.

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I like that pearl white. To date, I have built three of those kits, One White with Turquoise Interior, One Black on Black, and a Red on Red Hardtop kitbashed with the Time Machines Resin Body.I love those kits, as well as the real Car, as I drove one my Dad had when I was in High School. It was a bomb, but I liked driving it. I am not going to do a build of it, as I have a promo of the car (Beige Hardtop with an off White interior).

That looks great as is. It does not need any stripes.

That is quite handsome Steve. I went to work on my Bonny, and I found that I was missing the firewall and the core support. I am going to use '70 Bonneville parts for those missing items. I installed the vinyl roof mouldings; and blocked the body. I cleaned the resin '67 GP up, and it looks fine. I have to scratch-build some tail lamps for thr Bonny as they've missing in action.

In my humble opinion Historic Racing Miniatures does a fantastic 63 Corvette Split Window transkit to be combined with the Revell 1967. It's not cheap, but it is far better than anything else out there. It has a correct set of KH Aluminum Knockoff wheels, and a correct Fuelie Intake. You are on your own for the chrome and aluminum plate. Combined with either the VRM Corvette decals, or the Model Car World Photoetch, and an accurate Factory color, and a beautiful replica can be had.

The onlt "foible" I have found in the three I built is that the windshield is a little fiddly to install cleanly. There is no surface to add any glue to it I friction fit the glass in, and hit a dot of watch crystal cement to the corners on the inside after I install the windshield frame into the car. Don't think I am crazy, but I have 7 more of them in the stash.

Eric, Several years ago, I did a restoration of a '71, and I have a '72 , '73, '74 and 75 to bring back to life. Like Steve wrote in his thread, The Model Car Garage '76 Caprice set gives you the Impala Custom Scripts for the sail panels. The '65 Chevelle set has the C-H-E-V-R-O-L-E-T letters for the front of the car. The font is slightly different, but should work. I used them on my '69 SS427 build. I am sorry that I cannot post any pictures of my builds, as my pictures are in the Photobucket universe for now.

Good luck on that fantastic score!!!!

I am enjoying this one.

Very nice!!!!!

Last night, I was in the midst of cleaning up the basement, and I found my choice of models for the '67 Pontiac Full Size Build, A Modelhaus '67 Grand Prix 2 Door hardtop. Last week I was going through my brochures, and I found a '67 Grand Prix Brochure, so this worked out great. When I bought this kit, I originally bought a '66 Caprice hardtop from Don at one of the NNLs. I looked at the car, and did not care for the contours of the top, so I went back to Don and swapped the kit for a '67 Grand Prix. I got the car home, and removed the script from the rear fenders, as the font was incorrect. It has been in the box for several years. As this is a curbside kit (no engine and sealed hood), it should not take a lot of time to get a decent build out of it. The color chart in this thread is a great help.

In the real world, the '68 Lincoln had a 460, and the '65 had a 462. The '66-69 AMT Lincoln kits had Chrome plated engines, while the'65 and earlier had painted engine, which looked pretty much the same to me. Each year of the suicide-door Lincoln kits were annuals, save the '65 convertible, so they are very rare, and can be quite expensive on the open market as an unbuilt kit. The '68 is the one I do not have. If I had one, I would convert it into a 2-Door coupe. I'm converting a '66 Sedan into a convertible as I am writing this.

The AMT '65 Lincoln would have an engine that will fit, or depending on what you want to do, any AMT Ford FE motor with the hole in the block for the axle to pass through will work with no muss or fuss.