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they can complain about that Mustang kit all they want but I think THAT'S the way Ford should have built it in the first place. That mile deep black doesn't hurt a bit either, nice job on a tough color.

makes me feel like a high school sophomore again. Our neighbor had one like that in the same yellow, 350 horsepower 327, 4speed, posi-trac, with 4:11 gears. It was the most feared little Nova around, and ate up quite a few big block Impalas and Z-28 Camaro's.

Really appreciate the work you did on these, and thanks for bringing the show into the world of those who can't get out to see these beautiful builds.

Judging by looking at a blown up picture of the ad picture, it will have the standard doors on the passenger side, and the dual "barn door" style rear doors. That's kind of a toss up, the commercial truck builders will probably like that version, us street rod builders would probably rather have the station wagon type rear doors with a lift up window and a tailgate. But we can easily just fill in the door lines and open up the two windows into one full width one that we can use the pickup rear window on.

Aaa! You're just being cruel with a tease like that. Now us curious types won't be able to get a real good night's sleep until you give us at least one or two more hints 'bout what's in store for us who grew up bulding AMT kits, well let's not say grew up. BUT we did get older.

Well, looks like my Christmas fund and tax returns for next year are well on their way to getting spent.

You can get REALLY close cutting both kits along the top just below the drip rail along the door gap and follow the cut down the door gap at the back of the doors too, then use the '60 pickup front clip and the '66 'burban rear parts.

the box art on the Model King release WAS the kit, they used a built model to do the box art, that was common practice for the Model King kits, no surprises about what was in the box that way.

I don't know if you are up on what's cool in the street world, but suburbans are quite popular with the street rod guys too, and I bet that I've seen 50 two wheel drive suburbans to every four wheel drive version, in fact when I worked in the logging woods in the late '60s all of our new "crummies" (chev Suburbans) were two wheel drive ones. So I think that in terms of what would sell the most kits to the general public I'd bet on the two wheel drive version.

Glad it's back close to the top. I know it was at the top for a long time and when it disappeared I thought it was removed for some reason. Guess I learned to ask questions about missing posts.

I like it without the rocker molding, in fact most of these I saw in SS package were without the extra bright work, they didn't have the chrome strip on the side either. A few guys put the after market aluminum moldings with the vinyl inserts on to help with door dings, but most of those had either the black or a silver vinyl insert, my favorite was just leaving the molding off completely, just looked cleaner and meaner to me.

It's kinda hit and miss, a couple showed up for me, one of the engine in a blue bay, and one of the model with the whitewalls on it, the rest are MIA, but DID get enough to see a super nice build going.

My father in law had a '70 Charger bronze w/white vinyl top, that had whitewalls on it when he bought it and he always had to have them with ANY new tires, even his mud and snow tires had whitewalls. To me they just looked right on the cruiser version.

your photos aren't showing up.?

Technical, or physical virus? Either way we hope it's cleared up and everything is going good for you.

ME TOO! You might try on the next one with headers to route the plug wires into a four square (with a loom or just use thread tie wraps) down the back of the engine along the bell housing/head area to just below the header then forward and at each plug route the plug wire up from the loom to the plug, makes a very sanitary clean looking setup. Keep up with the Chevy, they're a rare breed, must not survive well in captivity. That's why they HAVE to be wild!

Harry, you should know that a good rod builder (regardless of size) doesn't have the words "won't work" in their vocabulary. With a little forethought and planning I think it could be pulled off reasonably well, what would really set it off would be to figure out how to use the chevalay hub caps, those bowties would be something truly unique.

Well, you did mention the Alexander Brothers build of the Deora, and not sure if you're talking about Don Tognotti's (Tognotti's Auto World in Sacramento) King T or what. But I've been lucky enough to see it when it was on the circuit when it won the AMBR, and decades later it was on display in the store in Sacramento, also last year it was on the Barrett Jackson auction after it's restoration.

Wouldn't a past winner of America's Most Beautiful Roadster, be considered a show car? We have the Ala Kart, but how about a reissue of the XR-6 roadster? We've been given the '27 T touring that was part of the dual kit when it was first issued, but the Roadster seems to have disappeared, we haven't seen that trick little slant six with its Webers and long tube headers in another kit so maybe some of the parts still exist.

Yes sir, that was the right place, thanks!

Nice build of a great old kit. You've drug it out of the shadows of its '69 counterpart and made a star out of it again.

This is Japan's version of the 240Z, I have a friend who was the Datsun dealer way back then and he built a Z using all the trick motor stuff he special ordered from Japan and it was like that engine on the right DelOrto carbs (Weber copies) header and all, that three into one, then dual exhaust was a window breaker without a balance tube between the collector's later he went with the two collectors into one three inch exhaust and it was very deep and mellow sounding with more power than the dual set up.

You can get the one headlight front fender either from an early fifties resin or wait till Revell releases the Foose Eldorod kit it has the correct style, the left rear can come from around a '67 Eldorado, the right rear from a '64, the top CAN be made using the half top from the AMT '50 Ford Convertible kit, the left front fender from the Ecto 1 Ghostbusters kit, the hood from one of the Johan Hearse or ambulances, I'm out of ideas for now, but I'll be thinking about it and checking in to see how it's going. I saw Johnny and June do this in person and they played the video on a big screen OF the real car, it was just after they were given the "PsychoBilly Cadillac".

yep! That's the guy, I was just going to let Brad know I found my bookmark with his site on it, he's got some very nice stuff, not just Sprint Cars either. Thanks Art, I knew someone would save me.......again??

Asking for help again, I swapped magic boxes (computers) and can't find my bookmarks of resin casting companies (well some of them anyway) I'm trying to locate the information about an Aussie caster that makes some nice Sprint Car stuff, and some early hot rod pieces too. I think he even sold on eBay but since I don't remember the name of his company that doesn't help me either. Since I know I'll have answers before I wake up tomorrow I'll just thank all of you now.