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Sorry, but the body styles were '71 -'73, '74 -'76, '77 -'78, & '79 -'80, the first were the small bumpers, but '73 used an aluminum impact bumper and cushioned brackets behind the small bumpers, and in '74 switched to the big five mph bumpers in '76 tthe bodies didn't change but the grille changed from vertical vanes to an eggcrate design, in '77 & '78 they went to the slope nose flexible nose piece, and '79 & '80 they went to a bobbed front end that used single square headlights, and a much larger grille design.

Sorry to report that according to his son Brett, the King of Kustoms, George Barris died peacefully in his sleep at 2:45 a.m., he was 89 years old. Both the full size and model car builders has lost one of its most flamboyant and prolific designers.

Looking good, that should be good for a fe "atta boy" points with the wifey. And we can always use those because we all know one "Oh BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH" cancels a thousand atta boy points.

Of ALL the good Pinto kits produced by MPC, why did they pick the ugliest body style of the Little Pony, the '79 & '80 bodies looked like someone took a chainsaw and cut the front fenders off right behind the previous years front nose assembly.

Of ALL the good Pinto kits produced by MPC, why did they pick the ugliest body style of the Little Pony, the '79 & '80 bodies looked like someone took a chainsaw and cut the front fenders off right behind the previous years front nose assembly.

Notice where it says "older subjects"? No mention of new releases of newer vehicles.

This was released in one incarnation as a Demon, I was digging through a box I had of some of the original kits I had that hadn't been finished and found two different front bumper grille assemblies, and it's supposed to be an 8 3/4" rear axle, but all the ones I saw in the real world had quick change rear ends, the best one for that is the one in the original AMT NASCAR truck kits. On the whole, they're actually a very accurate kit, the only sad thing is they never released one with the Challenger body option, there is an article in the old Stock Car Magazine on the development of the real car showing one of the test cars, a number 0 Challenger, it driven in the asphalt testing by Pete Hamilton, and on dirt by a new comer, an upcoming young driver named Dale Earnhardt, he wasn't a Sr. yet, and in a single car test somehow managed to bend up the front fenders on the new car.

I've seen a couple in blue with silver stripes, But dare to be different, go with a lime green pearl, and maybe gold stripes.

By chance could the paint have been the short lived House Of Kustom line? I heard of cracking problems with some of the acrylic clear from the line, but haven't heard of any of the colors doing so.

They have been in a clearance bin at our Wal-Mart store for $9.98, and sat for two weeks, I don't know if they sold or not, the bin was removed for Christmas displays.

yup, big ol' kielbasa on a baking dish of scalloped potatoes, instant dinner.

You have discovered the way to keep a group of people at your attention for twenty four hours, you'll tell us how tomorrow.

Nice looking Corvair, they were super little cars that were ahead of their time, just a victim of a brain dead politician. One of the tricks the full size guys did was to use the three barrel downdraft Webers off a Porsche, you make them with a little work and patience.

The other thing I've found out that works great for mixing, and you can even cut them up if you need a flexible applicator is those snap on lids like come on the whipped butter tubs etc. and most glue and fillers will just flake off when dry by just flexing them, and if you want to mix paint in one it even has a lip to keep it in one area better.

I like the green, bet it would be a really bright antifreeze shade using a pearl yellow for a base. Now you've teased us, where's some shots of that engine?

The reason I went with real WAS the underside of the front fenders, to me they appear to have some road muck tossed up onto them, it even looks like some sealer or oil stain of some kind. True Peteski said he was revealing the truth on December10th, he just neglected to say what year. ?

they purchased the paint portion of the business from what I understand.

Pretty little '55, but just for the next time, replacing the dry sump pan with a stock type one, and moving the engine back a tad so the distributor is closer to the firewall, and then you can take the oil pump drive belt off and move the water pump drive belts etc. back closer to the front of the engine and then all you'd need to do is put the radiator on the front side of the core support without having to cut it up. And if that engine came from a Revell stock car kit it's 1/24 scale and one of the SB 2 engines from an AMT kit would be a little easier to put in, until I noticed the dry sump pan and drive I thought you were going with a big block, then I saw the typical small block exhaust layout too and figured out what you were doing, great job.

Get him a couple of the new kits from Revell that are super snap kits, with some detail painting they come out pretty good, and he can get some of them in both painted and unpainted versions, just for shelf builds I picked up the black ZL-1, Camaro, and the glue promo ZL-1 from Round2, and a friend who is a painter in a local collision repair shop gave me about a pint of water base Synergy Green they had left over from painting a newer Mustang in that color. Those kits should give him some newer intermediate kits to hone his skills on, but it doesn't appear he needs to much before he's going to start helping others out.

this would never make it by the nit picker crowd, it's blatantly powered by the wrong engines, definitely not mouse motor small block engines.

I voted real, I got the dirt on this from a fairly competent source, and he said it's real.

Just so I can confuse you more, a few of those "chrome" third members shown in the photos are actually polished aluminum gear case's, and just the axle housings are plated, we ran one of these Aluminum Mark Williams third members years ago in a late model asphalt car, not because it was so pretty, but because it was so light, and the NASCAR gear cases are in a lot of instances after market pieces, not Ford production parts and they will differ in appearance. Plus some of the difference in appearance can be do to the fact that the NASCAR parts are 1/24th scale instead of 1/25th scale.

it was a removable wheel and one of the pranksters in his group hid it on the driver, Dale Earnhardt Sr. did that to Rusty Wallace once right before a race, but that's OK, the next week Rusty got even, he put a can of tuna fish in oil under the seat on Earnhardt's car, did Dale ever start complaining once the race started and that can of tuna started getting hot.

Super nice build, and like a lot of others I really like that orange, so much so that I used it to paint my 1/10 scale RC Camaro street stock, it got a few compliments too, it was the orange and Tamiya clear pearl backed with white, the top surfaces white. Now I'm going to dig something else out and use some more of it, maybe the new snap Corvette kit, that yellow plastic is just begging to be covered up. Keep up the excellent work, we'll see some of your builds in the magazine.