FordWagonNut

Found this link from a station wagon forum I belong to. Thought it was pretty cool. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

Good lookin Cadillac. Nice job!

Thanks Charlie

Man Tom, that Ranchero looks shaaaarp!

Nicely done! I have always liked that body style Thunderbird.

I have been a wagon nut since I was a little kid. My folks never had one when I was growing up but all my friends parents did. Once I got to ride in the "way back" third seat, I was hooked. I have had since I was 16, three Volvo 240 wagons (79,81, & 83), '78 Toyota Corolla wagon, and three full size Ford LTD wagons ('83,'78, & '77). I found my first Country Squire while I was in college in 2005. Bought her at $150 not running, it was the fuel pump. It had been sitting untouched for three years. I did ALL the restoration work myself while on a college budget. Here she is when I first picked her up. My friends thought I "lost it". First week out, October 2005. A week later some drunk college boys bashed in my windshield. And her final days of being a true and loved wagon. In the time I owned "Aunt Edna", she had hit a deer at 65mph, trucked my gear from college and back MANY MANY times, worked as a drunk bus, tail gated at college football games, she was on Facebook with her own profile, and was also part of a speech I made while at Western IL U. She was in a major accident the same day I graduated college. Sadly, the body looked nice in the pics but the frame, floor boards sufferd major damage, trans case cracked, and major interior damage. And Aunt Ednas replacement "Clark".

Been wondering the same thing. They also have a '72 Torino wagon, I have never seen one up close. I would like to get that and do a Squire version of it.

It kind of gives off the vibe "quiet before the storm". I really like it, that brown seems to suit it as well.

I'm with you Charlie, if someone made a '75 to '78 Country Squire, I would at least order four. Heck, I have already had two of the 1:1 and I am still looking for another.

You know funny that you should say that. When I put the front clip together, I thought the same thing too. Thanks for the tip.

HA HA HA, too cool! And just think, I almost stripped it when I first painted it. I still am thinking of pulling off the wheels and going for some older rim styles from '67 to '70, don't know yet.

I was 13 when I first joined a club. I was one of the very few (bout 2-3 kids) that were in the club. A few of the guys gave me kits, some being worth some major value. I'm now 30, I still am in the hobby, never gave or sold the kits given to me, and for the support they gave me, its what kept me in the hobby as I grew into my teenage years.

The Formula was just a nice looking package all together, nice, simple, yet it had its bold side. You don't see many modelers with the base or Formula's built on the tables at shows.

Since I saw Dukefan69's Pontiac Firebird, it has pushed me into building my own. I have been a fan of the show since I first discovered it in the mid 90s. I now have all the seasons on DVD. I bought this MPC Firebird Formula on Ebay in the fall of 2002 for the mega price (cough cough) $30.00 and it was factory sealed. When I got it, I promised myself I would build a proper replica of the '76 Firebird that James Garner drove in his series. The only thing that really held me back was filling in the holes in the hood. So last week I started, I mean, gota learn somehow, right? As for the side door trim, Dukefan69 (Nick) was sorta right. Its both color (looks to be interior color) and chrome. I had the same bump strips on my '76 Cadillac and my '77 Oldsmobile Delta 88. But making the strip correct, on my skills now, I'm just going to go with a interior color. Filling in the holes for the hood. To be honest, I was kind of scared that I was killing off a good hood. What I did, took a parts box hood and cut out the shapes I needed to fill in the hole. Then to hold it in place and also fill in seams, I used super glue and plastic strips. Now I am on the body filler stage. I am using 3M's Acryl Green spot putty. I don't know if this will work, but as of now, it seems to be. Once I let it dry over night, it dose shrink. But after that, its really easy to sand. So my idea is to keep layering it.

Very cool! Nice and clean.

I was in a modeling slump of sorts, so I needed to work on something that gave me an extra kick. It was my first Revell Mustang '05 on up body style kit I have done. Only mods I did where adding the wheels off the GT500-H Mustang, painting the area between the tail lamps semi gloss black, and cutting out the stock GT grill for a '68 Mustang GT grill. It was painted with the Testors Model Master Lacquer System, in Honduras Maroon. Also flocked the interior, added a antenna base (will add antenna later), township front window sticker, Wisconsin plates, and added '68 GT lower body stripe.

Any new information on the big ol' LTD? This is the twin I had between 1998-99, she was a '76 from Wyoming. bump

Thats something I have been wanting to do for awhile. Looking good!

It was the '77 or the '78 season. One of the episodes, I think it was "Beamer's Last Case". This guy "Beamer" takes on Jim Rockfords life (uses his car, clothing, lives in his trailer) while J.R. is on vacation. In the starting of the show, they show Jims Firebird getting beat up by Beamer. Later on the show, Jim pulls up to his body man. They laugh a bit for him being on a payment program, since hes there so much.

Nice and clean! I like it.

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That blue is DEEP. It sure is a nice color on that car. Very nice!

I have looked on their site. I have found everything I wanted all in the one site, I think I'm gona try them. As for S&H, they seem a lot lower than anyone else I found.

Used to be Mark. I went to Western IL U from 2004-2008 in Macomb. Did A LOT of driving to the quad cities, Peoria and Springfield for kits and supplies.

I love the Oldsmobiles from 1971-1976. Good looking body style. For surf boards, the Johan '59 Rambler came with two. Might want to see if anyone on here is willing to give them up. Also for the 455, would a 500 cid engine work out of another Johan kit, Eldorado? I would imagine that it would "look" and fit better in the engine bay.