Carmak

The skirts in the kit should have the extensions cut off of them. The 1:1 skirts are essentially flat across the bottom. The kit skirts make the wheel opening smaller than it should be. The kit skirts are attempting to represent the stainless trim attached to the bottom of the wheel opening below the skirt. In reality the trim does extend into the wheel opening and make the opening smaller as it is nearly flush with the body. Carmak

The red 65 is correct. The cream 65 has 66 GP lower trim on it. The 65 lower trim was Bonneville only and it was flat stainless with the ribs etched on the outside surface. The 66 lower trim was Bonneville and GP and it is chromed pot metal (similar in concept to the 65 full size tail light panels). You can see the depth of the ribs on the cream 65. Also interesting on the cream 65 is the lack of front (or rear) wheel lip trim. The 65 GP came standard with fender skirts but the could be ordered without skirts. If a GP was ordered without skirts it would have rear wheel lip trim. Carmak

So they were skins. Good work on the Maserati. I design medical devices and often have to work with skins for the interface components. You are correct that they typically require a great deal of work to make printable. I have been 3D printing at work for 25+ years. Our first SLA cost 250K. Very impressed with the Photon printer so far. The slicing and support software somewhat less impressive.

Did you design the Maserati parts or download them? I just got my Anycubic Photon a couple weeks ago. I started small with some wheels.

The car in the movie before it was cut up was a 64. In the side shot of the Deathmobile from the movie you can see the indents for the door handles which makes it a 61-65. The recreation that is all over the internet is a 66-67.

My wife and I bought a 5th wheel camper last year. When looking for a tow vehicle I suggested a 64 Ranchero because it has a 5000# weight capacity. After she got done informing me on my lack intelligence I referred to Goldfinger. Then she informed me on my lack of wit.

Did PMC ever make a 60 ElCamino? I know they made a 60 Chevy 4dr sedan.

I bought some kits this spring from "Hobby Search" in Japan. I got seven kits and the shipping worked out to be about $6.50 a kit. I ordered them just before Covid hit and the shipment was held up two months. The kits were worth the wait.

I picked up all but the Camaro and the Riv at the Ertl outlet store back in the day for $5 each (a the same time a standard kit cost $3 at the outlet).

Snake, One of the early comments in this topic was comparing Hasegawa kits to the Nova Wagon. My point was that Hasegawa had sold similar curbsides with low interior and chassis detail very recently. I probably put to much emphasis on the Hasegawa kits selling well because I attempted to get the Caddy and Bonneville kits this summer as gifts for a friend and I ended up buying them directly from a hobby shop in Japan (along with some JDM kits for myself). I remember buying the 65 Impala, 66 Caddy and a couple 66 Bonnevilles in the 80's entirely because of the subject matter. I may still have the 65 (66?) Impala box somewhere in my stash.

How about this for an apples to apples comparison: Within the last year Hasegawa released a series of full size American car curbside kits (66 Bonneville, 66 Cadillac, 66 Buick, 65 Impala and others) with virtually zero interior and chassis detail (the dash is just a flat place to put a decal). The list price is far above the $30 Nova wagon and they are already sold out at many (all?) retailers. The Hasegawa bodies are also reverse engineered copies of AMT/JoHan/MPC promos. They were originally sold as slot car kits or slot car bodies. The interior and chassis were tooled up in the 80's.

Such a nice looking car. What is up with the wonky Charger 500 stripe??

I have an SLA style 3D printer on order. The door cards are the perfect type of job for it.

Didn't Moebius have a JoHan 59 Dodge test shot at a trade show a few years ago? It is unlikely but at least plausible that somehow the tooling for the JoHan Maverick would make it's way to Moebius just as somehow the tooling for the JoHan 59 Dodge did. Unlikely but plausible Carmak

My Photon is on order. Very excited to get it and play.

That is truly making lemons into lemonade! Are you using an SLA or FDM style printer?

Steve, It is the headlight spacing and grille opening that bothers me. The 1:1 grille sides are angled in much more than on the kit My Photon SLA printer is scheduled to arrive within the next couple weeks and my first cad project is a new grille. If you would like any interior pictures or measurements my 68 Coronet 500 convertible is out in the shop. The AMT 69 GTX convertible panels are really close but there is something wonky about the boot opening. Carmak

Very interested in seeing the "Steven Guthmiller" treatment on a 68 Coronet R/T. I hope you start by tossing the kit's grille. Carmak

Very cool! Is it 1/25 scale? Who is the manufacturer?

Not a daily driver but I got this summer cruiser last weekend. 1960 LeSabre 2drHT. Nice solid Nevada car now in Iowa. Craig (Carmak)

Harts parts has bumpers and other replacement parts for 68 and 69 Coronets. I got some bumpers earlier this year. Nice stuff! Craig (Carmak)

The new generation of "upside-down" SLA 3D printers sure do nice work. Craig (Carmak)

My daughter has a 1:1 69 Mustang convertible (cruise night quality) and I was amazed that some Mustang unique 65 parts will fit it and some Mustang unique 73 parts will fit it. Having said that simply sharing chassis architecture does not make a generation in other makes and models. The 62-70 Mopar B-body chassis architecture remained fairly constant thru three generations of Satellite/Coronet and a couple generations of Charger (nobody refers to a 68-70 Charger as a first gen). Craig (Carmak)

Tim, You do what most builders of the Monogram 69 Super Bee don't - you lowered it and pulled the wheels in (reduced track width). It completely changes the look of the model. I find myself hacking up the suspension of most Revell/Monogram and some modern AMT kits to get them to sit correctly. As always well done. Craig (Carmak)

In the early 80's there was a 69 pale yellow Barracuda coupe with the yellow/white/black mod top and interior I would see every morning on my paper route near the campus of the University of Iowa. Was already fairly rusty, the seats were torn up and the top was pulling. I remember it as I was into Mopars as a young teen and I had never seen a mod top before. I think it was even a slant 6 as there were not engine call outs on the car anywhere and even 273 and 318 cars typically got a small "V" emblem.