Abell82

Darin, I have been at work all day and just saw this. My sincerest condolences for your loss. I know nothing I say can effect the pain and loss you feel, but you'll be in my thoughts and prayers.

I made one of these myself a few years ago only I converted it to a 1970 . I never completed it, because I could not find information on the interior, that was used in el gato. You can see pics of mine in the Cougar CBP, if your interested.

Great choice for body color it's very striking! I somehow ended up with three of this kit without ever intentionally buying one. (parts lots and such) I may have to dig one out and take another look at it!

I have no clue what you guys are refering to, sorry ? Well, based on the fact that Revell waited 30 some odd years to make a 69 Camaro kit in 1/25th scale, and given the worlds technologies, we should see one in roughly 6-8 years. Of course with the technologies of Rapid proto typing advancing everyday, it'll probably be a downloadable program to "make" your own kit. Probably with a glitch that makes the body oddly mishapen, in one way or another.

I am curious to see what you do with the tailpanel, and taillights. I know I'll take some heat for this, but it's not like I've never taken heat before so... You know the thing I HATE about phantom wagons? When the people making them leave the stock taillights, in what would now be an opening tailgate. That's my single greatest pet peave. (Has any automaker EVER done that in a production car? ) It's like here is my great idea, ... but I ran out of juice when crunch time came. So instead of a GREAT design it's just a half baked, conversion. I say this, not to be dejective but to help people understand why MOST wagon conversions don't do much for me. The problem with a 1969 Camaro wagon is the tail panel is one of the draws to the car. (For me anyway) Changing the tail panel and still maintaining the visual flow of an iconic design now thats a challenge. At any rate it's still a W.I.P. I am watching... I am waiting... impress me.

Very nice.

That's just plain beautiful!

oooh Let me try! (Clears throat) ... OH MY!! That's much bigger then I thought it would be! But, then I bet you get that alot ! (There is no whistle icon?) Nice build! (LoL!)

Very good... err bad... err ... ah... yeah,.. way to go?

Very nice!

So I was looking through my collection of resin parts I have and I realized I had left some items out, of the comparison. So without further hesitation here are those items... 1991-1993 "Pony" wheels: On the left are the ones from Missing Link resin Casters. On the right the wheels from AF/X. Missing Links wheels are a direct copy of a set of pristine kit wheels. Af/x's are as well, however they have been "cut" down. I'll let you decide which are better. Saleen style rear wings: (pictures below have been edited for brightness and contrast.) Top view: Again Missing Link offering on the left, AF/X on the right... Bottom view: Missing link on the left AF/X on the right Cowl Hoods : (clockwise from left rear : AF/X, Unknown, AF/X and Reliable Resin) Top views: Bottom views: Discussion: 1.Cobra ? Cowl hood ?? Appears to be have been an attempt to re-design the first cowl hood. 2.Double cowl or Cobra R hood? A bit rough lots of air bubbles. 3.AF/X Resin cowl hood, probably the first resin cowl hood on the market for foxes. Showing it's age, loosing detail, from castings. 4.Reliable resin's cowl hood appears to be a recast AF/X as they appear to have roughly some of the same flaws?

Thanks everyone. Darin, yes the wheels are from a Maisto (sp?) 1999 Mustang Cobra die cast.

Got a little more work done on the body, recently. I tried to fix the area around the rear window. Not sure if I succeeded or not but it looks a little better, to me anyway. And one night while I happened to be searching Ebay for some wheels for this build, I stumbled on an auction. The auction was for a set of my favorite Mustang wheels, with a buy it now option. So I think I just might have found the wheels for this build. They may not be very imaginative, but they are one of my favorite Mustang wheels. As always thoughts comments and critiques are welcomed.

Here is a pic to help show what I meant about the rear window trim making a channel for the window (yes, I do need to clean up the roof a little).... I even got a little work done to it the other day. I added some much needed hinges to the hood. I added them to help hold the hood in place when the car is finished. The hinges were cut from goobered resin hoods, so they probably won't last. (Being that they are resin they will be brittle.) However, I did re-enforce them with some bent pins, and CA to help aid in thier longevity.

My most heartfelt condolences.

Interesting project. Are you going to use the stock Chassis, or substitute in the Challenger Chassis?

Looks good! Stick with it, we all want to see this one completed!

Very Nice!

Clear package plastic. The way that the molding around the window was made, it forms a "channel" for the window to set in. So making a rear window should be easy. Painting the black border, that will be the hard part.

Better idea for the roof? Mine has a giant hole in it! (LOL) I like where yours is headed. keep at it!

Very interesting, I'll be watching...

Now we can primer it and see what's left... Oops forgot to make taillghts... And this is approximately were it sits today. Thoughts on colors, wheels, etc?

Well anyway so I had previously prepared the Pace car roof by scribing off the hatch, and carefully removing the sail panels, in case I wished to use them later. Now I filled in the holes left by the sailpanels, with card stock (an old gift card!) . Then I made some cursory measurements... It was at this point, that I also replaced the lower door panels and attached the new roof... Sorry I didn't take pics in between attaching the new roof, and making the windows etc... Once the roof was on, I decided it needed a hood. So I took three goobered resin hoods, cut them up and made this one... With the hood and body made I needed an interior tub for it. Since I had used the older front clip, the newer interior tubs would not work, due to different mounting locations. So I had to make a new interior tub that used the old mounting points...

Well, to start this I decided I needed a body. The only body available was a convertible Mustang GT minus the engine bay, or under hood area. 1 of these bodies had a rear bumper,the other one did not. Since I would be replacing the rear bumper anyway I chose to go with the body that had no rear bumper. To prepare I cut off all the useable pieces from the 79 Pace car, such as the hatch, and sail panels. (Might need those later!) I used the top of the rear bumper from the 83 GLX carcass and grafted that to the GT body. After I had the top of the bumper in place, I trimmed the GT side panel from the rear of the convertible. I then made the lower portion of the body and rear bumper from styrene strip. To complete the look, I sanded down the older molding from the 83 bumper and then I made the Gt bumper molding from styrene strips, as well. The body needs an engine compartment, unfortunately all of the one's I had were the wrong year. how to fix that? Move the battery to the trunk! By carefully trimming out the battery and overflow tanks I can "up-date" the engine compartment to ambiguity (sp?) LOL This is actually a fairly common modification to these year Mustangs, so I don't feel this is at all out of line. And in any event, I can always get a resin battery for under the hood if needed. Next we attach the new engine compartment... While I didn't NEED to use the whole front clip, I thought I would be better off using the whole front clip, for ease of attachment without loosing detail. I was wrong. The 83 GLX body had a BAD warp, which was why it was all cut up, and I knew about it, but I thought it was from the door back. WRONG! Oh well life goes on. Better shot of the engine compartment... Next we prepare the new roof....

I Started this build last year.. There are/where pics of it in the Fox body CBP. But I never gave it it's own thread, so I thought why not? CBP threads by nature tend to bury things, get off topic, whatever, and so... Any who... while I was correcting a resin AF/X body, I decided to make my own "correct" LX coupe body. After all if I had spent that much time correcting one, it should take about half the time to make it "right" in the first place right? Well, not really but it came out all right. I did lots of research, I scourred the net for information I picked some brains I turned over rocks, and I built a "correct" (as correct as I could) prototype Mustang LX coupe. Actually it turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself. But in my journey, I discovered some parts. Parts that it was recommended not to use. Since the one was finished, I decided that I would try make one out of all the incorrect parts. The parts that people have said are the least accurate and should not be used. How good would one built out of those parts turn out? So I decided to find out... With a twist, I would use only what I had on hand, and had no other use for... And that is the history behind this Frankenstang... More in a little while....