lordairgtar

Great beginning to a cool project.

And beanie babies

I like the colors, very subtle. Love the lift gate.

Interesting point on the Revell box art. The real car in the photo did not have chrome reverse wheels. They cut and paste (the old way the wheels with X-acto knives) a picture of Jim Keeler's car whhels onto the pic. The photo was in Black and White, and if you look closely you can see they have no color at all...just grey tone. I think Jim owned a Rambler with chrome wheels on it.

The Imperial is cool. I have a glue bomb pick up that I am restoring back to a convertible. I luckily found the cut out bits and melded them back to the body and created a new windshield from using a Dodge wagon one by carefully cutting it out and gluing it to the body. Filled in a lot of holes from where the previous builder attached the bars along the bed.

Thanks everyone. I have the Lindberg engines and the valve covers in the original Imperial kit were chromed and the person who built it did not scrape the chrome so they came off easily. I can de-chrome them and paint. Now to find a suitable chassis for the car. Hoo boy this turned into a project.

I am ressurecting a 65 Imperial and I wish to locate a nice 413 in 1/25 scale. I have the original kit supplied engine but its kinda messed up with glue. Is there a kit that has that engine or a aftermarket supplier?

Nice little car. Did not know that existed in 1/32

Nice. Good job recovering that car.

All I can say is WOWWWWW. I have created things like intakes and transmissions out of styrene shapes but nothing like this.

Very nice. I have not seen this out of the box, though I have seen the kit in the HS some time back. I like 1/32 scale kits but I passed this one by. I'm now sorry I did. I will have to start looking for one. The detail is comparable to the former Monogram 1/32 kits (Nova, Trans Am, Charger) as those had engines under the hood. Also the MPC kits like the Mercury LN7 and the Ford EXP. I have several AMT Scale Stars, but those have no engine detail although they look good on the shelf.

I'm just all giddy with excitement.

Need this.

I like all the builds, but the amazing detail on the Vdub K70 blows me away because of it's small size

Yeah, until you see a new release that you have the hot fantods for

Make a buck to heat styrene over it or vacu-form the glass

I was just thinking that

Excellent idea on the grab bars on the front seat back.

would the 53 Vette chassis fit under there?

That rub strip on the side was always problematic for me. Much like AMTs 53 Vette that seemed off.

Body mods are a cool idea. I tried that once and really buggered it. At least your dash is fairly easy to Aussie-fy

You made yours very well. How did you deal with the under hood blob of an engine? I looked everywhere for a 3D print of the proper engine but no luck. I have decided to make better head lights too. Yours look great. For a better body, locate the first issue of this under the Hubley brand. Molded in light blue and seem a tiny bit crisper. The later ones seemed to be very misaligned at the front edge of the door and it's transition to the hood atrea. I will probably rob one of my early Monogram kits for the Spirit Of Ecstasy ornament as those are closer to scale. I lengthened my body 1/4 inch in the middle of the rear doors to create the long wheelbase version and redoing the glass trim as the rear doors of the long version have wing windows at the rear of the rear doors.

Thanks for that info.

Being that I am a fanatic about Australian cars and Canadian cars based on American models, I really need to add this to my book collection.

Is it the 69 El Camino that came without the window framing like a hard top car? I seem to remember something like that. That kit might be a good source for converting the 68 into a 69.