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I fired up the paintbooth and painted the '57 T-Bird with Tamiya TS-86 Pure Red. Looks pretty good, too! Vega$ will return...

Thanks Rob! The Story Ricky runs to the office to grab the phone and call the Police and the office has been turned upside down. “Bobby! The office has been ransacked!” Bobby pulls out his cellphone from his pocket and he calls the Police to report the death and the office being ransacked. “Emergency 9-1-1. What is the nature of your emergency?” “My name is Robert Hull. The owner of my company is dead! He’s been killed! Please, send some help!” “Sir, are you injured?” “No. The other man with me and I are not injured. Please send some help!” “The Police are on their way to your location. Please do not touch anything and wait outside the business for the Police to arrive.” “Ok. We’ll wait outside.” “Very good. Please stay on the line with me until the Police arrive.” “We will.” “Ricky, let’s wait outside,” yells Bobby and the two men run outside. The sound of sirens can be heard in the distance and they are getting closer. Ricky leans on the hood of his truck worried about what just happened. Bobby watches the street for the Police. The Build I have removed the decals except for the Ford logos and the Police Interceptor logo on the rear panel. Then everything got a good bath! McNally will return...

Thanks Jeremy and David! I have removed all the decals except for the Ford Logos and the Police Interceptor logo on the rear panel. Next stop is the kitchen sink for a bath with a scrub brush and Dawn Dish Detergent. When it has dried, primer and then paint!

The Build Another project and the return of McNally, Boston PI in a story called Deadly Reclamation. This is another refugee from the model shelves and I am not sure when I got it. It took me about 5 minutes taking this apart and now it is ready for a good bath! I am calling this a 2011 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor which, in my opinion, has not changed at all that much in the last ten years of its life. There may have been changes, but those are very small and few in between. I am going to strip this car and repaint and reassemble it as a retired Police car that was sold to the public. The Story He scours the country looking for old Police cars to fix up and resell them to the public. He latest find is a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor that had belonged to the California Highway Patrol. The car is a 2011 Crown Vic that the CHP was using asr an executive vehicle and even though it had reached the end of its service life, it was retired from the fleet and sold through auction. The car that replaced it was a Ford Explorer SUV. Ron Bisson runs a small shop that deals with the restoration of these old Police cars. Mechanical, electrical, body work and repainting, Ron does it all with a four man crew that consists of Bobby Hull, Ricky Demers, Frank Kowalski and Jimmy Dickers. Ron has been running his business for over 30 years and his current crew has been with him for a minimum of 6 years. Bobby and Ricky were asked to come in to work on a Saturday morning for 5 hours of overtime. When they got there, the garage door was open and Ron was lying on the floor…dead. More Crown Vic to come...

Randy, it seems that you don't want to show the "oops" on your WIP thread. While I am not proud of my "oops", I do show them hoping that others would see what I did and maybe they can avoid that issue if it comes to that point for them. It doesn't take a lot of graphics to make a paint job look stunning! The right colors in the right places and WOW! Some people prefer a lot of graphics and some don't. It depends upon your point of view.

I agree that race cars should be colorful and vibrant, but with the grey paint, it is the graphics that make that paint color exciting. Grey is a subdued color and it seems to be trending at the moment.

Thanks guys! Grey is not one of my favorite car colors, but it is a trending color right now. I'm starting to see this color on the road on various new vehicles. I need to sit down with the decal sheet and a bowl of warm water and start adding decals.

Revell's sharing one model kit to produce 3 others is basically a cost saving measure. The Boss 302 is one of those using the new body and nose piece and a few other parts.

The Story McNally is on a stakeout of Charles Dennett's house. He decides to talk to him when Dennett comes home and he goes up to the front door. Dennett opens the door and McNally identifies himself and Dennett remembers him at Richie's house, but he had to rush out. McNally notices Dennett carrying a Smith & Wesson Model 39 in a holster on his hip and he asks him about it. Dennett pulls the gun for McNally's inspection and he notices the heavy smell of oil in the gun as it was recently cleaned. The Build I taped the body and chassis together. Then I added the hood assembly. More Jaguar to come...

The Story Adam was observing from the other side of the lobby and he walks over to McNally and asks what had just happened. McNally says that Darvell just apologized to him and McNally offered to be friends. Darvell wants to think about it first. McNally says that friendship with Darvell isn't going to happen. The Build Flocked the floor with black embossing powder. I painted the dash panel black and the paint ran under my tape. Dang it!!! I added the headlight nacelles. More Jaguar to come...

The Story McNally is down stairs at the Check In Desk turning his Visitors Pass and he is approached by Det. Steven Darvell. He wants to apologize for his rude behavior yesterday at the crime scene. McNally tells Darvell that he accepts his apology. He tells Darvell that he understands that they will not be friends, although they could be if they really tried. Darvell says he will think about it. The Build I finished the dash and mounted it to the center console. I did some more detail work on the chassis. More Jaguar to come...

I took the hood out of the 91% alcohol and washed it good. It looked more like a hood off of a wreck in a bone yard. The last picture is after five minutes of sanding with 150 grit sandpaper. More sanding, a good bath and then primer and paint...again! More Boss 302 to come...

I had stopped at the grocery store yesterday to get some beer and when I parked the car, I was next to an all black 2020 Shelby GT350! When I came out of the store, the owner was just finishing putting his groceries into his Shelby and we got to talking. He has had the car for a couple of weeks and he is still discovering some of the various little bits and features to the car. He said he would rather drive it. The owners manual is two inches thick! He got in it, started it up and ohh...what a glorious sound it made and that was with the exhaust system in the regular mode. He hit a switch and the exhaust system changed note and WOW!!! It sounded great for pissing off the neighbors! I would rather listen to that Shelby than any of the Harleys that run by the house daily!

Looks excellent! I hope mine will look half as good as yours!

Thanks randyc! I'm more into straight lines than complex curves that I am bound to screw up. My sanity can rest easy now...

$25 for a flea market special is a lot of money, IMHO. You can pay that much on ebay and get a better quality kit!

I saw this on Supercar Blondie's website. It looks impressive! And, I thought all he was doing was electric cars...

I think the +6 Barrel Carbs came from the '71 Duster 340 kit, but I am not 100% sure though. But, they do look far better than the carbs that I had on there before. Plus, I added the plug boots to the MAD Resin distributor, installed the distributor and wired the engine. More 'Cuda to come...

Another hurdle out of the way! I figured out a way to effectively paint the taillights by using a black felt tip pen and marking the blacked out areas of the taillights on one side and then painting the backside with Tamiya X-27 Clear Red. Then I glued the lenses to the chrome backings when the clear red dried. It's not perfect, but it is done. More Mustang to come...

I added a couple of decals for the engine size to the hood. I found a 6-barrel carb setup and used that instead since it is much more detailed. I painted the air cleaner and added the decal to it. I broke the decal as I tried to position it on the air cleaner. More 'Cuda to come...

I got the '57 T-Bird into primer this afternoon. Now to let this dry thoroughly and then some sanding. More Vega$ to come...

Thanks, Carl!

I finally got the engine wired and installed into the chassis and I completed the mobile phone. More Vega$ to come...

Thanks Kenneth and John! I am probably making a bigger deal out of this than it actually is. Sometimes, I do this or the instructions (which I usually glance at) don't explain the procedure well.

The interior wasn't revised since it really wasn't needed to convert the kit from the Mach I to the Boss 302. Their main focus was to create the new nose piece and convert the model kit to a Boss 302. I used the interior roll bar mounts and mounted the roll bar anyway.