Sport Suburban

I understand that all of the 428 Twisters got the shaker but not all of the 351 twisters did as it was an extra option. As for adding the shaker I had used the shaker from the 69 Mach 1 kit and cut a hole for it in the Boss 302 hood. Just add some styreen for the trim and you have it.

Here is a somewhat unusual Cobra. The street version on the 427 Cobra. This is the Monogram release of this kit from 1989. I wanted to make this one a bit more accurate by eliminating the racing pop open gas cap and the side pipes. So the exhaust is scratch built and reworked some headers for this build. I also used resin wheels I got from Reliable Resins. I also used Tamiya mica red spray paint for this one.

This is a Johan 70 Rebel Machine. This build fought with me a few times. The replacement decals I got were no good and tore easily. I got a third set from Keith Marks and that is what is on it now. The hood scoop decided to pop off after it was glued on and damaged the paint. So the hood got sanded and repainted. I know this kit has a lot of inaccuracies but I chose to only fix the one that bothered me most. I tossed the cross ram and used a resin intake, carb and aircleaner from the Johan 69 SC/Rambler kit. I made the molds myself and will cast up some more for other AMC's. I also used a small piece of styreen for the underhood section of the air box.

This is Revell's newest release of this kit with the Mach 1 parts. I built mine as a Twister Special. All I added was the Twister Special decals that I got from Fred Cady. I painted this one with Testors Spray paint in Grabber Orange. That was the only color this Twister Special car came in. I also used Shabo dry transfers on the tires. Here are the photo's.

I finished a few up and have not taken any pics. So now it's catch up time. This is a resin kit from Missing Link to do a 70 Cougar. The resin kit had the Eliminator parts also. I used the AMT 73 Cougar for a donor but changed out the trans for the one in the AMT 69 Cougar kit. I needed the 69 kit for the mirrors and the glass. The decals are from Keith Marks. Here are the photo's.

Kevin at Stradasports took Historic Racing Miniatures off his sight because Harold is burried in backorders. Even Island collectibles has a note that orders will take 6-12 months and some orders will take even longer. I have an order from may 5th that I'm waiting on myself.

Don't relocate your motor. It is just fine. You mocked it up without the assembled interior tub. The body sits down to far without it. I just finished two Cobras this year and one of them is this street kit. Assemble the interior with the dash and top of the tub attached to the base and do another test fit.

I have both of these kits in my stash. I looked them over before and noticed the chrome side trim and the moldings for the two tone top that I planned to do a vinyl top version. So I pulled out my kit and I have an early one with the non W30 Bumper. I have the convertible too and it's a nice one too.

Here is another one that I have finished up recently. I purchased the Scale Productions resin transkit for this one. The paint is real automotive paint for Eleanor. It is a two stage paint that was custom mixed here locally at an automotive paint supply store (The Painters Edge, Phoenix AZ). They used the smallest metalic flake to keep it in scale. The paint codes are Dupont 44490 pepper grey met for the base coat, and 44435 for the black met stripes. I beleive he had to get pints of each. He gave me two ounces of each for my project. I don't know what he paid but I know it wasn't cheap. I detailed this one up as much as I could without going overboard. The engine is a 428 SCJ from the AMT 68 Shelby with a parts box Hillborn injection. The interior had added seatbelts and flocking. I didn't like the tires that the transkit came with so I used Pegasus # 1601 225/50r16 Bridestone tires. What do you think?

Nice Job, I like this one. You don't see this version too often. I have one also that is being repainted. I too did it in british racing green and changed my mind. I went even more street with no racing gas cap, sidepipes or stripes.

No plans to do this again but I don't know when I'll get to the 67. Maybe do one as a ten year old used car with a winking headlight and some wear.

Thanks, I did intend to semi gloss clear the interior but I skipped that step during assembly. I may still do it but I dought it.

Both of these kit's have the windshield I used. The windshield is not pictured on the box it does have them. As a side note. I also have the Revell USRRC 427 Cobra with figure's kit # 85-4149 and Monogram Essex Wire 427 Cobra # 2944. Both of those kit's have the chrome windshield frame but not the glass.

The tires came in the kit and the kit did have decals for the blue line. That is not what I did thou. I used a blue gel pen in the grove that the tires have. I will say that some kit's had the tires with the lettering and the grove and others don't and have the same tires with blank sidewalls.

I recently built a few Corvette's and I decided to build a 64 from an AMT 63 Corvette Roadster kit. I thought it would be interesting to build it with the headlights exposed. As fate would have it I ended up with another kit for parts so If I screwed up I had a spare body. Here it is in the final stages of mock up. What do you think?

I finished this one up recently. It is the Revell 427 Cobra built right out of the box. I used Tamiya spray paint on this one. I built two of these way back when they first came out and have not built one since then. It's funny because I had six unbuilt in my stash untill I did this one. Still a great kit to build.

Here is one I did fairly quick. I started with the Revell 57 Corvette kit and changed it to a 56. That is not a difficult conversion as both cars are Identical. The Fuel Injection was not availible nor was the 4 speed. So I sanded off the Fuel Injection emblems and installed a two 4bbl carb set up on the 283 motor. The three speed manual was availible but I decided to go a step further and install a powerglide automatic from the 57 150 kit.

What?? They make 3D TV's!!! I need to get out of my hobbie room more!!

Congratulations on the certs!! Also I think it's funny that these new game systems die. I still have my xbox, playstation 1, Nintendo 64, Nintendo original, original gamboy and Atari 2600. They all still work but the Atari joysticks are all worn out and so are ones for the 64. I'm not much into games anymore thou.

Nice job on one of my favorite kits!! I like that you did it as an updated to 66 car.

I put a model rocket engine in a Testors Pantera model and launched it down the street!!

Thanks, I somewhat made it. I used the grill inserts I got from AFX. You can get them from Time Machine now and maybe somebody else. I used the kit issued grill/bumper and ground down the molded grill inserts. Then the Hide-a-way inserts just dropped in.

It's a great kit and I'm glad to see it come back. I have purchased about 10 of them. Six are still unused but I have plans for all of them. They make great donor kits for other kits. I have a 74 GTX that had this chassis and engine compartment kitbashed into it. Here are three finished kits of mine. This 71 Charger RT was modified with hide-a-way grills. That was the only mod to this one. It has the wrong seat still and I may fix that. 71 Super Bee. I used Keith Marks decals and AFX N Scale parts to convert this one. This one is an original MPC 72 Roadrunner. I rebuilt it using the chassis, engine compartment and engine for this. I have many more projects like this in mind for that kit.

So how many of you guys that have multiples, forgot you had them and bought more!! I have done that with a few. I have to get Dan to tell you about his Dodge Magnum collection!!!