Rockford

What a brute of a car, just a perfect muscle car, especially a Super Duty.

That is rather marvellous!

It is good seeing what was the common all garden version of some cars. They've been rerunning Kojak recently and in one episode there was beautiful cream Firebird with a half vinyl roof, from the front screen to the rear edge of the drop glass, it looked fantastic.

Great looking piece of work.

That's a unique build! Good looking limo.

Well done on them, you like your Corvettes don't you!

I just bought this kit as a reissue, came with a trailer too. I love 70's cars. This has got me thinking about making a start, but I hope it doesn't take me 20 years

Another clean one, very good photos too.

They were a beautiful car and you've captured it so well, lovely clean build.

Fascinating story Tom, we suffered similar over here. I remember a salesman picking up a brand new Austin Montego from a dealer that had supposedly been PDI'd. As he pulled up outside the company i noticed something hanging down below the rear axle, turned out to be a shock absorber that hadn't been bolted in and was swinging in mid air. Those cars were so poor we used to adjust the doors by pulling on the A or B pillars they were so weak.

Forgot to add a photo of the Hemi, you wouldn't believe a blown hemi with air filters on top of the blower, would fit under that hood! I like how the bed turned out too.

This is the Revell kit, went together great. Used my usual Parts Store rattle can for the finish which turned out great. These were beautiful cars. wired the engine, added brake lines from the master cylinder and the hold down clip for the cap on the reservoir.Made tailpipes out of aluminium tube. I think the car sits a little high for my tastes and I'd have like a little more of a stinkbug stance but never mind. It turned out ok. [I realise that I put the air cleaner on backwards in the photos, the writing is upside down]

This car is a bit of a learning project for me, because up until this build I'd never had the guts to cut and shut body parts. I wanted to recreate a Camaro a friend had owned here in Liverpool because it was just gorgeous. It was a bog stock car with a lame smog era 350 and a TH350 trans but it looked like it had landed from another planet when you compared it to the junk we drive here in GB. I had to lose the front snow plow spoiler because it is supposed to be a Z28, so I bought another Z28 kit, cut the front of the rear arches out of that to marry into the front fenders once the huge spoiler was gone. I didn't have the guts to fill the T-tops in at the time so i just glued them and added drip rails and have regretted it ever since. Rather than filing the Z28 hood's huge NACA-scoop down I chose to fill the one that comes with the blower hole cut into it. I was fairly successful with that but learned a few lessons doing it. I also tinted the glass using food dye. I'm particularly proud of the wheels on this one, they were very fiddly to paint and one thing I did do with this build was file a flat spot onto the bottom of the tyres to replicate the deformation of the tyre due to the weight of the vehicle, just compare it next to the Trans-Am which has exactly the same tyres. It makes the model look so much more realistic instead of perching on the pinpoint of four balloons! The underhood molding on this model is soooo bad I just gave up and left the brake master cylinder etc... Anyway, that's the story.

Every one of those cars is beautiful! Plumbed and wired too!

I doesnt really come with poseable wheels but the front wheel mounts can be held in place by top and bottom wishbones without glue, so they turn but they're not connected to each other. The steering linkage just hangs in mid air off the front crossmember. Bit of a cheat.

Yes, it is the Revell kit. It is a great kit except for the fit issues with the interior that I mentioned. Despite numerous mock ups I couldn't pinpoint the problem but it was somewhere around the rear seat to the tunnel. I almost considered cutting the rear bench off the interior and fitting it to the body on its own, sliding the side panels past it. I eventually managed to file the seat down and got it to sit properly. The 59s were beautiful cars. When you encounter one in the flesh the sheer scale of them is daunting. To think the streets were once full of cars like this!

Thanks gents, I'll employ your advice on my next build. I have actually got tyre tread prints left on plastic display cases!

Oh when will they release this kit again I'd love to build this truck from a magazine advertisement in Overdrive. You're doing good work here.

Hi all. I've got a few kits now where the tyres are causing the wheels to deform and grow little blisters al around the rim. Is there any preventative solution to this issue, ie: clearcoat wheels ? If so, what with? Any help appreciated.

This is a very detailed kit. Built a few years ago. Looks great when finished but had terrible fit issues with the interior. Had to sand down areas to try and see where the conflict was. Got there eventually. After a few years though, the whitewall inserts are reacting with the tyres. Such a shame, spoils the car.

What a buffoon I am, it's not Revell, it's AMT. I bought it thinking it was a plain simple truck kit. I opened it and there were all sorts of extras in the box turns out it was a classic kit with all sorts of custom options including a blown De Soto Hemi.

Couple of primer coats and a few days to cure and I've had no problems ever. Even Tamiya surface primer has worked ok with it.

I hope it goes well. Rear spoiler is easy, just sand it off and profile, smooth, scribe trunk lid shut lines. T tops glued in filled and sanded, sanded, sanded, then added drip rails. When you take the arch flares off there's no fender behind which had to be built in plastic card and profiled. I had to add the wheelarch trim in fine plastic strip, then foil it. The hood scoop hole is hard, getting it flush and having the right profile for the ridge down the centre. I used gallons of primer because I'd sand something down using wet and dry and it would look spot on, then I'd prime it and it would look like a relief map of the Himalayas! I get a tremendous kick when I look at this car. Cant believe it was me that did it!

I went with the full whitewall tyre on this one and a metallic red interior. Love the dash on this car, I foiled it then gave it a wash of gunmetal to bring the detail out.

That's uncanny, I have that kit built in the same colours, white with a red interior! Great work though. Very elegant body style I think.