exnyman

I have this kit also, and haven't started it as of yet. Yours looks great, can't wait to see it finished! My plan for mine is to build a replica of my sister's 71 Malibu Sport Coupe, that my Dad bought her for her graduation from school in 1971. It was Sandalwood with a light beige interior and dark brown vinyl roof. My only issues are going to be doing the double white stripe tires and the standard full wheel covers...

On the 1:1 car, if you are talking about the 4 door sedan, the belAir and Biscayne 2 door sedans, 4 door sedans, and the Impala 4 door sedan all used the same roof, it was the side window/door/frame combinations that differed between the 2 and four doors. This was true throughout the 60's. The 4 door hardtop had its own roof, sort of...beginning with the 63 models, the Cadillac Coupe De Ville actually used the Impala 4 door hardtop roof, with a modified rear window. This carried on into 1964.

Looks great! I have one of these as well, and started it two years ago but got stalled when some fit issues cropped up. Same with the 69 MCW Biscayne I am still working on. That one is a replica of my Dad's 69 company car.

fantastic! I'm sure that build took a lot of fiddling to get right and you did a great job! I'm still stalled on my MCW 69 Biscayne which I'm doing as my Dad's company car he had in 69.

What a beautiful build! My favorite year and body style for Impalas. There is one coming up at Auction at Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale that is almost the same as this model! Great color choice and clean build!

Wow! A fantastic build! Really takes me back as my next door neighbors had two of these cars back in the day, one, the husband's car was this color combo and the wife's was in that mauve metallic kinda color so many GM cars were painted in 83-84. Great work!!!

Another tip: the Malibu SS script that is on the front fender of a Z16 (as the Revell kit is modeled as) should be on the rear 1/4 panel on a standard SS. Can't wait to see this one finished as my cousin had a Danube Blue 65 Malibu SS with light blue interior when I was a kid.

Absolutely gorgeous! I have one of these but it still is in its original state, never did anything with it. I am also working on one to replicate my 1:1 car. This one that you did looks similar.....

A stunning build of a great subject! Masterful blending of the coupe body and wagon roof! This one brings back childhood memories!! My Dad's best friend had a 65 Impala wagon, which he bought new, Tahitian Turquoise with light turqouise interior, 283 with three on the tree. I remember one evening in the summer of '69, my dad had just done a tuneup on it and took it for a "test run"....which meant taking it out on the Long Island Expressway out near Riverhead.....got it up over 100mph.....the first time I had ever been in a car going that fast! I'll never forget what my dad said to me..."Don't tell your mother we were going this fast or you're grounded!!!!"

Here is a few of the one I modeled after my 1:1 68 SS that I have owned since 1977. I added front and rear bumper guards as my 1:1 has them.

Bandit Resins make a Plymouth Scamp, which would already have the correct Swinger body style and rear bumper close to what you'd need, but the front fenders, hood and bumper grille would need to be changed out. Many probably don't realize it but, the 69 Barracuda and the 73-up Darts shared a hood. so if you had a 69 Barracuda hood in the parts box, that would work

I have the same stalled project! Mine is an original MPC annual though, not a promo, and I have had it since new. I was in 3rd grade at the time I got it and my sister tried to fit too many Barbie dolls in it once and broke the windshiled posts and frame. I kept it all these years and hoped I could fix it. I now have most of the parts to do so just as you do! And like you, I have a 1:1 as well! It was my first car, bought it in July of 75 and still own it all these years later. My Dad had one just like it brand new, only his was a Custom Coupe. Here is a shot of my car being loaded on a transpoerter a few months ago to make the trip from my former home in Ohio to my current home in Arizona.

The box art for the coupe shows a 6 cylinder RS model, not an SS.........this would be great for me as my 1:1 '10 is an RS not an SS...but...I am sure they will do the SS rather than the 6 cylinder RS.

Nice Corvair, I always thought the 65-69s were pretty cars. And personally, I think Ralph Nader's mouth is unsafe at any speed!

I don't think I have ever seen a Nova done as a lowrider either. It looks sharp, beaautiful paint and very tasteful customizing, not too outrageous but just enough to be different. I also like the way you eliminated the center post between the windows for a true coupe look.

Nice! This shows how GM missed the boat by not offering this body in a coupe! They should have done the Buick Roadmaster, Caddy Fleetwood and Caprice/Impala SS asa two door. The only reason I never bought a 94-96 Impala SS was because It didn't come as a two door!

Looks great! Great color choicw, and, you seem to have the hang of foiling already. I've used it numerous times and to be hinest, particularly around windows, it still gives me fits sometimes! Nice to see a stock 41 Plymouth, my Dad courted my Mom in a 41 Plymouth!

Here is a long shot but, maybe try using a combination of the 86 el camino and 80 Monte carlo? the hood, front fenders and doors on the Elky are a little closer to the Cutlass in shape, but the Monte yields a more correct wheelbase, roof, trunklid shape. This would be a lot of work, and way beyond myskill level. As the owner of a 1:1 79 Malibu, 80 Monte and 86 El Camino, I'd love to see more G bodies from the 78-88 era.

Gotta give my Kudos to Steve as well. Fast delivery, exceptional communication and he even notified me when a kit I wanted wasn't in stock, then notified me when it was to see if I still wanted it. If all businesses were this customer oriented, dealing with them wouldn't be the hassle it has become.

It may not be dead on but it sure is pretty close! looks great! Nice to see something out of the mainstream.

A beautiful build! Unfortunately, looks like trumpeter screwed up the grille, looks like they added a center divider to the 64 grille, which is incorrect. The 65 grille was convex, not concave as it was in 64, and only the horizontal bars showed through. Too bad they couldn't get something that noticeable correct, especially at this price!

I'm thinking it would be black, but cannot find anything to verify that either. I know the 68-69's with the parchment (white) interior did have black carpet and headliner. I believe that started with the 65 model year but again, have not been able to verify it.

I have to agree with Mark Taylor on this one. In essence, to me, this looks too much like the old Sebring coupe, which never sold in huge numbers. But I agree, the challenger is probably on Borrowed time. Since it is based off retro styling cues, and the original Challenger only had one generation to draw those cues from, where do they go next with it? It would make more sense probably from a cost standpoint to revisit the Charger as a two door as it would share some parts with the 4 door. And therein lies another thing I never understood...why did they all start making the two and four door versions of cars have almost completely different sheetmetal? Makes no economic sense. Back in the old days, say, a Chevy Impala Coupe shared its entire front clip, most times trunklid, windshields, rear bumpers and much trim with its 4 door linemate. Then by 1988, a Chevy Beretta and a Corsica, though identical under the skin, shared no body panels whatsoever, though they bore a resemblance to one another. It became more expensive to tool up a coupe in an increasingly smaller market. I wouldn't mind seeing a Charger two door in addition to the Challenger, as I am a two door fan and have owned nothing but coupes/convertibles. It is so boring seeing the sea of mouse grey four door sedans that litter todays roadways.

An excellent build! If the color you were going for was to match the car in the photo, I have the book it was published in and it is called Tahitian Turquoise. For some reason, on my computer screen, the picture and your model look like Dark Blue Metallic. If that is actualIy correct, then the color is Danube Blue. had a 65 Impala Sport Coupe that color from 1978-1980.

The MCW kit really isn't too bad right out of the box. My example actually was pretty close to Modelhaus standards, was very pleased with that. Actually, although the roof isn't 100% accurate to the actula 1:1 car, a keen eye to the 69 sales brochure indicates it does match the illustrations in it, since they were not accurate to the actual car, as well.