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Great job! Love the color and all the well done mods!

Excellent work!

Went to Allentown, Pa. stores this morning, found these at the Tilghman St. store. The Airport Rd. store had nothing new. The F&F '71 GTX seems to be one that others haven't mentioned. I got 3 of the '32 Fords for parts. I recently paid about the Ollie's price just to get a chassis from one of these......

Love it! Super well done! Gasser stance and look nailed!

Here is what they have at the Airport Road, Allentown, Pa. store:

Outstanding work and detailing!

Maybe just paint the hood flat or semi gloss black? My dad did that when the hood on his real '69 Firebird got damaged and he figured they wouldn't be able to match the paint (metallic green). In the late 60's early 70's the manufacturers were offering blackout hoods and striping from the factory. Your car is not painted a factory stock color anyway, so you could say it was a few years old and the owner gave it a repaint and black hood to make it look more like the then "new" cars.

Pretty much all of my purchases for the last few years have been vintage Monogram kits. They look the part and are generally easy to build. The first issues have such cool custom parts and all the stock stuff too (well mostly). As I get older, I just want to have a nice building experience and a reasonably nice model when I am done. My biggest issues are there are not as many wheel and tire options as you have with the vintage AMT Trophy Series models and I find the vintage Monogram parts are harder to come by because they weren't reissued as many times as the AMT ones were.

FWIW, the Amt 1969 "Torino" Cobra kit is a Cobra, even though Amt has insisted on putting Torino on the box since they brought it out in the early 90's. The Torino and Cobra were stand alone models in 1969. The Cobra was supposed to be a low buck performance car, like a Plymouth Roadrunner or Dodge Super Bee. No frills, big engine, not a lot of options. Calling the Cobra a Torino Cobra would be like calling a Roadrunner a Satellite Roadrunner or a Roadrunner GTX, but people keep doing it and I doubt it will stop any time soon.

I was able to get a Jungle Jim 1/16 Vega at the Airport Road store in Allentown, Pa. It is a very nice model, especially for $15! The body on mine is very clean. I may wind up not painting it, just polish and clear it.

Outstanding work as usual! I liked the original builds, but the upgrades really look great!

Outstanding work! The trim work is super! The colors and details are right on!

On FB there was a guy who posted he got a 1/16 Atlantis Jungle Jim Vega at his Ollie's, $15! Could be models will start coming in now. One of the ones near me got a huge load of Christmas toys already.

Yeah, that looks like the Early Iron version. It would have a 6x2 Pontiac engine, same as the original issue, but with different headers. Unless someone swapped it out.

Very cool! The added details and wheel upgrade look great! Hard to believe it is 1/32!

Excellent build! You don't see this one built often and certainly not to this level!

Excellent work! Top notch!

These are very cool! Interesting that they have dimension, most people just drew or draw cars from the side or front, sort of flat looking. I also like the unusual perspective of some of them. You have a unique blend of cartoon and realistic drawing that has a bit of a Keith Weesner feel to it.

I have solved the mysteries of these items! The yellow engine is from the Amt '63 Pontiac Tempest and those valve covers are actually the custom ones from that kit. Never had one, so I had no idea. The Edelbrock valve covers are from the MPC 1/20 Chuck Wagon or Popcorn Wagon show rod. Again, I have never dealt with either of those kits in 45+ years of being in this hobby, so it would make sense why I was stumped. A little internet sleuthing and it all makes sense now!

I recently bought a large parts lot of engines and there are a few things I can't identify. First is the engine with the yellow block. I realize it is a Pontiac V8 with 3x2 intake, but I have never seen those valve covers before. They have vertical ridges and vaguely look similar to Y-block Ford/ MEL units, except for the breather caps. Also, it has a weird transmission bell housing. There is no transmission and it almost looks like it went into the model without one. Custom engine from an early AMT Tempest or Lemans maybe? It has a hole in the block like the old annuals do. The next items are the Edelbrock valve covers. They are big, possibly 1/20 scale, and are plated. There is red plastic showing through. I thought maybe they are big block Chevy, but I test fit them on a Monogram 1/24 Chevelle 454 block and they are a lot longer than the heads. There is a pic for reference. Any help appreciated!

Great job! Those 1/32 funny cars are pretty cool! The original Monogram issued ones were some of the first kits I built.

Wow! I liked it before, but now I love it! Perfect stance, love the engine and the up top! I always learn so much from your build threads!

These are super! Nice work! Great idea and execution! The little details make all the difference!

Wow! That's really cool! Nice work!

Nice job!