Rodent

These are all great tips! This is a generalization, but early Mustang underbodies were red oxide primer. Whatever body color got underneath during the painting process stayed. My 1:1 experience is almost 100% San Jose built cars, and Ford's processes notoriously varied from plant to plant. Most of the cars I have seen had pretty complete body color over the sound deadener in the rear wheel wells. Any outward-facing vertical surfaces like unibody frame rails were pretty well covered as well. Not much body color made it much further than that. All of the underhood sheetmetal was semigloss black. Front unibody rails typically have some black coverage from the underhood paint. Leaf springs were bare steel. Rear axle housings were semigloss black, but the dropout section was red oxide primer with a black bearing housing. Exhaust is bare steel, as were tie rods and the sway bar. Spindles were bare iron. Upper control arms were black. Lower control arms were originally dipped after the ball joint was installed, so the inner ends were black and the outer ends were bare. Fuel tank was galvanized steel. 1966-later engines were Ford blue. A Shelby most likely had an aluminum intake manifold. Most Ford automatics have a bare aluminum case and a steel pan. The exception in the early Mustang (69-73) is the FMX, which has a cast-iron case. Manuals (top-loader) have an aluminum bellhousing, bare iron case with an aluminum tailshaft housing. Driveshafts were bare steel. Most of the cars you see in the internet are over-restored, but you will get ideas from looking at them.

Maybe some bench time with dad building a model might be therapeutic? Couldn't hurt.

only Swedish Fish

Santa told me that there may be one under the tree for me

Yes, a very nice 327 with a Powerglide.

Noticed a bright LED light on my front walk this morning around 6 AM and realized it was attached to a human. I waited a couple minutes and opened the front door. I heard the unmistakable sound of a GM 2.5L grinding to life and saw the USPS truck it was attached to in the street. Looked down and there was a package from Barnes & Noble on the porch.

Better call Saul

made from dynamite

Not a planet

Actually, you will need a Trumpeter Nova and probably some scratch building to make a 230. Not at all like the 235 in the 1960 kit. Probably easier to swap a V8 into your 1:1.

all sit down

Not peanut butter?

finger due to

Yes, wholeheartedly agree!

brakes are awful

peach or arm?

racing Lark scooters

free oranges everywhere!

move to Floriduh !

with a foot

We have invented a travel game called "Move or Dump". Whenever you see a truck like this on the road, someone calls "Move or Dump". The other people in the car have to guess if the truck is being used to move, or if they are going to the dump, and why the person thinks so. Of course, there can be no winner unless you pull the truck over and ask the driver what their destination is, but it is fun anyway.

Also, as you can see on the convertible, the bezels aren't mirror images of each other either. The driver's side is kind of blobular.

This will be a trans kit for the current release of the Nova?

Prius used there

flaming gas tank