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Recently moved from a house we had been in for 20 years to my parents' house. Lost Dad in December '19, and wife and I decided to take the house, neither one of my sisters wanted it. We had to deal with all of their old stuff along with moving all our stuff. Jeez, unbelievable how much junk you can accumulate! The move was only about 10 miles, and I could have used my truck and open trailer, but we rented a 26' Uhaul (fairly new F-650, pretty nice truck) and made three trips. One trip was moving all my models! Put blankets on floor of truck and just lined them up in rows. Never had any luck trying to pack models! The house we moved to is bigger than the old one by a little bit, has a detached garage with a 17x17 workshop (new model room), in-ground pool and is on a canal that accesses one of the nicest lakes in my county. The house was built in '72, Mom and Dad bought it in '77 while I was still living with them, so it's kinda like going home for me. LOTS of remodeling because they really never did a whole lot to it, they were happy with the way it was. Kitchen completely redone, and still working on it. Master bath spruced up and ceilings and walls throughout redone in knockdown and new paint. New laminate floors everywhere except the bedrooms and a few walls opened up to "open it up." Next big project is organizing garage to make room for my 1:1 69 Bronco project and getting the model room organized so I can get back to building, hopefully before winter. I'm in Central Florida, so winters are mild, but this time of year is just too hot to do much. There's a window A/C unit in the workshop, but I haven't had a chance to try it to see how well it works. Not only does moving suck, but all the work post-move does too!!

Outstanding work! You're making me want to get another 60 to build like that as a companion to my jacked up 4x4 Flareside!

Nice job! Those were one year only, and most Troopers liked the speed, but disliked the uncomfortable seats and the downtime in the shop! I built one and presented to a great Trooper friend at his retirement party. I'll have to get with him someday and get some pics of it.

You are partly correct, for years FHP only used blue lights. Based on some studies a while back that showed a difference in visibility of red and blue depending on daylight or night, they started using a combination of red and blue. The lights either flashed blue only or red/blue, and a sensor in the lightbar controlled that. This first started a few years ago, not sure if they still use this system. Either way, when the lightbar is activated, there will always be blue flashing because in most states in the south blue indicates law enforcement.

It is in the Motion kit, but it's one piece

Happy to hear this, always liked the full bumper better

Tim, did you see a 70ish full bumper Camaro coming from AMT?

I saw a pic of their display of new and upcoming kits from a show on another board, looks like the early 70s full bumper Camaro Z-28 is on it's way too

Absolutely, cause they bring big bucks now on the bay.

The bed is from the Revell 56, had one lying around so I used it. Only modification I did to the bed was to lay down the bed rails, I just like them lying flat instead of angled. You might want to do that to yours, the 78-79 were the only years (I think) that had the bed rails flat instead of angled. And thanks for the comment!! Yours is coming along nicely!

Here it is, figured out how to do it...kinda

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I built a 60 Flareside a few years ago, I would post a pic if I knew how LOL. Bought the 60 model on eBay, the bed had already been removed and poorly shortened, so I decided to go with the step bed. Raided every parts box I had and made a pretty cool "modern-retro" 4x4 with big block FE power. Turned out pretty nice, very happy with it.

Kris Morgan makes a fantastic 73-79 Ford bed, pm him on Facebook or here. His website is Morgan Automotive Detail, but not sure if the Ford beds are on there. I'm all for the 59 Ford front end, of the 57-60 Fords it's always been my favorite.

Can you share your method of fixing the passenger side tires so that the directional tread is correct? Very nice job on this one!!