Maindrian Pace

Great start on a very rare kit.

Wouldn't you love to rumble up to some hoity-toity wine & cheese muscle car concourse show in this?

The Torino had the plain, rather homely front end styling, the fancier models had the familiar S&H style front end.

Splendid.

Well, the wheels and tires removed any stodge from that Dodge. Great choice, it all comes together just as it should.

I wasn't suggesting using that roof, just demonstrating the difference between the Falcon roof and the Comet '65 roof.

I have a '60 2dr wagon in my garage.

I've never seen the MCW body, but here is the Bandit Resin '63 Falcon sedan. They did a nice job on the C pillars. This roof is correct for late '62(Futura)-'65 Falcons, and on the '64 Comet, but it looked too short on the longer Comet body, so they lengthened it for the '65 Comet and slanted the C pillars back to bring it into proportion. That makes the '65 Comet sedan a one car, one year only roof.

This kit is a reissue of an original "annual" model kit that AMT put out when the cars were new. It is a revision of their '65 Mustang, so it is a 50 year old tooling with 50 year old kit technology. Almost all '60s era kits are like this, with a one piece promotional model style chassis plate and sparse drive train details. Modern kits are super detailed by comparison, with several times as many parts, but are also much more complicated and frustrating for a beginning modeler. The main attraction of this particular kit is how nice the body is. AMT had a special gift back in the day with proportions and dimensions, so almost all of their bodies looked exactly like the real cars. Many modern tooling kits don't have perfect proportions like old AMT kits had, which is peculiar given modern CAD and modeling technology. I would build this one as you like, enjoy the nostalgia of it, and then go for a more complicated kit afterward.

If only the original builder could see it now...

The Fairlanes used a completely different roof and all glass than the Falcon/Comet. It does look close, however, but modifications will be necessary to make it look right - particularly to the upper corners of the windshield - perhaps more than the early Comet roof. But depending on the closeness in scale between the new Cyclone and the old AMT or Revell T-Bolt, the T-bolt roof may fit better. We won't know until someone tries.

Wow, a nicer job on that kit has never been seen. Outstanding!

Cyclone and 2dr Caliente used the same hardtop roofline. Comet 202 and 404 2dr used the higher sedan roofline, completely different from the belt line up. The Caliente was available as a 4dr sedan, but not as a 2dr sedan. Converting a Cyclone to a sedan will be tricky, best to start off with the roof and glass from a '60-'62 AMT kit, as that has the correct height, windshield, door glass shape, and trim. The roof is different at the back, however, with a different C pillar shape, glass, and rear window frame shape. That wouldn't be too bad changing it with Evergreen strip and patience.

Incredible, it looks absolutely real, down to the scale grass, weeds, and leaves. Especially with the forest backdrop. Amazing.

I think it's awesome. I love me some '70s Street Freak.

Excellent job on the engine, this is coming out great.

Looks mighty fine, a member of our local club did a similar conversion on his.

I pretty much got the suspension dialed in. Front is a combination of '65 and '67 parts, widened track width. The tie rod ends were cut off of the drag link and scooted outward to get the toe back in line. The rear is mostly '67. Originally a three link design with a panhard rod, I converted it to a more drag-ready triangulated four link setup similar to Fox Mustang. Boxed lower control arms, new uppers made from shortened '65 lowers. Big tubs on this car, I didn't have to cut a thing to fit the slicks.

"You know what I'm saying?" A little irony there, because when someone says that to me, it immediately makes me uninterested in hearing the rest of what they are saying.

Terrific work, amazing detail and the conversion looks accurate from every angle.

At last night's Mesa show, a 2 owner, all original loaded Plum Crazy 440 Magnum/727 P/S PDB A/C 8 track tape Charger, and that is the original paint, interior, top, and nearly everything else. Not sure about the mirrors. Only the second original paint Plum Crazy car I've ever seen. Original window sticker there too, price was a steep $5,355 new - Cadillac money basically. Photos are borderline dusk low light I-Phone, but could have been worse. Incredible, heavy hitter Mopar.

Looks great, and I love the stance and the wheel idea.

Fantastic scratch building! no easy task to get all those compound curves correct, but correct it is.

I'll be That Guy. Where 1:1 cars are concerned, when someone dies; like a father or friend, the family/friends will finish a project car - often in a way that the deceased would have liked to have finished it. It's a tribute, and a feeling like they are doing something creative in remembrance or productive in terms of working out grief. I've been involved with that process - twice. Where models are concerned, I believe that much the same applies.