Maindrian Pace

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.

Looks great, and the signed dash is something I've never seen in a model before. Very creative.

Thanks again, guys, it's much appreciated.

Don & Carol Holthaus, AKA The Modelhaus.

Suspension attention: With the body more or less back in shape, I started in on the suspension. AMT went through a period of weirdness in the mid '60s with Ford suspension. The '65 was the most complex, separate upper control arms, steerable, rolling wheels. The '66 was simplified; rolling, steel axles front and back, no upper control arms. '67 was my least favorite - non-rolling wheels front and back with no provision to make them roll, (cheap) no upper control arms. I never had a '68 kit, so I don't know what they did that year. The '67-'68 AMT Mustangs and Shelby also didn't roll, and since everything I build must roll, (a thing with me) I've had to mod the suspension on all of these kits that I've built. So I decided to use most of the '65 suspension parts on the front of this '67. It was the same on the real cars, so it's mostly correct anyway. I cut notches in the '67 front wheel tubs to use the '65 UCA's: I needed to widen the front track to place the wheels where I wanted them, so I added a piece of the '65 lower control arms to the tips of the '67 setup: And moved to the rear. The rear ends on all of these Fords is supposed to be a 9 inch, but it looks like a generic blob. So I found a glue bomb 9" rear in the parts box, cut the center out, and grafted it into the '67 rear end/control arm assembly. I glued a strip of Evergreen to the control arms to keep them square while the center section was cut out, and glued it together with an axle in it to keep it square while curing. I don't usually get this tricky with suspension, but if it cooperates, it will be the only thing I have with posable steering.

The Boys get captured by bad guys, thrown into a cave and the opening sealed. A few minutes later: B.A. - "Look, Hannibal, I found a complete, operational welding outfit, a running fork lift, gas cylinders, and items that we can combine into improvised explosives to blow the bad guy's Jeeps onto their roofs while they try to chase us!" It was a simpler time.

Love it, any shop would be proud to have that truck. Great stance, wheel/tire package, weathering, everything.

Amazing! You guys just keep stepping up your game, and this one will be hard to top. (Not like it needs to be topped)

Really cool project. I like the notched core support for the discharge tube on the 1:1.

I don't like the peak chrome, makes it too busy with the high-zoot ribbed XL trim. Mine won't be getting it, less is more theory here. Scribed new trunk and door lines: Finalizing wheels and tires - '65 Galaxie steelies, parts box rims, Johan slicks and skinnies. Quick and mostly dirty mock up - I have dog dish caps which may or may not go on, depending how Thunderboltish this turns out.

Love the detailing, the color combo, the whitewalls... Sooooo nice.

It sounds like a great plan. I would wait until the debt is paid down to a level that you both feel comfortable with before taking on the new car payment, but it sounds like that's what the plan is anyway. Just don't be in a hurry, wait for everything to fall into place and it will happen when the time is right.

The basics are there. I think that with the right paint, smaller wheels, and less sillyslam, you'd have something cool. Paint it green and it would be a Gas Monkey truck.

Very nice work, Mike. It really looks the part.

Steve, I think you're onto something there. I never put 2 and 2 together, but I bet you (and AMT) are right. Mike, That thing's crazy! I like it, a Fairlane sized Galaxie.

This car was bad enough that it was beyond my ability to do anything about it, so I had to wait for some improvements in skill before I could take it on. Opening doors blow, they just weaken the body for no reason and are tricky to make work. I can see opening the trunk, but I want this to come together with a minimum of fuss. So everything was glued back on - The trunk lid was re-shaped to match up to the rear bumper: And new vent frames were added from a '65 Galaxie parts kit. These are actually more accurate than the original kit frames, which are too rounded at the top. I thought I had shaved the 1/4 panel GALAXIE 500 lettering off, But a look at my promo and convertible kit reveals that they never had it. As good as AMT was in those days, they did occasionally overlook some pretty basic things.

Amazing detail, very well researched, love the scratchbuilding.

Brutal! I love how the splitter contours around the intercooler.