Jones car has never actually been confirmed as a legit t top notch. Many we're done at the dealer level. There are rumors of a couple 87s and an early 88 roaming around. I have seen this operation performed and its not too terribly hard. Nothing is welded in
There were 700 ish t top coupes built between 79-84. Most references state none were built 85-6 but a few have surfaced. None have been verified by buck tags or Marti reports. I personally know a couple 84s and they are neat cars
Looks awesome bud! The water pump is easy. Check out the one I scratched up from pics in my bee WIP. I used part of a 57 chevy oil filter and made the flange from styrene plus put the power wire on it. Not perfect but with everything going on in my engine bay it passes the visual test lol
Just a bit of pace car trivia for you. The box art is one of 3 cars that were on hand at race. The only 3 to get t tops. All the replicas were sunroof or solid roof. The actual pace car on race day also had a roush built 358 cubic inch windsor
Lol yup. Low dark color to show off the sweet curves. New hemi or viper engine, all while remaining true to the bee with the rear stripe and six pack hood
And I am excited to work with it. I am actually going to use this as a bit of a community build of sorts. All of you interested will have some input on color, trim, wheels, engine etc. Should be fun
I stand corrected. I bet that was a fairly rare add on. I know of 3 that used to be in my area and have never seen one with magnums. Not sure where they went. One guy had 2 at once. Red and sublime
Where did you get the decal for the wing and headlight? My old blue version of this kit does not have them. Also like your road runner kit, the wheels on this car "should" be the ralleys from the cuda. Magnums were not offered on this car