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This is an Industrial Strength looking truck. Looks like one of the fleet colors Ford offered at that time. Great looking paint finish, not overly shinny. The chrome trimmed bumper and grill look good. The tires even look like the old Firestone Suburbanite tread design.

Every state I have lived in until moving to Kansas required both front and rear plates and that seems to be common for the most part. When we moved here, we were deciding whether to live on the Kansas side of the state line or Missouri. The license plate issue was actually part of the decision when we were deciding. You're not alone when it comes to not liking a front license plate.

The paint looks so nice that you don't notice the warping you mentioned at first. Very cleanly built and looks great if you don't mention the issue.

Great looking paint finish and interior. Cleanly detailed chassis and engine. Big advantage of the larger scale is the features like the T-Tops, Doors, and dash details are easier to display.

Careful with the lift and tire diameters. Get them too tall and it will limit your attack angles across the face of the terrain.

Both of these look-like good options for license plates with one exception, there is only one plate per state and most states require a matching license plate for both ends of a vehicle. Still, better than what is often seen in many kits and does offer a wider number of states to use.

Great looking build. Very realistic looking to the movie car. Just what two undercover cops need to drive around LA in.

Great looking truck and a great idea for your 1:1 build. The paint color will look good on this body style. Your attention to the details and appearances of the different components all look realistic for your future truck build. The wheels remind me of something GM offered as an option on 4X4 trucks and Blazers with the OEM 10:00 x 15 tires. Like how you did the hood vents.

Great looking paint and interior. Like how you corrected the rear body panel. Whoever made this kit just used the rear from a convertible or coupe as you pointed out. The body trim and bumpers al look good and the white walls look good on this. This body style was one of Fords better ideas.

Great looking paint color and finish. Like the cleanly done body trim.

Sorry to hear about the plastic body issues. I ran into the same thing stripping the paint on an older kit from the original era of this Corvette and the same thing happened. I understand that there have been a few changes in the makeup of the styrene that is used through the years.

All the makings of a great diorama. Get some beach attired 1/25th models as well.

Like the countryside. Enjoy seeing cars and trucks that we don't get here, and the different styles.

They are both great looking Impalas. The hub caps look almost like a plus sized allow wheel designed to look like the OEM SS hub caps. Someone has some serious money tied up here.

My thinking is that until Revell issued the latest '55 Chevy Bel Air hardtop, '56 Chevy 210 & Nomad as well as the '57 Chevy 150, Black Widow, and Bel Air two door sedan and Convertible the only other really correct tri-five would be the last issues of the AMT Bel Air hardtop with the open trunk.

The chassis on these vehicles are worth displaying without the bodies. They are a mechanical work of art.

Beautiful looking paint finish and I think Ford called that "Calypso Coral". The factory style striping all looks great. The chrome trim and engine detailing are cleanly done.

Like the not often seen paint color choice. The detailing of the engine, interior and body vents are all cleanly done. Great looking build.

Great looking color. The nice thing about the Revelle roadster and fast back is that you could put the parts from both kits in a box with a little glue, shake and pour out just about any combination you can think of.

Tuff looking body mods, and the chassis looks perfect.

Check out Mecum's web site for past auctions results. I remember a few like this show up at one of their auctions in a two-door configuration. At first, I thought they may have been done by a body shop with custom paint jobs and they were lowered and had custom wheels. The description mentioned that they were built in Mexico and as I recall they were only a couple of years old, so they may still be built there today.

I have also used the method Greg mentioned to even mount bumpers and grills in older kits that didn't have real good mounting points to glue to. 90-degree angle styrene from Plastruct or Evergreen are readily available and work well.

Great looking color.

Great looking build. I like the European Rally body style.

Beautiful looking paint color and finish. The chrome trim all looks perfect. Like the contrasting interior color. Hard to beat the Texas 3d engines for detailing. I'm working on the same model and share your tight fit issue between the interior and the body. Finding that the dash and interior are wider than the inside edges of the windshield and seems to stop the chassis and interior seating all the way into the body without a lot of sanding on the outer edges of the interior.