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From the research I did for my kit history article, the only Blazer issue with the 69-70 grille was this one: I did not know that at some point the Boondocker was planned with the 69-70 grille! And in looking at the box art, it only has the grille; no bowtie on the hood.

Perhaps we can pool our efforts? I have a tailgate that's best kind, other than having the paint stripped from it. I, too, have a Jimmy glue bomb that I'm trying to restore; the body was horrendously warped. I have a spare Bushwacker Blazer body that I was planning to use, but it has a broken windshield frame. If all the Jimmy-specific chrome and clear parts are still on the Crew Chief's trees, I'll use one of those as a base!

I believe there is a Chevy Suburban available in resin. This may be the closest you can get as GMC cracked down on resin conversions a while back and resin casters had to stop making them. They can still be found now and again, however.

Hooray for new Blazer reissue! Here's hoping more older pickup kits will be coming! The Enterprise build-2-gether set looks interesting, would be better if it included the series and movie versions, however...

My guilty pleasure kits of late have been late 70s to early 80s Revell pickup and combo kits. They are mostly based on snap-kits and are in some places rather crude, but in other places they are the best detail in 1:25 for a particular area or have really cool combinations. The Revell 80-86 Ford pickup series are hands down the best proportioned and detailed 1:25 scale renditions but the underhood and chassis detail is atrocious. The Revell 77 Chevy C10 pickup glue kit is atrocious however its snap-kit derivatives have much better chassis detail! Plus they came bundled with trailers and Cool Things.

Having owned two pickups and an Expedition of this body style, I hope I can offer some insight. 1) Underside of the cab was a sort of grey rust proofing paint. Underside of the bed is body colour. 2) Interior colours available for 1997 were grey, tan, green, blue, and red. The green was the rarest, and may not have actually been offered in pickups. A lot of the folks on an F-150 messageboard didn't believe me there was a green interior until I posted pictures of my Expedition. The green, red, and blue interiors were dropped after a few years, and a few shades of the grey and tan interiors were available as well as black in later years. 3) The glove compartment door indeed only opens for the size of the box. Any further and it would only be able to be opened with no passenger!

Also, the resemblance of the parts in this exploded view to those in the Monogram 1:24 kits is uncanny.... If it IS 1:25 scale lets hope it is not a simple scaling down like the 69/70 Mustangs.

So I find myself wondering how it is that this new car can be sold for $6800 while the BRP Can-Am starts at $15000... Either BRP is grossly inflating the price or Elio is grossly undervaluing their car...

I have some NB plates if anyone is interested. From the 1991 design. They're all from vehicles I've owned so are not in pristine condition or anything.

On my latest project, I'm under seven tower cranes. They were on limited duty last night though due to high winds. We've been trying to figure out what you guys do when nature calls! Here's a view on the daily commute. Yes this is a picture from my phone, not a publicity shot.

Try doing it in a parking lot in New Brunswick in -25²C winter.

Aha! More mysteries solved.

Rather, the Isuzu front clip would be based on the Brazilian and Russian market trucks.

Not that I've seen. I do have one if someone need it for a master...

I'll be getting a few!

Yes, you have to start over. Brake fluid will also work. Never say never to the Krylon; if you used a Krylon primer and a Krylon base coat, you will not have this same problem. This is not an inherent problem with the clear coat itself: it is the reaction between the two different brands and types of paint.

I have a Johan USA Series 1969 AMC AMX that is molded in green. The double-pack Revell 1956 Ford F-100 and 77 Chevy C-10 has a green C-10.

So Grzegorz , I have to ask: do you by any chance happen to work in a mine? This is awesome!

Both the Charger 500 and a 70 Charger would be most welcome. But, the Charger 500 would require a new body tooling which they probably won't do.

That looks like the weird camper thing in one of the MPC Dodge pickups!

I'm not so much concerned about making the plates; that's easy enough to do. My complaint was more towards the sites not being updated...

That is what I've been doing, although it is hard to find the font my province uses on the plates. I've been using the German EU plate font, looks pretty good. I even successfully predicted the next letter in the passenger car sequence a year before they switched over.

You know what, I think the 1:35 scale one is the one my buddy has... I know it is frickin' huge!

The biggest problem I have with all these custom license plate sites is that they don't have my province's current plate design. C'mon, it changed five years ago!

A guy in my club has one of these and we keep bugging him to build it. We've even offered to each build parts of it to get it built! We've suggested a diorama with the assembled Dora and support crew.