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There was an entry to one of my club's shows last year that was a converted Cutlass. They used staples for the grille, IIRC. There was a little writeup beside the model telling what they did for the conversion and pictures of the 1:1 car. Looked pretty good. You can see the back of it in this picture...

He did at that. Take that, Chevrolet!

Not exactly the same, but there's an unbuilt 1963 F-100 currently going for $157.50 and there's still 10h left. I was lucky to get my '62 that only had the body painted for what I did...

What was it that Will Smith drove in I Am Legend? Oh yeah, a Ford Expedition!

Nothing close to Windstar seats available in scale. The closest you'd get would be Taurus seats and even then they'd be split bench rather than buckets.

Holy ######, Virgil! How long will that last you?

Beauty!

You're going to need an awfully powerful truck to tow that beastie...

Mine's sitting on my bench, just needing foil and interior. Just can't seem to get to it...

I have two of these in my stash, as well as a Chevelle. I'm dreading attempting to get those decals right...

When it comes to the wood, I'm not sure what to do! Paint it with regular modelling paints or should I stain it?

You got it. For a pre-59 Ford 4x4 truck, the pumpkin will be on the passenger side of the axle.

I usually bid on things on the last day, within a few minutes of the auction ending. Sometimes I'll put in my maximum and leave it, other times I'll end up in a bidding war. Sometimes its worth it to keep bidding; just last night, for instance, I was outbid within the last 5 minutes. I waited until the last minute and bid a dollar over and won. I guess it was either a case of I wanted it more, or an eBay newbie.

I wish they were sticks... it was actually a 1/16 x 3 x 24 in sheet that I cut up. The deck boards are scale 2x6 and the side panels are 2x8. The trailer itself scales out to be about 5' x 8' or thereabouts.

I figured I would try something different for a bit. I had this trailer in a combo pack with a Datsun pickup that's supposed to haul dirtbikes, but the bikes didn't come with the kit. So, I figured I'd haul out some hobby wood and go to town. Apologies for the fuzzy picture; my camera isn't the greatest and neither is my lighting...!

Idk why but the 61-66 F-series is my new favourite classic truck. Just love those lines! The big auction website: its eBay. No idea why some folk are hush hush about it... Anyways. There are resin conversion kits available to convert the Revell 50 F-1 to a 52. And the AMT 53 F-100s are a dime a dozen.

Looks like Dark Horse, I like it!

Actually, the cab changed in 65, when they switched to the new Twin-I-Beam suspension. The biggest differences are the floor, steering column orientation, and the dash. And here's the yearly grilles, '61-'66.

Something to keep in mind is the AMT 92-96 F-150 kit is 1:25 scale and the Monogram 87-91 F-250 kit is 1:24 scale; the bed won't line up with the cab. To make a 92-96 dually bed to match the AMT cab, the best way would be to get a long bed and a flareside kit and graft the flareside bedsides to the long bed. As long as you're very careful with the cuts, it should turn out good!

@62rebel: I wasn't expecting mint built up kits. I bought the lot for other kits in it, not this one. This was a bonus. @Steve: I plan to use the 69-70 grille on a 72 cab. I'll probably end up getting the AMT GMC stepside so I can build a Sierra Grande. This particular cab will get smoothed out and built as a Chevy, probably with the stepside bed. My uncle has a 68 C10 body on a 78 Blazer frame that I've been wanting to replicate for many years.

My bad. I should've known better as I believe the chassis pan is all the same for the 60-63 kits (and maybe even the Chev ones too).

I recently purchased a lot of built-up pickup kits. There were 23 kits in all, in various stages of completeness and broken-ness. From the auction pictures I could tell that in the lot was a GM Action Line pickup (67-72) which is one of my favourite trucks. When the parcel arrived in the mail, I went through it all and noticed that the truck in question seemed like it was a 67-68 Chevrolet due to the way the grille area had extra plastic in it; it looked nothing like the MPC 72 pickup I had, or the AMT 71 GMC Jimmy that was also in the lot. Then I noticed the faint GMC engraving on the front fenders. I thought this was odd as I knew for sure the Jimmy's grille wasn't going to fit on there. I disassembled the truck to prepare for paint stripping. Unfortunately the truck didn't have a hood, tailgate or rear bumper. I was going to have to source those from somewhere (Modelhaus probably). Upon stripping the paint, I noticed that the bed sides have 'Sierra Grande' engraved on them; jackpot! Then I got all the paint off the cab.... Needless to say, those GMC fender emblems are toast. What am I going to do with this basket case? Well, I figure the bed is in great shape, so I'll pick up a newer-issue GMC stepside kit and go from there. As for this cab... the MPC 68 Chevy kits go for so much these days that its probably worth it to smooth this out and build it as a Chevy cab... thoughts?

57-60 and 61-66 cabs are completely different. If you're looking to build a 63 then you'll need a 61-63 kit as a starter. Yes, they're expensive (I just bought one for $51) but they're amazing kits for body detail if you can get an unmolested example. The problem, however, is that the AMT kits are for a longbed unibody. You can cut the bed off, but if you're looking for period accuracy you'll need to do something about the back window (unibody had its own, special window not seen on regular cabs). I'm not too fussy on the accuracy on mine so I'm not worrying about the window...

There isn't much room in the engine bay of these Courier's, that's for sure. For the 302-swapped version I'm building, I had to use an electric fan and put it outside the engine bay as a pusher. I did have to cut up the kit's radiator support to fit a bigger radiator, though.

The only kitted 1960 Ford truck was the F-100, and in short box form only. The kit was only made in 59-60, also, therefore they are hard to find and expensive 52 years later. Ford started equipping F-series trucks with factory four wheel drive in 1959; before then it was sub-contracted out. In order to build an accurate depiction of a 1960 F-250 with four wheel drive, you'll need a 1960 F-100 cab and two beds. Slice and dice the beds to create the 8-foot version if desired, otherwise leave it as is for a 6-foot version (8-foot would be more likely at the time). For a frame you'll need to ditch the kit's one-piece plate and get a frame from a Revell 1956 F-100. Stretch as necessary. You'll need a straight axle for the front as well as leaf springs; the axle in the 1973-1979 F-350 kits or 1979 Bronco kits would work beautifully or you can get another 56 F-100 rear axle and modify it for front axle duty (make sure it has a driver's side pumpkin). Just about any transfer case would do, but if you're using the 73-79 F-350 or Bronco for the front axle the transfer case from that kit would be best. In 1960 available engines were 223ci 6-cylinder (available in resin) or a 272ci or 292ci Y-block (from the 56 F-100 kit). Also, in 1960 a four wheel drive pickup would be a workhorse; manual transmission would be the norm. I hope this helps!