Fat Brian

To make the AMT a standard long bed the rear wheel arches need to be moved forward 6mm and have 3 or 4 mm taken out of their height. I've looked at just transplanting the front wheel arches from a second body because the shape is pretty close. To make the AMT into a short bed you'd have to do the mods above then cut about 30mm out of the cab end of the bed. I would just cut it to the length of a Moebius short bed side if you have one to measure. Plus for either mod you'll need to fix the passenger side inner bed where the tool box is.

My little town had a Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, Jeep, and Eagle dealership.

The new 67 Mustang guts fit in the old 68 Shelby Mustang body. You'll need to cut the inner fenders off the 67 body and add that little flange area where that inner fenders attach to the outer fenders back. You'll just have to track down a 68 annual body. Or take a look at the Revell 68 Mustang kit, it's a big block car.

How committed to those specific years are you? The various versions of the AMT 67 Mustang and the Revell 66 GTO are all very good kits and light-years ahead of what you'll find for a 68 Mustang and 67 GTO.

Steve, are the Wide Ovals the hollow tires or the solid tires from the Baldwin Motion Camaro kit?

I have the Baldwin Motion version, it's molded in white with optional short pipe dumps, a full windshield, and a hard top. The only thing is you'll need to find other rear tires since the kit only has slicks in the rear.

I think they use these tires on a few things, I'm pretty certain I've seen them on a Jeep. These are 1/24 scale.

Does anyone know the diameter of the tires in Jada diecasts?

I would love this grille for 84-86 Ford trucks. Ideally in both scales for the MPC Bronco and the Monogram Bronco and step side pickup.

If you're painting the seats in the first pic I would cover the area with the grommets in bare metal foil, paint them the appropriate color, then gently wet sand the grommeted area until the foil is revealed.

I live just outside Charlotte, NC and the filming of Days of Thunder was a huge deal when I was a kid. The local news was at Charlotte Motor Speedway every day giving updates on what Tom Cruise was doing each day.

Yes, the Fireball kit would be correct for a 73. There's still the issue that Ford didn't make 4x4 Camper Specials until 77 but that is what it is. If you could find a 77 grille the Fireball kit would be correct for an early Camper Special 4x4.

Just for informations sake I wanted to mention that the Fireball kit isn't correct for the AMT 78-79 kit. The Fireball kit replicates the pre-77 1/2 F-250 Highboy with the spring perch on the front differential and divorced transfer case. Here's a link with more info. https://www.motortrend.com/features/what-is-a-ford-highboy/

To be honest this whole build was inspired by those rear tires from the 49 Ford kit. They weren't right for what I was doing with the 49 but they were too nice to languish in the parts box. I happened to see a YouTube video about a speedster kind of similar to this and the slicks would look perfect on it. Then that lead down the 4 banger performance rabbit hole where I found the Rajo head and the Chicago transmission. I have Ardun heads but I didn't want to split up a pair and the Rajo was really simple to approximate, the head is just two thick strips of Evergreen with the edges rounded a bit and spark plugs added and the valve cover is borrowed from an 80s Ford 2.3. The intake is just bits of Evergreen with carbs from the 25 T kit.

It's a surprisingly tough fit considering how common this engine is in the 1:1 cars. I ended up cutting the head off and turning it around to get the intake on the left side where there was more room. The exhaust manifold was also hard because of the extended footwell on the right side. If I had been building a normal track car I would have turned the exhaust out right in front of the footwell and continued it like the stock parts but I wanted to do something else.

I agree, I might look around and see if I can find some small gauge decals. That's one area that Round2 is really lagging behind in that seems like it would be an easy win.

Just a little thing I threw together between other builds. It has an OHV conversion based on a Rajo head and a Chicago auxiliary transmission. The wheels are from the AMT 34 pickup and the tires are from the most recent 49 Ford kit.

I'm calling this one done. I just need to put on the tag and figure out some cargo netting but that may be a minute. This is the Tamiya Lotus 7 with the Cosworth 2.0 yb engine from a Monogram IMSA Mustang. The wheels are from Fujimi and the tires are American Satco and MRC. The cooler and generator are from a diecast diorama set and the bags are military stowage.

There are quite a few on Shapeways. Most are in model railroad scales but most creators will rescale things if you ask them.

It doesn't matter to me whether it's a whole body or panels, especially if it means getting both front end styles.

I'm down for one, though I prefer the bug-eye version. It would be great to also have a set of wide 5 wheels.

Here the last release, it's gotten a bit pricey. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254001878931?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=eSp0Ah0eTMy&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=CNi_i6G9QKy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

That kit has been recently reissued so it's not nearly as hard to find as it used to be.

This one is from the new Revell Land Rover. It had me searching the box trying to see if the exhaust was actually different for left and right hand drive versions.

That looks more like the little trailer that a body that was on a truck chassis. It doesn't look too hard to make out of some quarter round, sheet stock, and some fine strips for detailing.