Fat Brian

The orange car is the Airfix kit, it has the non-stock spoiler.

That was my understanding too, the finished car was going to be a different color with different wheels.

That's pretty much the jist of it, he said "Eleanor" in the videos so he was "profiting from her intellectual property" so they made him relinquish the car. It's a beautiful car but F*** T*** B****. Yeah, a 71-73 hero car would have been really cool.

You have to be careful calling something an "Eleanor" car though. That name has been copyrighted by a company that does complete car builds. A youtube channel was using an "Eleanor" body kit to basically rebody a 2010ish Mustang with 67 sheet metal and the fiberglass kit. The company found out and threatened them and ended up taking the car.

For reference, the Airfix kit has vents in the hood and a whaletail-esque spoiler.

I only ever got to see two of my dad's completed builds, he'd gotten rid of the rest by the time I came along. He found this one his parents attic when I was 10 or 11 along with a bunch of old Pactra paints. He described it to me as a moonshine running car complete with external drain taps on the passenger side. Being a child I destroyed the original and didn't know enough about cars to know what kind of car it actually was. I bought the reissue of the 65 Fairlane knowing it wasn't that great but wanting to see if there was anything useful in the kit. Upon examining the contents they started to look very familiar, I'm certain this is the kit he used for this build. So, I decided to recreate his build as it was given to me almost 30 years. Nothing fancy, built like a teenager would have done back when this kit was first released. The only parts from a different kit are the high riser intake and velocity stacks from the AMT 68 Shelby Mustang.

Yep, I've used one a few years ago but never noticed a big difference in my sleep. I just did another sleep study last month at the request of my lung doc. In the last six months I've developed shortness of breath which as someone who never smoked is a bit of a kick in the pants. This time I couldn't get enough air through any type of mask and had a pretty severe panic attack trying to wear the stupid thing. I haven't seen my doc since the test, I don't know what I'm going to pursue. I sleep in my recliner most nights due to back pain so even if I had a cpap in the bedroom I'd rarely use it.

I imagine the demands on the axle are a bit different, NASCAR racing probably doesn't have near the shock loads on the axle as drag racing does.

Thank you guys for giving me some options.

I'm looking for these hubcaps to build a replica of my dad's Pacer. Even if I can get close it will be fine.

The one from some versions of the Revell 69 Nova is very good and some kit breakers are selling just the engine on ebay. There is also a more stock one with an automatic transmission in the AMT 72 Chevy truck.

These pictures posted by Casey in another thread about the AMT 71 Mustang seem to show that they engraved the new bumper and grille where that side of the rollbar lived. This is the parts layout of the James Bond car and the new boxing of the 71 with the new bumper circled. Then here is the parts layout of the MPC 73 Mustang. Look at the same place on the tooling and you'll see the now missing rollbar parts.

Yeah, mating the convertible windshield frame to the hardtop probably won't give it the right look. There also used to be a resin body someone was making that might be worth tracking down. This project hasn't come high enough on the list to really start serious planning yet.

Yeah, I've got an AMT Monte Carlo body I'm going to borrow the top from. I'm just trying to decide if I want to use the convertible A pillars or try to harvest the entire greenhouse from the Monte.

Okay, I got the 7 up on its wheels this morning. It ended up a little higher than I had intended to clear the tires, it's got about six inches of lift in the rear. I wanted to keep the fenders as stock as possible since if I had removed them I'd have to replace them with something else some how.

Yeah, the price on these is a bit ridiculous. I mean, they were able to sell a kit with brand new tooling for around $60. I don't know how these reissue kits can possibly be more expensive than an all new kit.

Fireball makes a set, they're very good quality.

I don't care for the sportsroof body so I'm probably not going to get one of these. Honestly, I don't really like any GM car on this platform between 68 and 72 with the only exceptions being the 70 Buick GS and the formal top Cutlasses.

I agree that it seems like less work to have made a formal top but I guess they figured there were more variations of a sportsroof they could offer.

Just to confirm about whether the 71 Olds is a fastback or formal top here is a picture of the fastback test shot posted by James (niteowl7710) in a thread he started.

This was my question as well. I had hoped for a formal top but typing "71 442 coupe" into the Google machine only brought up fastback cars.

There are also promo versions of the long bed that go for pretty cheap if you don't mind curbside.

Here are the 5 tons from Ron's Shapeways store. They're setup for use in a monster truck but it would take much to remove the steering bits. These were $24 plus shipping.

I forgot about those decals, wow... I may still have a set of the purple decals. Both sets are definitely of their era.

It's only bad if you expect more out of it than what it is. I think the overall fit of the parts is pretty good, or at least it was when I built one like 25 years ago. There's one really important part to get right or the thing won't sit level to save your life. The body shell and firewall need to be dead straight when you glue them together and the two pieces that are the front of the frame need to be cleaned up well along with the holes in the firewall so they sit nice a parallel. If those front frame pieces get out of whack the front axle won't sit level. It's not hard, it's just something to be mindful of.