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Interesting, Kind of has a Figoni or Talbert Lago look to it

Mark, You may have done it before. But send me a list of your needs. I don't have a lot of pieces or parts kits for the early annuals stuff. But you might get lucky

A decent Johan 1960 Plymouth Fury builtup

I agree with you,,,to a point. I know someone who worked high up at Walmart . And its not good. They would force suppliers to constantly lower there wholesale price , to allow Walmart to sell at said product in order to undercut there competion. Then once competition was eliminated they would raise prices, slowly but surely . I wonder how much todays Walmart compares to the Walmart Sam Walton had envisioned. Home Depot, Loews , Tractor supply , they're all basically the same with a different name over the door I sure wish the small local owner hardware store was down the street. They're use to be a family owned shop right up the street from me,,,been there since the late 1800's . At least up till Home Depot and tractor supply moved in. I can assure you ,,the service is no where near the same. Maybe I 'm the odd duck,I prefer to buy on quality and service during and after the sale ,,,,much quicker than the up front price. We needed to buy a new dishwasher last fall. After hitting all the usual suspects. I decided to try my local family owned place . Sure enough he had the exact same model BestBuy had ,,actually had it in stock and $40 cheaper

Same here, although I was born in 1959. I started building models in the mid to late 60s. But then it was hot rods and customs. Stock was boring . I gravitated to funnycars in the later 70s and early 80s I didn't get into the OE replica stock stuff till I was well into my late 20s or early 30s when I got back into kits . When I had kids the models were basically put away for another day. tinkering just a bit every once in a while. I didn't start looking for early annuals OE stock stuff till the past couple of years. Since then I have been on a buying binge trying to fill my want list. Which I almost have completed.,,,,, I'm down to maybe 3 or 4 kits I don't have . And 90% of what I've bought came from Ebay sellers all over the country . So Ebay has been good to me,,,very bad for my wallet. But hey, we only live once so might as well enjoy it . Its real easy to over pay for something listed there, But if your patient you can get some pretty decent deals . I have a max budget for any one kit I am looking for. Obviously some are worth more than others but none are worth getting stupid over. As a general rule. When something brings top dollar,, give it a it a week or 2 and I guarantee there will be another one listed and it rarely brings what the 1st one did .

Great pics

I have been buying sheets straight from the manufacturer. And I keep it in the original envelope, either standing on its side on a shelf, or hanging from the wall . Never laying flat where something can get layed on it . Thats my thought,,,,,I don't do any BMF work for days/weeks sometimes months after laying paint down .( in some cases ,years buts that's another story )

As far as doing window openings or even side trim for that matter. Study the 1/1 . As a rule window trim is 3, sometimes 4 pieces. I do the BMF the same as the 1/1 . And I try to get my seams in the same place as the 1/1 On a B body Mopar as an example. The rear window trim is 4 pieces. Each side extends up and turns and goes half way across the top . So there is a seam in the middle halfway across the top . The lower trim is also 2 pieces with a seam in the middle . So in theory, there will be 4 seams. one on the top dead center, same for the lower . Then there will be a seam in the lower outside corner on each side

Holy cow thats a lot of yellow. But I like it .

Meh, I like the one where he was blasting around San Francisco much better. Although the scenery in this one was top shelf

Amen, And its the primary reason I avoid Walmart like the plague

Not to bad considering this time yesterday this kit was bare plastic. Only thing done prior to yesterday morning was the chassis and interior tub were painted black Built box stock . The engine in the kit isnt accurate anyway ( the actual car has a 273 ) So the hood was glued shut and I made it a curbside build. I painted the entire body gold, then the nose was painted with Tamiya pure white followed by a light coat of Testors white lightning to give it a pearl effect . The rear end of the body was done in a dark metallic red. Then most of the body as fogged with Testors clear red to get the candy apple look to it. Topped off wth Testors wet look clear. Very simple kit to do and REALLY looks killer in person . Pictures really dont show the candy affect to it very well

I know the car/kit very well. And have had one or 2 over the years. At one time I had all 5 of the Cartoon box Johan Plymouth kits. But when a collector offered to buy them all l I couldnt say no. And out of the 5 the 1969 GTX is the one I wouldnt mind having back as an unbuilt if the price was right I still have a bunch of the funnycar stuff from one , just not the kit or the box . I do have a decent builtup of both original issue 69 and 70 Roadrunners Enjoy it , I sure would. Bill

Sooooo, are you going to open it ?????

He's been trying to sell that box and parts for a while now,,,,,,,. I've seen buildups with the box sell for about what he wants just for the scraps IMO, its one of the harder Johan kits to find. Although I think the Johan 1970 Roadrunner is harder to find and usually brings more money. I had an unbuilt maybe 10 years ago and like a fool sold it . I've been looking for a decent builder for the past year or two,,,,, and have been unable to get one in my budget

yayyyyy, it worked. Its Testors clear red over everything but the white The gold starts right about the ft edge of the wheel opening and goes across the hood then blends just over the ft edge of the door. These outside pics really bleach out the colors. But it looks killer in person . Its on the shelf for a few days to air out. The I'll install the door decals, and one or maybe 2 more coats of Testors wet look clear . Then its final assembly.

l car, I NEED to do this one .

Thanks all, This build was always at the top of my to do list after seeing an interior video of Dave Strickler thrashing the daylights out of this car during a pass back in the day. This was my ultimate insperation. and the view of car I wanted to replicate. I think him and Strickler both were GM guys, at least up till about 1963 ,,,,,,But to win sometimes you have to join. And at the time the Hemi ruled the roost . Within a few years,,,they were both back in GM products

Seriously !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made that? Thats it ,,,,,,, all my stuff goes in the trash.

My ultimate goal is replicate the car as it appeared in the movie. Not as its restored today.

Another long ago started project. I wanted to build this kit when it was re-issued a few years back. I started it,,,getting the interior and chassis done ( the engine isn't accurate anyway so I decided to make it a curbside and glue the hood shut) Figuring I would need to use an a air brush to achieve the exterior fade paint work,,,, I shelved it . But when I stumbled onto an article about the car a few weeks ago. I dug it back out to try an idea I had . The actual car was pearl white in the front, followed by the gold,, then candy tangerine that all fades back to what the article states was almost a deep maroon color. Using a box trimmed to just barely cover the body. I used rattle cans . The whole body was painted gold,,,I placed my box / mask over it covering the body up to about halfway up the hood ,,,then the Front end was painted Tamiya pure white with a light coat of Testors white lightning. Then turned it around then a fog coat of Testors metallic red on the back end. Plan is cover the body up to about mid door in Testors Candy red , then clear the whole thing . I've got my fingers crossed it works .

Well, after a paint issue with the hood maybe 3 years ago,,. I lost interest in it and put it away. My resolution this year was finish a lot of stalled projects before starting anything new. This is one of them. Lindberg Ramchargers kit with the AMT 1968 Roadrunner kit giving up its drive-train ( the actual car was a 4 speed but the kit is an auto ) The front spindles were flipped to get the nose out of the weeds. I dont get into a lot of superdetailing , just a MAD supplied pre-wired distributor. I made some header extensions to replicate the 1/1 . Also made a single pot master cylinder to look more like a 1964 should. Decals I think might be Fred Cady ( not 100% sure though) The black wiring underhood was done with a sharpie,,I also drug the sharpie around the window frames to replicate the weatherstripping but you can barely even tell its there. I'm not real happy with the look of the carburetors,,but I looked thru my parts stash and found nothing I liked better. So they'll have to do till I come up with something better Hope you like it,,I sure do . And its another one in the case. ( But looking at these pics I see i forgot to added the headlight lenses and the DODGE emblem decals to the quarter panels. )

I almost put a bid on that car. I have the convertible and and the 60 Buick is one I wouldn't mind having as a hardtop as well . I know a guy who used to have one and that car just looked neat . But they were others listed I wanted more , so I backed off of it ( lucky you I guess ) . I did win the other 3 that I was after though ( it was an expensive weekend )

I looked at the uptop from the current 1/25th scale 72 Olds 442 kit. and it looks dead on the Chevelle top . I've been told the most accurate body 1970 Chevelle kit is the Revell snap kit which I am pretty sure is also 1/25th scale I would use it , cut the top off of it and use the Olds uptop and chassis from it as well I see the decals ARE avail. I just might have to get me a set for a future project Bill Ps, and btw any one know if that car was a real 454 vert, LS5 or LS6 car by chance

I tend to agree with ya. I look for old annuals and in most cases buying a convertible version of the kit usually tends to be a tad cheaper . if it was avail as such .