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Did manage to get a few minutes to mess with this one the past few weeks . Got the body sitting on the chassis for the 1st time just to get a feel for the stance. With all the issues this has caused I decided to just use the kits tires and wheels ( every picture I've found of this car it used steel wheels on the back ) Never in my life have I had a model kit fight me like this one has from the word go. From paint issues, decal issues and me putting a nasty knick in the drivers side quarter panel. I decided I better get it done before it ended up in the parts pile. As soon as the engine wiring is done, this one will be off the shelf , sooner the better.

I looked thru my files and this is the best picture I have to show shine. this is straight out of the can with no sanding or polishing of any kind. I don't really go for the super slick mile deep clear look . You can see a nice reflection in the top of the ft fenders I can try to get a better picture if desired .

Seems like the we're all getting old. and the great ones from our time are passing on. I had the pleasure to see the Manta Ray in person last year while on tour,, When your consider the time frame and the tools / technology avail back then , that car is simply amazing to look at over and over and over. I took a bunch of pictures of it

Mind if I ask how your planing to mount the body to the chassis.? I have been thinking about this car for some time so you definitly have my interest

just a google image I found real quick. I get mine at my local auto paint supply house. I think it runs about $20 a can and it's a single stage urethane topcoat. I've not tried to sand and polish it out but I don't think it would be a problem I've used it on testors paints and duplicolor sprays , The only one I've had issues with was on a Polar lights 1965 Dodge . It has some very slightly crazing in it, And I'm not sure if it's in the color coat or the plastic. It happened twice on the exact same car. so my gutt tells me it's the kits materials . ps, I tried the Duplicolor clear and didn't care much for it . It didn't give me as much of a shine as the U pol brand did . But part of me thinks it ' might ' have been the weather . Either way , I've used this on at least a dozen builds with essentially no issues to date. 3 of them are white cars

This car was painted Duplicolor white and UPOL clear. Close to a year ago now and it doesn't look any different today all rattle cans btw

Whats the best / most accurate ( yet somewhat readily avail ) chassis suspension to use on one of these trucks ? doesn't have to be 100% dead on,,,, just reasonably close . And 2 wheel drive with a dually rear axle if at all possibile

We think alike, Up until the T bolts arrival I rarely bought anything Revell made ( bad memories of the over complicated opening doors and such from Revell kits as a kid ) I probably have close to a dozen of them between the Tasca Ford and Gas Ronda cars.

Thats fine for existing and/or a previous customer base , but imo if offers nothing for new or potentially new customers something to look at to see if the item is what they want . Pictures go a LOOOOONG way in a products success,,,,, or not .

Whats the fun in that ? it wouldn't be modeling if one didn't have to think about it a bit. I did pick up a 60 Starliner chassis recently on a trade so this project is in the near future, just haven't decided if i'll do a 63 or a 64 ( got a couple of each ) pm replied btw

Bet your a barrel of fun at parties

Agreed, If you look at the black hood and side stripe treatments between the 2 yellow cars shown. plus the blacked out windows,, the one screams clay mockup. Plus if you lighten the picture you can see supports just in ft of the right ft wheel and just inboard of the right rear wheel . Me personally never cared much for the design, but I'm not a ford guy either . But I always thought it looked like a Datsun 240Z and a torino mated. I've seen the resin bodies over the years and thought about building one just for the uniquness of it , but thats as far as it's ever gone. If there was plastic body kit of one, maybe .

agreed 100%

I assume this car was never kit in stryene, and is only avail in resin ? If so who and where can I get one. I think Modelhaus used to make one but I don't think it's on there current product list. I want to do a couple different drag cars and they only thing I've been able to find out is resin only

The few pictures I have of this car show missing ft inner fenders and tube bars in there place. with a pretty radically cut up radiator support and aluminum radiator . Thats not accurate for how this was was built originally was it ? ps, I assume this is the revell kit correct ?

Here is what it looks like. I plan to replicate an actual car I got to work on a few years back.

I know it depicts it on the box art but don't know if accurate ft end parts are included to do it. I know for a fact the trunklid is stock in the kit with no parts to accurately depict the 1/1 car. IMO the paint schemes would be the hardest part to duplicate on all of them

I just make my own when needed

Looks killer so far. ps, mental note remove door handles and rocker mldgs when I do mine . Glad you mentioned that. Same here, I have had similar issues with several Slixx sheets lately. But all were either older sheets or sheets bought thru secondary outlets. So the last few sets I have bought directly from Slixx in hopes to avoid issues

To the best of my knowledge he does NOT own the RTS Cuda I've thought about attempting all of the cars in 1/25th scale but the 71 Roadrunner and 70 Duster might be a tad bit beyond my skills and/or concentration level I don't think the 70 Roadrunner would be all that hard to do , the grille is avail in the original Johan release ( i have a couple of the grilles but only the one builtup of the car and I already have plans for it )

Same here. I have been on a pre-war cars kick lately. and I just might have to add this one to the stack. I just picked up an Heller kit of an early 30's Alfa Romeo Zagato and it is extremly close to the ft of the line. I plan to start it late this summer or early fall at the latest ( maybe sooner if I can clear the bench ) ps, does this kit have whitewall tires or all black ?

Just curious,is it going to have decals to do both the red and the white versions on Grumpy's car ?

I haven't bought much lately that is a current kit. So most of my purchases in the past 12-18 months is online ( 90% of which has been Ebay ) I do have a Micheals and a Hobby Lobby close by but neither carry much modeling wise., kits or supplies Otherwise I only have one actual hobby shop , but he is more into RC stuff . We've talked and he is willing to listen and add in model kits , he just doesn't want to have thousands of dollars invested in slow moving store stock

One of my favorites thats been posted here . Actually , This build is the one that inspired me to build my Beswick car. And my interior didn't come nearly as nice as this.

Just a nasty cold wet dreary weekend . It was decent saturday, but yesterday and today highs in the low 60's , a breezey and rainy past couple of days ==== just plain blah