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All the real thin strips along the body lines made BMF work very tedious and probably took me about 3 - 4 hours , I'm just glad it's done. I thought about opening the hood to add in an engine , then adding the chassis from the newer 1958 Fury for better detail,,,,,,,,, But there just isn't enough hours in the day for me. I run my own business , and with a house, wife, 2 kids - model bench time is limited so I decided to leave it as a curbside. It's probably taken me 3 or 4 months so far just to get to this point. I build for myself thus I don't need a full on detailed replica. Once it's done and on my shelf you can't see an engine anyway. Plus I have my doubts anyone but me , outside of here, along with my family and friends will ever see it anyway.

While watching football yesterday I finally got the BMF and my tools out to get to work on this one,,, as I've been dreading it for some time. With all the trim on this car it was not a simple task to do ,,,But at least now it's done . This all started and I got the idea from another members build ( caine440) to do a 1961 Ramchargers car. I knew there were resin versions avail but i prefer to use stryene whenever I can if the price is close to each other. Once I stumbed onto a tan with pea green interior 80's re-issue on ebay several months back . I got the idea in my head I couldn't get out even with several other projects in the works . So here is where it's at as of this weekend, I've located the decals and with no issues it should be done by Christmas. Rolling stock will be the steel rims from the revell T-Bolt kit, with the correct 7" slicks from the parts box . Comments 'good and bad' are always welcome.

Take care of my family then Retire and tinker with my new car collection

I just went thru my pics on this PC and I got nothing. If I get time I'll see if I have anything in print.

It's well docomented, that end IS near. Please send all old model kits to me for,,,,a proper disposal.

Couple more to keep this running maybe ? Original issue builtups done many years ago.

AMT 1965 Hemi Under Glass

Lindberg 1964 Dodge

Pretty cool , and it gives me an idea for a future project.

Impressive is an understatement. I like this one A LOT. I used to work for a local shop that specialized in the restoring the brass era cars.,,,,and You nailed the look on this one to a T . I followed along on the build thread and it has me looking for one of these kits do for later on.

Duplicolor has a medium blue thats reasonably close to B5 It's called Bahama Blue metallic. here is my ( one of many ) stalled project painted with it.

buy approx $40 worth of kits to get 4 tires, problem with this thinking is I have no use what so ever for the remainder of said mustang kit Thanks but I'll pass anyone bought one or several with plans to not use the polyglas tires , pm me . I could use several sets of the F60-15's and maybe even a few of the L60-15's

So the way I understand it, the only thing new about this one ,,are the tires ?

Not here yet, but just bought 3 more of these . that should give me maybe an even 10 or so

I would sure gladly take the 2 white junkers in the upper left corner of that picture off your hands ( 1962 Dodge and 1962 Plymouth )

IMO, THIS is scratch built - pure and simple. And I am in awe everytime I ck updates http://www.modelcars...opic=53895&st=0

As far as a factory stock type build,. I think the one and only 1/25th scale is the original issue . But I'm not a pontiac guy so I could be wrong. If there is, I would like to have one and builders pop up on ebay from time to time . They are not of my must have list yet so I haven't been looking to hard . I just did a search and found this if it's of interest ( I'm just passing it on - as it's not mine nor do I know the seller ) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-MPC-1969-Pontiac-GTO-Funny-Car-3-in-1-Model-Car-Kit-NIB-/281025001168?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item416e6536d0 I do know the 1970 GTO was re-issued( I have one here) and the re-issued 1972 GTO is super easy to come up wit

personally I try make everything in house if I can. ( I tend to be something of a tightwad ) my problem has been being able to see the dist cap to drill it, having stuck the mini drill into my finger a few times,,,,,,,,I started buying the done MAD dist

Agreed I watch for them regularly and have bought a few in the past several months . Most recent was a 1933 Imperial kit I REALLY like the early cars.

Love it. Very well done . I've become a huge fan of the early cars (1935 and prior) and same here, have been buying them up as funds allow

Well done, I really really like this one

I never even thought about that one, even any of the Polar Lights chassis could be a good fit. The problem with any of them besides the Johan kit is going to be interior tin choices that fit the MK challenger body with a reasonable amount of work Either way, to the OP, my apologies for the hijak, I think it looks great and would have no problems putting it on my shelf. If I may, what did you use for the body color ? as a general rule the Model King Challenger is accurate for builds representing cars from approx 1972 thru 1974 ish with the Johan more accurate for 1970 thru approx 1972 ish all depending on individual teams and funding determined how often they updated / changed rides

I believe the Model King GTO and the Cougar are close if not one and the same But, even though I have several of each I don't have one handy right now to compare, but from what I do know it would be closer than the MK challenger chassis ps, Johan challengers are all over Ebay ( I just bought 3 myself ) typically they run in the $25-$35 range

Is the Bighorn kit version readily avail today ? friend of mine has 2 or 3 of them

Not anymore.but I've had a bunch over the years . Now, I work on the full size versions for other people. ( I work for myself ) Currently have a 1968 Charger R/T , a 1969 Charger R/T in the shop , with a 1970 Challenger Rt/SE 440 sixpack car coming in this weekend . And I am supposed to be getting a 1951 Mercury M1 pickup coming in this winter. Finished a 1970 Roadrunner 440 six barrel and a 1970 Hemi AAR Cuda last year for customers. few pics here http://www.facebook.com/pages/AM-High-Tech-Automotive/408528952539495