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Not sure that I have a 'Holy Grail' any more. But really close to one is my builtup MPC 1968 Color Me Gone Charger funnycar (not for sale either ) Followed real close by a Johan 1969 GTX I've had my share of the mint unbuilt stuff , Then one day I started adding up the investment I had in them and quietly started selling them off one by one . I have a few mint unbuilts that will stay with me as long as I'm here. They are kits I remember building as a kid back then . An MPC Barry Setzer Vega , Soapy Sales Challenger, Judy Lilly 1969 Barracuda..... I have builders of them all as well Then a few re-issues came out to do some others from my youth like the Badman 55 Chevy, the MPC 1/20th Scale McLAREN MK8a , and the MPC LA Dart

Ditto

Height as well. E 's are the shortest and L 's are the tallest , theres very little from one to the other, but if you measure an E60 to a L60 it gets very noticable It's a shame this kit doesn't come the correct G 60 or F60 - 15's

Steve Juliano does own the RTS duster mentioned. He found it in a long term parking garge in Detroit area. I do not believe he owns or has ever owned the RTS Cuda Or the Sonic Cuda

I've got these 2

Promo kits are recent ( past 15 years or so ) attempts from the manufacture to get more mileage out of the tooling. simply put the un-assembled promo in a different box with a different label,,,,,, whalla it now caters to the model builders crowd as opposed to the promo collector community. As mentioned some promos will barely bring $5 - $10 range, these are either seriously damaged older original promos but most are recent issues ( think mid 90's and newer ) simply because the market is flooded with them . SOME promos will bring some serious coin, a 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T convertible promo as an example. I collect Mopar promos from the 60's thru early 70s time frame and even the above is WAAAAAAY out of my reach

I consider it good if I just get to work on a model in a month, let alone finish one ( or more) a month

I use a urethane over everthing ( it's the rattle cans from UPOL ) Haven't had a problem yet and I've used it on about 10 bodies I have painted in waiting

You mean actually finish more than one per year ? I've finished 3 cars this year, one was start to finish this year. Yes just one. the other 2 were painted/started in the late 90's I've got probably 15 started does that count ?

I used the Duplicolor chrome and it simulates polished aluminum real well ( sprayed right out of the can )

I took a builtup Ramchargers Dart funnycar body and combined it with a builtup LA Dart body to make my own ( still sits unfinihsed though ) I'll donate it out if someone reputable wants to make a copy of it

Chuck, just so I'm not draging this post any farther off course to the OP. PM sent

44 The Fred Cady sheet is for the 1966 - 1967 Plymouth B body cars. Sheet # is 449 I have both the Cady sheet as well as a sheet from Special App to do the 1971 Cuda which is very different from the 72-73 Cuda

Here are 2 more , and you count me in for a sheet if you decide to do the decals for this car . ps, the 1973 Duster was painted almost identically.

If Caine doesn't mind the hijak I'll go thru my pictures and see what I have and post them here Do you need a straight on side shot ?

Shown,,,it's the 1970 season version. I 'think' the decals are avail for this car( not 100% sure though) The one with the lighter yellow side panels was the 1971 car

more those are for the 1971 car

PS, the only decals I know that are readily avail are the Sox and Martin car as well as the Motown Missle car. If there are others, someone let me know as I have several old MPC builders in the boxes put away

I save any and every picture I find of Old drag cars, especially Mopar stuff .

I will follow along with this one as well. I have one in the stash for that sometime in the future build.

There are several ebay sellers that use Payapl. Jim Heller and Raceminded are the 2 that I use most

Roger, this is not good news and I am sorry to hear. and I guess I got lucky with my most reent order and will have to double guess myself on any future orders

I'll have to look into that one( I don't have one her to ck) Thanks

I thnak you. Reason I asked was 1976 is slightly out of the timeline I concentrate on and if I needed to buy a resin body , I would probably pass on this one. But if I can use it on a revell kit I already have, it might push me to get this one for later use

I currently have one large display case. 5' tall by 4.5' wide with sliding glass doors. There are 6 or 7 glass shelves inside( case is full by the way ) Then I have a standup curiuo cabinet in the family room ( it matches the other wood TV stand and Shelves in the same room ) It's almost full . I've sold a few but ended up regretting that part,,,,,, so from now on all will stay with me. So I parring down on my interests / subject matter to build, Which will be all drag cars from the sixties to early seventies, with some factory stock stuff thrown in for good measure