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Inspiration sometimes comes from the strangest places. I recently moved my rack of big scale kits and re-arranged it. Everything fit nicely except for one box. This kit. So why not just build it. Here it is, a fairly obscure Nichimo 1/16 Shelby Mustang GT500. This was sprayed on November of 2013. Color is Tamiya TS22 over TS21 gold. Ity was clearcoated with TS13 with some gold added and then just a coat of TS13. Many working features on this kit and it was a joy to build. Glad I did it ....finally. More details below pictures. Feel free to comment. For and early Japanese kit...my guess is early 80's...this was a well engineered and great fitting kit. the openiong doors,trunk, and hood all fit and worked to perfection. The glass fit was also amazing. Wheels were accented with Tamiya panel liner. Even the decals were still good. Detail and fir in the back was also good. I substitued the tail pipes with chrome antenna tubing and the licence plate is from extras. Note the working tail lights. One of the more interesting features of this kit was the working suspension front and rear. Not quite prototypically correct but worked and assembled nicely. The big block 428cu in engine all wired and plumbed. Had to add a few extras here as they kinda skimped on detail but what was here was nice. Had the option of doing either the Mustang or Cobra graphics. Ford used the Cobra name as they were out of production to sell the cars. Not many GT500 cars were produced between 1967-69 due a shortage of these engines. These two tiny pieces were seperate and really added to the look . Nice touch. I really liked the front end treatment on this kit. Model came complete with working front headlights, but they were grain-o-wheat. I substituted them for LED's. Thanks for looking.