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I recently found a few car builds in another forum that caught my eye and had me itching to build a car. Rather then go out and buy another kit I realized I had just the kit I would want to build, Revells 1/24 scale Mustang 2+2. A car I actually owned back in the 80's. I started modeling just over 3 years ago because for Christmas that year my girlfriend bought me a Revell Mustang kit. At the time it seemed an odd gift because I hadn't built a model in over 20 years. My guess is she was clueless as to what to get me that year or she was ****** at me and it was an "This'll teach you" kinda gift. Well that spark re-ignited my passion for the plastic. I started this kit back then but it soon fell to the wayside for other more shinier kits and had been languishing on my shelf ever since. Most of what had been done back then was applying paint to lots of various pieces and painting the body with my first air brush. So here we go on my first venture into car building in many many years... History In 1964 when Ford introduced the Mustang, the new car not only conquered America, it also mesmerized the buying public across the world. However,in Germany, Ford ran into a snag when it learned that a pair of German companies already held the copyright to the Mustang name. To the Germans, a Mustang was either a truck or a small motorbike. Eyeing the lucrative German market, especially with so many American soldiers stationed there, Ford swerved around the copyright issue by giving the Germany-bound Mustangs a new name, calling it simply "T-5," which was the Ford code-word for the Mustang during its development. The seemingly simple fix for the problem led to the production of some very unique components. Because the Mustang name couldn't appear anywhere on the car, Ford tooled up gas caps and steering-wheel horn buttons with the embossed "Ford," but not "Mustang" like the American versions. Fenders had to be punched for installation of the special "T-5" emblems. Even owner's manuals had to be printed without the Mustang name. Most came with kilometer-per-hour speedometers instead of miles-per-hour, and suspension upgrades--like the stiffer "export brace" in place of the typical flimsy shock-tower-to-cowl braces--were added to accommodate therough European roads. The Kit I left it a bit of disarray The body had one cote of red acrylic applied but needs to be redone This was caused by one of the tires getting stuck to the hood. I bought a Photo etch set for it along with an engine kit. I had already painted a lot of the parts but seeing how this was the very first kit I started when I got back into the hobby I will be going back and cleaning up and or redoing some of them again. One of the first things I need to do is remove the molded in pony badge and mustang lettering. I will need to spray this with some primer to see how well I did in the sanding.