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I’ve had it in my head for a while to do the MPC Plymouth Volaré with an AMT 1971 duster, chassis, suspension and drivetrain. it was never a question. I definitely wanted to put fireball model works Steelies on the car. It all started by making sure that the chassis line up underneath the Volaré body. Of course it pretty much lined up, but the interior was a problem. I had to cut a hole in the interior tub of the Volaré to fit the duster chassis. This was really fun and I really do mean it. I’m not being sarcastic. Seeing how the Volaré comes with no real detail in the engine bay, I decided to use the Duster’s engine bay. Also, because this was going to be a quick build just to see if the chassis would fit this model I decided to use the drivetrain from the Duster. I was quite impressed myself when I was able to get the engine bay to lineup under the.Volaré body. Paint: I have a hard time to decide what color to paint this thing I wanted it to be in the beginning just the kind of beater run around old grandma‘s car that was turned into a hot rod. I wanted it to be yellow like a banana and maybe have some primer spots or something like that. I decided to use craft acrylic paint for the color. I started with a banana yellow, and mixed in some other colors to try and shade it a little more pea green. However, I overshot the mark and added one too many drops of green to the mix and that is how we wound up with this color. 😂 Now I didn’t want it to be a show winning paint job, but rather a worn and faded look. I primed it with red oxide primer so I can have some primer and surface rest spots come through. I dig it. 😎👍🏾 Interior: I am pretty proud of the interior. As I said, I cut a hole in the floor of the. Volaré to accommodate the floor pan incorporated into the duster chassis. Only a slight modification or rounding to the tunnel in the middle of the rear seat was needed to make it fit. The dusters bucket seats were used along with its shifter. I added a few extra little details, like some reading material, a tarp, a roadkill sticker, and a gas brake and clutch pedal. I also noticed that for Volarés head shoulder seatbelts. Once I saw this, I had to put it into this car. I would’ve been mad later on if it wasn’t in there. I use some sheet plastic and cut slivers so I could slide some ribbon through it. Then I hung it from the roof of the car behind the drivers and passenger seat. I had a lot of fun with this. Engine: The engine is out of the AMT 1971 duster kit. My original idea was to put a 440 into this one, but like I said, I wanted this to be quick and to see if the duster chassis would fit this car. The motor is basically straight out of the box. I did add some 3-D printed parts such as the air cleaner and the distributor. I used Grandpa Mark‘s hobbies method of wiring the distributor. Which is going from the heads back to the distributor using Protech wiring. I decided to also do my valve covers in chrome. The whole engine has a used look because I used red oxide primer under a custom mixed orange paint that I airbrushed onto the engine. I like it. Exhaust: The exhaust is straight out of the box from the duster as well, but I changed the tailpipes. I didn’t want to see the duster exhaust tips coming out of the back of this car. I wanted straight tail pipes coming out of the back. Body: I’ve done this kit once before as a pro touring car but this time I wanted to do it a little more like an every day car. A daily driver turned weekend street machine run around play car. The first thing I did was fill in the headliner and remove lines from the roof. As you can see in the pictures below, it takes quite a bit to remove the t-tops. I like the smooth roof. At the time of this riding, the car is about 98% done. Feel free to take a look at the pictures and let me know what you think. Thank you for following. Have a great day!

I had this AMT 1970 Chevy Impala kit stashed away a couple years at least. I was 100% sure I was going to do it as a lowrider, but I was not sure of the direction I wanted to go. I was holding out until I could get ahold of some more appropriately sized spokes. The Pegasus gold D’s are just a little too BIG for a lowrider (in my opinion.) Most of my cars have a static stance…meaning I haven’t built one that actually raises and lowers since the early 2000’s. So, with this one I locked it in low down…as if the driver let all the cylinders compress after they parked it. Anyway, I wanted to do a nice street cruising old school with murals. After I saw a YouTube video with a red metallic 69 Impala lowrider, I knew the color I wanted, and what direction I wanted to go. All of my builds have a name… or a theme. I built a lowrider dedicated to my niece in 2022, so I decided to do this one dedicated to rest of my family. My wife came up with the name, “Family Blood” because of the color and it includes my blood…my family in the side murals. My wife, an AMAZING artist, designed ALL of the roof and hood patterns and the murals on the rear quarter panels. The build features Showcase Hobbies fender skirts, Iceman Collections wire wheels, and DawnSmithArt designed decals over Tamiya Metallic red and Aluminum paint (clear coated with DupliColor 1k clear) Thanks for checking this out! Keep sharing your amazing work too fellow builders! ???

I just saw a post by another user here, jdhog, who was inspired by the same truck as I was. This was my second attempt at making a similar truck to the one I found on the internet/Youtube, so I named it “Take II.” It was made using a combination of the 78 MPC D100 and the Lil Red Express short bed step side kit (chassis) I found a Missing Link D100 resin short bed and used it as a template to cut down the MPC long bed. For reference, or to follow the build go to the KBCC Garage YouTube channel! Thanks jdhog for sharing your progress! I can’t wait to see how your project turns out! That color matching is amazing!