My '73 mustang competition winner

[StockBoresMe]

A close personal friend of mine saw the 1st kit I've made in years. The foose fd100 pickup. He then challenged me to a buildoff. What he didn't know is i had bigger plans for the foose kit and due to some paint malfunctioning I ditched the silver idea i had and sprayed it all flat white to hide the mess up and slapped it together with very little detail just to get it over with. So off to hobby lobby we went both coming home with a 73 stang kit and both with a different shade of purple as a base color ( the wives decided they wanted to take part and they picked the colors blindly to us) So I took my time and let my imagination run wild and came up with this..... He wouldnt even let me post pics of both cars to let you guys vote on. He just said I won hands down and ordered the prize kit of my choice off hobbylinc and in a couple more days I'll be dipping into the amt rerelease VW Sciroccocustom made lift off air cleaner based off a 1937 ford i picked up because the cleaner options in the kit wouldnt work for my vision. Also my 1st time using a distributor wiring kitcustom made NASCAR styled spoiler using a speedway gas station rewards card its hard to see but the big end of the blue stripe is actually 2 different shades of blueove

[StockBoresMe]

It appears no one likes my 'stang lol

[Jantrix]

You did a great job with a famously lousy kit. Nice work.

[webestang]

I really like the paint. And for sure not the greatest kit ever made but you did a good job with it! 

[StockBoresMe]

Lousy indeed.lots of pitted areas on the body. Terrible interior tub fitment. Couldn't get any sets of wheels to fit underneath it decently. Don't even getme started on the 429 fitment. 

[FabbricaP]

Wow great job on the body paint.

[vamach1]

I can perhaps understand a Boss 429 in a drag version of this kit but given that the largest engine you could get in 1973 was a 351C pretty much tells you the model companies were about marketing and fantasy versus making something close to a stock version.  These kits (AMT and MPC) never had Magnum 500 wheels, the 73 only aluminum slot wheels, a 351C, a ram air plenum, shock tower braces, an accurate dual or single exhaust, an automatic trans.  However, you did get non factory rear window louvers and a incorrect 428 engine from the 69/70 kits.

Edited September 14, 2017 by vamach1
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[spike morelli]

Hey Vamach1, It looks like you have a yellow Mach 1, I have one too, a Medium Yellow gold '71 Mach 1 !

[slusher]

Super nice Mustang!!

[1930fordpickup]

Anthony the Stang looks good to me. 

[vamach1]

Hey Vamach1, It looks like you have a yellow Mach 1, I have one too, a Medium Yellow gold '71 Mach 1 !

Sweet.  I was going for the yellow Gold metallic on this one.  The 1:1 is medium bright yellow.