60 Continental

[Pat Minarick]

Anyone have on of these built?

[Ron Hamilton]

You mean something like this?

 

I bought it this way, and I plan to strip it, and refinish it in Black, with a Black and white interior. Other than the red Sun Visors and the silver accents, it is unpainted and un-sanded, and it's all there.

[Pat Minarick]

1 hour ago, Ron Hamilton said:

You mean something like this?

 

I bought it this way, and I plan to strip it, and refinish it in Black, with a Black and white interior. Other than the red Sun Visors and the silver accents, it is unpainted and un-sanded, and it's all there.

 I think mine is the ugly twin. Just trying to decide what to do with it. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

I've had several of them, but haven't built one yet.

I recently traded off a pair of convertibles, but I still have a nice hard top to build.

It keeps popping up in the front of my "to do" list, but it always seems to wind up taking a back seat to some other project.

 

Steve

 

 

[gtx6970]

Built my 60  and have a clean 59 to do as well

[Pat Minarick]

5 minutes ago, gtx6970 said:

Built my 60  and have a clean 59 to do as well

I thought it was a really ugly car . But yours looks really good.  Not so bad looking after all,  I don't think I've ever seen one real or model. 

[Pat Minarick]

1 hour ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I've had several of them, but haven't built one yet.

I recently traded off a pair of convertibles, but I still have a nice hard top to build.

It keeps popping up in the front of my "to do" list, but it always seems to wind up taking a back seat to some other project.

 

Steve

 

 

Really thinking about cutting it up and using a different roof.

[StevenGuthmiller]

14 minutes ago, Pat Minarick said:

Really thinking about cutting it up and using a different roof.

Well, than you don't want my advice.

I am no fan of cutting up rare vintage kits.

 

 

Steve

[Pat Minarick]

How rare is it? It's has lots of bad glue marks in the rear quarters .

[gtx6970]

1 hour ago, Pat Minarick said:

I thought it was a really ugly car . But yours looks really good.  Not so bad looking after all,  I don't think I've ever seen one real or model. 

I used to think the same thing,,,untill I saw this picture of the 1/1

I'll be honest Im not a Ford fan by any means. But I love the  big chrome laden land yachts of any marque.

[High octane]

I have a really clean and almost mint '59 Continental convertible kit and a very mint '60 Continental convertible in my stash. The '59 is to remind me that my very first AMT kit was the Continental and the '60 I'll probably end up trading/selling it as I have a lot more kits I'd rather build first.

[ewetwo]

Beautiful car.

[StevenGuthmiller]

5 hours ago, Pat Minarick said:

How rare is it? It's has lots of bad glue marks in the rear quarters .

Well, it's not the most difficult to find of the AMT annuals, but it's getting rarer every day, and I think we would all agree, it's never coming back!

 

Steve

 

[Pat Minarick]

44 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Well, it's not the most difficult to find of the AMT annuals, but it's getting rarer every day, and I think we would all agree, it's never coming back!

 

Steve

 

Don't worry to much , chances are I will never do anything to it.  I don't have all of the pieces.  It's just got some really bad damage to the rear quarters,  someone used a ton of glue putting on the fender skirts.

[StevenGuthmiller]

9 minutes ago, Pat Minarick said:

Don't worry to much , chances are I will never do anything to it.  I don't have all of the pieces.  It's just got some really bad damage to the rear quarters,  someone used a ton of glue putting on the fender skirts.

I don't want to discourage you from doing whatever you choose with it.

After all, it is your model.

A lot of guys will have no issues with cutting up a vintage kit, and I see no problems with it either, especially if it's damaged beyond the point of being able to be restored.

I just see these kits as historical artifacts that deserve to be restored if at all possible.

A good number of these will never be reissued and will almost certainly never be created as a new kit, so I just personally feel that they should be given every opportunity to live again.

If that means that a damaged or incomplete kit should get a second chance as a custom, that is certainly better than sitting in a box until the second coming, or winding up in a land fill.

 

 

Steve

[Pat Minarick]

27 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I don't want to discourage you from doing whatever you choose with it.

After all, it is your model.

A lot of guys will have no issues with cutting up a vintage kit, and I see no problems with it either, especially if it's damaged beyond the point of being able to be restored.

I just see these kits as historical artifacts that deserve to be restored if at all possible.

A good number of these will never be reissued and will almost certainly never be created as a new kit, so I just personally feel that they should be given every opportunity to live again.

If that means that a damaged or incomplete kit should get a second chance as a custom, that is certainly better than sitting in a box until the second coming, or winding up in a land fill.

 

 

Steve

Believe me your not , I have about 25 kits in progress, and another 700 or so in waiting.

[Mark]

If you want a custom Continental, check out Jimmy Flintstone's website.  He's got one, maybe two of them with a different roof already grafted on.  Hang on to the stock one, either to rebuild or trade.