Your Advice / Comments on Building a '65 Ford Cobra & a Ford GT ...

[Bill Anderson]

Hi,

With the addition of the wheels, I will have completed a '68 Dodge R/T, a fairly complicated model.  My next one is a rather easy '49 Ford.  After that, I will consider which of two kits to do next.  Sitting on the shelf is a Revell '65 Cobra 427 (#07708) and a Tamiya Ford GT (#346).  Both kits appear formidable, but the Tamiya appears to be the most complicated / difficult.  Obviously, my question is, what do you (who have worked these) have to say about them, especially the challenges of construction. 

Thank you all so much...I'll be 80 in May and I need to get these done and on display while I can still reasonably control the ol digits....... 

[oldcarfan]

I haven't built the Tamiya GT, but the Cobra builds up pretty easily. The only issue I ran into with mine was the frame had a little bit of a twist in it. Some hot water resolved it. It's a generic Cobra and doesn't represent a particular car, so you can build it any way you want. I put a late model 5.0 and modern tires on mine to make it a fiberglass kit car.

[Bill Anderson]

After finishing the '68 Dodge R/T, I cleared the work table to figure out what to do next.  In degree of difficulty, it looks like the '49 Ford, Cobra, and Ford GT in that order of difficulty.  Ha, like "The Three Bears", the '49 Ford looks easy, the Ford GT looks really difficult, and the Cobra looks "just right" (almost).....