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This arrived today. Have a real one in the garage so I will try and build a replica of it.

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That Honda Trail 70 sure brings brings back memories ?

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Before-  See the area I cut out as marked.  It comes to 5 scale inches.

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It cuts clean between any complicated detail.  Note that this one was my test chassis, from an old junker.

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Here it is from the top. I pretty much just pinned it together inside the frame rails with some brass pegs.  Note that the wheel wells were cut out for the larger tires, but would be present on your stock chassis.

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And here's a '63 Valiant sitting on that chassis. The Valiant is a curbsider and I had to cut the hood off.  The engine bay from the Duster fits right in there. As a former owner of a lot of these A bodies, there are some shape differences, but most folks would never see that especially once an engine is sitting in there.    After this experiment, I've had my eye out for cheap Duster kits at shows. Some guys like to use the Revell 68-69 Dart chassis, I haven't tried that one yet.

 

I did the same thing on my '64 Valiant Signet Hardtop.

 

 

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Some very careful cutting and pasting gave me one of my favorite models.

One of these days, I want to try the Revell '68-69 Dart Chassis, running gear, and underhood area under an AMT/MPC '67-'69 Barracuda, and maybe modify one of the LA Dart Swinger Funny Cars into a Replica Stock Swinger 340.

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Found these on eBay cheap:

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They're 1/28 scale WWI aircraft spoke wheels. I want to build some sort of homebuilt '20s speedster either from a Model T or the Beverly Hillbillies '21 Olds, and these might do the trick for the accessory wire wheels some of them had. At 14.90mm diameter the size is good and the style looks pretty close.

Also finally picked up some Alclad chrome the other day; here we go, folks...

Edit: Just trimmed the wheels from their backing and checked the fit, and it looks like they will work better with Model T rims and tires. I have an unbuilt AMT '23 T Budweiser van as a starting point, so off to the research pile...

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I've been wanting a '58 Fairlane 500 hardtop in the worst way - and that's pretty much what I just got :rolleyes::

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Kit body on a friction chassis; but it was the cheapest one I've ever found. I think/hope there's enough good material left to kitbash it with one of my '58 convertibles and a spare '59 Edsel chassis. Wish me luck getting the roof grooves opened up again...

I wonder about those odd front wheels; those shallow discs with that bolt pattern look like they belong on a late '20s car.

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I've been wanting a '58 Fairlane 500 hardtop in the worst way - and that's pretty much what I just got :rolleyes::

58fairlane1.thumb.jpg.32154327d73bda3c63it body on a friction chassis; but it was the cheapest one I've ever found. I think/hope there's enough good material left to kitbash it with one of my '58 convertibles and a spare '59 Edsel chassis. Wish me luck getting the roof grooves opened up again...

I wonder about those odd front wheels; those shallow discs with that bolt pattern look like they belong on a late '20s car.

A 1958 seems to be one tough cookie to come up with,,, reasonably. I looked for nearly a year before I got one in my budget. ( mine is a convertible )

 

I have an extra vert body if someone needs it,,,but its been pretty heavily modified . and I think its to far gone to build anything close to OE stock

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Just today received the July issue in the mail....

Why is this magazine always so far behind ? ....

Canada Post?   Everyone else talked about getting that same issue weeks ago. 

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