1990 Ford Mustang LX

[LongRoofNut]

I remember these Mustangs and the other camp, the Camaro and Firebirds from the same era in HS during the mid '90s. I had my 1978 Ford Thunderbird at the time, I was so proud I waxed flat paint on the big Bird. But a lot of kids in my HS had parents that bought them fairly new cars and I still remember clear as day this LX notchback a football player rolled up in. It was the only time a geek like me talked to a BMOC like him. The Mustang came from a Ford executive in Dearborn (I saw the paper work) ordered in this color with red cloth, 5.0 liter, manual trans, Pony wheels, etc. Clean was an understatement. With in a short time all the years of being cared for vanished, the new teenage owner beating the poo out of the ol gal. I still remember how that sun light bounced off the paint work and that sound.........

I have been waiting around 20 years to build a replica of what I saw that day, still have the All American Models LX notch. I am just fine with the kits issues. Just maybe I will change them in another kit but for now this kit is allowing me to go back to a time into my teenage years to some of the moments that were good.

This is just the start, four coats of Duplicolor and four coats of clear from Testors lacquer system. Then will be wet sanded and polished to a mirror shine. The wheels are the Pony wheels off the '93 Monogram drop top kit. I have no idea if they will fit right but with some careful nudging I will get them to fit. Now if I can only find a 1978 Thunderbird I can make into a blue/silver Diamond Jubilee Edition like mine to park next to this pony.

[martinfan5]

Thats a nice color , good start

[01blueedge]

great start I need to pick up one of these kits

[LongRoofNut]

Last few cars I have built have been resin and rebuilders. It is a nice break to just pop a kit out of the box and really have no fuss over anything. But I looked at another thread and it was pointed out there was no bottom molding between the wheel wells. Oh well, so far it has been a nice kit to take a breather with.

[Johnny1973]

Nice paint job!

Edited June 15, 2013 by Johnny1973

[slusher]

Very nice paint and color..

[Tom Geiger]

Nice start and good background story. Something tells me that car died a painful death!

Back when I was in high school, I started to drive in the fall of 1975. There were a lot of parents cars, full size wagons, in the lot. Some kids were lucky if their parents had a decent car they could pass off as their own. Most of us had ten year old cars, I drove a '66 Valiant, my friend Mark had his sister's old '62 Chevy II and Greg had a '70 Maverick that his father got a deal on because it was dented all the way around. We had spent the summer fixing it with bondo so now it was a patchwork of primer spots. Then there were the motor heads who had bought or built cool cars. There was a beat up '55 Chevy convertible, a '70 Mustang and a superb '56 Chevy 2 dr hardtop. A few kids were lucky to have wealth and had brand new cars. One was a new 340 Duster owned by a really nerdy guy. And there was a girl whose father was a Chevy dealer and drove a new Corvette to school on dealer plate.

[LongRoofNut]

Nice start and good background story. Something tells me that car died a painful death!

Back when I was in high school, I started to drive in the fall of 1975. There were a lot of parents cars, full size wagons, in the lot. Some kids were lucky if their parents had a decent car they could pass off as their own. Most of us had ten year old cars, I drove a '66 Valiant, my friend Mark had his sister's old '62 Chevy II and Greg had a '70 Maverick that his father got a deal on because it was dented all the way around. We had spent the summer fixing it with bondo so now it was a patchwork of primer spots. Then there were the motor heads who had bought or built cool cars. There was a beat up '55 Chevy convertible, a '70 Mustang and a superb '56 Chevy 2 dr hardtop. A few kids were lucky to have wealth and had brand new cars. One was a new 340 Duster owned by a really nerdy guy. And there was a girl whose father was a Chevy dealer and drove a new Corvette to school on dealer plate.

As far as I know it did, was told he blew up the engine and the car was junked after. Kid was dumb as a box of rocks. What dose he do now? Flies planes.........

In 1998 I was voted for having the biggest cars, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 1978 Thunderbird, 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood and 1975 Lincoln Mark in HS. Lot of the parking lot was filled with Escorts, Grand Ams and sprinkled with BMWs, Volvos and a few other high end cars.

[LongRoofNut]

Thanks guys for all the comments!

I added interior color and carpet this weekend during the down time of BBQs, graduation parties, weddings, and working on the yard in back.

[martinfan5]

Interior is looking good

[LongRoofNut]

It's weird, under this light in the basement the color looks more pinkish. Then out in the sun, boom! RED!

[martinfan5]

Red , just like purple can be a hard color to get the true shade to show up in photos, unless you have the right lighting

[Agent G]

Red is hard anyway you look at it (pun intended).

Hard to photograph, hard to paint and real hard to get out of the AB or brush.

Your Mustang is looking devine.

I had a Toreador Red Grand Marquis and that car just glowed. This build looks the same.

G

[ewaskew]

Looks good man.

What did you use for the carpet?

[LongRoofNut]

Red is hard anyway you look at it (pun intended).

Hard to photograph, hard to paint and real hard to get out of the AB or brush.

Your Mustang is looking devine.

I had a Toreador Red Grand Marquis and that car just glowed. This build looks the same.

G

Red , just like purple can be a hard color to get the true shade to show up in photos, unless you have the right lighting

Indeed red is hard to capture correctly. It is the same auto dye I have been using for my dark red interior cars, cap says burgundy but it really turns out dark red (just the shade I like).

[LongRoofNut]

Looks good man.

What did you use for the carpet?

I had no dark red flocking at 1am many moons ago. But I had black and red flocking from Model Masters, took half and half, poured it into another container and shook like crazy. I'm not 100% happy with it but it will do til I get a better color arrangement ordered from Detail Masters colors.

[martinfan5]

You can use white flocking and put it on first and then paint it

[Johnny1973]

Great job on the interior color,looking forward to see this finished.

[madhorseman]

Looking Good Johnny,

I owned a '99 Taurus that color too!! it's a very sharp color.

I bought some Krylon burgundy paint that looks just like what You're using, for a 1984 anniversary edtion Im building too!!

[wrecker388]

Have fun finding a 78 T-bird kit, the only way to get one is to heavily modify a resin NASCAR body or find a very rare snap tite that was made by Lindberg in 1:32 scale.I'd love to see someone kit a T-bird myself, as I am currently restoring one . Here's a link to some pics of my car .Nice looking Mustang too.

[LongRoofNut]

Have fun finding a 78 T-bird kit, the only way to get one is to heavily modify a resin NASCAR body or find a very rare snap tite that was made by Lindberg in 1:32 scale.I'd love to see someone kit a T-bird myself, as I am currently restoring one . Here's a link to some pics of my car .Nice looking Mustang too.

My first car, '78 Diamond Jubilee. I still have a lot of DJ parts for it.