restoring a 66 fastback

[Elliot]

When I was 6 I had two big boxes of scrap parts given to me one box was nothing but bodys and another box was all frames , engins, tires ,ect. Now 11 years later I still have most of the parts sadly when I was yunger and more stupid I messed up some of the stuff (d**n) but most of it lived. a cuple years ago I "found" a 66 fast back in the bodys and started looking for the right frame and anything else that looked like it would work/fit on it and kinda tossed it all together . It has been settin on my shelf ever since with the same paint and stickers (its a drag car) that it had on it when I saved it from the box of death. I want to "restore" it now , the rear end of it setts way too high for a drag car so I`m gonna backhalf it and put some better slicks on it . The engin is very undetailed right now but insted of even trying to make it look good (its one of them engins where most everything is cast in it) I`m gonna use one of these engins with the blower off the old one ...



here is the old one, note the very sad engin bay...


the front...


the side, note how high the rear eng is ...



the butt...



the under side , yes I did put one rear end infront of the other . I am repenting of my sins please forgive me...



I have already started on the cutting and grinding . I grinded the cast in trany and exhaust off then I cut the rearend off so I can backhalf it...



Does anyone know who made this kit ? I kow its realy old (ie older than my for sure) I think its purdy rare too its an altered (spelling sorry) car made for drag racing , note how close the rear tires are to the door vs. how they are on another rustang kit by it...



Well if you`r still reading this thank you and if y`all know who and when this kit was made please tell me.

[ONEBADMK8]

AWESOME kit. Well worth resurecting!! That was re-released not long ago again from AMT. Great kit.

[Elliot]

Cool ! Do you know where I could buy a new kit like it ?

[ONEBADMK8]

Check Ebay all the time. Heres one that ended.

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2582&item=5925502352&rd=1&tc=photo

[hemidaytona426]

Sweet
Thats what I was doing to my Pro Mod Daytona
Good luck

[Elliot]

Cool I`ll need to buy one of them once I got the money!

[Elliot]

Got a little more work done .

I got started on the rear end but I still got ALOT of work to do to it ...



and I made up a new tail panel for the back...



I got a set of tail lights and gas cap to put on once I get it painted

[ONEBADMK8]

looking good. What did you use for the panel?

[Elliot]

Hehehe I used the plastic off an old hotwheels case that got broke a while ago ;D

[Elliot]

Dang this rear end is taking some time!!! Keep in mind this is the first time I`ve ever done this much to a model (ie. cutting the frame in half and making up a latter bar system when I`ve never seen one in person) ...




I still have a little more to do on the rear end but at least most of it is done now !

This is how its gonna set when all is said and done...

[Elliot]

I found out that when you`r dog takes a dump on you bed and a leak on the blanket that you are prolly gonna have a bad day . The white mustang that I was gonna repaint is now scrap parts , my airbrush is broken now , and while I was making the MII front end my model knife slipped so I have a nice deep cut in the tip of my finger .

I got started on the mustang II front end



Ever since bugzilla said something about a bigblock I just couldn`t bring myselve to build a small block for it so I started digging through my scrap engins and found a bigblock out of an old bigfoot model :evillol: . I`ll be using it untill I get some money for the engin I wanna buy from bugzilla (the last of my money had to go into my 1:1 maverick :mad: )

[Elliot]

I`ts done!

I got the paint done , it didn`t come out as good as I had hoped but its ok . The engin is now done and that is the last time I ever try to make plug wires with craft wire :banghead: .






I hope y`all liked it , this is the most I have ever done to one model and I have learned alot of things not to do now .

[ONEBADMK8]

I like it. What wheels are in the back?

[Elliot]

Steel wheels that came in a 1970 dodge charger kit with the slicks from a nova kit. I was gonna use chrome 5 spokes but I thought the steel ones looked better (to me) so I used them

[ONEBADMK8]

Oh I just couldn't make out what they were style wise. You should try them in a Testors silver.