1969 Corvair AMT

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Really neat!

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LOL

I think the steering column need some tweaking. I do not recall ever having to drive the car with my legs shoved through the spokes!

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Wow - engine looks fantastic!

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Thanks! Can’t see about 60% of it when the body goes on but looks better than the empty void the kit provided.

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I gotta say!

Looking good! See the tailight cove? When my car was three I got a plastics jobber to make me a lens that went all across the rear of the car with the Mercury Cougar sequential signal and tail lights in it. The headlight bezels and housings were changed out for Chrysler 300 glass rectangular units. She looked great to me.

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Oho!

That is and has always been a problem with that kit. Plus, it seems the wheel is a wee bit bigger than it should be! That’s why I always cut the column to fit just barely in the dash. The Dodge Mid sized and others were always bad about that too. Oh yeah.The metal trim on the dash was replaced with Wood steamed to the shape, sanded and semi-glossed in place. Birdseye maple trim looked great in there. I did my wife’s car with mahogany!

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The interior looks okay.

On those seats though. I always Undercut the fronts of all those types of Buckets. It makes them look lighter and more in tune with the style as well. I don’t know(Well ,I do)Why AMT and JOJAN and MPC were so anal about that! NONE of that is important to your build though! Why? are you having fun? That is what counts!! Besides I think she’s gonna be a pretty car anyway!

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Done. Still needs a mirror but I don’t have a suitable one right now so that will come later but still calling it done.

The dull faded paint is done by painting Testers dark gloss red then misting a very light coat coat of Tamiya flat red over it. The slight grunge is from digging out a really worn and dirty sanding stick and rubbing it down to take some of the flatness off and leave some spots behind. It was an experiment that I think worked out well because the resulting finish is exactly what I was after.

The rather rough looking BMF doesn’t look like that on the actual model of course. It is the magnifying effect of the camera. You can really see the existing yet subtle dirty sanding stick results on the quarter panel.

The silver rear looks just like the brushed aluminum panel on the actual model

If you look really close you will see that the drivers side reverse light is missing the white lens. I never did find a replacement for the real thing back then but no doubt now they are all over Ebay.

Well there it is. The real thing wasn’t pretty but it was cheap and fun.

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Hey!

I liked that little car so much. Grow yours up so I can find it’s twin in a used car lot and smoking or not Buy it!’ The Model certainly captures the essence tremendously!

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If I could do that I would have a whole fleet of cars by now!

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Man Tcoat, I’ve said it before, you’ve had some great vehicles over the year! In my opinion, the Corvair was ahead of it’s time and never fully appreciated by the automotive community. I had a modeling mentor who always would tell stories about the Corvair that he owned back in the day. His stories always involved some type of mishap with the car but in every story, at the end, he always spoke fondly of the car and said how much he enjoyed owning it. What vehicle is next on your list of previously owned “gems”?

tjs

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Next up will be a very battered and well used '70 Coronet R/T. Not doing in any sort of order but in real life it It followed the Econoline but overlaped the Datsun pickup I posted a while back.