1971 Plymouth Roadrunner 440+6

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      You will do such a super job, Someone will ask for the Keys! My 1;1 scale Convertible is still in storage. It's painted a Gorgeous Pearl Sapphire metallic, But the Auto Storage place starts it and circulates the fluids as agreed upon. She still looks like new too!

     One more year and I'll have to sell her or go get her and start driving her. She has a Dove Grey and Arctic White ( original Pattern) modified leather interior, 4Spd. 440 Sixpack! and an Aerheart Disc brake conversion kit all four wheels!

      There's a Chrysler Product Club here, I may sell her to one of those folks. The price is NON-Negotiable. 

I have spent the last two days (a few minutes here and there) removing the GTX from the grille.  The GTX scripts where removed from the body rather easily, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to attempt removing the script from the grille.  I used a No. 11 blade, an angle blade and a pick to remove the scripts.  It's not perfect, but it does look decent and it will be painted flat black.  The wheels have been cleaned and now to painted them with Alclad II Gloss Black Base followed by Alclad II Chrome.  Then to paint the wheel centers with Tamiya TS-29 Semi Gloss Black.

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I sprayed the chassis and the interior bottom with Tamiya Grey Surface Primer and the body, hood, engine, valances and exhaust system with Tamiya White Surface Primer.  I decided to leave the front and rear bumpers in oven cleaner a while longer to be sure that all of the plating and undercoat was removed.  They have been removed from the cleaner and washed and will be primered when they are dry.

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I have been looking at Sassy Grass Green '71 Roadrunners on Google Images and pictures of Roadrunners with painted bumpers are starting to appeal to me.  I have a '71 GTX and a '71 Satellite on the shelf with chromed bumpers and painting the bumpers will give me a different "Fuselage" body style.  I clipped the front and rear bumpers from the chrome sprue and covered them with Easy-Off Oven Cleaner and the chrome disappeared in 10 minutes.  Now to paint them and the rest of the body parts!

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Rob, this is just a re-issue of an older Monogram kit that is owned by Revell.  

I have been looking at the engine in this kit and it has a hole in the oil filter.  I covered the hole with a piece of rounded styrene.  The hole might not be seen once the model is assembled, but I know that the hole is there and covered.  I have also been sanding the trunk lid to remove the mounts for the rear spoiler that I am not going to use. 

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Looks good, are these new tooled kits or reissues of older ones?

I fitted a piece of sheet styrene to the interior, but more sanding will be required.  The plastic interior tub is much thicker than the sheet styrene I'm using and the seat will need to be raised slightly so it doesn't rock back and forth.  My patch will need to be blended into the tub further.

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Using my Dremel, I hollowed out the seating surfaces to the new inserts.  I added the new seating surfaces and filled the edges with Bondo Glazing & Spot Putty.  I'll sand this when the putty has set and dried.

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I hope so, John!  I'm going to be trying some new things with this build and I hope to do a good job on them!

I have never done this before.  I'm changing the seat pattern on a Jo-Han bench seat from a long departed '68 Plymouth Fury Patrol Car.  The Fury seat has no pattern to it at all and cutting up the bucket seats to get the GTX pattern only took a few minutes.  So now I have to get the seat patterns down to the size of the Fury seat.  I saved the head rests and will cut them down for the Fury seat.  I drew a line on the center of the seat back so I can slice it into two seat backs for a 2-door.

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That should be eye catching!