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  • Member since
    June 2008
  • From: Amarillo Texas
Posted by Mckay on Friday, July 18, 2008 1:42 PM
 Surface_Line wrote:

And before I break one of those IMC/Testors/ Union Chaparral kits out of the box, does anybody have any suggestions about it?  Is it reasonably buildable?  The IMC Ford GT family are models of my favorite cars in the world, but really miserable on the buildablity scale.  The body panels never wanted to hang together properly on the 1965 model or the Mk II kits - when the molds were new or 15 years later when Union reboxed them.

And for that matter, how about the Lola T70?  Are they reasonably good? 

Thanks
Rick

HI I built the IMC Chaparral kit back in the 70s  and it is a buildable kit but not a easy kit. It requires a lot of test fitting to get it just right. So take your time and check everything before you glue it together.

MckayCowboy [C):-)]

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    June 2007
Posted by squeakie on Friday, July 18, 2008 12:11 PM

I had to chance to be up close to one once, and I think it was an "egg shell white"; almost an ivory color. Seems like it had medium blue stripes too. There's one somewhere in a museum, but where?

gary

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  • From: Seattle, WA
Posted by Surface_Line on Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:58 PM

<chuckle> yeah, that's what I meant - "refrigerator white", not "white-white".  I couldn't have said anything as dumb as that.  <grin>

And before I break one of those IMC/Testors/ Union Chaparral kits out of the box, does anybody have any suggestions about it?  Is it reasonably buildable?  The IMC Ford GT family are models of my favorite cars in the world, but really miserable on the buildablity scale.  The body panels never wanted to hang together properly on the 1965 model or the Mk II kits - when the molds were new or 15 years later when Union reboxed them.

And for that matter, how about the Lola T70?  Are they reasonably good? 

Thanks
Rick

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    July 2006
  • From: Philippines
Posted by constructor on Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:42 PM
I think it was more white-white and as they call it back then, "refrigerator white'
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  • From: Seattle, WA
Chaparral colors?
Posted by Surface_Line on Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:36 PM

I understand the 2C was an eggshell (off-white) color.

 Does anybody have straight info about the 2E (the IMC/ Union kits)?  Should that also be eggshell or should it be white-white?

Thanks,
Rick

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