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I made a 1000 mile round trip to spend some time with my family and pick the last one up from my parents house over the 4th of July weekend. I'll be working on this one only to restore it to its original finished build appearance and maybe add a windshield, side windows and back glass to it. I've already cleaned the hood up and dipped it in Future. This is what the rest of the kits I have rescued would have looked like had I not had them in a case for all these years.......





Stay tuned.....spare kit acquisition, clean up and repairs on the way..........

Hmmmm.... lotsa dust on that kit.

This is the only one of 5 that I've saved that wasn't under glass. No worries though. I separated the body and interior from the chassis this morning and will be doing lots of clean up here to get it back to its original state. Ordered my spare kit already for the missing and damaged parts.

More pics after taking it all apart. I was surprised at all the dust that had collected in the interior....




I may change that supercharger intake out. I think I have something that will work and look somewhat better...









Here's the original glass hood after cleaning all the dust and grime off, shaving some excess flash off and dipping into Future:

Here we go. This is just after a washing with mild soap and warm water with everything nice and clean.



and here is a day later after polishing with Novus #2 and then I hit it with Novus #1. I was shocked really because the original paint didn't look like this!



and a shot of the rear of the body....

As one can plainly see, paint coverage wasn't a strong point of mine back then. lol



more on the way...........

This is fun to watch. it would have been interesting to leave it and build a barn dio around it.

Thanks Lyle! I just couldn't bring myself to leave the ol' girl the way she was. I knew there was salvageable paint underneath.

This is another one of those "tweeks" that I was talking about. For the life of me I just couldn't leave the grille the way it was. I broke out the Tamiya Smoke and used a little 70% ISO to help it flow into all the little grooves in the grill and applied a very subtle wash.

Nice!

- Kari

Thank you Kari!