Dirkpitt289

I vaguely remember having and starting this kit about 10 years ago but I'll be damned if I can remember what happened to it. I'm sure it was never finished. Those were the dark days of my marriage. I guess the memories of those days are faiding away like Mary McFly's photo in Back to the Future. :woot.gif:

This is true

For my next build I'm going to build the 7/ Eleven Mustang GTO History The Brilliant red, white and blue 7/Eleven mustang is one of the hottest machines that ever ran in road racing. Piloted by Bruce Jenner. this sleek pony was a challenger for the checkered flag every time it appeared in competition. Teamed with Scott Pruett, Jenner scored his first victory by winning the 1986 GTO class at the Coca-cola 12 hours of Sebring. He won the Norelco drivers cup for outstanding performance at the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in California and teamed with Pruett at Elkhart Lake Road America to win

The first cote of white has been applied to the body and after 20 hours it still seems tacky. I think I'm going to let it sit for the weekend before I touch it. In the mean time I think its time to start a new project. here are the kits I aquired over the Christmas holiday. There has to be something in here I can start. Hummm.... Decisions decisions

The interior has been completed The seats and roll bar in place Here is the dash pannel. The first thing I did was remove the radio and put on a face plate as these cars came without a radio After that the painting started Here the cross brace was installed along with the master cylinder. If you look you can see that the boost pump was removed

The AC Cobra is one of my all time favorite cars. I look forward to seeing your build

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Time to move onto the interior. With this being an all black interior I decided to try something different. Rather then just paint everything semi-gloss black like the directions called for I gathered all my black paint (Flat, semi, and gloss) together and went to work. I painted the carpet flat black, the rear panels and metal of the doors semi-gloss. The seats and door skins were all done in gloss. My hope was that this would add some depth rather then just being a black hole. More to follow

Very cool, I didn't catch that.

Looking good so far. What about the fender wells and firewall, are they going to get painted or left bare?

Stunning work. Now I have some inspiration to try and get my Fort done.

I've also got the finish line in site but with Christmas here I doubt I'll make it either

Thanks everyone. As you may have experienced yourselves bench time has been kinda limited this last week. I did however make some small advancements. Another modification was relocating the battery to the trunk for better weight distribution. The crumb like things directly above the shock tower is whats left of the kit battery. Using some Evergreen stock I re-skinned the battery compartment Now for a little sanding and we'll be ready for some paint

SWEET!!!!

NICE RACK..... Of headlights that is

This is coming along nicely

That would be cool. I was however thinking about having the base it gets mounted too done with a flight deck finish.

Getting back to the 428 Power plant. Assembled and painted the headers Installed the new distributor Painting the aftermarket coil Next I drilled out the heads to accept the spark plug wires Next it was time to look at assembling the frame and suspension. You can't tell from these photos but extension blocks were placed between the frame and the leaf springs to allow clearance for the drag tires. Now you guys being as versed at building cars will see a problem right away. Me on the otherhand didn't figure it out till I tried to dry fit the motor. I believe I read somewhere

With the holidays here time at the bench has been limited. Most of the work I'm posting now was done last week and earlier this week. I think you're referring to the Lawman build? No I haven't started that yet. I still need to purchase the decals for that.

Moving on to the body I spent about an hour or so just cleaning up the flash and hard edges. Then I came to this. Why they did this I have no clue but it needed to be addressed. Using some left over Evergreen strips I filled the gaps the best I could. A little more attention with some Mr Surfacer and some sandpaper and this should be good to go. Another point of interest I've found with this style Mustang is a seam that runs the red line in the photo below. When I did my 65 2 Plus 2 I found this to be a huge pain in the back end. With the body (I hope) all finished I shot some p

Very interesting work. I look forward to seeing more

Thanks for the kind words guys Next I decided to attack the rear valance panel. Even though we are using the 68 Mustang GT kit this car was not a GT and so the GT components will need to be removed or altered from the finished car. One of the visible differences on a 68 Mustang GT was that there was cut outs in the rear valance panel for the exhaust. These notches will need to be filled. GT Valance Panel Non-GT Valance Panel. You can see the exhaust goes beneath the panel not through it. Here is the kit part Once again I turned to the Evergreen stock. I started by placing a ver

Very very nice finish. I've never seen a fort like it before.

The last week I've been spending time working on this but have had very little to show for all the time spent. I think I have some progress to show now. To start off I needed to chop off the smog and power steering pumps from the belt assembly. These along with the power break booster were omitted from these cars. Of course some sanding and painting was required after the surgery. Next I moved on to the air cleaner assembly. This was also modified as you can see here. This also shows that I'll have to repaint the intake as it was aluminum I started by removing the center bits from th

Work is progressing but I find it's at one of those states where no matter how much you are spending there is very little to show for it. I hope to have some progress photos soon. In the mean time I caught up with my friend who has been drag racing since the 70's. He confirmed what Mitch and I (Concurrent Cobra jet Build Found here) already figured out. All the extras under the hood were removed including the power break pump. My next question to him was what if anything was done to the interiors of these cars. The answer, nothing. They were kept as factory as possible. He also sent me some