Hi Trevor, been looking forward to this, as they say "Let the show begin", as a youngster of the 70s if anyone would have said id be still making models in 2024 albeit after a long break and enjoying watching something on a hand held device communicating with yourself on the other side of the world i'd be amazed. Thank you and best wishes.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

Ай бұрын

You are welcome. Tune in next week for more!

@SunShine-dk6rk

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage will do, Thank you.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

And the next 2 weeks after that! 😂

@SunShine-dk6rk

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage will do for sure, Cheers.

I see 👀 that you mentioned Boyd at trek works in the opening credits and just wanted to say how much he will be missed, Boyd was a big influence on me and I will always remember him.. REST IN PEACE 🙏 BOYD...

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

17 күн бұрын

I didn't realize he passed. Darn. No wonder why he didn't respond to my invite to watch this video.

@JonnyHolms

17 күн бұрын

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage Trevor I just found out myself.. I knew that he had cancer but I thought that he was doing well with treatment...very, very sad and I was in shock when I found out..

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

16 күн бұрын

@@JonnyHolms It is sad news indeed!

I'm 5 mins in and it's brilliant already👍😎. Really enjoyed the history section.👍😎 Thanks for the credit in the intro👍😎. Great parts change listing👍. Now the rest of the show😃

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Tune in next week...same Bat time, same Bat channel! We're all batty here! LOL!

@petesmodelcarcustoms584

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage 😂😂🦇👍😎

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

With all my footage, I have enough filmed that I made 4 videos just by cutting the footage into 30-40 minute episodes. I think that makes you and your phone very happy!

@petesmodelcarcustoms584

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage I'll do my best but it is even starting to frazzle my little grey cells. Have you got a Polar Lights Talladega kit🤔. It has a full Holman Moody chassis but the body isn't good,I'm tempted to swap bodies but that wouldn't help with a factory stock car. I've been checking amt 69 mustang for parts swap too,but that short I think🤣🤣. It's not helping with the progress I was making on the model😣

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

20 күн бұрын

@@petesmodelcarcustoms584 Stick with my videos. I have 4 parts so far, each releasing on Wednesdays. There's a ton of issues I am finding as I build this. - At least I am discovering all the basic problems. Watch the series and then figure out if it's worth it to modify or swap kit parts with other models.

Great video,Trevor. 👍😃Willi has spotted some interesting points and I've just spotted the rear Cobra badge is in the wrong place and should be nearer the centre😃. What a kit👍. I must check out those front riser blocks too👍😀. Thanks for showing and best wishes from jolly old England👍😎 Pete 🤓

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

You are welcome. I see that the rear Cobra badge seems to move around that trunk lid on different people's cars though. however, that's a small detail compared to the rest of what's going wrong with this thing! If you have the Cobra decals, it's not a problem to place the logo where you want it. If you have the molded on trunk lid and no Cobra decal, you are stuck...and that's the issue in my case.

@petesmodelcarcustoms584

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage Yes 👍I suppose it was just down to who fitted the badge. 🤓. Really good video a anyway, Trevor and I look forward to watching more👍👍😀

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Could be Pete...or we could be looking at a restoration in some cases where the owner put the badge back in the wrong place. - but then, there would probably be holes in the panel. There was also some minor modifications made to these cars from the factory later in the 1969 model year. They went from a Cobra decal to a metal Cobra badge. The rear badge locations might have been part of that as well.

@petesmodelcarcustoms584

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage all of what you said is true. Even later owners can drill two holes

Well done Trevor!This was a thorough Diploma thesis for the ancestry of the Torino kits!Now we have to call you officially Professor Torino 69!👌😉!And i had another resoluten to the length problem of this kit!Because it was already spliced together by AMT , i lengthened it by 2mm!So there are a couple of resolutions for this problem! Keep up the good work!And thx for credits!

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks! And think...this is just the first video and I have uploaded another 3 in the series for a total of 4 and I still haven't finished the kit. In the end though, it will be the most thorough video out there on how to fix this car "Box Stock"...unless someone can find something else I missed. I wonder if you noticed that the real Cobra had staggered shocks and the kit has tandem shocks? - That's just another issue in the pile of issues this thing has.

The little pointy things on the dash board spruce are part of the talladega nose

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much. I'll have to mention that in a future video. - and that you said it.

Hi Trevor, thoroughly enjoyed this vid with backround history of both the real and model car along with how to correct it, as a born again modeller I think I'll build this one a few models down the line. I've started on my Shelby Mustang and used the Humbrol blue paint and doing it in the promo style without stickers and where possible a few performance mods and at most Appliance or Crager type wheels for that day two look, im doing them kurbside style as they will be displayed in that way, after watching your vid on engine id like to paint them detailed and displayed alongside the car with left over wheels and make up mini parts board like I had at work it was like chip board with small holes drilled for hooks and parts hooked/mounted from Cal Custom, Mr Gasket and even Slash cut exhaust tips. Im hoping to get the dyno printer 70s style and simply print the car year and name and make or buy some shelving with a perspex front, thats for later as im only on my third model. Thanx for a Super upload and info along with motivation, Best wishes to yourself,family and fellow viewers.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Sounds like you've got a cool project in the works there! Hopefully once the series is finished, you can have an easy time putting this model together. I am going to upload part 4 tonight and then that's the end of my previously filmed footage. Onto new footage of the completed build for video 5.

@SunShine-dk6rk

29 күн бұрын

@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage Hi Trevor, yes im thoroughly enjoying model making, im looking forward to working on the Torino, especially after watching your vid and look forward to watching the others, just ordered a few more kits for my Birthday, 1966 Mustang saloon, 1967 Chevelle and think the other was a 66ish Nova SS. Have a Modeltastic day,

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

29 күн бұрын

Thank you. Last night I finished uploading the 4th video in the series. That should keep everyone entertained until July 24th. I can't believe I filmed so much, yet I am still so far away from finishing this model.

It can be a base for a Mercury Cyclone

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

20 күн бұрын

I think it would be better to totally 3D print the Cyclone. It would be more accurate as you will see in part 3 and 4.

Hi Trevor, I've seen a lot of strange videos on your Facebook page, I think it's been hacked. Lots of clips from movie and tv shows. I don't know how to report it to FB.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

20 күн бұрын

Thank you for letting me know. Someone attached their Email to my account and I managed to boot them off, but somehow I lost access to my Monster Hobbies Facebook page. I reported the problem to FB, but I am unsure what will happen next. - Yes, I would never post movie clips on my FB business page like that.

"Blue oval"...??? Do you mean "Blue Streak Drag Special" slicks? Or for the NASCAR version in my original bought in late 1968, "Blue Streak Stock Car Special". The 428 should be a "Cobra Jet". Like the one I put in my 61 F100 many years ago. That 428 CJ I took out of a crashed 70 Cougar Eliminator. There was a "regular duty" non-Cobra Jet 428. Different crank, rods, pistons, head castings, intake manifold, carb, cam, etc. Air cleaner for the CJ should have a vacuum pot on the left side to open a disc to let more air into the air cleaner under hard acceleration. My next door neighbor has a 68 Torino GT in original white with red C stripes. 302 V8. Needs restoration. As for "correcting" issues with the kit, the chassis from the Revell 64 Thunderbolt is far more accurate. The later Revell 71 Torino or maybe Starsky & Hutch mid 70s Torino may also have better chassis.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

2 күн бұрын

Thank you for the history, tips and personal stories. My goal for this video was not to make the kit 100% accurate by swapping out parts from other models. Yes, I could easily do that, but it was my mission to take what AMT gave me out of the box and make it so that the parts in the box would fit together, which is the key issue to this entire kit. My video is for that person that bought this model and tried to put it together right out of the box and got frustrated with it because 85% of the parts need work, not for accuracy, but just to glue them to one another. I've never experienced a kit like this before. - I mean, I am taking seven 35-45 minute videos and heading towards 10 to fix everything wrong with the kit. Normally I can make a 45 minute video on any other kit and get the model corrected in that time. This thing is 10 times that effort for the same results! I feel that the person that doesn't have many models that wanted to try AMT for the first time and got this monster as their first look at the company needs major guidance to build it and there wasn't much out there. Sure, there are videos where the model builder fixes one or two of the issues, but in mine, I fix them all. - I started off discovering 26 things wrong with the kit, and then I found another 38 on top of that! So in this series of videos on this kit, the only thing I added that was not included in the kit was a sheet of Evergreen styrene which I used sparingly to fix the issue with the wheel axle holes. The second purpose of this video is to show everything that I am finding "Wrong" with this kit and pointing it out so that anyone that buys one for themselves will know what is involved with making it fit together. Once they know that, then it's up to them to decide how far they want to go with making it more accurate to the prototype vehicle. You suggest swapping the chassis for a more detailed one, which is fine and I appreciate that. Someone could use that information and go with your suggestion, which is good. But first, they need to know the chassis has issues, which is my part in this video series. As you watch through all my videos, you will get to know why the chassis in this kit is the way it is...and it is quite a story in itself! But there is more than just the chassis. Even the battery needed to be altered to fit in the engine bay. Can you imagine! Anyway, thank you again for the comments!

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

2 күн бұрын

Did I say Blue Oval? Sorry, my eyesight is going, but the good news is I have gone for an eye exam and they discovered I need some reading glasses, so I got fitted up with those and the new pair should be here next week.

For a correct Torino build, to get the correct front grille, is the only option to get the ‘69 annual kit?

@marklancaster731

29 күн бұрын

I bought a correct GT grill that was cast in resin.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

20 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, no. They used the 1968 Torino Convertible grille since the beginning of this kit.

@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage

20 күн бұрын

@@marklancaster731 Can you post the link?