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10/06/2017 9:29 am
1966 Ford Galaxie sedan
I acquired one of the Mexican series of cars that includes the 1966 Ford Galaxie although it is billed as a 1967. There is an issue with these as the white roof color extends into the front cowl and rear scuttle. I enhanced mine with some yellow paint on the cowl but found that yellow legal pad paper was an even better match so used a small clipping of that on the rear panel. I tried out a new method of creating thin whitewall tires by adding a white painted ring of 24 gauge wire glued to the tire. Finally, a black wash to the grill helped as well.
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John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
10/06/2017 12:45 pm
Thanks for the tips, John. I have used the grill blackwash for quite a while, but the other two are new to me!
10/06/2017 1:28 pm
Looks nice. Wonder why they molded deck filler and front wiper panels with roof?
It doesn't make sense from what I can see.
10/06/2017 4:07 pm
The cowls are part of the roof.
I have no idea why. The Ford from the Brazil collection is solid black. The Mexican one was solid yellow in the brochures but released as yellow and white. Premium X posted several years ago they were planning to release one in blue and white. However there's no telling if they do release one it wont be as bad as the one from Mexico. There is also a solid blue police car in the Police cars of the world collection. If I can find a close paint match I'll try to fix mine as well.
It's a shame as this is a nice model.
11/06/2017 3:46 am
Hmmm....wire used for whitewalls. I don't recall ever seeing that before.
11/06/2017 6:34 am
Masterful as ever
Look forward to an email with the he full low down on the trials and tribulations of this conversion.
I think South America tended to be a model year behind hence 67 being quoted. I suspect tools got shipped when US production was being turned down for swap to new model year.
11/06/2017 12:43 pm
David, I'm wondering that it might have been done for an easier and more secure way to attach body and roof. But why not paint those... I don't know.