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Thanks Tom. With Steve's inspiring 'nth degree' detailing habit, it's worth trying to help get the right info

Hopefully the licensing will work out for the '79 LRE. It may have been the issue that brought us the 'pumping iron' variant instead.

Here's the general front suspension layout for the single I-beam/leaf spring setup that Ford used on the light trucks until '64 (from the Carpenter '57-'66 catalog) ...and here's the general twin I-beam setup used from '65 - '79 ...plus a 57-60 frame diagram The '65/'66 moeb frames are going to be the same ones used in their '69 - '72 F-series.

Seems to be a different promo-type plastic. Just picked up this built-up one at a swap meet.

It ain't cool without dem duals

Pure gold.... some extra history about one of Mr Scritchfield's contemporaries, Sam Conrad, goes well with the story Bill brought us https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1929-ford-model-a-sam-conrad-roadster/

Seen at a recent farm auction...

Just what is the problem with it? Can you show us a decent pic of the front end to help us judge it for ourselves? edit 04/23 Hmmmm… guess the poster can't or won't justify his smear... mike

Yessir, right up to '65

yup

Beautifully done! A real '60 laurentian bubbletop at a swap meet last year came very close to following me home … and you even added valve covers sans bowties Great work! mike

Good revue. Hope the '71 ranger tailgate at 3:06 isn't being recycled for the '65/'66 mike

One of these shows up at local shows occasionally...

Just came across a reference to the 'molded in red' issue. Seem to be fairly thin on the ground. The shiny red body kinda looks like a promo. Two different box logo treatments on this subject as well might interest those masters of minutiae...

Nice looking set! Thanks Tim. mike

And so it begins.... https://www.ebay.ca/itm/MPC-1978-Dodge-D100-Custom-Pickup-NEW-/333130865849?hash=item4d90259cb9 He won't have it any sooner than anyone else paying half the price... suckers line up on the left please mike

Mr Pot seems to think Mr Kettle is very black Thank you mike

Dually fenders... of course, they could probably be adapted from the amt F350 tuff truk fenders , if a caster took up the gauntlet... and it would be cool to see the '81-up cabs as well

It was sold by the Plymouth-Chrysler dealers here. Dodge dealers dealt their own cars and trucks. This paralleled GM's practice of selling Chev trucks at the chev dealers and GMC trucks at the Pontiac-Buick dealers in north america, and Ford dealers selling Ford trucks and Lincoln-Mercury dealers handling Mercury trucks in Canada (until 1968). The last year Fargos were marketed was 1972. More info on wiki and at allpar.com. mike

Now we need someone to make this decal...

The mpc sixties mustangs had the under-dash a/c faceplate that works for many sixties Ford cars. Found mainly now in the easily sourced mpc/amt '69 Mustang kit. mike

Great color combo! I think it's an earlier test shot mike

Thanks Bill! That's a beautiful piece of work. mike

Or even just the axles and suspension, as Mchook shows in his great '76 Dodge 4x4 build...

That's a very inspiring build Nice to know that it's being reissued. This has the benefit of making a ready market for resin versions of the '79 LRE and mid-70s grills to supplement that '77/'78 option. Mark, I've used masking tape to remove old decals before and a piece might work on that windshield decal. mike