Hello there, I'm looking forward to seeing more of your project. Putting the '88 chassis underneath it sounds interesting. Built one of these myself a few years ago. What I did was mate the MPC interior and chassis to it. Also what I did was to buy an unopened Handler kit from EBAY, then bought a Billy Gooche decal sheet...sold it and used a California Cobra kit with an engine from an AMT Thunderbird Nascar kit. ?♂️
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