WIP: Pete Malloy's Matador......

[Dave Van]

No...not the black and white 4 door....
Pete's personal car for season 7 of the series Adam-12.
This is being built from a model I built around 1975 rather poorly. But I used the glue sparingly so it came appart easy and Citri-strip removed all the baby blue Testors I had applied.
Now after I made the vinyl top moldings I painted it Sunshine Yellow with a Nutmeg interior and top.
Lots to do yet....but I had to mock it up to see how it was going. So far very happy with it.
Thanks
(yes.....I have about 4 projects going at the same time.....messy desk!)

Edited April 30, 2020 by Dave Van

[cobraman]

Cool !I don't remember him driving one.I think there is a station that plays that at night. I have to check it out.

[Dave Van]

 

METV plays it M-F. Pete got the Matador ep 1 Season 7, Tonight thet started the series over at ep 1 s 1 so it will be a while before s7 again!!. 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by Dave Van

[cobraman]

Looks like you have a good start on it.

[espo]

I like the deep set wheels you're using. 

[mrmike]

During Season 7, the final season,  Malloy's Matador had black steel wheels and hub caps.

[Dave Van]

2 hours ago, mrmike said:

During Season 7, the final season,  Malloy's Matador had black steel wheels and hub caps.

The photo above is a screen grab from season 7 ep 1. They used 2 Matadors that season or they swapped wheels during the season 

. I like the volcano wheels better plus that's what the kit comes with. thanks

[RichCostello]

AMC supplied their cars for the last couple seasons, and I'm surprised that they let them portray the Matador the way they did. Poor Malloy was always taking it in to the shop for repairs, and complaining about it. Seemed like bad advertising to me.

[Dave Van]

1 hour ago, RichCostello said:

AMC supplied their cars for the last couple seasons, and I'm surprised that they let them portray the Matador the way they did. Poor Malloy was always taking it in to the shop for repairs, and complaining about it. Seemed like bad advertising to me.

That baffled me to no end!!! Pete's Matador always had an issue when on screen.....even had a minor fender bender and talked about how much it cost to fix!!!! 

I kinda wonder if by season seven the relationship with AMC had grown thin.   Maybe it was Jack Webb;s way of getting back at AMC. Something strange going on for sure!