AMT Mercedes Benz 300 SL

[RickRollerLT1]

Built from 1989 issue Prestige kit. Several parts had extremely poor placement and fit on top of being warped. The opening doors and trunk were the worst offenders, so those were glued shut and rescribed. Also, some parts were missing due to rattling in a battered holey box for 30 years. Nonetheless, I was customizing anyway with mods as followed:

Twin Supercharged Ford V8 swap comes from Mathew and Debbie Heys T-Bird Pro Street, with a custom made intake as the original munti-piece chrome unit kept hitting the Mercedes hood.

Styrene scrap trees bent as intake tubes and oil filters turned into air filters as the original pieces were missing. Electronic fan/radiator comes was also sourced from a Revell Acura Integra. 

T-Bird Pro Street's side exhaust was used with heavy modifications to exit at the rear

Steering wheels comes from AMT Silhouette 

Mesh screening was used in lieu of kit's vent piece, which was an ill fitting heap when it hit's the inner fenders

Front and rear bumpers were omitted to created cleaner look, bumper pins were used to cover up mounting holes. Badging and such were shaved and smoothed.

Custom wheels form unknown Revell source, with front tires being Toyos from Revell Honda Civic and rear tires from Revell C5 Corvette. Disc brakes were used from a Revell Corvette Sting Ray III

Interior paint is Rustoluem Advanced Formula Flat Brown. Exterior is Tamiya TS-72 Clear Blue over Rustoluem Silver cleared with Pledge

[cobraman]

Pretty cool, nice work.

[Gramps46]

Very creative.  Reminds me a bit of the John Fitch Bonneville record breaker.

[Rob Hall]

Sharp, I like the modifications.  I have built a few of the other Prestige Series kits and found them to be warped and with a lot of flash.

[Modlbldr]

Amazing updates to this classic! What a great modern look it has. Love the color too.

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[espo]

Very nice body and paint work. I like the way you did the twin blowers on the engine. 

[Dann Tier]

Love your imagination, and smoothed look here!!!

[89AKurt]

Cool results from a dog kit, and you finished it!  Fun thing about models, can do what would be sacrilege in real life.

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[slusher]

Very sharp model!

[Funkychiken]

Very inventive, looks cool!