![]() ![]() I'd give resin bodies consideration but usually I can't, sadly. I'm pretty certain it would be a bit easier using the old '69 El Camino as a starting point, because there is some commonality between all of the old AMT '68-'72 Chevelle kits.Īhh this is the sort of stuff I knew I could expect from y'all here, thanks! <3 The conversion can be done, but it isn't going to just fall together. If I remember right, the new kit is just a bit wider than the old '69 annual kit. I eyeballed this conversion when the '68 El Camino first came out. For some reason, GM went with that bumper (round turn signals) instead of the Chevelle unit (rectangular turn signals). For a '70, you'll also need the front bumper from a Monte Carlo. To convert a '68 or '69 El Camino to a '70-'72 would involve swapping the later hood, and the forward part of the front fenders. El Camino doors and quarter panels are the same '68-'72. The El Camino and wagon use different fenders and doors from the coupes and sedans. Keeping the '70 Chevelle body in pretty much one piece will be a LOT easier, and will make a much better model in the end. The door skins are different too. So grafting a '70 nose to a '68 won't give you an accurate model anyway.and it's going to be HARD to keep everything aligned and square, especially if doing major mods isn't really your thing. If you actually LOOK at the '68 and compare it to the '70, you'll see that the quarters (bed sides) are NOT the same panels. Build it all on the AMT '68 Elky chassis. The early tailgate can be modified without too much grief too, and use the bed well. Save yourself a ton of work and start with the AMT '70 Chevelle, modify the quarters to look like the El Camino, and graft on the earlier roof. Just very curious if it's even possible with the molds, or if someone else on this forum's attempted it before and give me some tips.īuild a start to finish Camaro line-up of every generation, figured it would be nice to get all the El Camino's from the sixties through the eighties too. I mean, I'm definitely willing to go deep time and cash wise(after all, gonna need to buy 2 kits and try and transplant a higher quality engine model from possibly a Revell kit), seems like a fun little project. So I was wondering, there's the '68 and '69 El Camino kits from AMT Ertl, does anyone know if it's remotely possible to build a '70 El Camino out of a era appropriate grab-bag parts collection and combining the front end of the '70 Chevelle SS kit(AMT's Jack Reacher kit) in combination with the cabin/tail of a '68 El Camino kit? I'm wondering if the dimensions of the tools are similar enough for the fenders to meet up correctly with the rest of the model. So I've come to the sad realization that finding a '70 El Camino is just nearly impossible, hell I can't even find evidence that there ever was one to start with. ![]()
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