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In fact you could probably pull the engine from it too. I was tempted to use the front grille from the Monogram 59 cadillac, since that has clear headlights rather than the molded chrome ones. Its curbside and all the equipment is molded in. MOC Sports Car ECTO-1 Building Kit Racing Car Displayable Model Car Kit for Adults Great DIY Project, Compatible with Lego Cars STEM Educational Birthday Gifts for 8-12 Year Old Girls Boys (603 Pcs) 52.

You may have to pay any local sales tax or import duty due. some of the details are off, but its easy to build and looks ok.

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United KingdomĪll orders £3.75 flat rate applied at checkout or select click and collect to pick up from us during our business hours (Monday to Friday 9-5). The most important vehicle in spectral crimefighting returns in this model kit Build Ecto-1 or 1A.Assembled Dimensions: 10' x 3.5' x 4.5'.Molded in white, plus chrome and clear parts.Detailed equipment rack.Expanded decal sheet.The Ghostbusters' car from the classic film.90 highly-detailed parts.Modeled in clear, white. All items are checked for completeness prior to sending and are well packaged in a strong box with plenty of void fill where necessary. The AMT Ecto-1a kit comes with a step bumper in the rear, but if you want a more stock looking rear bumper, the Polar Lights Ecto-1 has that, and it's a clean fit into the AMT body.We pride ourselves on fast dispatch times and excellent packaging to make sure you get your order as quickly as possible. Categories Model Kits 1:24/1:25 Road Cars 1:25 Ghostbusters ECTO-1A Model Kit. I seem to recall a lot of discussion in that other magazine when both the Ecto and Eldorado kits were first on the shelves, and guys discovered that some of the front end trim from the Monogram kit would fit pretty easily into the Ecto body, if one wants to get rid of the strobe lights in the Ecto grille. This can be done, I am pretty sure, by using two Revell-Monogram '59 Cadillac chassis. Weathering is the name of the game in Toda.

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In the case of the '59 Cadillac "Hourglass" frame, the stretch done by GM for commercial use would have been done in the center "box", the front and rear ends being left standard. Welcome to Part 3 of SciFiantasys build up of the AMT Ecto 1A 1/25 scale model kit from the movie Ghostbusters 2.

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M-M, as with other professional car builders, had to create their own rear side doors, roofs, extended floor pans back door, and perform such modifications to the otherwise standard Cadillac rear quarter panels.

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The firewall/windshield frame assemblies were, I believe, made by Fisher Body Division for the low-production, but prestigious Cadillac Series 75 Sedan Limousine, as more than likely were the front doors. Ecto-1 (and -1a) started out as Miller Meteor Limousine Ambulances, M-M using 1959 Cadillac commercial chassis, standard Cadillac firewalls and front end sheet metal, and Cadillac provided 4dr sedan front doors. You can stretch ONE chassis like Tom shows with cleanly-done sheet styrene parts and achieve an effect very similar to what a coachbuilt stretch job might look like underneath.Ĭadillac actually offered a "commercial chassis" for years aimed at ambulance and hearse builders, before the rise of commercially built "stretched limousines". Independent coachbuilders used to do limo and ambulance conversions of the big Caddys. My guess is that the Ecto wagon would have started life as a custom stretch-job in real life. I work in scale, so I will tell you that the ambulance is 26 scale inches longer as you can see in the above picture. You may have to fiddle with what the chassis will actually look like since you have those seat buckets in the section you will be adding.

Measuring it off, if you cut one Revell chassis at the tail end of that straight section, then cut the other one near the beginning of that same member, you should be able to get that extra length into the chassis. The 26" in length was done on the center section of the X Frame. You can add plastic on each edge to fix that and it wouldn't look any different than the AMT chassis at that point. The Revell chassis is also 8 scale inches more narrow. Your question is doable, but you will need TWO Revell chassis to accomplish this. Above is the AMT Ghostbusters chassis on the left, and Revell Caddy convertible one on the right. A few quick and dirty photos to give you your answer.