Diecast Restoration - Kenner Fast 111's 1980's Mustang

[@DiecastResurrection]

Hello Happy Sunday, I finally got around to doing something with that green snake mustang. Hope you like what I did with it! Ill be back soon with something cool. Cheers! 🍻🍻

[@urideamabal]

Kenner* ✌

[@FiangJr]

I have a few from when I was a kid I’d like to try and send you I don’t know if you remember but back in the 80s they had the ones that wrecked I have a couple of them still I’d like to have restored

[@FeralPatrick]

I just got 3 of these in a vintage lot - one from my home state. Loved these as a kid, happy to have some again.

[@Strawfoot]

My first car was a 80's foxbody. Best car I ever owned. I still miss it. Thanks for sharing this.

[@miyagi_draws]

I like that you kept the bumper. It's unique and screams 80s.

[@dezrttortis3697]

Miss the work you do on here. You still have some of the best paint jobs for diecast.

[@stephaniewright4336]

I had the silver one with the green snake as a kid! What a transformation!

[@matthewdavis2267]

Hello! You could do an eddie van Halen Frankenstrat color themed 80's car. That would be rad! Keep being you! That makes me smile!

[@TheWeakenedWarrior]

That masking work is superb. Awesome.

[@dj_spaulding]

Nice!!! I remember having a couple of those when I was a kid. That hideous rear bumper is what stuck in my head 🤣🤣

[@statusvip8418]

This car came out gorgeous. But I probably would’ve filed that bumper down to nothing lol

[@diecastchannelminiaturasde2357]

That Mustang has turned up great! There's one thing I would do, though: I'd file that awful rear bumper until I could get it to the shape of the original one and then paint it body color to match the rest of the car. I would also perhaps cut those side mufflers off and perhaps save them for another project! Still, looks way better than it was before!

[@jerrymclean8075]

My thoughts exactly!!

[@joesanders3528]

That turned out nicely...so nicely it is now easy to look past that funky bumper. 👍

[@Rhinexing]

Great job giving new life to this diecast! It brings back good memories of one of my first cars, an '85 Mustang - black with red interior & pinstripes. I drove the wheels off of that car during college!

[@CairnTerrier69]

Beautiful 80’s Mustang! Fitting you gave it a bright red paint job to go with the Indiana plate! I’m sure that will make any IU fan proud! I remember Fast111s as a kid. Bumper aside, they were fast and some interesting models were offered, but even as a kid, I hated the paint jobs! Every vehicle in the line looked like Rainbow Brite threw up on them! Had they offered a few models with the colors you applied, they may have appealed more to the buying masses. But back to this car….you did an amazing job!!!!

[@automotiverenderings]

Details were great. Nice work! I still have all mine in a Matchbox case. Kenner made some fresh looking vehicles in the 80s.

[@octane613]

I LOVE the back to factory restorations. It's very fun, I love factory-stock cars.

[@leee2818]

These are my favorites. Taking a bad looking car and making it look incredible. It's really amazing to see how good some castings are, but horrible paint jobs make them look like junk.

[@BrianMcKnight68]

My Mom worked at Kenner, here in Cincinnati, for many years during my childhood and teen years (mid 70’s thru the early 90’s). I had bunches of these Fast 111’s, including a special chrome Corvette with my name on the the license plate! This one turned out great and I’m glad you kept the weird bumper.

[@GeekJohn]

That looked unrecognizable by the end! I remember hating on those rear bumpers looks as a kid also 😂

[@JamieBaber]

What a beautiful red color

[@thisolesignguy2733]

I really liked how the paint looked at 4:50, with the white top and red fade at the bottom. That looked really kewl! Definitely an idea for a future job

[@R1chardB1ngham]

Man I've been trying to find one of these Kenner Mustangs for ages! The casting went on to become a Matchbox in 1987, got a couple of those. Love how this one turned out, the details really bring it to life

[@fpsweet66]

Great stuff. The only thing that needs to be black is the air inlet grill by the windshield. Bring back great memories from high school.

[@neongrey784]

My grandpa's got couple of random old discast cars I guess from when my dad was a kid, and I've never wanted to play with the strange green snake covered mustang with a bumper that I never understood. Crazy you found the exact same one and made it look so much better lol

[@r.a.monigold9789]

My "80's Mustang Story" is about a '70's Mustang. One of just 500 Dealer Only Mustang GT 500's by Shelby. That was me. It was in the 80's but the car was all 70's - plexiglass rear windows and a 427 Tri Power 500 horse with four on the floor. What a story. Real too. It all started...

[@MichaelBlueMusic]

Love this!! As soon as you stripped this and we saw that beautiful casting underneath I immediately ordered the cheapest one I could find on eBay! Probably going to paint it like a silver ‘79 Pace Car, but with only the trim black like you did here, not the whole black bottom. Love it! Thanks!! (And, hope you’re well! Please come back soon!!) 💙

[@russhoffman6301]

Never knew Kenner made diecast cars at one time, and I was a kid when they were doing it

[@darkfysh]

Reminds me of my first Drag strip build, a '79 mustang. It was somewhat red and blue and primer grey LOL. I had no budget for paint spent it all on "go fast parts". car ran 12's all day NA back in the n=mid '80's . Thanks for the flash backs!!

[@neilpatrickhairless]

I remember these! I had a bunch of Saturn Seekers in various colors, but they all had the same decal colors IIRC. Also had a few vans... Same story

[@jasonrackawack9369]

Had this green one with the cobra snake graphic, one of my favorites as a kid😉👍

[@texasdiecastcustoms]

That paint looks amazing. Beautiful build and excellent video!

[@gabrielruzzi4452]

Very cool video!! Love fox body stangs and this one was especially well done!! Keep on rocking glu, glu, glu, glu!!

[@SELIMNIVEK]

Good Sunday, ITS BEAUTIFUL 🤩 !

[@robbiemer8178]

Great job on that one! I wonder, was that rear bumper made like that as part of some launcher system? Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

[@LanceMannion]

I would have to think that it was used to display the license plate, as they were supposed to be accurate plates.

[@billystanley8085]

Mustang looks great 👍. I agree with you and that bumper doesn't need to be there. Love the red and black. Awesome job

[@Gappasaurus]

Loving this build, as it brings back memories not only of collecting Fast 111s back in the day (including the gray version of the “King Cobra” here), but also of my very first car, a ‘79 foxbody 🥰

[@mikeupton5406]

Not my first car, but had 93 Fox Body 5.0 for years. Great car.

[@72jorel]

O my these bring me back !! Lol I remember this one ,lol I m gonna go and check them out. Thank you for the flashback lol...😎👍🏻

[@robbyclower9223]

Again another work of art I wish I could paint like that.

[@jtrogue]

I loved the fast111s as a kid. Still have a few and looking for more at flea markets. Can't wait for ours to open in Minnesota.

[@MrTbone127]

DUDE you are the KING!!!!! best paint jobs on the internet!

[@Spennyman10]

When Matchbox was bought by the makers of Kenner they reused this casting, the Blazer, Dune buggy and Jeep. Cool ride.

[@charliejames1981]

Nice job on the Mustang.. Those were the cars I see a lot when I was growing up.. It was mostly both the red/blue Mustangs driving or racing up and down the block..

[@carlosramsesdelosreyesbeni3375]

VERY NICE CUTE BEAUTIFUL CUSTOMIZED PAINT JOB TO THE FORD MUSTANG GT SUPERFASTBACK FOXBODY IN. CHERRY RED BLOODED AND BLACK STYLE YOU REALLY GOT THERE BUDDY BOY 👍 👁️👁️😀😃😁😂 GOOD JOB 👍 EXCELENTE !👍

[@klj5150]

My first car was a 1987 Mustang LX with the 5.0. I was stationed in Germany and bought it new. Wore it out on the Autobahn!

[@davidjohnston330]

Fantastic Restoration. I think the car is happier for it! 🤗🤗

[@SumCanadianGuy]

1ish coat of black.. Perfect!

[@giovannisanseverino3549]

That Mustang came out amazing

[@mortenhenningsen940]

Turned out great. Fun to watch you fix the poor choice colour/tampo cars. I think you nailed this one. Think the Black on the hood aded that extra power to it

[@chrislight4325]

Man, that really came out nice! It’s so 80s Ford. Reminds me of the fox body T-birds too. I like the stock looking restorations. 👍🏻

[@braunx25]

Not bad. I’d still like to see you use a light box and the “rotisserie” for the reveal. Always look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@chargoldsmith5112]

Very nice paint job! Reminds me of my moms mustang 82 I believe she had. It was red with red interior, it was stolen out of our driveway sometime around 2004 or so. Was a very cool car! 🚘

[@tonyneises5195]

👍👍👍 Looks great. I really like the way you take these and make them look like a factory car. Coolio 👍👍👍

[@jimbrown5055]

Hello from Seattle....What a beautiful choice of colors.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 too bad Kenner didn't do a better job with that rear bumper!

[@BernsteinOmega]

That paint looks wet! Best makeover this year!

[@CrazyCat229]

*complaint noises* Kidding! I just love watching you paint.

[@junkionix]

It's beautiful and you have a new subscriber! When I was a kid and these were new in stores, my mom bought me the Shark Shifter and a friend had the Rally Champ. This line of cars were very fast compared to other diecast cars of the time. There were also a lot of cool castings with interesting shapes, paint jobs and crazy names.

[@jamiebaber9533]

Love that redcolor

[@the_blue_gamer]

This is actually my dream car. And I love everything the way you did it. Spot on the way I would have a mustang looking.

[@DerthDeboblo]

As I'm currently trying to collect most/all Fast 111's, I'm loving this! Nice job!

[@MacSqueeky]

Awesome job and car. My first car was an 84 Mustang. Did alot of stupid things in that car. Miss it all the time.

[@gregabreu7346]

Nice paint job that what it should’ve look like. Don’t care for the bumper in back. Great job bro.

[@joemiddendorf2076]

Looks great 👍 I have a bunch of those old Kenner Fast 111’s. A few of them were still being made as matchbox cars without the big rear bumpers of course. They were purchased by matchbox at some point and I think it was 3 or 4 cars made it over as matchbox cars one of them was this mustang casting. I forget what the others were. Thanks for sharing your great work on all the cars you have done.

[@davebuonocore8539]

Dang that really looks great in red great job.

[@scotsman94]

Sleek! Huge improvement over the snake theme. Love the wheel upgrade.

[@williamwilkinson6665]

@scotsman94. ... improvement my @ss.. I loved the snake 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

[@louisvictor3473]

"I hope you like my Mustang" sounds like innuendo to me!

[@MrMikeyt65]

Great job !! Had a neighbor who had a black one ,I love the look of this model!

[@calpitodoesstuff5566]

Excellent work as always, looking forward to the next Video! I wanna see something with the Gold Leafing and the wood paneling, that would be a fun project.

[@fatboyshadetree5139]

For the turn signals and taillights i Molotow them then after drying i hit em with a paint pen. It goes on kinda see through so it makes the lens look shiny.

[@MatSpeedle]

Beautiful! That black trimming really makes it look perfect

[@bjscustoms]

Definitely a cool mustang build. I need to find some of those Kenner castings. I think they are cool.

[@TinaMdot]

I love the outcome, it looks real. Have you ever thought about doing the lights as decals, that would make the look more realistic too.

[@randoliof]

I believe he did that in one video (can't remember which one), and it looked pretty good, as I recall

[@leongoddard7047]

Your work on this casting looks great. Like you mentioned, back that thang up! Haha. Nice improvement.

[@SavioScott]

Holy moly... This is a sweet casting. Can I suggest use of different finishes. Example, matte finish for the black accents/trim.

[@RGH5760]

Awesome job, you’re definitely one of the best painters, if not the best! But wow is that back bumper thing hideous. 🇨🇦strong

[@HotRodsCustomsRacing]

Sweet!!! You brought it back to life!

[@timothysealey1391]

Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!!!!!

[@jameshunt9130]

Wow Major difference excellent job

[@martinchristian7270]

Nice looking paint job. That car would be pretty cool if it weren’t for that rear bumper ( my god! What was Kenner thinking).

[@tootalltechiegh]

Looks great as always. Would never have thought that the fox body Mustangs would develop into such a fast drag car. That rear bumper is a badly done example of a rear splitter. Why they did it to the original we may never know.

[@garycollins9477]

Awesome job 👍

[@dave499]

Looks fantastic, except for that weird drooping bumper. Saw it off! Love that Marlboro Twin Mill in the background.

[@Guitarrockstar5683]

Happy Sunday! Good job

[@PaperworkNinja]

Fantastic work! I remember hearing "Rollin' in My 5.0" blaring out of every other Mustang in my high school parking lot. If you also didn't have a mullet and Zubaz pants to go with your Mustang, you probably were just a mechanic working on your first custom. If you did have the mullet and Zubaz, you probably had a dad who bought you the Mustang. Me? I drove a horrible 1979 Buick Regal.

[@NitrousDiecast]

Wow, the paint looks wetttttt! Nice work!

[@jimlowe6386]

The Mustang is Awesome!! Love it!!!

[@tork62077]

Ok hands down my favorite car!! I own a 91 gt mustang so maybe I’m biased. My favorite part of this video is that you call it a “mustang” so tired of everyone calling them foxbodys. I love the channel I look forward to the next videos as always.

[@fordfandiecast]

Awesome build. That red is spot on. The casting is sweet just hate the side pipes and that rear bumper is hideous. Much improved over stock ugly snake design. Great job!

[@hugochristiankuttelpalomo4778]

LOOOOVE THIS MUSTANG remember my cousin car, what a great job!!! ughhh remember the green Snake one what a trash and see it now

[@lotharrenz4621]

I don't think these castings ever made it to germany... this is a sweet result, the casting is surprisingly well-detailed. :) never mind the "glass" insert. they must have had some plastic leftovers and used it for that. ah well, what can you do. :) love the paintjob, and the wheels look great, too. ^^ my story with these... 3 years ago when I was working as a car mechanic, a customer brought a 80 HT 5.0 to get back in shape for technic checkup and registering for classic ride. so we tried to get a replacement for the front mask, which was misshaped and losing paint, and came up short. NOBODY had a mask for a 78-80 mustang, not even used... so it got repainted. also, the interior plastics were so brittle in places it was no fun. my own ride is a Ford Taunus from 1974, and the interior holds up better, even without garage or shelter. :P I was also disappointed by the tiny trunk. but the customer was happy in the end, so there. :)

[@joeledger5580]

Came out amazing...I was doing a clean out at a property and found a bunch of the Kenner card still in the blisters, unfortunately the cards were cut. I don't know whether to add them to my collection or make customs, either way it will be fun.

[@DadBodGarage]

I love these videos! makes me want to dig out some of my old ones and restore them.

[@1991pony]

One of the sought after paint schemes on the later fox mustangs was to have "titanium lowers". If you do another one later, try Reef Blue with titanium lowers, it will be spectacular. Thanks.

[@leoriley1001]

Hello to you as well sir. Gotta say this one really took me back in time as well. My first car was a red 80 mustang and to top it off my home state is Indiana also. Awesome job as always and patiently waiting for your next custom video.

[@stevemehallick2417]

Sweet paint job!!

[@geminialves8746]

Amazing, can we see customize one without the bumper. Definitely love that one though.

[@blownmouse]

Not an 80's Mustang story but a 70's one. Used to own a 76 Cobra 2 with a built 302 and a 4spd. Very fast little car. Wish I had never sold it all those years ago.

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

My favorite part... " even if it's not right"

[@dalerobertson9394]

Hello. Looks awesome. Very nice....... in Borat voice.

[@syndarkheart6562]

Loved this one I had a real life mustang like that one roughly the same year , which mine was maroon so it was nice to see ya choose red. Man did this car ever bring back memories.

[@kungfuchimp5788]

Beautiful work, as always.

[@garyjust.johnson1436]

I used to have a hot wheels mustang like this, back when they still had opening doors and an opening hatch door too! I think hotwheels even made a T Top version of the fox body mustang. Your paint job looks awesome! Elbow deep!