Luc Janssens

Looks like Chris of Hpiguys is building one.... A question for Steve Goldman tho; is the stock grille still included or is blocked off? Cheers Luc

If this is what it takes to have a standard bench seat and OEM wheels, I'm all for it, besides think it will be nice in red. Cheers!

It's a mad mad mad mad world.

Tim, I believe they are, tho later on Klaus Lassen of Revell Germany designed all kinds of variations. You can find him on Facebook Cheers!

Have one too, the plan is to mate the mixer bits to a Autocar truck, cuz IMHO it looks more like a rough work truck. A project for when I retire in 5 or do years.

Indeed, they always fascinated me ever since I was a child browsing through a sixty-two Revell product catalog my dad had.

In a perfect world, there would be tooling for almost every type of engine once available, which with modular tooling can be added to subject X, Y or Z. Anyway, If Round2 had such an engine it would've been easier and more cost-effective for them to scan and improve than start from scratch, they hardly can scan an engine of a competitor, no?! Now that we're talking about engines, I wonder what happened to the masters of the Ross Gibson resin engines and if they can't be scanned and have the design adapted to injection molding.... Yeah...I'm in a what if mode again, please kill me LOL

Bummer to get it presented all in one box, but as a modeler there are options, as you wrote Tim.

Is there an engine in an Amt or Mpc kit that can be used for this, the rationale behind this is that it can be reversed engineered by Round2. I know it up's the cost, it's just for a one-pager what if?

Always great to learn from those with grease and brake dust on their hands and overall, how the mechanical bits work and interchange.

Would there be interest in backdating this kit into a '71, and if so would it take more that retooling a new front bumper-grille assy' and rear bumper with taillites? Cheers Luc

IMHO, you're selling a dream, one which one can't own in real life due to practical reasons, like having a family. How many two doors went out the door when the first child was born, only to regret selling it when the kids went out the door. In other cases it's all about the dream "if I was a rich man, race or rally driver" and not stuck in this boring nine-to-five job; Exotics, WRC, Nascar, etc... But then there's nostalgia too, which makes annual kits built as a kid come back. Still, I also wonder if reminiscing that old family 4dr. or wagon would be equally as strong or stronger incentive to wanna buy a model or model kit of one's past family history. IMHO a good way to test this would be releasing the Super Natural Impy as a regular Impala, tooling up new wheels and bench seat. Yeah...I know I'm getting of track here, but always nice to brainstorm over stuff like this Cheers Luc

I remember this one being reissued, but it was still under the prior owner of the Amt, Mpc and Ertl brands. So when Round2 took over the tooling of previously mentioned brands, these were not part of the deal or just forgotten about. I already regret selling that extra Dodge Ram snapper I had. Also a pitty Amt/Ertl at the time didn't follow thru with their full detail kit of the Ram Sport truck, which didn't go further than the body buck, Revell's Ram VTS Show truck probably axed it Cheers Luc

It should've read; rear body cavity. My mind was faster than my two-finger typing.

Wonder if the rear body cavity of the tool can be swapped too.