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Just a tip, the front glass is the same for all Revell and Monogram 1965 and 1966 Mustang Fastbacks and Shelbys, they are all from the same basic tooling.

The Budweiser King and ARMY dragsters was the last Top Fuel dragsters from Revell and they came 2002.

I personally don't like the 10 spoke wheels in these kits, they doesn't look right to me. The 10 spokes in the 1968 Shelby are even worse.

I have seen 3D printed ones...I don't remember where tho'.

The thing with Revell and their "modern era" Top Fuel kits is that the first one was Don Garlits Swamp Rat XXX in 1987 (now with Atlantis)...and that bit them in the tail end as that dragster was pretty much a one off and no other team followed on that one. So they had to start all over and do mostly everything new when they did the Gary Ormsby Castol GTX and Joe Amato Valvoline dragsters in 1991 and they plus the following kits in 1992, the Lori Johns Jolly Rancher and Tom McEwen Mobil 1 dragsters, were very accurate, after that even tho' they did some updates, they fell behind more and more and could never really catch up. With the Funny Car kits wich first was introduced under the Monogram brand they based all the "modern era" kits on the Don Prudhomme Pepsi/Wendy's Pontiac, Dale Pulde Miller Warrior Pontiac and Billy Meyer's Chief Auto Parts/7-Eleven Mustang from 1985, so they all have the same basic chassie and engine from that time with some small updates, and new bodies as they changed over the years, and same here, they did updates but never enough to catch up.

I plead guilty as charged.😁

Looks much better...the snap wheels are way too shallow to look realistic.

I'm not sure the SS/E car and the C/MP car was the same car. The SS/E car has a blue metallic painted roof and the body was most likely intended for NASCAR as the filler panel for the smaller rear window was smoothed out and the NASCAR Superbirds did not have vinyl tops nor side markers. The C/MP car had a black vinyl top like all the Superbirds you could buy from the dealer and the vinyl top was there to hide the filler panel for the rear window. The SS/E car was built specially for the SS/E class and was not entirely legal and there were only two built for the class, one for Sox & Martin and one for Jack Werst, the rear axle was moved forward, the whole wing was weighted down, one front wheel was moved forward slightly and the engine was moved back...all this wasn't allowed in the Super Stock class. They might be the same car but as I said, I'm not sure...and there are two Superbirds in the shop picture.

Yes they are...I have two. Back to the original programming.

Very nice.

One can say Revell/Monogram entered the "modern" nitro racing era at the worst time back in 1985 with the Funny Cars kits and 1987 with the Top Fuel kits, the evolution in the nitro classes both technically and visually was so fast in the mid 80's and 90's so it was hard to keep up as it changed all the time, and every time Revell did updates to the kits they still fell behind as they didn't do enough as the progress in the sport was so fast...but that progress slowed down and stabilized in the early 2000's so if they had persevered and had done the necessary updates to the last kits the kits would have been a lot more accurate even for today as most of the progress after that are internal and technical. The Top Fuel kits from 2002 are the last issued from Revell, but they did not do all the necessary updates on these kits and that I can't understand as it wasn't that much, they did some updates but not everything needed to even do the cars correct for what they were supposed to be. The things needed updating in these kits to be what they use today are mostly a different roll cage with a head shield and a larger wind shield, or a DSR canopy, the ignition should have larger 44 amp MSD magnetos instead of the smaller Mallory Super Mag III magnetos, the fuel system needs Sid Waterman "Big Bertha" inline gear fuel pumps instead of the old style side by side Enderle rotor pumps, a set back 14-71 blower and intake manifold, new titanium valve covers with spark plug shields, a one piece front wing mounted in front of the nose instead of the two wings mounted to the sides of the nose, a 3 element rear wing with updated side panels instead of the 2 element wing, a larger puke can, and a belly pan...and that's about it...there are also some explosion blankets and hold down straps on the engines but they are easy to do. If Revell had done most of these updates to the Tony Schumacher ARMY Dragster and the Kenny Bernstein Budweiser King Dragster wich were the last issued from Revell they would pretty much have been up to date even today 23 years later...except for wheels wich change all the time, the rest is what they still use to this day. For the Funny Cars they need to do the same things to the engine as with the Top Fuel Dragsters, a fuel tank with a dry sump oil tank beside it (funny cars have dry sump systems to be able to mount the engine lower in the chassis), change the roll cage some and put on a head shield and padding, and of course the bodies and the wheels.

Nice build, very well detailed and right for the time period.

I believe so. The new AMT kit of the CO 4070A is based on the original ERTL release, and as they didn't have the tooling wich was altered to the CO 4070B Transtar II back in 1976 they scanned the old kit and made new and improved ones.

I believe it's the only release as this kit never was re-issued after the 4300 came, the kit number 8001 IH 4270 was in the ERTL catalog for quite a while tho', at least up to 1980, so they might not have sold very well.

Nice one Tommy