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[mrknowetall]

Yep.  Revell strung us out on the '32 roadster kit.  That's the one I REALLY wanted!

[Brett Barrow]

Not that it matters but the model on the box doesn't have a distributor...another mess up

The model IN the box does...   

[horsepower]

 

 

I have all of them except the Rat Roaster, so if you'll send me one, I'll get right on that comparison!     

& I have the Rat Roaster too, along with a half dozen of the Speedwagaon's the first roadster is the only one I don't have multiples of, does that make me special? (other than the fact that I'm computer dumb & can't post pictures)

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Not that it matters but the model on the box doesn't have a distributor...another mess up

 

 

The model IN the box does...   

 

Now that this is all cleared up, perhaps you might like some help finding it, Andy?

 

Courtesy of Casey earlier in the thread:

 

 

Or were you actually talking about the boxcover model? 'Cause to be fair, those are often from earlier production samples, and they have omissions all the time.

Edited by Chuck Kourouklis, 12 February 2013 - 09:43 AM.

[zaina]

 
 
 
Now that this is all cleared up, perhaps you might like some help finding it, Andy?
 
Courtesy of Casey earlier in the thread:
 

 
Or were you actually talking about the boxcover model? 'Cause to be fair, those are often from earlier production samples, and they have omissions all the time.

I was talking about the one ON the box

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Ah, okay then. Tooling isn't always final for those.

[MachinistMark]

Can't wait to get mine tomorrow!

[spkgibson]

Looks like a nice kit....I may pick one up for the custom Gibson ES 335 hollow body guitar.

[tim boyd]

Yup.  Azers got the sequence exactly right.

To add some personal insight here...Revell sent me test shots of all three - the three window, the Speedwagon, and the Roadster Highboy, approximately August of 1996. There were no instructions for any of them. The decal sheets for the three window and Speedwagon arrived a couple of weeks later. I immediately built the Three Window and it appeared on the cover of the other model magazine we love in the December, 1996 issue (sent to subscribers around mid-October). Bill Bozgan also built a kit and his review ran as a sidebar to my article. By the time these articles appeared, the kit had just been introduced, followed by the Speedwagon a few weeks later. But the Highboy Roadster wasn't released until May, 1977.

Mind you, doing this all from memory so take it with a small grain of salt....

TIM

PS - I've just reread the article. Couldn't help but quote the following sentence from the article: "(putting a Chevy V-8 in a Ford street rod is now yesterday's news in the 1:1 street rodding community)". 'Twas true in 1996, and is still true today! (Sorry, can't help myself on this...smile.) TIM

Edited by tim boyd, 12 February 2013 - 03:18 PM.

[MachinistMark]

Still the smartest thing to do as well. Financially, for power, for reliability. The sbf Does Not compare to the mouse.

[tim boyd]

Still the smartest thing to do as well. Financially, for power, for reliability. The sbf Does Not compare to the mouse.

To build on a point made by someone earlier who agreed with me on this subject, putting a SBC Chevy in a'32 Ford today is about as appropriate as putting a Honda 750 4 cylinder in a Harley bike. All of these are icons individually, and rightly so, but they do not belong together any more. TIM

[MachinistMark]

They absolutely do if you have half a brain in your head. The small Chevy will make more power, more reliably, and for less money than a comparably built Ford.

[MachinistMark]

It may not be "original" or "unique" but it just makes sense.

[tim boyd]

They absolutely do if you have half a brain in your head. The small Chevy will make more power, more reliably, and for less money than a comparably built Ford.

Very true twenty years ago, simply not true today.

Now, where did the other half of my brain go? TIm

[MachinistMark]

I build engines for a living Tim
It is still true. Not as pronounced but a Chevy is still cheaper to build.

[MachinistMark]

In fact we have 3 fords in the shop now 331 stroker a Windsor and a Cleveland.

[Michigan Madman]

I still wonder when being 'cheap' became a good thing. Small Block Chevys are cheap, but you'd never get eye surgery from a surgeon who advertises being cheap above all else- even if he was giving away free white canes with every appointment.

[MachinistMark]

Being cheap and still doing everything else better than the more expensive options IS however a good thing.

[johnbuzzed]

They absolutely do if you have half a brain in your head. The small Chevy will make more power, more reliably, and for less money than a comparably built Ford.

Well, how about if one has a whole brain?  I guess only half-wits would use the Chevy .

[johnbuzzed]

I still wonder when being 'cheap' became a good thing. Small Block Chevys are cheap, but you'd never get eye surgery from a surgeon who advertises being cheap above all else- even if he was giving away free white canes with every appointment.

"Cheap" and "best-selling" have never been strong points to me.  A Ferrari might not be a "best seller", nor "cheap", but if you had the $$$, which would you really prefer to buy?  Be honest...