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[Daddyfink]

For Drag Builder, these are the ones that I notice the most:

 

Revell Miss Deal Funny Car - Wheels, Tires, Engine and Suspension

Revell Tony Nancy Double Dragster Set - Front Axles, injectors and scoops, chassis

Monogram 80' Pro Stocks - Engines, tires and wheels, rear suspensions, chassis

MPC/AMT Willy Borsch Winged Express- Chassis under almost any altered out there, engine, wheels and tires, engine

Revell 70's Funny Cars- Chassis Donors for Resin bodies

Polar Lights Funny Cars- Chassis Donors

AMT Piranha Funny Car- Wheels and tires, engine, chassis 

AMT Pro Street cars- Suspension and engines

 

And those are just off the top of my head! Your mileage may vary!

[Tom Geiger]

Remember the old IMC VW Beetle?  It was later issued by Union, a Japanese company, and the tool hasn't resurfaced.  I have several of that Union release and noticed that you can build the stock Beetle and still have the entire drag chassis to use elsewhere! I'm hoping to do that someday... great project idea number 698 on the list!

[greymack]

 Hi guys well something I picked up on recently was  kits with skill level 3 -5 means more parts.I thought I'd add that too.Well lets hear more of them donor kits guys.

[mk11]

I can't remember the last kit I bought to just build as is. Ran into a couple of good deals on the kenz/leslie cougar f/c so now I've got relatively accurate logghe chassis for a dyno don comet I've been wanting to build. As the t-bolts are plentiful and cheap lately especially in the street burner series they're gonna be foundations for the 64 and 65 Comet drag cars I''m working on. Now with Moebius's pending 69/71 Ford trucks, I've finally got potential use for all the stuff I've been stockpiling in the way of drivetrain/body/4WD chassis from other truck kits...

 

 

mike  

[Karl LaFong]

Revell "Miss Deal" is great because it contains pieces from the old Revell parts packs - engine, wheels & tires, & front suspension.

AMT Double Dragster - tons o' parts for vintage draggers

Pre-1991 Monogram/Revell NASCAR Thunderbird - with some minor tweaks the chassis & running gear can be used to vastly improve 70's AMT & MPC NASCAR kits (e.g. '75 Matador).

[jbwelda]

i would have to say the tamiya lotus super seven. probably bought 5 or 6 of those kits and used the motors, wheels, suspension, interior bits pretty much all of them in various builds. very nicely detailed components like foot pedals with master cylinders in place, kool rear link suspension, good stuff.

 

and then the fujimi enthusiast kits of the 356 Porsches in various forms. mostly picked up a half dozen of the testors rebox of them with broken bodies, and they are a wellspring of highly detailed upgrades for VWs as well as nice to swap into even later porsches for the added details.

 

when i was a kid i remember the double dragster kit being a real favorite and i would use that fiat body along with the coupe from the Sizzler a lot including the hemi from the sizzler because it looked so massive. and i used those clear cycle front wheels a bunch too cause i thought they looked pretty kool.

[disabled modeler]

ANY....long as its 1/25th or 1/24th scale