Carmak

An interesting juxtaposition. This post that is about the affection people have for a kit that has been re-issued multiple times since its original release 60+ years ago. The post directly below this post (as of 11:00am CST 25-NOV-2025) is a discussion about excess re-issues of old tooling.

Nice resto. You have been posting a series of nice cars, well done! I am a big fan of 63 Buick Electras. Over the years I have accumulated over a half dozen rebuilders and they are typically missing the front corner lights. Last spring I carefully measured a corner light I did have, and I did a little research on the actual bezel and lens. I did some CAD work and 3D printed replacement parts. The pics show an actual lens with horizontal ribs (the kit piece has a mesh pattern), my CAD design and the initial printed parts compared to original piece. After I took the comparison pic I did a little careful sanding and got the fit almost perfect. Now that I have the corner lights, I am starting to restore some of my collection. Hope it comes out as nice as yours.

I am planning to visit the Speedway museum next year and really hope to see the surviving pieces from the Revell large scale SBC project the moved there from Utah. I few years ago I found an early issue unbuilt Big T (with the black wall tires) and I had a "holy cow" moment! Storage is a legit issue. I was lucky to find the perfect vintage display scale for my 1/8 survivors.

If you need a set in 1/24 scale, there are in some of the stock or 3in1 Revell/Monogram 78 ElCamino kits also.

The modern tool version should not be hard to find at a reasonable cost.

Short answer: If you are talking about the modern tooling 58 Edsel, I would speculate that we will see it again. If you are talking about any of the 58-60 Edsel annual kits, I would speculate it is very unlikely that we will see them again.

I started this topic and my goal was just to talk about the improved chassis detail over previous Craftsman clone kits. Didn't know how soon the 65 Barracuda would be publicly shown in detail.

Happy to see the Funny Hugger II Canaro back. Really hope it has cool decals.

Here are some pics on the Walmart Exclusive MPC Sundowner 84 GMC.

The Walmart box art also shows tires with dual stripe red/white line tires.

I just saw this pic posted on Facebook. It's a fresh pallet of Round2 models at Walmart. Notice some of the unique box art on some of the kits. It reminds me a bit of the old checkerboard box art AMT kits from a couple decades ago.

This is the "Commando" 273.

I was watching some of the HPIguy build and the body looks like it has the V Commando emblems on the front fender. Probably not correct for the slant 6 but perfect for how many of us are going to complete our builds.

In the grand scheme we are lucky the Hasegawa tooling survived.

The 1:24/1:25 scale slot car bug hit Japan hard in the mid-60's. I suspect the subtleties of what was and was not an appropriate American stock car was not important at that time in Japan. Tamiya also got into the promo copy bodies for slot cars.