Carmak

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.

This is how all of the Hasegawa 65/66 kits started life - slot cars. The only two worth getting are the 66 Cadillac and the 66 Bonneville as they are the only game in town so to speak. The bodies are not perfect coppies but they are close and look "right". There is a great opportunity for a resin caster or 3D printer to make correct interiors and chassis for these two.

Wow! 80's Monogram style suspension! No axles thru the engine. Exceed my expectations for a Craftsman kit!