Robberbaron

Sounds familiar. Years ago our oldest bought our neighbor's 2006 Nissan Altima. We decided to pull the oxidized, yellowed headlight housings to try to rub them out and clear coat them. Discovered that the procedure to change any of the front bulbs was to pull the entire front bumper cover/grill assembly. In addition to all the pins, each side also had a set of screws in the wheel arches, so procedure said to pull both front wheels too. Turns out I was able to turn the wheels to each side enough to access the screws. Still, once I saw everything involved I decided to install all new bulbs before reinstalling the housings.

Stuff like this has never been my cup of tea. However, over the years I've seen how many people love this kit and have a deep emotional attachment to it (similar to Badman, etc.). Think this will be a HUGE seller for Atlantis.

'63 Lemans came out of left field for me. Never would have guessed that most of the original tooling survived. Suspecting that a coupe version will be announced in the near future, a la the '64 Cutlass and '68 Coronet. And I agree, the mind starts racing regarding other similar scenarios. First thought that comes to my mind is the '65 Falcon.

Michael's has a 40% coupon on their website right now, so stopped by after work and picked up an MPC '68 Coronet hardtop. (Sure not gonna pay the $39.99 list price.)

Dude's Torino is a '73. Different grill, front/rear bumpers, and taillights. Gotta imagine that a '73 would be available in 3D too, just because of The Big Lebowski.

Remember reading about that one back in the day. Sticks in my mind that they said he always ran with the tailgate down for weight transfer. Really like your attention to detail like the sumped tank and swapping in the TH400.

Nice choice on the Brass Monkey wheels.

Round 2 didn't butcher anything. Sounds like your beef goes back about 45 years and four owners ago, when they were briefly owned by Lesney/Matchbox. That's when the current configuration of this kit came out as a mash up between the original "Pro Stock" and the factory stock versions. Think its been fifty years since the race buckets were included in the original '75 Pro Stock version. This new reissue box art pays homage to that original Pro Stock release, but with the needed description change to "Pro Street" along with revising the grill to the 76-78 style. As the tooling currently exists, I'd wager that it's probably not possible to reissue it as either a straight pro stock or factory stock anymore. I think Round 2 would have done that if they could. And no, I don't think enough interest exists to justify retooling any parts for either of those versions. With the awful roof proportions of this body, that would just be turd polishing

After MPC issued the '77 Ventura, they revised the tooling and Issued it as the '77 Nova. Eventually it got updated to the '79 Nova which was just reissued. The original Pontiac engine was slightly revised to look like a small block Chevy. MPC didn't bother correcting the interior either, so it still has the Ventura seat patterns, etc. Chances are it will always remain as the '79 Nova and not get backdated or converted back to a Ventura. Like it or not, more potential buyers identify with a Chevy Nova vs. a Pontiac Ventura.

Nice! First time I've seen anyone do the yellow houndstooth interior in one of these.

Not sure why you would need the '77 Monte interior, the one in the pictures looks good to me. Seat patterns look correct for a '74 Laguna. Monte Carlos had different seat patterns and upper door panels, so the Revell MC interior wouldn't be technically correct.

Outstanding! Great to see that it is finally becoming easier to build factory stock third generation Chevelles now with 3D printing. Quite impressed with the accuracy, since you said you did no major changes. Also appreciate your attention to detail on this, including all the specific Laguna Type S-3 details like the color-matched bumper rub strips and the body-colored rally wheels. Icing on the cake is the 400 engine call-outs. I think this color combo was by far the most common for the '74s. Man, those interiors were RED!

Agree 100%. Aside from the Nova/Chevy II kits, I believe EVERY other car tooling that Moebius has created has had either NASCAR and/or drag race variations baked in.

For the 2-doors, the main difference was the 70-1/2 Falcons were built as "post coupes"with full window frames/B-pillars. The other Fairlane and Toronto coupes were only available as hardtops with no B-pillars. It was a strange choice, since Ford had dropped the 2-door post body style for the previous 68-69 generation. Hard to believe it was worth the money going through the trouble to deliberately try to make the Falcon versions more "downmarket".