Mark

Ertl did a '70 Corvette retro promo, not a '68.

The Revell 1963 Stone, Woods, & Cook Willys kit (the opening-doors one) is a replica of that car in its early form, and it had a steel front end and hood (with a customized grille). The car later had a fiberglass front end installed to replace the steel parts. The kit has the latch detail.

This car probably ran on alcohol instead of nitro, putting it into the (lower) Pro Comp classes.

I'm surprised there isn't a company in Canada doing those conversions.

I was about to say that. My mom had a set of those on her '77 Cutlass Supreme. The original tires were put on with the whitewalls out, but we talked her into turning the next set to the inside and it looked a bunch better. The AMT '66 Mustang wheels are a different brand but are probably the closest thing to be found. They are NOT in issues produced after the mid-Eighties however. Adding some chrome rings to the front of them will make them more closely resemble the Appliance wheel.

Pat Ganahl later built a '60 Plymouth wagon that appeared on the cover of Scale Auto. I'm pretty sure he also built a model of the John Milner Deuce coupe in an article that appeared in Street Rodder magazine. This was around the time the movie was current, several years after the AMT '32 coupe kit was (at that time) last issued but prior to the mid-Seventies reissue.

I saw the Lancer chrome parts tree (unplated) among the test shots in the short video. I didn't see anything of the Valiant though.

Can't think of one. Chevrolet had the Malibu Laguna S-3, but that was available long before the Can Am.

The rule insisting on using the "factory/showroom" suspension design ended with the downsized cars in 1981. But a lot of the early downsized cars' chassis were cut down from earlier ones, as the more modestly funded teams waited on the big dogs to sort out which chassis layout was best. It's probably a toss up when it comes to the earliest downsized Mopars, but if I were guessing I'd go with a cut-down longitudinal torsion bar front/leaf spring rear setup. Petty was the last bucks-up racer running a Mopar, after he switched he sold off a lot of his stuff to the other racers.

Nope, it has the '78 style rear window.

The blue custom pictured is indeed based on the '78 pace car. I still have the pace car (I collect those), and had the custom at one time.

The "logistics" on the trailer door is hilarious...

Anything with the ammonia odor will have adverse effects on any model kit plating (vacuum metallizing) that you may wish to save. Even if you find masking material that won't affect the plating, whatever you try to use to remove the unmasked plating will probably creep under the masking medium. I'd hand (brush) paint the areas that need to be painted. If you have to add something to the paint to slow its drying and lose the brush marks in the process, then do that.

Cast iron or aluminum?

The wagon taillights were the more popular ones for customizing because they bolted right onto '55-'56 Fords and Thunderbirds. Nobody really used the Mercury passenger car units on other cars, so with no 1/25 scale Merc kits there are no taillights available.

'61 Ford Galaxie.

That's a parts pack dragster. I'm pretty certain the newer Slingster was tooled and produced overseas, if so then Atlantis didn't get that one.

That's the Plymouth, the only one in the Revell series that duplicated the Jo-Han version. Both were two-door hardtops. All of the others differed from the AMT or Jo-Han versions in trim level or body style. Neither of those companies offered a Dodge Lancer, Revell had that one to themselves. The Dodge Dart body was modified for the funny car version, so who knows if, or in what form, it would resurface.

Just from the pictures here, I'm seeing parts from the Revell '62 Imperial, '62 Chrysler convertible, '62 Plymouth, and '62 Dodge Lancer...

Darryl Starbird had a tendency to restyle the cars he kept over the years. He didn't do that with the Orange Hauler (Ultra Truck) because he'd sold it to Monogram and they gave it away in a contest. But it might be interesting to see a restyled Seventies version: different bubble (or windscreen), a set of "turbine mag" wheels with obnoxious white-letter tires, and the ubiquitous rectangular headlamps...

If it's a newly bought can, or one you have in stock that you know has been sitting, shake that thing until you can freely roll the agitator ball around the base of the can. The can pictured looks new, but who knows how long it sat in a warehouse...

I'd also consider bagging the pieces and tucking them into the interior until you have the confidence to dive into this repair. Get experience on less valuable items first. Like Ed Roth used to say: "don't mutilate, unless it's cheap!"

Not if you switched the axle shafts and brake drums. Both 5 and 8 lug setups were stock, thus legal for Stock classes. The Grand Prix grille inserts were legal too, they fell under "mild customizing" which was allowed under the rules also.

I'd put the pieces back, but unless the rest of the body is really trashed I wouldn't even think about repainting or anything remotely like it.

If you are using one of the Trophy Series engines with the short closed drive transmission, cut it off and substitute the open drive transmission from either of the engines from the '53 pickup kit. Adapters were available for both (maybe the same one was used?).