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Revel’s perfect 71 Mustang has a much better frame and engine for the 71-73 Cougars. Just saying.

According to what I’ve read, Chrysler made 63 Hemi Chargers in 1971, so if you google 71 hemi charger you can see their options.

I'm just hoping one will show up sometime in the future.

I'm just hoping. Nothing except my desire for some of these to show up and not be three bills!

I can wait for those 1967 Galaxie kits until next year. I have two I'm building now. That 63 with the camper is cool and I could see one of those Demons making its way to my collection. The 60 Pickup is on my "buy" list along with the much delayed (to me) 71 Muskrat.

Here is one I started in 2008. I should really get it done.

Sprayed it with TS-97 Pearl Yellow with TS-13 Clear over Testors Chrysler Yellow lacquer.

Of course another one I would like to see is a clone of the 67 1/2 Firebird kit. I do not think it was ever reissued.

That's a given, it will be towards the end of the year.

Okay, here is my guess. I believe Round2 will use the newly tooled parts for the 68 Coronet R/T convertible/hardtop to give us a 69 version. My feeling is there is very little changes to the body (except for rear taillights), and they can use the new frame, engine, tires and most of the interior for a 69 kit. Round2 could even give us three kits, one a convertible and the other a hardtop. For just a little bit more plastic they can give us a 69 Super bee sixpack! From what I can tell the only MPC 69 Coronet convertible was the Mission Impossible kit while they never did the Six Pack version. So, let's do a count, 5 kits from a cloned 68 original with a few new parts for the 69 versions. I say give it a go Round2! (And yes, I know about the Monogram/Revell 1/24 69 kits, I just never really liked them so much.)

Started working on this one last week. I got as far as trying to put the front wheels on when I thought to myself, "these plastic pins are a pain. Plus, that engine doesn't look at all good." I went to my model supply cabinet and broke out an AMT 68/69 RR/GTX kit for the frame. I raided a Revell 68 Charger for the engine and am using a B-N-L resin torque flight tranny for the build. How does that AMT frame fit you ask? Very well thank you. I just had to do some minor sanding on the radiator support and firewall to get them to fit properly. I selected the Keystone mags from the Revell 68 Charger kit and the redline tires from the new 68 GTO kit. I am also using the rear axle from the Charger kit since it looks better than what AMT gives us in the 68/69 kits. I still have to play with the location of the rear axle so the wheelbase is right, but here is how it looks right now. Basic engine is done, just needs all the accessories glued on it. Here is how it looks inside the engine compartment. Chrome valve covers are from the Revell 68 Dodge Dart kit. Thanks for looking.

I think that was made from the front bumper of a 59 Ford. Very creative.

You can always use the excellent 67 Mustang for a donor for an updated frame/engine compartmet.

Yes the 68 frame was totally junk. Along with the engine.

A while back someone took my web site name, so I had to change it to something else. Unfortunately, everything that I posted from the old address is now gone. So instead of doing them all individually I will just put the address of my kit review page here for your enjoyment. In Progress - Fords, Lincolns, Mercurys And here are some pics of the 68 Ford. As I got it from eBay I am using a 1969 frame and engine under it. Thanks for looking, check out the link above for way too many models not completed 🙂

A while back someone took my web site name, so I had to change it to something else. Unfortunately, everything that I posted from the old address is now gone. So instead of doing them all individually I will just put the address of my kit review page here for your enjoyment. Car Modeling by Rob, Kit Reviews Thanks

I have wrote off my order to him. I know I’m never going to get my 70 ford galaxie. I hope he had fun with my money. It’s been going on three years now. His Facebook account has not had any action for over a year. Give it up motor city resin is gone and if you send them money you will not get what you want.

I got mine from Spotlight hobbies and I did not have too bad of warpage. A little on one side but glue and holding the part to the bottom of the ramp fixed it pretty well. Don't get too excited by the "extra parts" in the kit. There is one 4x4 front axle, 1/2 of the transfer case, an automatic (useful), a set of 5 lug wheels, and a set of 150 control arms. Not really much that can be used in other builds unless you are missing some pieces from another Moebius kit. One of my tire wheel bars was warped but I managed to get it glued into the tire rack. It looks like maybe someone tossed a tire up there and hit the bar instead of getting in between them, scale damage 🙂 I also got the release of the 76 Caprice for the trailer, that trailer is very warped and looks almost like a banana!

When I was a kid, I probably had about 20 of these tri-fives from Revell. I kept trying to get them better 🙂 The only thing I don't like about this kit is the way the front bumper looks like it's drooping and the headlights. I used the custom headlights from an AMT kit along with the custom nose on only of my builds of this kit and it turned out good. I've not tried the new Revell headlight and grille/bumper on one of these old bodies, but they would probably work as well as the AMT stuff. I may have to get one of these and try my hand again at building one. although I may wait until they release the 57 Nomad kit, the only 1/25 scale 57 Nomad that has the correct rear bumper in it. n

Just thinking here, the RETAIL price may not come down, but what about MANUFACTURING costs?

I did find some 1/25 2016 Corvettes. A could and convertible. I ordered one of the verts.

2014, 2015, 2016 Revell gave us a snap together 2014 kit, then followed up with a Foose 2015. Finally, a full detail 2016. 2017, 2018, 2019 I could not find any kits or promos for these years, but if you can find one of the Revell 2014 or 2016 kits you could probably recreate these years. 2020 (Eighth Generation) Only one available is a 1/24 diecast.

2005, 2006 I could not find any AMT kits for these years, but that's okay, Revell did some excellent kits for these two years. One even has the stuff to build a ZO6. I could not find any visible difference in this generation of Corvette so you could use the Revell 2005 kit to fill in the gaps of missing and/or promo only years. 2007 I found a promo of this year. 2008, 2009 AMT came out with a series of unassembled promo versions of these years. Two were Indy 500 pace car kits. I don't have the 08 or 09 pace cars but here are pics of the boxes. 2010, 2011 In 2010 Revell updated their kit to do the ZR-1. AMT put out the unassembled promo convertible. For 2011, I could only find a promo by Revell I think. 2012 Unassembled promos from AMT filled the gap this year. The last year of this generation was represented by some AMT promo kits of the 60th Anniversary edition. We are getting to the end now, next up, the last two generations of Corvettes.

AMT did Corvettes for two years, both coupe and convertible in 1997 & 1998. I don't have any of those kits, but I do have the really great Revell Corvettes. On the real Corvettes I could not find any visible difference between the years of these cars so in theory you can build any of these years from any of the kits available. For the 1999 year Revell concentrated on building the ZO6 coupe and that was pretty much what the made for the next few years. 97, 98, 99 2000 For this year I only found a snap tight convertible. I don't have it but here is a pic. 2001 Revell updated the ZO6 coupe 2002, 2003 I could only find promo versions of these. Again one can use any of the kits available to make their own on these years since there was no visible difference between the years. 2004 The last kit I found for this generation was another ZO6. Next up, Corvettes from 2005 to 2013

For this generation of Corvettes, the manufacturer was MPC until AMT bought them out, then this gen of Vettes was packaged with AM branding. These are all the same basic kit with updates on the body and wheels when needed. Monogram started making this generation Corvette in 1985 and I believe did kits for 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92. Monogram also did a 1985 in 1/16th scale. Included in the Monogram series was a Callaway roadster. Revell also did this Gen of Corvettes, not sure if they were just rebadged Monogram kits or new ones. All(?) of these are 1/24. 84 The new generation Corvette jumped a year since it was not ready for prime time, so there are no 1983 Corvettes around. Instead, the new generation came out in 1984. MPC did the honors with a couple of 84 versions, one in black while the other was in gold. 85, 86 Basically, the same as the 84 just repackaged as 85 or 86 Corvettes. 87, 88 Retread of the original with updated wheels. MPC did both convertibles and coupes. I think the 1987 Corvette convertible has the same box top as the 86, or it could just be the same kit marketed as an 86, either way it works as there was very little difference between the two years physically wise. 1987 1988 89 Figuring out the years for the next few versions of AMT Corvette kits is confusing. I may have some of them wrong, feel free to correct me. With the 1989 versions, AMT took over the badging. Pretty much same kit except AMT put in different tires. All the MPC kits had small BF Goodrich tires in them, AMT did new tires that more closely matched what was on the real car. In 1989 the ZR-1 Corvette appeared, so AMT concentrated on doing the ZR-1 instead of the standard coupe until 1996. Monogram did a high performance version of the ZR-1 in 1/24 90 AMT did a Guldstrand Grand Sport kit too in 1990. I don't have one but here is this box art for it. 91 I could only find a promo version. 92 93 Besides AMT, Monogram did 1/24 Corvettes in 93, including the 40th anniversary edition. 94, 95 AMT put the years on the boxes for these years, so it is easy to tell what year they are supposed to be. 96 This was the last year for this generation of Corvette. AMT did the coupe GS while Monogram did the convertible GS. We come to the end of this generation of Corvettes. They started out as unloved machines but ended up being pretty good. The next generation was much better received. Next will be the listing of Generation Five Corvettes.