1/25 Revell '67 Corvette Coupe

[Exotics_Builder]

I have a coupe and roadster down in the stash.  I can check, but the coupe has the single 4BBL BBC whilst the Roadster 3 2BBl BBC.  The Coupe has Rally Wheels and Roadster the "finned" wheels.  Also, the roadster has the side exhausts, and I don't believe the coupe does.  Here is a Roadster I built years back when they first came out.

 

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Exotics_Builder said:

I have a coupe and roadster down in the stash.  I can check, but the coupe has the single 4BBL BBC whilst the Roadster 3 2BBl BBC.  The Coupe has Rally Wheels and Roadster the "finned" wheels.  Also, the roadster has the side exhausts, and I don't believe the coupe does.  Here is a Roadster I built years back when they first came out.

 

Very, VERY nice! 

Here's mine. As I said, I had a lot of time in reshaping the whole front end. 

[deuces wild]

Both of those look beautiful...??

[Casey]

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10849289

[stavanzer]

Need the Roadster guts in the coupe body.

I much prefer the finned wheels and Tri-Power.

[deuces wild]

I'll agree with the tri-power setup... I'm just not a big fan of those turbine wheels...

[Raoul Ross]

While the lettering is a little big, that upper radiator hose is awesome!

[Dr Crapologist]

I coulda sworn I bought both of these when they first came out but they're not in the Revell crate. Anybody remember these being issued in Promodeler boxings with photoetch? Can't get to my Monogram crate at the moment but that's what the brain cells are indicating.

Tanks

Doc

[Exotics_Builder]

2 hours ago, Dr Crapologist said:

I coulda sworn I bought both of these when they first came out but they're not in the Revell crate. Anybody remember these being issued in Promodeler boxings with photoetch? Can't get to my Monogram crate at the moment but that's what the brain cells are indicating.

Tanks

Doc

67 - Not that I can remember.  Only 58. 

[64Comet404]

3 hours ago, Dr Crapologist said:

I coulda sworn I bought both of these when they first came out but they're not in the Revell crate. Anybody remember these being issued in Promodeler boxings with photoetch? Can't get to my Monogram crate at the moment but that's what the brain cells are indicating.

Tanks

Doc

The only Revell-Monogram '67 I can remember coming with photoetch was the 1:43 scale roadster in the Ultimates series.

[Don Sikora II]

1 hour ago, 64Comet404 said:

The only Revell-Monogram '67 I can remember coming with photoetch was the 1:43 scale roadster in the Ultimates series.

The 1:43 was under the Monogram brand....that's the only Revell or monogram '67 Corvette kit that was packed with photo etch.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Big BOO and a hiss for the return of those TRX tires.  That vinyl tree has business in the RX-7, the original late-'70s FOX Mustangs, and almost nothing else.

Most particularly when Revell-Monogram tooled a set of bias-plies to replace them on vintage subjects more than 30 years ago.

It's almost as bad a gaffe as the use of the F-car Gatorbacks in the 1/16 Porsche 928 was a stroke of brilliance.

[stavanzer]

8 hours ago, Chuck Kourouklis said:

Big BOO and a hiss for the return of those TRX tires.  That vinyl tree has business in the RX-7, the original late-'70s FOX Mustangs, and almost nothing else.

Most particularly when Revell-Monogram tooled a set of bias-plies to replace them on vintage subjects more than 30 years ago.

Not the TRX Tires! Why, Oh Why do they keep using those wretched things on Muscle Car kits?

Shame on you, Revell.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

I mean, the Michelins just barely queef by on the 6-series BMW too, I guess.  But on ANYTHING '60s and Detroit?  NUH-UH.

Those square-shouldered ex P%$ygl@$ tires - first seen on the '91-issue Baldwin-Motion '69 Camaro - might not be dead-on for mid-year 'Vettes. But they are vastly more appropriate, from newer tooling, and aren't they still available?

[Luc Janssens]

1 minute ago, Chuck Kourouklis said:

I mean, the Michelins just barely queef by on the 6-series BMW too, I guess.  But on ANYTHING '60s and Detroit?  NUH-UH.

Those square-shouldered ex P%$ygl@$ tires - first seen on the '91-issue Baldwin-Motion '69 Camaro - might not be dead-on for mid-year 'Vettes. But they are vastly more appropriate, from newer tooling, and aren't they still available?

Yes it was a dark day. The time R-M had to grind the tire molds to avoid paying insane royalties. And to think a few years prior visiting the Morton Grove plant, seeing buckets of branded tires near the packaging line.....sigh.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Heh.  That's just exactly why I censor that tire manufacturer's brand and models every time I make a grudging reference to them. 

In addition to the implied joke about them hitting me with a fee for using their sacred trademark in vain, I figure I'll just spare them any inadvertent promotion too, however minuscule.

Edited April 14, 2023 by Chuck Kourouklis
clarity

[cruz]

It's a nice kit, built the Roadster a few years back.....

[WGaree]

the firestone/bfgoodrich style  in the correct 7.75-15 size   or 26.25”diameter 7.75” width it really shouldn’t be that hard for the correct-ish style to be in the box from R-M       the goodyear  power cushion 7.75-15 from that time didn’t have the “pie crust”   sidewall just rolled smoothly into the tread 

[tim boyd]

Here's mine.  Painted the factory correct 1967 Corvette color code 976 Marina Blue Metallic.  Only mod was the aftermarket redlines, which in retrospect appear too tall for the correct factory appearance that year, and the radio interference resistance ignition wires.    I recall this being a very well-done kit with no real assembly issues.  I believe it appeared as a how-to in the other (no longer publlshed) model car magazine, sometime in the 00's.  TB

Edited April 24, 2023 by tim boyd

[ozmodeler]

Nice job Tim, It's got the look .

[tim boyd]

3 hours ago, ozmodeler said:

Nice job Tim, It's got the look .

 

Thanks Lou!   TB

['70 Grande]

This 67 Corvette is another example of Revell's new box art "knocking-it-outta-da-ballpark!"

[CapSat 6]

On 4/14/2023 at 3:59 PM, Chuck Kourouklis said:

Heh.  That's just exactly why I censor that tire manufacturer's brand and models every time I make a grudging reference to them. 

In addition to the implied joke about them hitting me with a fee for using their sacred trademark in vain, I figure I'll just spare them any inadvertent promotion too, however minuscule.

Any of that brand of tire that I have ever had in 1:1 have been substandard, to say the least. I have refused to buy this brand for any of my cars for years, because of all of the quality issues I have seen with them. Any other brand that I have had have been much better. I even cringe a little at putting them on my models. I almost expect them to have flats when I leave them on the shelf for awhile. 
 

[charlie8575]

I like the box-art. Nice painting of the St. Louis skyline.

As much of a mess as St. Louis is said to be these days, I'd still like to visit sometime for good BBQ and see if I can find a good blues show somewhere.

May grab one of these.

Charlie Larkin

[Whosurdaddy209]

On 4/13/2023 at 7:58 PM, Exotics_Builder said:

67 - Not that I can remember.  Only 58. 

Did the pro-modeler 58 have photo etch parts?