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My Model Car Club just had a small kit auction due to a small donations of vintage build ups being donated to the club. Best way to disperse them is via auction and it benefits our treasury. One of those kits was one that I have been after for quite some time. They are either really expensive or really bad. And that is the MPC Dick Jesse's Mr. Unswitchable GTO funny car. And yes, I know that it is nowhere near accurate to the read deal, but I am looking at this with eyes of a regular model builder. I was surprised how not bad it is for being a brush job built up from back then. Glue is not too bad and it could be easily restored, but, the question now is, should I restore it or just leave it alone? Leaning more towards preservation and display as is, but, I do have some decals just in case.

Well, tell her that at least you are not paying a monthly fee on a mini storage full of models, yet! Now that guy needs help! Help! LOL!

I think I was around 7 when JoHan came into my life. One of my aunts gave me a Javelin kit for my birthday! Luckily I have a mint one in the stash to do a better job with than I did at 7! Image from the net

Oh, it looks like drum all around, which would be correct for the time frame

This kit is nothing I would really want. It is a Niche type kit that a few want, but not all of us. Easy Pass

Since some of you only watched the video and did not read the comments, here is one from Okey Spalding posted to this video. "Steve, thank you for the kind words about my latest JoHan kit. A minor sorta semi-correction, while the 79 Caddy was the last "new" tool (actually a re-worked 77/78) , I brought out three kits between 2000 and 2002. The reissued 75 Olds Cutlass, multi-option 1959 Rambler wagon, and a snap kit of the Chrysler Turbine car. The Turbine had been a promo, but never a kit. I had reissued the Rambler wagon as a stock only kit under the ACCUCAST brand. However, the 2001 issue of the JoHan Rambler kit was a multi-option build which included custom parts, police parts, and three sheets of decals. On a side note, You did not mention the 3D printed parts that come in the pre-production kit of the Powell. We rushed to get it out for the NNL, so maybe we forgot to include them! AAARRRGGGHHH!! You should have 3D printed door handles, side mirrors, the grille bars, gas cap, and three tiny tiny "Powell" scripts. If they are missing, contact me and we will send them as soon as the second batch is run. We are getting ready to run 20 more kits that will hopefully be ready by mid July. And yes, the guy working on the instruction sheet is not yet finished. But if any modeler has an issue, my card is in each pre-production kit."

I think it was around '72 or '73, I was 5 and it was a Revell Snap Together Volkswagen Bug. Biggest memory of it was when I found it in a bush after the family dog chewed it up!

You and I would love one, but, not everyone. Sadly I see this every time I go to my LHS and see all the "Rare" re-issued kits still sitting on the shelves years after they came back. Makes shop folks a bit gun shy on ordering old stuff again. One of the employees will ask me what I think about getting certain kits for the shop and sometimes I have to say don't get it. Because it is a Niche kit that only a few will buy, and then it will sit. Just my honest views and opinions.

Oh, I did not make it, it is off you tube! LOL! Can't take credit for that. And you are most welcome!

I know some of us are excited for it, either due to nostalgia, subject matter or just never had one. But I fear it would be a shelf warmer, just like the AMTRONIC. Weird and goofy, but definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

I wonder if the scorpion is a one time shot before they restore the tooling?

My foreign fave: Domestic Fave:

I might have one, let me check tonight

Picked up a few things the last two weeks, one was a Malone rig on sale at Hobby Lobby, then my LHS had the ST VW finally in stock. And lastly, the Pyro Beach Buggy came from our annual Model Car Club auction! It is so goofy that I just had to have it!

I think I may have a friend of mine try and 3D print one for me, and looks like I will have to make some decals as well. Thanks! Jesse C.