ChrisBcritter

Excellent rescue of one of my favorite little cars!

on Thunder Road

crickets are chirping

The AMT Rabbit hopped in today; sealed and mint inside with no tire damage on the glass, luckily. Molded in yellow like the box art; might like to paint it Rallye Green like the one my Valley dude co-worker had in '83 - an early '75 with drum brakes all around and the vanity plate DR DILL. Will have to do the clear/red resin bit for the head and taillights. Anyone have a built-up they can share? Any little assembly quirks I should know about? Thanks!

Playing Jeopardy now?

And a selection from the (often NSFW) Internet K-Hole site:

Try to find a junker AMT Jr. Series '60 Chevy wagon, or more easily, a Monogram Bad Actor '60 Chevy sedan delivery. Width on that one may be a bit off since it's 1/24, but it could be narrowed and the windows cut out. Good luck!

Just got this original AMT Rabbit pretty cheap (although the shipping almost doubled the price into the cost of a current kit!): I figured it was worth a shot since AMT skipped over reissuing this kit in favor of the 1/24 Euro-sourced one. I was apparently the only bidder; I say "apparently" because I got this note on the bid page: Never saw that before .

'em up, Joe

Things weren't set in stone as to when black plates were issued -they must have sat around in the local offices for a while. My '66 and '67 Cadillacs were lifelong SoCal cars; their plates were made in '64 (RPT) and '65 (STH).

Uh... put it on a 4x4 chassis and give it the Mad Max treatment?

Thanks for the info! Wouldn't mind having one someday.

From Paducah, KY in 1975:

Gotta say I'm impressed with that grille - now let me start counting the vertical bars to make sure

Anyone here have the backstory behind the AMT 1/12 scale '37 Cord? Was AMT looking to build a series of large scale classics? How good a seller was it, do the molds still exist, etc. My dad got a built-up from a friend back in '68 or so (it was his favorite car) and I remember it being very well detailed, but I don't think it's been reissued in a long time. Over to the experts (Tim?)...

that Hercules cleaned

A car YOU didn't know existed? OK, that lets out the stillborn '58 Plymouth, or '48 Ford or '32 Ford 3-window that came out in other scales. My interest is piqued!

Hmm. I have a couple guesses... ?

Check the decal sheet, David - sometimes they have a print date on the back.

dislodged another skeleton

Nothing to be guilty about there! One of the best Phil Spector/Righteous Brothers style songs ever.

Major improvement - bravo!

My thread on this kit. My cross-country move and subsequent living situation have pretty much curtailed my building for now; looking forward to getting back at it: As I've mentioned elsewhere, Revell made some running changes in the first edition of this kit. Tim has an early version which has three differences I know of from the later one: "C H R Y S L E R" lettering embossed in the upper part of the grille surround ('61s had that; '62s didn't) The aforementioned trunk lock trim piece No trim surrounding the rear license plate Most Newport kits I've seen have had the corrections made, so I'm guessing the early ones are pretty rare - wonder if Chrysler Corporation spotted the errors and insisted upon having Revell fix them? The purple Metalflake version had some pretty nice mags added, along with tampo-printed narrow whitewalls. The tan ones had blackwall tires with wide whitewall decals. Besides fixing the curved trim, I cut a notch about 5/32" in the front bumper where it mounts to the body so it would line up with the fender openings, and raised the notch where the chassis fits into the front of the body about 1/8" to get it to sit right, as well as shortening one rear screw post maybe 3/32" to level the chassis. One other note: The plastic in the tan ones I've found is rather brittle (good luck finding one with an unbroken w/s frame!); the Metalflake is a bit softer.

across six lanes

One more get-well-soon wish for Snake, coming up! Best to you, good buddy.