Richard Bartrop

I would definitely buy one of those if it came as a styrene kit. If the dies can't be found, I imagine the biggest hurdles would finding an original that's still straight enough to do a decent scan, and of course, if the all important numbers work.

Boxed up so you get 4-5 Parts Packs at a price you'd never be able to get them individually. We're talking about a family pack of discount grails here. I guess some people just can't handle good news.

Their Gold Cup classics are beautiful kits. The rest rest vary widely in quality.

THough I still say if the biggest gripe is the box art, that says some very good things about the kit.

Talking up all the extra parts, and the Parts Pack originals would help a lot, I think. Atlantis did not do themselves any favours by not saying anything about the nice roadster chassis that came in the Mooneyes kit.

I stand corrected, but you get the idea.

One of the companies that sold detail parts for model cars used to sell resistors as scale fuel filters

It's not the Mooneyes dragster. It looks like what was originally sold as a fully chromed chassis. Not really missing the chrome, and I am hoping they include extra chassis parts like their previous Parts Pack offerings. Again, if kit bashing is your thing, stock up on as many of these as you can.

At this point, they should just bring back the land yacht. Lots of room for batteries, no driveshaft tunnel, so you can really do the living room on wheels, and nobody wants it to make noise anyhow.

What would be nice is if they could include the parts for making a Cosworth Vega.

Nice! I got to see Harrah's back in the '70s, a couple of years before Bill Harrah died and they got rid of 80% of the collection. That was pretty spectacular.

Here's a Sotheby's listing for a 2011 sale of the Harrah's speedster, which the Monogram kit is based on. The colours are listed as Salmon, and Chocolate Brown. https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo11/monterey/lots/r242-1930-packard-734-speedster-boattail-runabout/192334

Nicely done!

Motor Trend does have that Hot Rod archive that goes back to 1948. Maybe browsing through that will provide some answers?

A great deal indeed. I have a speedster that I want to paint like one that used to be in the Craven collection

In fact, I'd say that green looks a lot like what they used in some of the Tom Daniels kits, and I know they made a run of the Rolls Phantom II in that colour, so personally, I wouldn't worry overly much about it. Go nuts with the paint. The owners of the 1:1 734s certainly did.

The brown looks like it's the same colour they used for the speedster, which was based on a car that was in the Harrah's collection. The green I suspect was whatever plastic Monogram had handy.

I have a bunch of Model A engines, I've accumulated for all those Revell '29 pickups. I think I know just what to do with this. Those engines will also be very useful.

Don't forgot the wages were also smaller. I remember when I worked for Canadian Oxy back around 1980. I got $10 an hour, and thought I was doing pretty good. Nowadays, people can't even live on that.

Trust me, I am very familiar with international money orders, and on his order form he is very specific about money orders from a US Bank. All the same, I've sent an email, and we'll see what happens.

It does sound like those of us who live outside the US are just out of luck.

Unless I'm doing a replica of a specific car, I find some kind of backstory helps guide design choices and helps to keep a certain harmony to the build. It doesn't have to be a particularly elaborate story either.

Personally, I think the '65 is the best looking of the first gen Rivieras. I'm probably dreaming, but if you could do an upgrade like AMT did on the '66 Riviera, that would be even better. As far as part packs wheels, a see of '30s vintage Kelsey Hayes wire wheels that would fit on the standard AMT tire would be so useful.

I think you have to go back to Andre Citroen for the origin of the promo. The company produced its own line of toy cars back in the 1920s to help promote the Citroen brand.

For me, it has to be the Jo-Han V-16 Cadillacs. Even by modern standards, they build up very nice. Sorry but the early AMT stuff is proof that there's such a thing as too much nostalgia, though the company really started to shine in the late '90s/early '00s