Motor City

How did I know this was Adam? By reading the second sentence! The third sentence confirmed it! Too bad Jo-Han didn't make an Eldorado El Classico model just for you. They are eyeball popping in person. eldorado el classico at DuckDuckGo

Woodlites: When Looking Cool Is More Important Than Seeing the Road (autoweek.com)

'Holiday' was the term Olds used for 2-door hardtops and 4-door hardtops. Buick did the same with their '49-'58 'Riviera', which designated a hardtop. Pontiac used 'Catalina' for their early hardtops, which started in '50. Chevy did the same with their early hardtop, the 'Bel Air', which came out in '50. Cadillac used 'deVille' for their hardtops then eventually muddled the term by also including a thin-pillared 4-door sedan!

no, the 396 was '65 only on the Corvette

Bob, I don't think anyone disputed that the actual car on the show was based on a '68 Coronet 500 convertible.

That's a nice upgrade, Tim, and you could always sell the other one to help another modeler fix their damaged car.

"I've got a body exactly like this but it's molded in white. It also has the F.I. emblems on the fenders, so I thought it was a 65. I didn't know they still left them on for the 66." This gray body actually is a '66 and has the 427 crossed-flag emblems, while the '65 has the rectangular Fuel Injection emblems without the crossed flags. Also, the '65 has the vents behind the doors which were no longer on the '66.

I never heard about this Phoenix shop or AMT's involvement in the Piranha project. I have to wonder if some of the auto companies concluded that MPC was serious about establishing a foothold in model cars while AMT was moving on to other things, resulting in AMT gradually losing the promo contracts.

but that is for a hardtop Coronet R/T; the original comments were for a '68 R/T convertible, which still has a buy-it-now price of only $749.68

The 460 didn't replace the 462 engine until late in the 1968 model year. It would have to be an all-new body and interior anyway. A Mark III or Mark IV would probably sell better as a kit.

There is a lot of detail in the '64-'66 Imperial kits, but I remember they tended to be on the shelves forever compared to the intermediates, Corvettes and Mustangs. If the Green Hornet does well, maybe Round2 will consider something like the '66-'67 Lincoln coupe, which would use much of the '65 convertible kit.

I just looked at photos of my folks' '57 Bel Air hardtop and agree with Dave that the original AMT model's side trim is too high at the back of the door and leading edge of the quarter panel. The door handle and lock cylinder are also too high. The new AMT corrected all of those problems. I have to finish the original AMT kit that Dad started.

kits start at 19:57 ...

With few exceptions, I preferred hardtop kits over convertibles when given the choice. I always built the kits stock and thought the hardtop styling showed more design characteristics than the convertible. Some roofs were really unusual, which made the car stand out ('67 & '68 XL, for example). I have noticed what Steve said, that early unbuilt convertible kits are easier to find than hardtop versions of the same car. This is especially true of Imperials, Buick Invicta, and early Park Lanes.

Art Anderson had mentioned the same thing that convertible kits never sold as well as hardtops when he was in the business.

A guy I used to work with owns a GMC ARcadia. Yup, he doesn't even know what it is his wife drives!

That is a Jo-Han tooling, so it would probably have to be created from scratch. I still have mine and haven't gotten around to building it yet.

Very nice! Did you airbrush those and what paint did you use?

My buddy was cleaning out his parents' house and gave me the unbuilt 1/20th Lindberg GMC Syclone kit that his brother didn't want. I haven't done anything with it yet, and I don't have anything else in that scale.

The '65 Bonneville, Dynamic 88 and Wildcat convertibles were only made as promotional models.

I'm dreading the complaints regarding the back-from-the-dead Mustang fastback.

I regrettably sold my unbuilt '68 Coronet R/T convertible kit decades ago after I bought a hardtop promo version for $11.00. Why did I regret it? Because it is a great looking car and one of the few convertibles from that year. When displayed, the chassis detail underneath is the least important aspect of it. An accurate body, grille, taillights, rear panel, bumpers, wheels, emblems and interior are what most people care to look at. A proper body stance is important, too. Popping open the hood to show a hyper detailed representation of the engine compartment is high on the list for only the most serious modelers. The correct trans, Dana rear axle, carburetor and master cylinder are not important to the average person buying a kit. We have to keep in mind that most people buying kits would not consider themselves experts on all of the minute details of the car being represented in scale. They just want something that looks cool, is fairly easy to build, and looks nice on the shelf. I plan to buy both the hardtop and convertible when they come out.

the last 442 promo was the '71 and it had an incorrect thick trunk emblem with OLDSMOBILE block letters that was not used on the real car

As for cloning or redoing the old kits: the '65 GTO never had a correct taillight panel; fix that and restore the original grille/headlight assembly the '65 Dynamic 88 could be done over as needed and create a '66 88 as well, or make '65 and '66 Starfire models out of what's left make '68 and '69 Cyclone GT and Cyclone Spoilers out of the Torino tooling make a '70 GTX or Road Runner in 1/25th scale using the updated '70 Super Bee chassis and engine restore the '70-'71 Cyclone GT tooling