Robberbaron

Remember reading about that one back in the day. Sticks in my mind that they said he always ran with the tailgate down for weight transfer. Really like your attention to detail like the sumped tank and swapping in the TH400.

Nice choice on the Brass Monkey wheels.

Round 2 didn't butcher anything. Sounds like your beef goes back about 45 years and four owners ago, when they were briefly owned by Lesney/Matchbox. That's when the current configuration of this kit came out as a mash up between the original "Pro Stock" and the factory stock versions. Think its been fifty years since the race buckets were included in the original '75 Pro Stock version. This new reissue box art pays homage to that original Pro Stock release, but with the needed description change to "Pro Street" along with revising the grill to the 76-78 style. As the tooling currently exists, I'd wager that it's probably not possible to reissue it as either a straight pro stock or factory stock anymore. I think Round 2 would have done that if they could. And no, I don't think enough interest exists to justify retooling any parts for either of those versions. With the awful roof proportions of this body, that would just be turd polishing

After MPC issued the '77 Ventura, they revised the tooling and Issued it as the '77 Nova. Eventually it got updated to the '79 Nova which was just reissued. The original Pontiac engine was slightly revised to look like a small block Chevy. MPC didn't bother correcting the interior either, so it still has the Ventura seat patterns, etc. Chances are it will always remain as the '79 Nova and not get backdated or converted back to a Ventura. Like it or not, more potential buyers identify with a Chevy Nova vs. a Pontiac Ventura.

Nice! First time I've seen anyone do the yellow houndstooth interior in one of these.

Not sure why you would need the '77 Monte interior, the one in the pictures looks good to me. Seat patterns look correct for a '74 Laguna. Monte Carlos had different seat patterns and upper door panels, so the Revell MC interior wouldn't be technically correct.

Outstanding! Great to see that it is finally becoming easier to build factory stock third generation Chevelles now with 3D printing. Quite impressed with the accuracy, since you said you did no major changes. Also appreciate your attention to detail on this, including all the specific Laguna Type S-3 details like the color-matched bumper rub strips and the body-colored rally wheels. Icing on the cake is the 400 engine call-outs. I think this color combo was by far the most common for the '74s. Man, those interiors were RED!

Agree 100%. Aside from the Nova/Chevy II kits, I believe EVERY other car tooling that Moebius has created has had either NASCAR and/or drag race variations baked in.

For the 2-doors, the main difference was the 70-1/2 Falcons were built as "post coupes"with full window frames/B-pillars. The other Fairlane and Toronto coupes were only available as hardtops with no B-pillars. It was a strange choice, since Ford had dropped the 2-door post body style for the previous 68-69 generation. Hard to believe it was worth the money going through the trouble to deliberately try to make the Falcon versions more "downmarket".

Bro dozers.

Stopped by my local HL after work the other day. Was able to snap up the one and only MPC Warlock that they had on the shelf. Never seen that one before. (And with the way my store functions, there's a good chance I'll never see it again.) Even more surprising was that it was only $31.99 before the 40% off.

You wouldn't know it from the current retro gasser trends, but plenty of gassers were raced back in the sixties WITHOUT straight axles. So it is by no means a necessity in order to build a "period style" gasser. In fact, it looks like the 55 in the pic you posted above doesn't have a straight axle. Couple more random vintage and modern pics:

I used to be a diehard GM loyalist. Truly believe that, for the most part, GM products were better engineered and more durable than Ford/Mopar back when I was growing up. That's progressively gone out the window over the last 15 years owing to "new" GM's standard operating procedure. I started hearing horror stories from coworkers of their Chevy/GMC 6-speed transmissions blowing up (which replaced the long lived 4L60E/4L65E). That was only available for a short time before they replaced it with the "more reliable" 8-speeds. Didn't take long to start hearing about class action lawsuits due to those steaming piles. Lately the auto review "media" has been claiming that these new 10-speeds would be so much more reliable than those 8-speeds. Why am I not surprised to see this? And didn't Ford and GM supposedly tag team the basic design on these? (I understand there are quite a few differences in the final product for each brand).

Depends on how untrained the eye is. In my view both the leading edge and the top contours are totally different.

I'm no expert on these trucks, but I seem to recall hearing that the 67-68 fenders are contoured slightly differently compared to the 69-72. Sure isn't obvious to a casual observer. Even if that is true, I suspect you could cheat it in 1/25 scale and not hear TOO many complaints. Regarding the '67 small window, seems like it would be more practical to just mold the cabs with the big back windows. However, Erik Solie has dropped at least one bread crumb that a '67 small window could be in the works: Maybe they can do it with just a tooling insert, like the 65 Comet body sides without the front fender trim?