Robberbaron

Nice work, love your color selection. I built one of,these wagons when I was a kid and have it stashed away. Need to dig it out one of these days to redo it.

What everyone else said. Very clean build. Especially impressed with the mounting holes for the trim, and that grille just draws you in...

Another gorgeous build. Really nice job on that upholstery pattern.

Nice start you're off to on this one! Quite a few of these cars got this treatment back in the day. It would be nice to see a Monza reissue to make it easier to put something like this together.

Can't wait to see this one together. Nice color selection.

Looks like this will be nice, gonna keep my eye on this one.

I've seen the original Gone in 60 Seconds, but only about half the remake, in bits and pieces over the years. The original is exactly what it promises, and to me there is a certain charm because of that, and it was created independently. Growing up reading Car Craft, it was drilled into my head by the writers for that mag that Two Lane Blacktop was the ultimate gear head movie. They never showed it on TV when I was growing up, and it was unavailable on video for years. They finally released it on VHS in the late 90s I believe, so I bought a copy and.....it was a total let down. I was prepared for an action-packed street racing movie, and there's really about 10 minutes total of the content I was expecting. It starts out promising, with the main characters' '55 Chevy racing a Hemi Cuda when the cops show up, but after that it's pretty much a snooze fest until midway through when they end up racing a '32 Ford. Don't get me wrong, there are some cool moments, and plenty of vehicular eye candy, but don't go in expecting an action movie. It's still something worth watching once, to cross of your car-obsessed bucket list. Part of the novelty is that the '55 Chevy in this movie later got converted into Bob Falfa's car for American Graffitti, but most motor heads I know seem to agree that the original version in this film is much cooler. That might be another redeeming grace for Two Lane: the primered '55 in it is pretty brutal. I just wish that more car guys would stop denying that the emperor has no clothes, and admit that the actual plot sucks.

Almost didn't click on this thread, but I'm glad I did. That just looks "right", this is exactly how these cars looked when you saw them all over the place in the mid to late '80s. I especially like the red interior - I think that's part of the charm on this one.

Perfect! This is how I like to see these cars customized: the styling was so great from the factory, no radical body mods are necessary. Your clean building style is icing on the cake.

Good job, Liam! This '63 Vette is also the first model I built with my stepson (we got the version with the Torque Thrusts). He liked it so much that we got the Revell '57 Chevy snap to do after that. They both are very well done curbside kits that an adult modeler could also make into very presentable shelf models with some paint work and foiling.

Wouldn't change a thing - great work there!

Nice job, only problem is someone stole the tail lights!

Didn't expect the pie pans and the body color rims, but I like it.

Very nice! Love the stance you achieved. This is one of my favorite kits, and I built several growing up. I can't knock it at all, in my book it still put many modern tools to shame.

Impressive: both your replica and the 1:1! Followed both your initial "trial" build and this second one. With your description of the work/sacrifice you put into the 1:1, that makes me admire the replica even more...

Smart money says we will see a 2-door sedan version in the not too distant future. Moebius has shown that they are more than willing to tool multiple different bodies for existing tooling, based on their Hudsons and Chrysler 300s. The lure of all the A990-based drag cars will be too tempting for them to NOT do it. I'm actually surprised that the sedan isn't the first release...

This is great news! Even though it wasn't on my personal wish list, I know that the 65 Plymouth is one of those "missing link" kits that's been desired by a lot of folks for a long time. Similar to the upcoming Ford trucks - those were never on my radar personally, but I was astounded to see the posts on this forum showing how much interest there really was in these. These new announcements show just how much Moebius is paying attention to the marketplace.

As much as I dislike it, I don't think anyone here is too surprised that Revell considers the notchback body "done". I agree though - long term they are just not going to be able to sell nearly as many of these as compared to if it had a correct body. We can only hope that when they bring out the inevitable hatchback variation in a few years, they'll make more of an effort to get it right. If I run across one of these on discount some time in the future, I'll probably get one, but no way would I pay normal list price - there are way too many more worthy candidates for my $. I do consider it a vote: if Revell sells enough of these, their conclusion is that the majority of buyers aren't concerned about proportional accuracy, therefore the "close enough" method of operation prevails. I keep thinking back to the story from the '80s about one of the MPC higher-ups actually bragging about how many million General Lee kits they sold, even though the roof was incorrect.

Dennis: welcome to the forum! Good to see another member from The Region on here.

Welcome to the forum, Matthew.

Welcome! Never knew there were so many variations of those Neon promos.

Welcome - I'm in a similar situation: finally joined after lurking for years.

Good to know. Sounds like I'll need to put this one on my future purchase list...

Back to the AMT '68: anyone know if all the 1968 specific details are still present in the last couple RC2 reissues (like the one with the black/gold car on the box art)? I have an original early 80s street machine version (complete with rear view mirror molded into the windshield), then I purchased one of the stock '67s when they were first issued in, what, the early 1990s? At that time, people were claiming that they modified the 68 body into the 67 by eliminating the side markers and changing the Camaro fender badging to the 67 style (which they made too small). The 67 also had a different interior, and they also changed to the correct 67-only monoleaf springs for the rear axle. At the time the 67 came out, folks were saying a correct 68 couldn't be issued again because of all the changes that had been made. Maybe they were off base? I'd really like to get one of these to build a stock 68, but would like to know ahead of time if the interior/body/rear springs are correct.

Very cool little Nova there. Looks just right