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  1. The 1/32 scale semi chassis make decent 1/25 scale medium duty truck chassis, like under Jimmy Flintstone phantom crew cabs and such. Strange, but the Ollie's stores around here had the 1/32 scale reefer trailers but no trucks.
  2. It's the same kit, just the promo version. The '60 promo and kit were four-doors. '61 promo was again a four-door; '61 kit was a convertible body with separate hardtop but still had the lower four-door rear wheel openings. '62 kit has a correct coupe body, '63 was a convertible, '64 went back to the coupe.
  3. Were Modelhaus still in the game, their complete kits would likely be in the $150 range, and they'd be worth that. But they'd have plated parts.
  4. The mail-order Corvairs were SMP, not Hubley. Though they were kits, they weren't the customizing kit but rather the promo in unassembled form. There were a few differences: wheels, headlights, and taillights were simplified compared to the 3-in-1 version.
  5. Can't wait until he decides on a new paint scheme.
  6. The earliest AMT Deuce (roadster with raised top, rear mount spare, and trunk lid molded closed) was probably designed with little or no access to an actual car, only pictures. That could have been the root of the lower body issues. The dimensional error was probably continued in the other body styles as a conscious thing, to maintain continuity and make more parts interchangeable between all of them. I did once see an "in progress" photo in one of the rod magazines (Hot Rod Mechanix?) where a guy was building a fiberglass Deuce roadster of his own design. He scaled up the AMT roadster kit body, sectioning and all. I never saw anything about it again; hope he finished it...
  7. Earlier this week I ordered the Baja Patrol '53 Ford pickup via eBay. I wanted the new one because the original decal sheet has lettering in black, which doesn't match the white lettering in the box art (and won't work with the red as illustrated on the box). The vendor I bought from had the Mod Stocker combo for a buck LESS (and the BP price was the lowest I had seen for it). Still, the Hobby Lobby at 40 percent off is the best price for that combo kit.
  8. Same here, only National Fuel. I got the phone prompt to call in a meter reading for gas. Called it in yesterday, it was rejected. Turns out they misread the meter last month, and I nearly caught up to that number this month. They always bug me to submit a meter reading...I do just that, then they estimate the bill anyway. I offered to send them a picture of the meter so they can see the reading; at that point they backed down. Someone either ain't doing their job, or ain't paying attention...
  9. There were a number of exotic conversions back in the Sixties: the Moser small-block Chevy heads, the Leo Lyons Hemi heads for the small-block Chevy (only one or two sets made), and the Mickey Thompson Hemi heads for Pontiac and Ford engines. Not to mention the Arias big-block Chevy Hemi heads in the Seventies. Just an opinion, but none of them sold in any numbers because the conversion would have put you in the hands of one, and only one, vendor for replacement or additional parts. And if that vendor fell by the wayside, you were stuck with an orphan engine for which you'd have to make replacement parts. The M/T Hemi Ford heads supposedly used an articulated three-piece pushrod to make it work, which didn't help. Back then it would have been a lot cheaper to just start with a Chrysler engine, for which you could get speed equipment from any of a bunch of vendors who had to compete with one another on quality and price.
  10. Same kit, with a few added parts for the other versions included.
  11. And, right after RC2 ran those kits for DTR, they ran another bunch of the coupes for Walmart, in the under $7 "checkerboard box". Only difference was the decals. There was a later run of those for DTR in an original style Trophy Series box. The parts illustration on the side panel showed the brackets for the cycle fenders, but not the fenders themselves (because those weren't in the box).
  12. People get rid of things for a reason. The challenge is to determine what that reason is, and if it's something you are better equipped to handle than the seller.
  13. The later issue kits were sometimes called "1939". The original issue is a 1940, "with optional 1939 parts".
  14. Some of the "street" versions don't have the headers or injector scoop (and the wheelie bar either).
  15. All of the Jo-Han intermediate AMC car kits use the Marlin chassis plate. Some of the promos had a better one, but Jo-Han never saw fit to use it in the kits. Same goes for the engine, the Marlin was the only kit for which it was correct. Jo-Han had a better chassis plate for the '69-'70 GTX promos too, but never tried to put it into any of the kits.
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