Mark

Radiator is a Ford unit, the two upper hose attachment points being a giveaway. I'm guessing Revell '48 Ford, with '40 Ford as the second choice.

Looks like a good fit, but did you notice that the Fairlane piece is a mirror image of the 1:1 hood ductwork pictured?

Years ago, I took my Dodge Dakota pickup in for new tires. This was my '88 which I had until 2004, so this was way over twenty years ago. Two wheel drive, V6/stick. Nobody asked me if it was a stick, and it didn't occur to me to tell them. Guy goes out to the truck to pull it in, gets in, sees three pedals and walks back in. The girl working the counter was the only one working there that day who could drive a manual.

Hopefully MCG will get a photoetch set out for the '64. The lettering can come off for the pro touring version, but for the stock version I'll want that lettering on there. As for the hood, it'll be some work, but a photoetch saw blade down both sides of the scoops will allow them to drop down flush with the surrounding areas. A little epoxy putty into the (routed out) seams, add some underside detail, and you have a flat hood. It looks like Moebius dropped a few bucks into tooling those scoop openings, so it's understandable to an extent that they'd want to get that money back by putting that hood into the first couple of issues of the kit. BIG shout out to Moebius' customer service. I bought one of each kit online. Each was inspected upon arrival; the stock kit had two copies of one parts bag but was missing another. E-mailed them, received a prompt response, needed parts were shipped quickly. Sometimes we'll be quick to let everyone know when things go sideways, but not when things go well. This time, things went very well, and anyone reading this needs to know about it in case they have a problem with one of their purchases in the future.

None in any kit. I haven't even seen a 3D print one.

The reissue Chargers all have the cross ram. But if you don't have that one, any of the others out there should work.

The annual kit came with a cross-ram Race Hemi. The engine and chassis parts were reused in the MPC '66-'67 Charger kits, so the engine from one of those will interchange. The Charger kits don't have the same exhaust headers as the Coronet though.

Sure looks a lot like my AMT Capri II. The wheel flares on mine are different, but I made that alteration.

The first version of the pickup was indeed the rodded version. It was molded in yellow, and had the Scotty's Muffler Service (real shop back then) decals. That issue is pretty highly sought after, as is (sonewhat) the second issue. Same truck, same parts, molded in red with Stroh's Beer decals in gold and the barrels that were originally included in the Beer Wagon kit. Though there are proportion issues with the cab, these kits are still somewhat popular because of the chassis mods. Those include the small-block Ford engine, Corvette rear suspension, and Mopar longitudinal torsion bar front suspension (not a Volare/Aspen transverse setup; those were new at the time and not on rod builders' radar yet). The Mopar IFS was installed on a number of these trucks; Norm Grabowski built a nice chopped top '54 with one. That said, if you want a stock '54 or '55, I'd start with an AMT '53, an engine from their '56 or maybe a Revell '57 Ford, and search out a 3D print grille.

I'm pretty sure the Tom Daniel 'Vette chassis is now under the '65 body. The four-door Corvette America chassis got cut down and reused under the Miami Vice faux Ferrari that was used the first couple of seasons on that show.

Nope. First the Stylizing parts, then the Here Comes the Judge drag version, then everything got chopped out or blocked off. The Vegas TV show version added a Continental tire kit (different from the Styline one) and a handful of parts have been unblocked since then. I don't think it would be too tough to scratch the Battlebird fairing and other parts.

The stock Comet having narrow tires is correct. Those cars are based on the first generation Falcon (with a longer wheelbase, except wagons). Big tires just don't fit on those cars. The Moebius stock Comet underbody is to an extent cribbed from the AMT '66 Fairlane and has slightly bigger rear wheelhouses, similar to what would be done to get decent slicks on a Comet without cutting the quarter panels. But on a 100% stock pre-1966 Falcon or Comet, there just isn't a whole lot of room for bigger rear tires.

"Lowered suspension" amounts to a wholly different chassis. Much more difference between these two kits than between the "restomod" and stock Novas, or '65 Mopars.

Chassis and engine parts are shared with the '65 kits. Clear parts too, as I'm seeing '64 taillight lenses on the '65 B/FX clear tree.

I've got to figure out the color information on that first version. It would look like an easy layup with a reissue AMT 'Vette and any of a number of decent FE Ford engines. Ollie Olsen's Willys (the as pictured version) would make a neat project too. That car was recently found; it later underwent a lot more modifications (body sectioning among them) and not much of it is left. The early version with the independent rear suspension and unique hood scoops is pretty cool.

'64 and '65 hoods are different at the front. The dual scoop hood should have the ductwork on the lower side. I don't know what the ductwork looks like for the Weber carb setup, but the dual quad setup should have ductwork resembling the one pictured below. Notice it is a mirror image of the one in the AMT '65 Fairlane kit.

I believe a more recent issue had different markings.

Wasn't there a reissue of the 1/12 version awhile back? If so, where it was made might figure into Atlantis not having it.

If you are referring to the AMT Willys, that Olds engine has a marine water pump driven off of the camshaft gear. The old Revell Willys coupe has a regular Olds water pump, but I believe that one has the stock timing gear cover. I don't believe anyone was running an electric water pump back then, but you might look into that and find an example or two from back then. You would then have to run hoses from the water pump inlet/outlet on the block (where the stock pump was) to wherever you put the electric pump.

That Capri looks like a Capri II, '76-'78. Being 1/25 scale, it could be a crib of the AMT kit body. Monogram also made a Capri II, theirs was a curbside version and possibly 1/25 scale also. I'd bet the resin body is cast off of one of those kits.

Those tires are copies of AMT 1/32 scale big rig tires. The wheels from the Monogram '91 F350 don't quite fit; they're a bit loose. I added a wrap of .010" or .020" strip styrene around the perimeter, then cast some of those which now fit. The slotted wheels from the AMT Seventies Ford pickup annual kits do fit, but those haven't been in the reissue pickup kits and are hard to find now.

Chevy and GMC vans used the same grille for a few years. Chevies had the bowtie in the center, GMC didn't.

The rear section of the raised top was mentioned as being newly retooled. If it's the one with three window openings, that's probably the lone piece carried over from the My Mother the Car issue. The stock top had only a small rectangular rear window, which never actually had a clear glass until the mid-Seventies Laurel & Hardy issue. L&H never used a touring that new (or a '25 roadster either) but someone at AMT had good taste in early film comedy. All of those retooled parts would seem to bolster the notion that the fire truck version might eventually resurface.

Or a major campaign donor.

Front end looks a little funky, grille is too high relative to the hood.