Mark

Decal sheet is VERY small (not much is needed). They might be wedged in the instruction sheets or boxes somewhere.

An actual quote from a guy I used to work for: "Why does EVERYONE think I'm paranoid"?

MPC tooled the Toyota kit for Airfix (that one, and a number of others including the 1/25 scale Aston Martin). The two companies shared a bunch of kits in the late Sixties. The girl figure in the Toyota was the same one included in the Airfix issue (not sold here) which was a 007 issue. MPC left out the Bond figure. Only a couple of convertible Toyotas were built, specifically for that movie. I heard that Airfix offered that kit as a coupe also...MPC never did...why they didn't is a mystery as that was the more "normal" version...

"A contractor of ---" sounds like "I'm calling from your credit card company". What credit card company? You don't know the name of it? When you came to work this morning, what name was on the building that you walked into? My mom got those types of calls a lot. First off, she was nobody's fool, second, after they'd ask for a credit card number or something like that, she'd tell them that, even if she were dumb enough to fall for their krap, she couldn't see well enough to read the number off of a statement. Click...

It's not coincidence...once a reissue is announced, multiple examples of earlier issues appear. Especially projects. It happened with the Nova station wagon, it happened with the '64 Cutlass, it has been happening with the Revell parts pack based kits. Trying to get out before the reissue hits the shelves, shredding the value of pretty much anything but a mint-in-box example.

Mike's Miniature Motors (Mike Watgen) offered a complete copy of the 1911 Chevrolet. I believe he also offered a "rod" version (minus stock wheels) and a panel truck version also. I traded some of my own stuff to Mike for one of the stock kits not long before he passed in 1993. I also have a disassembled promo...first thing I ever won on eBay, when I went online in 1999. Round 2 is probably right about the kit...not many of the 1:1 version were built, only one complete one still exists (and a partial one).

The AMT tires in the Chevy van and El Camino kits are not the same as the MPC Jeep/Pacer tires. The MPC tires are smaller, and interchange with their stock automotive tires.

'67 Shelby GT-350 has the exact same parts, so whichever you find first or cheaper. The '68 GT-500 does NOT have the same parts, it is not as good a choice.

Those too appear to be based on the AMT display drums. Backing plates appear to be copies of those in the Revell Roadster Chassis Speed Equipment parts pack (the pack included two of them, not four). The Atlantis Mooneyes dragster kit includes that pack, but does not use those backing plates leaving them as leftover parts. Checking recent AMT reissues, none seem to include the display drum. The '63 Galaxie and '64 Impala kits include a display disc brake however.

But they are molded in two halves. All of the halves are exactly the same. Each assembled slick is going the wrong way on one side, and both assembled slicks are identical in that respect. Any way you cut it, when you use that particular set of slicks, one will be correct on the side facing out, the other will be correct on the side facing in. The lettering is also in the same place relative to where the wrinkle detail is. You are more likely to find plastic or resin slicks that are oriented correctly on both sides to the direction of the car. From there, it becomes a question of finding the right size slicks.

The chassis from the Tom Daniel 'Vette was recycled into the 1/24 scale '65 Corvette. None of the C3 versions (TD or "wagon" version) has been issued since the '65 came out, so the change is apparently a permanent one.

MPC only did that one snow tire. They used it in Jeeps, Jeepsters, '69 and '70 Grand Prixs (Grands Prix?), and some of the mid-Seventies Plymouth intermediates as well as the Pacers. Someone mentioned Fireball Modelworks, I would second that opinion, his stuff is excellent and fairly priced too. I tend to think of "kits first", sometimes forgetting the aftermarket stuff.

The ones in the El Camino are larger than shown on the box, they are 4 x 4 tires and are taller and wider than the usual automotive snow tires.

But these are cast in two halves, all of the halves are the same. They are all going the wrong way on one side of the slick, and one of those wrong-way sides faces out.

MPC made snow tires in 1/25 scale. They substituted them for military tires in their Jeep kit. The recent Round 2 Jeep in the Godzilla movie packaging will have four (five?) of them. MPC's AMC Pacer kits included two of them also. I'm not sure about the reissue '78 Pacer though. (The '77 station wagon is an AMT kit, it never had them.)

Any of the styrene wrinkled slicks out there should be done correctly, at least the few I have seen are correct (mirror image, correct for both sides). Vinyl tires are more costly to tool, so short cuts like the "wrong on one side" deal seem to be the norm. Though it shouldn't be...all they would have to do is create two masters as with the plastic ones. Cutting the tool wouldn't cost more one way or the other.

On eBay already? The Great Unloading has commenced...

No, they wrinkle the same way so they are wrong on one side.

These auctioneers have a habit of leaving huge gaps, hoping potential bidders will draw their own conclusions. "Said to be" (by who?), "reputed to be", and so on...

I have heard/read that Clark did have the car since '65 (maybe '66). Probably not a lot of info on it from back then...how often did he bring it out, and where did he race it? He always was busy as an entertainer, even back then.

The AMT kit has the suspension detail molded as part of the chassis. It's based on the '63-'67 annual convertible kits. The Revell fender flares are a near-perfect fit on an AMT Gremlin body, if you switch them side for side (put the left side flare on the right side, and vice versa). A lot of 1:1 builders adapted Corvette flares to other cars because several suppliers made them. Get the cheapest ones (you're going to have to cut them up to some extent anyway) and have at it!

The AMT parts pack also has the in/out box you'll need to replace the transmission.

Separate rear flares...you sure that's not the Revell kit?

Mine arrived today, something I hadn't thought about was that Atlantis had to tinker with the Chevy engine a bit. The parts pack engine originally had street rod headers, they had to stub in the headers from the other small-block Chevy parts pack, most of which is now in the '57 Chevy kit. The original double kit with the Mooneyes dragster must have included both engine packs, with a bit of parts swapping between the two.

One part on the roadster chassis tree is needed for the dragster.