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  1. I thought the car had a reworked front suspension, but wasn't sure until I enlarged the pic. It wouldn't surprise me if it did have a Pontiac engine swapped in. The way the car is set up, it probably wouldn't have been competitive as an NHRA gasser, and the front end would have rendered it illegal for Modified Production. It could have been set up for a NASCAR drag class such as Ultra Stock. (Yes, NASCAR did sanction drag racing for a time; '66-'67 was probably their high point.)
  2. I can't see that running Super Stock with that Mopar hood scoop, and headlights that look to be blanked out.
  3. I bought a 3D printed set from an eBay vendor, with the intention of cleaning them up and doing a couple of sets of castings for myself. I wouldn't think of selling copies because they would be based on someone else's original work, but this is to let everyone know that they are out there.
  4. Revell reused patterns for a lot of parts back then, especially engine parts. The parts pack engines like the Chevies and Buick are very similar to engines used in Revell car kits around the same time. That's a good thing because the parts will interchange as they should.
  5. On one hand, there are people wanting these hot messes to be reissued...on the other hand, you've got people griping about the box art on an Atlantis reissue of a kit that hasn't been available in nearly sixty years.
  6. One other thing: the coupe and delivery both use the same hood and fender unit. The coupe is a pretty good fit as I recall, but the delivery takes a little finessing with the hood/body fit, also the body/rear fenders. It's hard to explain, you'll see it when fitting the parts together. Definitely not a kit to just paint without fitting anything first.
  7. The Cad units are roughly the same as the Olds piece, as far as accuracy is concerned.
  8. With a few strategic photos, and some basic measurements of the 1:1 article, it should be possible to scratch a convincing replica. The basic shapes you'd want to get right would be the bellhousing, pan, and tailshaft (shape and length). None on the detail on top, from the bellhousing back, will be seen on the assembled model. Concentrate on what is visible from underneath, and the bellhousing, and you're golden.
  9. The red engine block/transmission is from a Jo-Han Olds F-85 ('62, later added to the '61 wagon kit). That would be a smaller, lighter duty automatic used with the small aluminum V8. For the Roto, the only option besides the Starfire is apparently scratchbuilding...
  10. What is the retail on the first issue of the truck? If this is a truck and a trailer, I might be in...there's potential for some pretty wild decals for this thing...
  11. The coupe and delivery kits share everything except body, interior, and clear parts. Some coupe kits came through with the delivery's separate rear door on one of the parts trees. Depending on which recent issue you get, some of the optional parts are different. The Gene Winfield issue has the Keystone mag wheels and tubular custom bumpers, the Three Stooges issue has flipper caps and ribbed custom bumpers.
  12. The coupe and sedan delivery are the same kit with different bodies. With the sedan which is all by itself, that makes three body styles but two basic tools. I'd liken the coupe/sedan delivery to an annual kit that was produced as both hardtop and convertible.
  13. There are two 1/25 scale AMT '40 Ford kits. One is the coupe/sedan delivery (same kit with different body and interior), the other is the sedan. Both kits were created around the same time (1960) so there are similarities between them, and many parts will interchange between them. The sedan delivery parts were created around 1967, apparently AMT was able to issue a "new" kit for a fraction of the cost of developing an entire new kit. They did this again later with the '32 Ford phaeton, among other kits.
  14. The 1107 pack was incorporated into the '57 Chevy hardtop kit sometime in the late Sixties. Look at the parts tree for the engine parts in that kit, you can see the parts pack tree minus a few parts.
  15. It's a much earlier issue, before the body got sliced and diced for the NASCAR Daytona versions, and cobbled somewhat back to stock to churn out millions of General Lee kits.
  16. A couple of drivers back then did have, let's just say, "incidents"...
  17. I've made the column longer, drilled a hole in the firewall where it's supposed to go through, then cut off any overhang on the other side of the firewall after it's in place. All that, providing there's some detail on the engine compartment side that connects to the column. If it's an old annual kit with a tub style interior, and the location of the column end is vague, I'll do something similar like drill the end of the column and insert a pin, then drill a hole in the interior bucket to provide a definite location for it.
  18. Might be the closest thing out there to a perpetual motion machine...
  19. Fiat? Must not be in a hurry for it to get there...
  20. I wouldn't bet on anything from one fitting the other without a ton of work. Each company probably designed their car with a different parts breakdown. And, though the 1:1 cars have a bunch of parts that interchange, or are even the same, every company's designer or researcher seems to measure them differently, making everything just different enough to be frustrating.
  21. Talk about turning you-know-what into gold...
  22. Just checked...the front loop IS a separate part. For the twenty cents difference ($.69 vs $.49) between the Mooneyes chassis pack and the basic Dragmaster pack, you got an additional parts tree with a seat, an X-member for the bottom of the chassis, a flat panel that went in between the body side panels (body wrapped completely around the frame), and two fuel tank mounts. Plus, a small decal sheet with the necessary markings for the Mooneyes version. The extra twenty cents was money well spent.
  23. I'm pretty sure the front bar is a separate part, so by leaving it off you end up with a more garden variety Dragmaster chassis. The Mooneyes chassis was sold by Revell as a parts pack, if I remember right besides being molded in yellow (vs. red for the Dragmaster chassis pack) it included a small extra parts tree with that extra bar, and some other part. I've got both packs, will check later on when I'm home.
  24. Reminds me of that MAD Magazine cover, with an illustration of a huge neon sign: "MAD Magazine is leading the fight to conserve energy!"
  25. Nope, those front wheels were probably cheaper/easier to tool, seeing as this was a 49 cent kit.
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