Mark

Not a '74, it's a '72. Jo-Han kit, looks like an early production George Follmer/Roy Woods Racing Trans-Am racer, with wheels from a stock kit. AMT sold the Jo-Han kit in its packaging twice. The first was the '71 Mark Donohue/Roger Penske Trans-Am racer, the other was a stock '74. Both were made by Jo-Han, and packed in AMT boxes with AMT instruction sheets and decal sheets.

$25 for breakfast? I should be able to remember the times I paid $25 for dinner, that's how many times that has happened...

I'm wondering how much of a tumble some of these sites (Doordash, etc) are going to take, with more areas opening up. I do think there is a segment of the population that will stick to ordering out instead of going to a restaurant, just a question of how big it will be.

The rear seat cover was in the Prestige Series issue in the Eighties. The earlier Countdown series issue included only one custom version, not two as in the annual and first (late Sixties) reissue. The Catalina 2+2 issue deleted all of the custom parts. There was a Buyers' Choice issue Bonneville after that, but I'm not sure what is in that one.

Or to pull up to a funeral with one...

The pages I have don't have the issue date on them (on either side) as do some other magazines.

I knew I had it. Haven't got the magazine, but do have the article...

I think someone at MPC got the idea from an article in an issue of (IIRC) Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine from 1969 or 1970. A guy named Artie Wheeler, who later attended early NNL East events before his passing, was building scale ramp haulers from pickup truck kits. His were curbside builds; he'd stretch the chassis with swizzle sticks or other pieces of plastic, then fabricate the ramp bodies from cardstock taken from cigarette cartons. At the time, he worked at a restaurant, and probably got cartons from reloading the cigarette vending machines that were usually seen in restaurants back then. The 1:1 haulers go back further than that, I have seen photos of trucks like that from the early/mid Sixties.

'61 through '64 shared some chassis parts. I believe that the '61 kits and some of the convertible annuals did not have the separate A-arms, and the '61 and '62 kits did not include those stock car exhaust dumps. My guess would be AMT '63 or '64 Bonneville.

If you use solvent cement to glue the sprue plugs in, make sure it dries completely before applying putty. One thing I do with holes like this, as well as splices between pieces, is rout out the seam or slightly "dish in" the filled hole. After the putty is applied and sanded level, I end up with a thin "stripe" of putty between spliced parts, and a round area of putty where the hole was. I never apply primer over a join between two pieces, without putty being over the joined area. And the first coat or two of primer is applied only over the worked areas with a brush, not blasted on with a spray can. Only after the area is smoothed does the spray can come out.

I once had a boss that fits this perfectly. When a new procedure came along, he didn't bother to learn about it because it was different from the way things were when he started with the company in 1952 or thereabouts. So when you figured it out yourself, and it wasn't quite right, he'd tell you so but wouldn't disclose the "right" way because he hadn't even tried to do it. He'd complain that none of us were doing anything right, ever, but when any of us was offered another position he'd complain that he couldn't afford to lose any of us. All of that caught up to him...he got canned at the age of 57, and was unemployable. He had to ride out close to five years after his unemployment benefits ran out, until he could retire at 62-1/2. I didn't feel one bit sorry to see the door slam on his way out.

The new kit is certainly better (though one of my brothers, who owned and restored a Kurtis, did find inaccuracies with it), but did it sell well enough? I would bet that it will be a long, long time before we see the newer kit reissued...if ever.

I'd bet on the unbuilt kit, myself.

With that midget, I wonder if Old Revell might have been smarter to just tool up a set of tires, a windscreen, and a trailer for this one as opposed to the all-new kit that they did, many of which wound up on closeout store shelves. There are a bunch of people who bought multiple copies of the new kit, but apparently not enough of them.

NOT the same trailer as any MPC kit. The original AMT trailer was first used in their '61 Buick Special wagon, and that was before MPC even existed.

That one would be a good starting point. It should at least have the two bars added that extend to the back, making it a four-point. It wouldn't be tough to add those, and side braces extending forward. Adding pieces to make it a full cage would be more work, still do-able though.

Not sure the Firebird has one. If it has a roll bar, it would likely be a good fit inside the Camaro body (a good roll bar is usually closely fitted to the available space) and built upon with styrene rod to get a full cage.

Somewhere in one of the threads regarding Atlantis' purchase of the ex-Revell tools, there is a picture of the display items tool...missing the corner section where those hand tools were. They may, or may not, have plugged in a piece of steel to block that open area off in preparation for doing test shots.

I don't think there is one. If you have one on the shelf, maybe take a look at the one in the AMT pro street '67 Malibu. I fitted one of those into a Corvair a while back, I may have narrowed it a bit but that was about it as I recall.

The annual kit, and the 1969 "Crew Wagon" reissue pictured above, both included a stock engine as well as the display engine, trailer, and customizing parts.

When they get a batch of new items in, they generally include them in the next couple of weekly fliers. I don't get their e-mails, but I'd imagine they are pretty much the same deal as the flyers.

Molotow is ink, not paint, I wouldn't hang my hat on it having the capability to be painted over without testing first.

Spotted this on the bike path today. No, it didn't loosen up at the top, it is bolted in place at both ends. Our tax dollars at work!

I have been using Harley-Davidson silver rattle can paint on exhaust system parts. I had some left over from a project and tried it, and have stuck with it. It's lacquer like touch-up sprays, so you do have to prime everything first. But the lacquer stands up to a lot of handling, unlike Testors silver. Not cheap (about $11 per can as I recall), but the tall can lasts forever. I can't remember when I bought the can I have, but at the time the dealership was within walking distance from my house. They consolidated with their main location about three years ago, so next time I'll have to drive out there. I should see what other colors they have, the paint is really high quality even for the money.

The stores around here had Gremlin kits (all '75, no '74 or '76) last time around as well as this time. I passed on those this time, already got enough (probably too many!).