Mark

In the mid-Seventies, Revell issued the Outlaw without reference to Roth. It was called Canned Heat and was molded in yellow. Besides the air scoops, the Canned Heat version had different rear wheels and tires. The alterations apparently made the car different enough to release without paying royalties to Ed Roth. Revell issued an altered version of the Mysterion also, as the Dual Jewel. Slightly altered body, no bubble top, zoomie headers on the outside cylinder banks, different nose piece, and a fuel altered style wing and roll cage.

That's one of the tougher issues of the MPC Mustang II to find. If you haven't got a specific idea for a build in mind, I'd build it as-is. The decals may be beyond saving however, MPC decals from that era tend to dry out and break apart.

Why not just apply all of the putties to a junk body, and do a test to see which option is best with your go-to primers and paints?

On the interiors that I spread the sides out on, generally the instrument panel will only need a sliver of material added at the lower end of the mounting tabs. The side panels don't spread out at the very top at all, so that the interior still fits into the body. The bottom of the side panel coming a bit further out doesn't affect the instrument panel fit very much.

Additional work that can be done while the interior is apart includes standing the side panels up straight, eliminating the "draft" or top-to-bottom taper that one-piece buckets have. Doing that makes the assembled interior look deeper. Another bit of work to add to the pile, is to lower the floor if possible. Some of those old interior buckets are shallow, leaving the floor higher up than it should be.

It's actually a '60, the upholstery pattern on the seats is 1960. When it was first reissued in the mid-Seventies, it was called a '59, and most reissues after that were also called a '59. Revell first reissued their '59 around that time, but called that one a '60. Interior in the Revell kit is correct for a '59.

Maybe whoever does the box art deliberately went over the top with that shade of pink, to make the box jump out at you on the shelf?

If it is cheaper.... ...someone will try it...

What has been seen, cannot be unseen...

The new issue is white, but a small number of them are molded in gold plastic.

Don't know, but it was a pretty early one. Not one of the early Seventies GM test cases (they supposedly sold a few Oldsmobiles with them), it might have been something like a Ford Escort or Tempo.

I had a (distant) relative who actually got pulled over once for going too slow. This wasn't on the highway, just a regular road. Same person bought a new car with an airbag, and thought he could "test" it, thinking it was reusable. Got an expensive lesson from the dealer when he found out it wasn't!

Break down the individual parts into shapes, and they could be duplicated with Plastruct rod, or even sprue filed to shape. The brake drums and wheel inner rims might be a pain, but then again you should be able to save the original parts. The tie rod definitely will be a pain if you insist on keeping the working steering feature, even then you could bend one up from some thin/stiff music wire and keep the steering.

The J is a "typical" Revell gasser, it uses the same chassis as their Willys pickup and Austin kits. Those were (I think) among the last car kits Revell did with the sheet of DIY window material. That is probably the best out-of-box build on one of those that I have ever seen. It uses the original steerable front axle and original Ansen mag wheels from the first couple of issues. The axle was always in the kit, though later issues added a non-steering, ridiculously dropped axle. But the wheels were replaced, as was the original rear axle. I wonder if this kit has gotten some rehab work for this issue.

-Shouldn't he have been able to prove his work didn't leak (or you have been able to show that it did) before you paid for the work and took the part? Of course, if you went back now, he'd probably claim you did something to it that caused it to leak. -I'm surprised you were able to find multiple shops nearby that at least claimed the ability to do the work. All of the radiator and tank shops around here have huge signs reading "new gas tanks and radiators installed". Nobody fixes anymore, just replaces. -How can anyone even install a drive belt inside out? That sure took some doing, all the (pre-serpentine) belts on my vehicles had a definite taper that fit the grooves on the pulleys. Just when you think service can't get any worse, or people any dumber, along comes someone to upset the paradigm...

I haven't seen a Follmer kit with a '72 body myself, built or unbuilt. The one I have has the later body. The RWR (Roy Woods Racing) Javelin AMXs were in fact the ex-Penske cars (AMC wanted Penske to concentrate on NASCAR in '72). Those cars later went to privateer racers but most have since been restored as either Penske or RWR cars. To my knowledge none of the 1:1 cars were ever retrimmed as '73-'74s.

That's a pretty early one, it looks as though it has one-piece hollow tires (Jo-Han switched to two-piece tires later on). It probably has wire axles too (switched to thick plastic rods, probably at the same time the tires were changed). The '72 body details also point to an early kit (once changed to '73-'74 trim, the body was neved changed back). The wheels, and those unfortunate velocity stacks, weren't in the Trans-Am versions and so were taken from a stock kit.

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.