Mark

Will there be a US release on this kit? I got one the other day from an eBay seller in England, shipping included it was cheaper than Model Empire's price.

Monogram did a few in the Eighties...I remember a '69 or so Nova, and looked at a '69 Charger yesterday. I'm sure there were a few others. Pyro made a few back in the Sixties. They made three series of 1/32 scale car kits. There was a cheaper series that sold for 60 cents apiece, a handful of those included engine detail. They also made a series of classic cars and another series of "brass era" cars, some of those kits had engines also.

The Stingaree was last out alongside the T. Both of those, and (I believe) the Maverick, use the same chassis. I'm finishing up molding the Stingaree body into one piece, when I get the chassis painted and assembled I'll mock up the T coupe to see how much I can cut the roof.

The lower half of the dirt track body is altered quite a bit, but the roof looks to be close to stock. The only thing is whether or not the 3W lower body is wider than the 5W, as they were in '32.

Has anyone tried fitting the 3W roof from the MPC '34 Ford dirt track body onto the AMT 5W coupe? That might be a way of getting a decent 3W coupe in 1/25 scale...

The engine is pretty good (though there are better supercharged 426 Hemis out there). Chassis is strictly early Seventies AMT show rod, nothing in common with any 1:1 car. For some reason, I bought the last issue...the last thought I had on it was to chop the top and use the decals from the Round 2 reissue '25 chopped top coupe...

There's an early Three Stooges short called "Hoi Polloi". "Make it three, and you've got a wager!"

The (nicely) built Bantam looks like it has the Pontiac engine, not the Cadillac that was in the double kit. If the planned Mooneyes dragster sells well, I suspect we'll see more of the complete cars from the double kits. Maybe not all of them though, depending on which parts packs Atlantis has available. The Scarlet Screamer dragster might be a tough one, seeing as the '63 Corvette engine pack was long ago pieced into the '57 Chevy hardtop kit.

It should be easy to ID individual parts trees, as the chassis and suspension parts in the double kits are unplated. Also, the double kit bodies are molded in white as opposed to gray for the parts packs.

The main purpose of Burt Reynolds' later films (Smokey & The Bandit on) was to entertain Reynolds, Hal Needham, and their circle of friends during the making of the film. Entertaining the people who watched them was only a secondary concern.

DiCaprio does so many of those "period" movies, where period wardrobe is necessary. He ends up looking like one of those little kids who found a trunk full of old clothes in grandma's attic.

Wasn't that the one based on an L. Ron Hubbard novel? That guy wrote a bunch of stuff, I saw his name on a "Tales of Wells Fargo" episode...

For English class in either eighth grade or freshman year in high school, the class got dragged out on a field trip to see "Murder on the Orient Express". What a snooze fest that was. In ninth grade we saw the late Sixties version of "Romeo and Juliet"...the chick that played Juliet was pretty hot as I remember. As for the Ed Wood films, if you have seen any of them you absolutely must see the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood". Burton nailed all of the scenes from Wood's films. If Wood had been just a little bit better, he'd be forgotten today.

Someone who owns one or more 1:1 Hemi Challengers, and has collected every brochure, every dealer sign, every color of promotional model, and has one of everything else connected to Challengers might be the buyer this guy is looking for.

AMT made one in '66, good luck finding one though. You might try looking for a worn or damaged promo model, those often sell cheaper than a poorly built kit.

Still haven't scribed the door lines on this one...I even have the template to do it. It won't be a delivery, it will get new B-pillars slanted like a Nomad...

The original engines are on the small side, however with the restoration of an old kit sometimes the builder wants to bring it back to the way it was, flaws and all. Actually, the Nova chassis is very similar to the Chevelle: same suspension setup (parallel leaf springs front and rear), same wheelbase, same rear overhang. The wheels are different, as are the front axles (Chevelle's is wider). Unfortunately the Chevelle axle (also used in the Olds F-85 roadster and the '58 Edsel funnies) is usually broken on builtups as found.

Big-block Chevy with supercharger. You could use the engine from the altered wheelbase '65 Nova, it is very similar to the Chevelle engine. The basic engine from the Chevelle is actually still in the Chevelle kit, which is now the Modified Stocker Chevelle. An axle hole has been added however.

The XK-E is the only issue of the Aurora roadster. Aurora reissued the coupe with fighter plane decals, Monogram got the Aurora tools but only reissued the coupe, and Revell already had an open version. So Revell-Monogram reissued the ex-Aurora kit when they wanted a coupe, and the Revell kit when they wanted a roadster out.

The Odds-N-Ends I remember was branded as Pactra, which was discontinued years ago. Short Cuts was always Krylon's product, which has always been sold as a competitor or alternative to Odds-N-Ends when it was on the market.

Like the sign in front of the antique shop..."we buy junk and sell antiques"...

Does anyone know of somebody paying a ridiculous price for a Modelhaus (or any other out of production) aftermarket kit? I'm sure it has happened, but someone paying a big price is more likely someone who owns the 1:1 version, is willing to step up to get one in scale, and isn't particularly active as a builder or collector...just wants his/her own car in scale.

How close do the cuts need to be? Are you cutting the diecast into multiple parts that you need, or are you cutting it to get one needed section? If it is the latter, a round diamond grit blade in a Dremel tool should do it. I'd leave a little excess and then grind away at it until you get what you need. I'd go with the slowest speed possible that gets the job done. As always, safety equipment (eye protection in particular) is an absolute must.

There's the possibility that the entire T chassis could be included, then again Atlantis could tool a couple of new parts in order to avoid that (and save the companion T for a separate release). It'll be interesting to see how they handle this, and 1/24-25 scale car kits in general.

Jo-Han did manufacture a '67 Toronado kit, but it was sold by AMT in AMT packaging. AMT also sold the '68 kit. MPC had the promo model contract for '67 so the Jo-Han/AMT kit is off in a couple of details compared to the MPC.