Mark

'63 windshield trim covers the pillars and visually carries the windshield opening into the side window openings. '64-'67 trim just goes around the windshield. As for the 1/32 Indy car, my bet is that it, and the 1/25 kit, would be issued around the same time if licensing can be had for that particular car.

One of my neighbors had a dog that, for some reason, liked to come into my yard for that (I'd guess other neighborhood yards as well). I'd let it dry out, and pitch it over the fence with a sand wedge. It only took a couple of "returns" before the message was received...problem solved.

The Modelhaus kit pictured is a Chrysler. Obviously based on the Plymouth (as was the 1:1 Chrysler wagon) but different.

Too, there's a glue mark from an inner fender on that body...I'd bet it's Jo-Han/AMT. The MPC kit had the inner fenders molded as one piece with the firewall and radiator bulkhead, so it wouldn't be attached like that.

Did Modelhaus repop the Plymouth wagon?

The bumpers might provide a clue...pretty certain the MPC rear bumper has a dated license plate while the Jo-Han bumper has a Toronado script. Too, if the holes in the interior tabs line up with the posts on the inside of the body, again it's probably Jo-Han/AMT. I do have both '67 kits but never bothered to compare things like that since both are complete.

The double kits did include complete parts pack trees, but the suspension parts tree was molded in silver plastic and not plated. Seeing as how the dragster is (presumably) being issued by itself and not as a double kit, hopefully those parts will be plated this time around.

No. Not sure if the original issue had any decals at all.

I think you have an original body, with the interior/chassis/engine (black parts) from a Jo-Han USA Oldies reissue 1970 kit.

Highly unlikely, 99% probability that it is the ex-Revell kit seeing as it is ready to go. Meanwhile, folks in the know have stated that most of the Aurora 1/16 stuff wasn't in great shape when Monogram got it.

In 1:1 the hood is the same for '63 and '64, but the kits do differ enough that they do not interchange.

If you want it in a hurry, you'll probably have to try an eBay vendor. Getting hobby shops to switch brands or bring in a new brand is a tough nut to crack.

I would have guessed sometime after '66, the Testors Custom Colors are what used to be the Ed Roth Custom Colors line. I'm pretty certain the Roth car kits left the Revell lineup after '66, the connection between Roth and Testors probably ended around the same time.

That Monogram cement tube is neat, I've never seen one before.

One woman I used to work with had one pulled with no anesthesia at all, as she was pregnant at the time.

I had two of them pulled at once, at a nearby state university dental school. One had roots that curved so much that they touched each other. That one came out in a couple of pieces. When the instructor calls all of the students over to show them the x-ray, you know you are special. They pulled another tooth some other time...when you see the guy raise one leg and put his foot against the arm of the chair to get leverage, again you get the idea you're going to have a rougher than usual visit...

Employers of all sizes blow off job applicants, not just the big ones.

Both of the kits that I know of, as well as the other replicas in 1/18, 1/30, 1/43, and 1/64 scale that I have (or have seen) are all right-hand drive. Most have the "hybrid" emblems, the hybrid version isn't sold in North America.

It's too bad Hasegawa didn't put some effort into getting the inside surfaces smooth on the one-piece body in their kit.

Just like with bread, you have to skip the first couple of slices to get to the "good bread"...

Didn't think anyone would do a kit of my 1:1 car, but Aoshima stepped up. 1/32 scale, snap, right-hand drive, but it's the correct color (actually, four colors are offered). Modeler's does a 1/24 scale kit, in resin (but a manufactured, licensed item). On backorder, no word on when it will be back in stock.

With resin, you should be able to use any type of paint you want. Provided, of course, you take the correct measures to clean and prep the parts for primer and paint.

The auto parts stores and auto parts manufacturers tend to go with diecasts, not kits.

Is the hat a separate casting? Between the shape (or lack thereof) of the brim, and the fact that it sits too high, it's amazing how perfect the features are while the hat is so far off.

Only the customizing version (first issue, in the big flat box) had them.