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  1. Mark
    Wonder what steering it is like, with that huge contact patch out back and those skinny front tires...
  2. Mark
    The Nova has mono-leaf rear suspension, nothing near the three-link setup Jenkins used. Front suspension is way off too. Jenkins' first Vega started out with stock front suspension, except for Pinto R&P steering (left more open space for header routing). You can get that from an AMT (not MPC) Chevy Monza kit. You'll probably have to scratch the rear suspension setup.
  3. Mark
    I'd keep the fenders but lose the side mount spare tires...doing that will make the car look longer in front.
  4. Mark
    Round 2 has reissued '74, '75, and '76 Gremlin kits, all with the simulated denim interior (Levi's name wasn't used, probably to avoid licensing issues). The Denimachine is a longer van than is represented by the AMT kit.
  5. Mark
    They aren't "sweaty", they are "game worn"...
  6. Mark
    I've only seen a couple of them mint in box. Builtups are sometimes missing the engine, and often missing the rear grille (because the instructions advised that it and the engine could be removed to display the engine on a stand). Usually the working steering parts are glued solid, and the clear bubbles messed up with cement as well. On the other hand, few of them are painted.
  7. Mark
    Looks like it has the custom parts from the Phantom (originally "Vantom"), which were not in the Cruising Van nor the Coca-Cola issue.
  8. Mark
    The front tires are the smaller wide tread tires used in kits like the '75-'76 Dart, with no printed lettering or stripe. MPC likewise used the equivalent annual kit tire in the original version of the kit.
  9. Mark
    Not $5,000 based on the license plate, so either 5,000 Euros or 5,000 pounds. Insurance regulations there may prohibit fixing the car yourself...perhaps it has to be inspected afterward? Even over here, in some states if you rebuild a "total" you cannot get the same insurance on the car after the repair.
  10. Mark
    There was a second release around 1966, in a different box from the one pictured. From what I have been able to piece together, the second issue was available until around 1970. Never released again, no parts of it surfaced in some other kit, nothing. The 1:1 car was pearl white, not yellow. It was damaged in transport, Starbird used parts of it to build another car (as he sometimes did).
  11. Mark
    Windshield is likely a rear window from something ('53 Studebaker chopped top, maybe?). The roll bar might be just a section cut from another 'Vette body, from the B-pillar area. Maybe the MPC '67 that gave up the hood?
  12. Mark
    If the 'Vette body is from the T.H.E. Cat issue, it would be a '67 but would have had the separate/rotating headlamp doors like the '63 convertible annual.
  13. Mark
    They appear to be from the '57 Chevy. The number on the tag at one end looks the same.
  14. Mark
    That custom '62 is neat too. Could be a good use for some leftover parts, after I swipe the windshield frame from one to fix a '61 body...
  15. Mark
    I don't have the kit in front of me, but I'm 99% certain that hood is from an MPC '67 'Vette annual kit. The rest appears to be AMT, with lots of individual initiative added in. Every Dream Rod or Mako Shark builtup that crosses my path has always, ALWAYS, been missing a small part or two. Exhaust pipe, headlight pod, headrest, knockoff, you name it. I've got one complete Dream Rod, between three or four builtups and maybe a partial kit.
  16. Mark
    All of the Lindberg Charger kits have engine detail. Unfortunately they are 1/24 scale, likely that is what limited their sales. Revell's Challenger kit did have an engine, as did the AMT late model Chrysler 300. Both are 1/25 scale. Anyone I have talked to that knows much about the "new" Hemi engines seems to think the Revell piece is the better of the two.
  17. Mark
    If, with any of the Chevy kits, a Pontiac version had been included as part of the initial plan, then of course we'd have seen one. Adding one after the fact is probably as much work as just starting from scratch.
  18. Mark
    Pontiacs (and other GM divisions) all used different chassis from Chevrolet. The Safari interior is quite different too: except maybe the '57, even the way the rear seat folded was different. Other than the roof and inner body shell, there really is very little in common between the Nomad and Safari wagons.
  19. Mark
    The '49 coupe kit does not have that front axle.
  20. Mark
    2006 is pre-Round 2. Only the 1967 issue and the Round 2 reissue (both called Showboat) have the drag parts.
  21. Mark
    Not so sure Round 2 did so well with the newer Camaro, I have seen them on clearance. GM isn't doing so great with it either...if I were to bet on it, I'd say the current generation car will be the last. Dodge is doing well with the Challenger, but it is long in the tooth. With the Stellantis merger coming, who knows how long the Challenger (or Dodge itself) will be around. That leaves the Mustang, like everyone else I'm surprised no "domestic" kit manufacturer has done, or announced one. Or the new Corvette for that matter.
  22. Mark
    The turbo IS in this issue (but not the one in the 1977 annual kit box). I bought two of the turbo engines from one of those eBay "break up a kit and sell the parts" guys. LHS has the kit, but at above retail price. I didn't feel like paying $35 or so, with sales tax, to get an engine.
  23. Mark
    1/32 scale something or other would be my guess. The sprue, and spacing between parts, looks big for 1/24 or 1/25 scale.
  24. Mark
    I've got a couple of engines from this seller, including the Demon mill. They're great. I've got an eye on a couple of others that are sold out right now. Not sure what I'm going to put the Demon engine in, but I think it would be great in an Imperial, or maybe the X-EL '59 Chrysler promo sitting in the display case...
  25. Mark
    What caused Maisto to end (for the most part) production of these? Licensing, poor sales, what else is there? These were very well done. I have a couple of Franklin Mint Harleys that I stumbled into for cheap...next to the Maisto Harleys, you have to look really close to tell which is which.
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