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  1. Mark
    AC Moore did have some decent stuff outside of model kits (which were expensive compared to Michael's and HL) but lately there has been nothing that would make people go out of their way to go there instead of those other places. They did cut back by a couple of stores around here when HL set up shop. As a smaller chain, they probably haven't got the purchasing muscle that the other chains have.
  2. Mark
    I bought a couple of those Road Runner kits when they were new, they did have the dirt track tires and not the Batmobile tires. It was the '67 Chevelle that had the Batmobile tires.
  3. Mark
    The Torino was the least altered of the series. AMT didn't wipe the emblems, trim, or even the windshield wipers as they did with other kits. Ertl created some new body tooling sections (body sides), tooled separate parts to put the exhaust pipes back in, new stock wheels, and that was about it. The GTO might have been the most butchered kit of the series. A lot of the "new" stock one was new tooling: interior bucket, chassis, all outer surfaces of the body. The GTO was probably chosen for its popularity and sales potential, the Torino Cobra because it was (relatively) easy. All of the others are somewhere in the middle: too much work and not enough potential sales to make them worthwhile.
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    Later issue. The annual has two open wheels and two wide five-slot wheels. These were replaced by the Cragar S/S wheels in later issues.
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    Plated open wheels for the front, deep slotted wheels for the back. Only two of each are included. My kit hasn't got an instruction sheet, so I don't know what AMT suggested for the custom version.
  6. Mark
    These are the German releases, they will likely have a different group of items announced for release here. The '69 Mustang has been available here for a while now. The German release will be in a different box, maybe with different decals, probably available here at a slightly higher price. The German releases bear watching in that they might give some insight into German preferences in American cars. New tooling in the future might be a bit different when it comes to subject matter, and that could be a good thing depending on your likes and dislikes.
  7. Mark
    Don't know! The '77 body is pretty much the '76 with the headlamp recesses eliminated. The '77 grille and slanted headlamp rings are molded as a separate piece, to be added to the body. Those wanting to use the custom front end parts will likely have to drill holes for the headlamps. The custom front pan probably will take some fitting. But seriously, those parts didn't fit the '76 body very well, so building the '77 with those parts really won't be a big deal compared to the '76.
  8. Mark
    Haven't been to eBay much in the last few months, maybe I should try again. I never really searched for this kit specifically, but every time I came across one it was usually started, and not well done at that. I had one that I bought new in the early Seventies but later sold...can't keep everything, much as I try to!
  9. Mark
    Yes, but it is still a '77 and not a '76 as the original custom version was.
  10. Mark
    Closer examination of the pictures show Goodyear tires, like those in the Lindberg reissue kit.
  11. Mark
    The decals look like a mix of different sources. The racing numbers and the Moroso decals didn't come off of the same sheet, I can pretty much guarantee. The Jerr-Dan is another mystery: isn't that a trailer manufacturer? As for the car, the tires should pinpoint who made it. I'm pretty sure the pre-Lindberg issues had Dunlop tires while the Lindberg issue had Goodyears. Pre-Lindberg kits might all be molded in color, with black chassis and interior, the Lindberg kit I have is all white. I once had an original IMC issue that was molded in a nice metallic red. If I could find another one in mint condition, I'd think about getting it and building without painting the body.
  12. Mark
    I've got an original Pintera (already started when I got it). I was thinking about filling in the quarter windows and cutting away the roof directly over the front seat area, maybe a T-roof. I think one of the custom bumpers is missing or damaged in mine, so I'll pick one of these up to get fresh plated parts. The Turbo engine can go into something else too. The AMT Pinto has an automatic transmission, and to me the engine looks a bit better than MPC's. The Pangra conversion would look cool on a wagon, IMO.
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    At the time these were done (1970-71) the alterations were probably seen as "let's get one more hit off of these tools before they hit the scrap pile". Some of them didn't sell well in the last issue prior to the alterations. I picked up a couple of both the previous-issue '65 Fairlane and '65 Olds kits from the clearance pile AFTER the Modified Stocker issues appeared. As a kid, I knew nothing about engineering or tooling, but one look at a Modified Stocker kit made it plain that the original stock versions were gone for good.
  14. Mark
    Watch that coated wire; sometimes the coating reacts with paint and plastic. The wires holding the bodies in the old Polar Lights prepainted kits would sometimes leave marks wherever they came into contact with the body, often around windshield pillars or other high visibility places...
  15. Mark
    The basic engine is stock (except exhaust manifolds and air filter). This exact same engine, with stock exhaust manifolds, was used in the AMT '60/'61 Ford Ranchero kits also.
  16. Mark
    The feathering (more precisely the lack thereof) is often am issue with epoxy-type putties. I do like catalyzed automotive filler, but look forward to trying this product. First experiment might be on filling molded-in exhaust detail from the top side in preparation for removing said detail.
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    AMT '67 Impala street machine (not 100% stock, MPC '73 Mustang (sometimes called a '71 but that one is a '73).
  18. Mark
    How does that stuff sand compared to the adjacent plastic? We're all familiar with various fillers that are either much harder than, or way softer than, the surrounding plastic which can make it difficult to not end up with high or low fill areas...
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    That A and B filler looks like the packets that came in the AMT/Ertl Customizing Series kits in the late Eighties. If so, that stuff is 30 years old, I'd be surprised if one half of the material hasn't morphed into a concrete-like state by now. As for the sink marks on the Dart body, they look to be in an area where the plastic is extremely thick, like where the radiator bulkhead meets the fender. There is a small amount of shrinkage, so where the plastic is thickest it will shrink more. It seems like it shrinks even more so when a thick area like that is adjacent to a much thinner area.
  20. Mark
    I'd suspect that "something happened to" the Buick engine and maybe other parts, and that will leave the coupe to include the Chevy engine (or perhaps something else) if it should reappear.
  21. Mark
    Instead of another "typical" Halibrand QC, how about an early one, or a different brand instead? I wouldn't mind seeing a more correct ARDUN conversion either. Not on the Model A kit(s) as they are likely fully formed, but if another such project is attempted...
  22. Mark
    The MPC trailer wasn't in the '70 Coronet; it was in the Challenger kit that year. MPC took it out of the '71 Challenger so they could put those "spoof" parts in.
  23. Mark
    The MPC Pinto kits (all stock sedan and wagons) have four-lug slotted wheels. There is only space for one set of wheels on the plated tree in those kits. But those wheels are well done, much better than those in the Convoy Chaser.
  24. Mark
    Be careful what you wish for. I recently picked up an original Convoy Chaser; the slotted wheels look like either four-lug wheels with extremely large fasteners for the center caps, or eight-lug wheels. I had one of the RC2 reissue Convoy Chaser kits, it had the same wheels, and I wrote those off thinking they were tooled by RC2.
  25. Mark
    I think the IMC/Lindberg Mustang II has them, but those don't have open slots.
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