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  1. Mark
    I can picture that one now. I've been picking these up on the cheap. Only the yellow #29 was bought new, at (then) regular price. Three of them were bought for $3 apiece (two yesterday), the other two were a buck apiece.
  2. Mark
    Just trim, scripts, wheel covers, and upholstery patterns. If you pound the ground, early annuals do turn up at reasonable prices; earlier this year at NNL East, I found a mostly unassembled '67 for $20. I put it back on the table, next guy grabbed it, I thought he'd buy it. Walking around later in the day, I saw it still on the table, this time I bought it.
  3. Mark
    Three of us set up together on two tables there, as we have for most of the last ten years...all three of us found some screaming deals, and sold some stuff too...
  4. Mark
    Besides the six kits pictured, how many different kits did Revell-Monogram produce?
  5. Mark
    The parts are similar but not from the same tooling. Obviously the same masters were used for some parts. The first kit (Color Me Gone Dodge) was made based on a modern replica, it has slightly widened rear wheel tubs and an incorrect rear axle that was copied in the Plymouth kit. The width inconsistency is baffling. Jo-Han got those things right 99% of the time, plus.
  6. Mark
    The Flintstone body is decent for the money, but I'd be inclined to try the conversion myself first. As long as you don't cut up anything that you would need to use with the resin body, if the conversion works out then you are a few bucks ahead not having to buy the body. I've thought about doing a Plymouth sedan, not sure how I'd cut the bodies though. The Lindberg Dodge body does have rather wide C-pillars, which need some attention whether you build a Dodge or use the roof in a conversion. The Dodge windshield is a bit on the flat side also. I'd try to piece in the Plymouth cowl, not sure if there's enough extra material on its windshield glass to be usable with the taller sedan roof though.
  7. Mark
    Just the scoop...a couple of other AMT kits from that period had clear scoops also.
  8. Mark
    AMT made the wagon/panel funny car every year Chevrolet made the Vega, 1971-1977.
  9. Mark
    The hobby is changing because for a lot of younger people, a car is transportation and nothing more. One lady I used to work with once said that her daughter didn't particularly even want to own or drive a car, but had to because they lived in the suburbs. I remember that I couldn't wait to get started learning how to drive. My mom, who didn't drive until she was in her thirties, felt the same way once she started driving, and was saddened when she had to give up due to worsening eyesight. Now, for a lot of people, a car is something they flag down with an app on their phone...
  10. Mark
    The AMT '66 Impala big-block (in the annual kits) had the '63 Mystery Motor exhaust manifolds, which are as close to cast headers as anything else up to that time. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure the Modified Stocker doesn't have them. The original issue of the V8 Ranchero (from 1977) shows them on the box art illustration of the engine, but they're not in that kit.
  11. Mark
    You want to see old, go to a toy train show!
  12. Mark
    I've never heard of the "bulged" windshield being optional, but that doesn't make a difference. I'll stand by what I said (and what I didn't say): -I didn't say that one part won't fit in place of the other... -I did say that they are not the same.
  13. Mark
    The '62 Chrysler glass is not the same as the '60 Chrysler/DeSoto unit! The windshield shape is different ('60 windshield "bulges out" at the top, '62 is "flatter" at the top). The '62 piece appears to be the more accurate of the two, even for a 1960 car. '61 Plymouth/Dodge windshield might work, but the rear glass is different from Chrysler and DeSoto. Not that you'll be tripping over any of these at the shows. Okey Spaulding was selling Jo-Han clear parts at meets, but last time I saw him (NNL East earlier this year) about all he had was '69 SC/Rambler and maybe some Toronado or Eldorado glass. The good stuff is all gone.
  14. Mark
    The Impala was issued a couple of times in the late Sixties, but in the simplified unassembled promo form. Once as a Craftsman series kit, and also as the tow car in a drag team kit. The promo and kit were derived from one tool, there were not two (as I had long thought). I have neither the Craftsman kit nor the drag team kit, but I am led to believe that both still had red taillight lense pieces. It was during the Seventies that AMT was altering some kits to reduce costs, that is when the separate lenses were likely eliminated. But that version of the kit (stock only, with separate hood and simplified engine) was not released at that time. Ertl later united it with the remaining parts from the annual hardtop kit (the asymmetrical custom parts were not in the convertible) to create the Prestige series kit.
  15. Mark
    It's a New Yorker, obviously. DeSoto glass will fit, good luck finding one though!
  16. Mark
    The restored stock Torino Cobra fastback kit has the roll cage and most other parts from the Modified Stocker. No need to buy two kits for that one.
  17. Mark
    In the mid-Seventies the Impala was reworked to add the opening hood (different from the original one) and simplified engine. This version was never released at that time. That's likely when the separate taillight lenses were eliminated. AMT was eliminating separate red lenses from other kits around the same time, probably to simplify production and eliminate a position or two in the plant. They were also eliminating some clear parts in kits, probably to allow clear part sets for more kits to be molded at one time...again, getting rid of a person or two in the plant.
  18. Mark
    The street machine version has a Stage V Hemi conversion, not an actual 426 Hemi. The wedge exhaust manifolds aren't correct though. I'm 99% certain that kit has the same 8-3/4" axle as the stock version.
  19. Mark
    His '64 two-door sedan has an A-100 axle. It was briefly legal for Modified Production class because it was a "station wagon" unit, from a passenger version of the van.
  20. Mark
    Pretty sure the Johan '59 Rambler wagon kit has one that first appeared in the '64 American kits.
  21. Mark
    Both are still intact, though I heard somewhere that the stock one is getting a bit rough. The Modified Stocker once had the exhaust detail wiped from its chassis, but the reissue has molded-in stock exhaust detail again. That chassis appears to be shared with the '63 kit.
  22. Mark
    There were two '64 Galaxies: one promotional model and one kit. The ex-promo is still stock, the kit was converted to the Modified Stocker and has remained that way.
  23. Mark
    If you have both an early (stock parts) version, and a later (Early Iron or later) version of the same car, check the parts trees against one another. You'll see that, not only are the newer trees smaller, but the parts are arranged differently relative to one another. That's true with the stock-only '30 Phaeton kit that I once checked against an original multiple-version Phaeton. That would tell you that the original tooling was cut apart and rearranged, and the original parts not used were likely discarded. That's in contrast with AMT or MPC kits, where parts thought outdated were just blocked off leaving the trees intact with bigger spaces between the parts. At the time those alterations were done, the thought process didn't take into account that anyone would want to see those old, outdated parts again in the future.
  24. Mark
    In fact, that's a better Cadillac wheel cover than the ones Jo-Han put into their Cadillac annual kits during that period...
  25. Mark
    After Revell reworked their '56 pickup to 100% stock (which the original never was), I was kind of hoping they would have done the same with the '40. It would have been nice...
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