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  1. Mark
    Just the scoop...a couple of other AMT kits from that period had clear scoops also.
  2. Mark
    AMT made the wagon/panel funny car every year Chevrolet made the Vega, 1971-1977.
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. Mark
    You want to see old, go to a toy train show!
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Mark
    It's a New Yorker, obviously. DeSoto glass will fit, good luck finding one though!
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Mark
    Pretty sure the Johan '59 Rambler wagon kit has one that first appeared in the '64 American kits.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Mark
    In fact, that's a better Cadillac wheel cover than the ones Jo-Han put into their Cadillac annual kits during that period...
  19. 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...
  20. Mark
    The Quicksilver version is tough to find now. Wanting one but being too cheap to spend what they actually go for, I started piecing one together from a couple of junkers and a Street Fighter II. With pieces from both bodies, mine won't have a sunroof OR that huge clear panel at the back of the roof.
  21. Mark
    The dark one is a mashup of a '62 Corvette (front half of body, custom rear window turned windscreen), '57 T-Bird (rear half, its rear window could be that windscreen too), and a Double Dragster (two of the three engines). The other car is an AMT (produced by MPC) Car Craft Dream Rod. It was later modified into the Tiger Shark, which was recently reissued and could provide a lot of parts to rebuild this one.
  22. Mark
    That, and if I remember right, this kit was first issued in 1972 after Top Gas had been abolished. At the time, this was a relatively cheap way of getting a "new" kit into the AMT catalog. Only the body, and a part or two to link the two engines together, were new. They pretty much molded two Ivo dragsters, and threw one complete kit in the box along with a second plated tree and engine parts. The original issue (not the Model King one) had two complete plated trees in the box.
  23. Mark
    Yes. That issue (first one) has stock hub caps and engine parts but is not 100% stock; it has custom interior door panels and seat. Not sure if it has a custom headliner in the cab; I might be confusing it with the Revell '56 pickup which definitely had a custom headliner in the first issue.
  24. Mark
    The '65 Plymouth Fury is a fullsize car while the Satellite is an intermediate. The windshield frames are different widths and different shapes also. There's nothing currently available that matches up with a '65 Fury, unfortunately.
  25. Mark
    Nope, AMT and MPC were competitors when these kits were first issued.
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