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  1. Mark
    Yes, once the body issues (fender flare shape) are dealt with. For those building stock versions, the AMT parts pack Polyglas tires have (incorrect for this car) size designations on one side, and no size designations on the other. Not perfect, but close. Maybe Revell's decal sheet has tire lettering in the correct sizes?
  2. Mark
    Yes, pretty much everything about the design of sprint cars (even tire sizes on each side) is all about putting as much weight as possible to the left side of the car.
  3. Mark
    Being a former AMC owner myself, I hate to admit that the sales numbers for new AMC kits just wouldn't be there. The main reason we got them when the cars were new, was that AMC wanted promotional models and shouldered the bulk of the tooling costs. This was true even with the 1/20 scale AMX kit which was first offered as a mail-order deal and through AMC dealers before hitting store shelves. Jo-Han did a bunch of AMC promotional models that they never offered as kits. They had to have known that they weren't saleable at the time. On the flip side though, they did do a couple of kits ('69 and '70 Rebels) that were not made as promos. I'm not positive, but the '73 Javelin AMX may not have been a promotional either. So Jo-Han did eat the costs of those conversions themselves, but the bulk of those kits existed as previous versions.
  4. Mark
    In between the '64 annual with working headlamps and the bug-eyed Street Shaker and later issues, there was the late Sixties Super Street issue. That one had protruding headlamp detail also, but still had the "1964" license plate area detail. The lens detail is "clocked" (not aligned properly) on every bumper from that issue that I have seen. The headlamp detail may have been engraved on ejector pins that rotated out of alignment during production. That seems to have been corrected in the Street Shaker and later issues.
  5. Mark
    The Buick engine will likely be included, it has been in every issue of the delivery to date. Round 2's two prior delivery issues did have different optional parts however. The Gene Winfield large box issue was restored to original (Keystone mags, tubular nerf bar bumpers) while the Three Stooges issue had the flipper caps and ripple bumpers that Ertl put in the coupe and delivery kits in the Nineties.
  6. Mark
    The Jo-Han Mickey Thompson chassis is a one-off. There was no 1:1 Mustang; there is a HOT ROD "phantom" cover shot of a "see-through" Mustang funny car, but it is on the Pinto's chassis. The M/T Pinto chassis was indeed made of titanium tubing. It took much longer to build, and wasn't much lighter than a steel tube chassis, so the second one never got built. That one chassis was used quite a bit, as Thompson only had one Pinto funny car. The later Revell kit is actually the same car that Jo-Han made their kit of, just a later version. The Jo-Han Gene Snow Challenger chassis isn't necessarily a one-off, but it isn't a typical design either.
  7. Mark
    Use the entire chassis, and adapt it to the '66 floor. The Foose unit is an up-to-date aftermarket frame, with a modern crate engine.
  8. Mark
    Display base, not case.
  9. Mark
    Should work...I'm doing something similar, only with an AMT '63 that has been converted to a short wheelbase (but still a Unibody wide bed).
  10. Mark
    Do a search, look for Jim Keeler's "Unraveling the Snakepit" series of articles in the old CAR MODEL magazine from the late Sixties. Those articles break down routing of brake lines, fuel lines, coolant lines, and throttle linkage. Between those articles and any of the Revell 1/16 scale kit instruction sheets, you should be good to go. For information on a particular car, the best source will usually be a feature article from a period magazine. When that can't be had, the websites and books referenced earlier should be fine.
  11. Mark
    AMT may have made that up, just for the sake of adding something to the kit in order to justify the price.
  12. Mark
    Good as any, though this is a bucket seat SS as opposed to the lightweight, bench seat regular Impala.
  13. Mark
    The old engine was never lost...it's in the '64 kit.
  14. Mark
    There was a later issue, 5-Vette set that also included the MPC '57. It was out around the time the new-tool AMT '57 first appeared. I'm thinking RC/Ertl also issued a two-car ('57/'97) Vette kit set, but for some reason the two-car set included the newer AMT '57.
  15. Mark
    Not 100% certain, but I recall reading somewhere that the Futurista (the VW engine three-wheeled car, that Monogram made a kit of) was wrecked in a transport accident, and Starbird recycled parts of its body to build this car.
  16. Mark
    Didn't Academy announce a reissue of the Corvette kits not long ago?
  17. Mark
    The '23 roadster kit came out in the mid-Seventies. It has no parts in common with the '25 kit. It does share some stock parts with the '23 panel delivery and Depot Hack kits, and shares its optional parts with the terrible, short-lived AMT '34 Ford three-window coupe kit.
  18. Mark
    Shaking the can thoroughly is more important than ever. The paint companies (all of them, not picking on Duplicolor here) are probably changing, or being forced to change, everything about the product. They seem to be putting less "solids" and more "carrier" (solvent) into the can (likely to make the product cheaper to manufacture), and have probably been forced to change propellant at some point. So, where the old product was more tolerant to settling and less-than-thorough shaking in the past, the new, "improved" product isn't so tolerant of the same treatment.
  19. Mark
    From what I am seeing, the actual eBay listing shows no "discount". When I want to go to eBay, I go straight there, never by clicking on a link in an e-mail...
  20. Mark
    Uh, I think the OP is referring to the two 1/24 scale kits listed...
  21. Mark
    Too, the round tube sections are conveniently the same diameter as a lot of parts trees (chrome or otherwise).
  22. Mark
    The headlamp lenses are carried over from the '68 annual kit. The '69 has molded-in lens detail. Likewise, the side glass shown on the box bottom is also carryover '68. Because the '68 had vent panes and the '69 doesn't, the full side glass won't work. But the quarter windows could be cut away from the door glass and used in the '69.
  23. Mark
    Not sure of the wheelbase but that frame was made to be easy to adjust. To get a longer wheelbase, cut behind the transmission crossmember but ahead of the rear radius rod attachment points, and lengthen with sections of aluminum tubing. The cut ends of the frame must be filed to slip into the tubing, and the tubing sections can be polished to match up with the rest of the chassis.
  24. Mark
    Don't know where that list came from, but the '55 Chevy sedan, '70 Chevelle, and '71 Duster have already been available for some time now.
  25. Mark
    I'm thinking the original opening-hood insert for the body wasn't found, forcing AMT to revise the closed-hood insert and tool a new hood. They did just that a couple of years later with the '61 Ranchero, because that kit didn't have a separate hood when originally created. It was a long time ago, but I did check a Prestige series '63 against an annual, and found enough tell-tale marks on various parts to conclude that both were produced from one tool. Not much carried over from '63 to '64 as I recall, just engine and underhood bits. Not having both out right now, as I recall the chassis are different (rear screw holes in different places). I'm going from memory on this though.
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