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  1. Mark
    Looks like AMT '65 GTO.
  2. Mark
    Probably a nice clean Corvair body. Sometimes that old plastic is a bit more resilient than usual, the result being that glue and solvents in the putty don't bite into it.
  3. Mark
    Take a look at Model Car Garage PE sets. They don't make anything specifically for the pickups, but you might find a car that had similar letters on the hood. You might get other things like window crank handles out of the set too.
  4. Mark
    I should have known that: my older brother was into those bicycles, and at one time had one each of them. One or two were restored, but none of the restored ones was "converted" from a more common color. If I remember right, the silver and white ones were the rarest variations, with the red being most common.
  5. Mark
    How many versions did Schwinn offer? Maybe Round 2 is leaving an opening for another issue of this bike in the future...
  6. Mark
    One thing I noticed on this build: engine looks like a 426 Hemi up top, but the photo from underneath looks like the small-block that comes in the Duster kit. I'm wondering how the engine got hacked together. Other than that, still looks like a clean "shelf build" that could stand on its own, without being passed off as something it isn't. I'm doing less and less eBay buying, but when I do I tend to disregard the descriptions and just zero in on the pictures. A lot of sellers "don't know much about these things", then you poke around in their recent sales, and that's all they sell...
  7. Mark
    The Testors website still shows the automotive lacquer line. I'll call BS on what the hobby shop guy is claiming until I see or hear something from Testors themselves. The shop might just be trying to reduce the number of paint lines that they want to stock.
  8. Mark
    The accompanying sheet reads "Motorsports Miniatures". Carl Rees did one also, I can't recall the name of his company. Didn't Modelhaus do one also? As for the Aero Willys, Mike Watgen (Mike's Miniature Motors) did one also. I have one of his.
  9. Mark
    When plastic bags are outlawed, only outlaws will have plastic bags...
  10. Mark
    8,000 miles...in a weak moment, I'd have bought it. I put over 200,000 miles on a Spirit GT: same car without the flares and spoilers. Same suspension, same brakes, same interior, same engines (mine was a 258 six with four-speed). About $2,000 less than the AMX (five grand versus about seven), insurance was half as much (GT was an option package as opposed to a separate and distinct model). I'd like to have another one, it would have to be a GT with the six/manual and GT suspension though.
  11. Mark
    That's a new build, based on the "new tool" '71 Duster kit. The original MPC kit was a '73. Seller is trying to pass it off as the original kit, which he really doesn't need to do, as the build looks good enough to sell on its own merits.
  12. Mark
    Might do pretty well, could lay down a mean smoke screen to conceal itself...
  13. Mark
    Yup, the stock Comet with the trim is the tough one to find, probably more so than the stock Maverick. There was to have been a stock/Pro Stock '71 Maverick kit also, but it wasn't issued. Jo-Han issued a few '71 and '72 kits in two versions: stock/Pro Stock, and funny car only.
  14. Mark
    I got decent money for the unbuilt one, did even better with an unbuilt '71 Maverick funny car kit the year before. I'll have to piece a body together for a Maverick, but I've got an entire unbuilt funny car chassis from a '70 kit which had a stock version. I wish I could find some decent decals for the '70 kit though: all of the sheets I have are badly yellowed.
  15. Mark
    With those Jo-Han Logghe Brothers chassis, a lot of parts interchange between all of the chassis: radius rods, axles, etc. So if you pick up a built one for parts, it won't make a difference if it's a Ford, Mopar, AMC (more of these than any other), or Olds. The Jo-Han version of this chassis is my favourite, so I snag those parts whenever I see them. I had an unbuilt Comet kit but sold it, as I've got an unpainted body and all of the other parts needed to piece one together.
  16. Mark
    I've seen (I think) a couple of different '65 sedan bodies, but to me too the roof didn't seem right on any of them. They're probably trying to make the thing work with the hardtop windshield, which is usually 2" - 2-1/2" or so shorter than the sedan/wagon glass. The Ford roof (my preliminary choice) probably isn't the greatest either. I didn't check the curvature of the windshield side-to-side, but I'll bet it's different from the Chevy. Too, the Ford roof probably has different characteristics (crown of top panel, radius of rear window corners) that would still brand it as a "Ford piece" if it were swapped straight to the Chevy body with no changes.
  17. Mark
    I was interested in the two-door sedan because I saw a restored '66 NHRA Stock class racer for sale at Hershey. I'm pretty sure it was a Biscayne with 427 engine. There were a few of those that were well-known in the late Sixties. Several New York Chevrolet dealers offered a 427 Biscayne package in '68 and '69. They were advertising it as a Chevy alternative to the Plymouth Roadrunner: cheaper than an SS396 Chevelle, and probably didn't weigh too much more. There were a couple of those around here, both were black but the Motion Performance book shows one or two in other colors. For some reason, the big-engine '67 combo seems to fall through the cracks.
  18. Mark
    For the '66, the Revell Impala is the obvious choice. But the four-doors use a flatter trunk lid than the two-door hardtop, so splicing in the upper portion of a '65 convertible decklid area would be the way to go. I looked at doing a '66 two-door sedan using a AMT convertible body (have one "in stock" minus the windshield frame) but other things got in the way. For a roof, I was looking at a '70 Galaxie police car roof, which will need mucho rework (but again, have one on hand).
  19. Mark
    Car is lettered "Boss 429", but has a 427 overhead cam engine (it does; I've got the kit)...
  20. Mark
    The molds dry out and become unusable over time, whether used or not. The heat generated by the curing of the resin dries out thin raised areas on the surface of the mold, in areas like panel lines and cowl vent detail. Early parts from a mold will have sharp detail in those areas, over time little pieces will dry out and pull off causing loss of detail on parts cast later on.
  21. Mark
    I've got parts of one of those '61 kits, but never had an instruction sheet so I don't know if a boot was included (or if a convertible building version was part of the kit). I'd suspect that it was a quick conversion to get the kit away from the promo's four-door configuration.
  22. Mark
    MPC issued some Airfix 1/32 scale sports car and vintage car kits in the Sixties and Seventies also. (One vintage car, the Darracq, is closer to 1/25 scale.) Airfix also issued some MPC car kits (Mako Shark, '67 GTO) in England. I've got an MPC catalog from the early Eighties that shows the Aston Martin as a reissue in their series of Cannonball Run kits. It never appeared though.
  23. Mark
    One other thing with the early Corvairs: the '61 promo was a four-door like the '60, but the trim was a little bit different. The '61 kits all had convertible bodies, but the rear wheel openings were carried over from the four-door and are incorrect.
  24. Mark
    MPC's Toyota 2000 GT kit was the roadster version of the Airfix kit. MPC never issued the coupe version. The 1:1 roadster was a one-off deal (constructed for the 007 movie) but the MPC roadster kit was not issued as a James Bond item. The female figure from the Airfix Bond issue was included in MPC's kit.
  25. Mark
    The Corvair is a '62; the Stylizing parts that are on it were included in the kit. The '60 kit was a four-door, '61 was a convertible with separate glue-on top. '63 was a convertible molded in turquoise or light blue, '64 was a coupe like the '62 but every '64 I have seen was molded in yellow. None of the early Corvair kits had engine detail, but the '62 did include a display engine. I've got a built '62 that someone cut the car up to put the display engine in. The display engine may have been incorporated into the parts pack with the Chrysler engine later on, I've never checked one against the other.
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