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  1. Mark
    Different, or reworked, the closed-hood body has not been issued since the last ('74) funny car "annual". The first "stock" issue (Mini Muscle Car) was a '74 also. The reworked cowl had vent detail but no windshield wipers, which were added for the '75 annual. I'd bet that if a Round 2 Gremlin funny car ever appears, it will include the separate-hood body with instructions telling the builder to cut it.
  2. Mark
    Same body: it was updated through '74 as the funny car, then converted to the stock version. I've got an early body and bumpers stashed for a Wally Booth '72 project...
  3. Mark
    Atlantis could probably do okay with the five surviving stock-version cars, provided they don't have to spend too much to tool missing parts. Who knows what tire tooling they got, and if any of it still extant fits, or can be made to work with, these kits. There are at least two different size tires in these kits. Given that they have survived the Jo-Han and SMP/AMT early Sixties Mopars, now might be the best time for them to reappear. I wonder why Revell didn't throw them out there in the mid-Seventies, alongside the '57 Ranchero and '59 Skyliner.
  4. Mark
    Did either of them have a manual transmission like the Revell kit?
  5. Mark
    It's more brittle because it's basically clear styrene with the flakes, and a small amount of color, added. Clear styrene is almost always more brittle than colored styrene.
  6. Mark
    The Revell Mopars are inferior to the Jo-Han and AMT offerings in the fine details. Bodies are pretty decent, chassis terrible (Imperial has unibody detail and single exhaust), interiors not so hot either. But they're the only ones that might still exist.
  7. Mark
    The AMX kits were produced by Jo-Han, from Jo-Han tooling. The AMT chassis is totally different. I never checked, but heard it uses a lot of parts from earlier AMT funny car chassis like the '69 and '70 Mustangs.
  8. Mark
    Agreed, it can take forever to get a kit actually produced. Someone (now deceased) told me that, in the early Eighties, he found a couple of cars for Monogram to photograph and measure because they intended to make kits of them. One was a Ford Thunderbolt, the others were a couple of '70-'72 Olds 442s. Someone else told me about a late Forties Ford wagon. Had they jumped right into these projects, they all would have ended up as 1/24 scale kits back then. The T-Bolt wound up getting done several years later after the merger with Revell, the Ford woody wagon a few years after that, and the first Olds 442 came much later. I recall reading or hearing somewhere that the Revell 1/25 scale Kurtis-Kraft midget kits were over ten years in the works also.
  9. Mark
    eBay has always had sellers who think they are making money. They're the ones beating each other's brains in at flea markets overpaying for those "screw-bottom model toy cars", then finding out later that they are losing their shirts. Thing is, when one of them figures it out, another one shows up to replace him/her.
  10. Mark
    I saw a Vega earlier today: '74 or '75. Definitely not stock though.
  11. Mark
    I'd bet that, as the release date of the first pro stock Vega kit is announced, eBay will see a torrent of annual kits, built, unbuilt and everything in between, from people who had them stashed away for projects. Those wanting a stock one will be able to get one then.
  12. Mark
    The Skylark in question is the original annual version: screen isn't an option! I only mentioned the Modified Stocker because some of the RC2 reissues include both the windshield (minus vent panes) and rear glass. Unfortunately the Skylark isn't one of them.
  13. Mark
    The Modified Stocker Skylark includes ONLY the windshield, no vent panes or rear glass. Some of the reissue Stockers have the tooling "opened up" and so have the rear glass that isn't used in that version ('65 Fairlane, for example). Not so the Skylark, nor the Olds 88 (which I would have liked). Agreed, I'd look at AMT and MPC midsize cars for a replacement windshield. '67 GTO might be the first one to check. The Gear Hustler El Camino reissue windshield would be worth checking too. The reissue has two sets of parts, so swiping the glass for the Buick won't leave the El Camino with nothing. When the GTO was first reissued in 1984, the first production run had that dark tint glass that MPC seemed to be obsessed with at the time. I built one and replaced the glass with thin clear styrene sheet. Agreed, the rear glass is for all intents and purposes flat while the windshield is curved on only one plane.
  14. Mark
    There's one other way a Vega and a Hoover are the same...
  15. Mark
    It's surprising Lindberg didn't have more commonality between the Plymouth and Dodge. That would have allowed for more versions, like (with additional body tooling) Plymouth sedans and Dodge hardtops, maybe even a convertible or two.
  16. Mark
    According to the brochures I checked, the short bed is 20" shorter than the long bed. 16" of that is ahead of the rear wheels (which shortens the wheelbase by a like amount), the other 4" is behind the rear wheels.
  17. Mark
    Did you check both sides? The AMT pickup has a fair amount of assymetry from side to side, particularly in the shape of the front wheel openings.
  18. Mark
    The Lawman Plymouth is not a combination of parts from the Plymouth and Dodge kits. It's the Plymouth with new parts added. Some of the new parts for the Plymouth were also tossed into the Color Me Gone Dodge reissue The Dodge and Plymouth don't share major parts like chassis, interior, etc. They are similar but the parts are different for each kit.
  19. Mark
    They'll have to source (or recreate) the electrical hardware like battery tabs and other connectors, and find a motor that fits. All of that stuff will in all likelihood come from overseas. Depending on the number of these that Atlantis expects to produce, it might actually be easier to do now than at any time since the kit was in production first time around.
  20. Mark
    A lot of work to go to, to make it harder to see out the back. The C3 had the split window only for '63, to please Bill Mitchell. Duntov supposedly hated the split window.
  21. Mark
    LHS here (Section 8 Hobbies) has 'em. Word is that Hobby Lobby may carry some of them soon also.
  22. Mark
    The bigger the skull and crossbones on the package, the better it works...
  23. Mark
    Those subcompact funny cars are more akin to show rods than actual drag cars. The first versions all had spoked dragster front wheels, and I wouldn't even try fitting a scale driver figure inside the roll cage. Still, they're cool in their own way.
  24. Mark
    One hobby shop here had a few. The owner was trying to pass them off as "rare packaging variations" at about 50% MORE than his prices on the "regular" versions. He wasn't around long. Some eBay sellers were selling Round 2 Lindberg car kits with the photos showing the bottom of the box, which was illustrated also. They're trying to give the impression that the items they are selling are packaged differently from those sold elsewhere. Who knows why...
  25. Mark
    The Vega bodies shown are more than likely all-new tooling, as opposed to a backdating of the existing body. The chassis and interior will probably be carried over from the Twister kit though. Both of the people wanting a stock Vega can probably adapt AMT Monza underbody bits, or find an unbuilt annual kit or busted promo to rob other parts from.
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