Mark

The Chevelle has been the Modified Stocker dirt track car since the early Seventies. No going back with that one...

The Revell Chip Foose '67 Charger has a set with "Mopar HEMI" below the plug holes.

With a 1:1 ARDUN you would of course need to change intake manifolds, but I'm pretty sure the Ford pickup kit still uses a flathead intake with the ARDUN heads. One more reason we need a correct ARDUN setup in 1/25 scale styrene...

The '62 Catalina parts would be the best starting point. The Moebius '61 chassis is pretty much a straight crib of the AMT kit at a slightly higher price. Anything else that might fit won't be as accurate as even the original piece. I'd rather live with rudimentary detail with the correct configuration, than "more detail" that isn't as correct. Funny, I was looking at this last week from the flip side; that is, sliding the Catalina pieces under a '63 body shortened to Catalina spec. That swap does work (I didn't look at the interior because mine wouldn't be using a console). In general, the AMT Sixties Pontiacs do measure out pretty well. The Catalina/GP (regardless of year) has a 3" shorter wheelbase than the same-year Bonneville, and is also shorter overall by 7" (+/- a fraction of an inch).

Miss Deal has a very nice (ex-parts pack) 392, but the external parts are outdated for a late Sixties car (blower has a chain drive cover instead of a belt, etc.)

The Model King and Round 2 issues have more parts than the original SMP issue, because the annual was available as either a hardtop or a convertible. The newer issues have parts for both included.

As I remember, that stockpile was down quite a bit. I do remember seeing glass for early Toronados, the S/C Rambler, and possibly the '70 Eldorado last year...not much else. I bought other items in prior years, and am now glad I did.

Unless he finds more, I bought the last one he had at NNL East last year. His stock of clear parts and red taillights has been depleted considerably from what it was...

AMT's '70 kit didn't have the year on the box. They sold it through 1971, they didn't bother doing a new box for it. They handled their Corvette kits (coupe and roadster) the same way. MPC's '70 Camaro "Super Hugger" likewise didn't have the year on the box. It too had the standard front end. For '71, they changed to the RS front end, and issued it as an annual kit in a different box.

Last time that happened to me, the people involved were near the end of an aisle. I interrupted and told them that, if they'd move over a couple of feet, they could block two aisles. If looks could kill, I'd have been dead right there and then. For a while, I had the luck to run into near-empty carts in the checkout line. These jokers would leave a cart in line with one or two items in it, then wander off to finish their shopping. Keep calm, shove that stuff off to the side and carry on. Now I do my shopping in the off hours, so I don't encounter blocked aisles and such anymore.

Pretty sure that kit has a 426 also. Other MPC funny cars that used that same chassis also had other cylinder heads and valve covers included (Blue Max Mustang had Boss Nine parts, Setzer Vega had Chevy big-block parts). The MPC Winged Express fuel altered does have a decent 392 though.

From the looks of it, there are two plugs per cylinder. The plug wires that appear to be going to the other distributor are instead going to one plug on each cylinder on the opposite side of the engine. You'd wire the engine as though each distributor is the only one on the engine; that is, one wire to each cylinder. The other distributor's wires would then go to the other plug for each cylinder.

This kit is based on the MPC Garlits dragster kit, not the Ramchargers'.

It has a few newly tooled parts including the injector and scoop, but has a 426 engine and not the 392 as pictured on the box art and the info card included. Still, many of the needed ingredients are here, particularly the decal sheet. Round 2 can, and probably should, do more items like this.

Because if they had reissued the hardtop, people would be asking about the convertible...

The bumpers from the AMT '65 El Camino, or the station wagon, will fit the AMT hardtop body also.

If you use one of the newer Revell kits as a starting point, keep the frame and modify it back to stock. The outside of the frame rails form the outer "sill" between the bottom of the body and the running boards. It's going to be extremely tough to make some other frame fit that area as well as the kit piece. The AMT '32 engines all have the exhaust manifolds molded as part of the block. The AMT '34 5W coupe is the earliest model year kit that has separate parts. I'd check the parts in all of these kits, as few 1:1 '32 Fords (even restored ones) still have a '32 engine. Who knows what was in the car(s) that were measured and checked to make the kits. Wheels will be another problem. The AMT '32 kits all have undersize wheels. Best ones out there in plastic are probably the Monogram '34 Ford units...good luck finding a set though. Next best might be AMT '34 Ford 5W coupe, but something about those doesn't look right to me...

If you want a custom Continental, check out Jimmy Flintstone's website. He's got one, maybe two of them with a different roof already grafted on. Hang on to the stock one, either to rebuild or trade.

That, and the "custom" version with the top probably isn't readily available now. I'd guess most of them were bought specifically because that top was included, so the chance of finding a "loose" one would be pretty thin.

I have only seen a couple of tops in resin, none for the Chevelle though. The top from the Revell '72 Cutlass might work...just a matter of finding one...

The mirror in that kit is one of the first things I noticed; like the rest of the kit, it's as nearly perfect as anything Revell has done in recent years.

Those two aren't numbered, but seem to be variations on one edition. I've got one with that style cover, but have five different un-numbered catalogs prior to the first numbered one, #6. Here's the first one...

The first one was 1959. I've seen a grand total of three of them, including one I have now and another I sold a couple of years ago. If you're looking to build a complete set, there was no 13th edition.

When the AMT-labeled series was reissued, Ertl had a booth at one of the shows I had set up at. I won one of the '32 Chevy kits in a drawing, and opened it up to find the street rod version parts. I asked the Ertl rep why they didn't mention or show those on the box, he said it was because the Chevy had street rod parts while the Chrysler and Lincoln had the gangster stuff. Had all of the kits in the series had similar optional parts, they would have included the info on the boxes. It's too bad MPC didn't offer any of them with closed body styles (coupe or sedan). But back when these were created, the closed cars were mostly looked at as parts cars to restore roadsters or phaetons.

Looks like a '72 body. The 1:1 was a '70, but the kit was always a '72.