Mark

The wagon taillights were the more popular ones for customizing because they bolted right onto '55-'56 Fords and Thunderbirds. Nobody really used the Mercury passenger car units on other cars, so with no 1/25 scale Merc kits there are no taillights available.

'61 Ford Galaxie.

That's a parts pack dragster. I'm pretty certain the newer Slingster was tooled and produced overseas, if so then Atlantis didn't get that one.

That's the Plymouth, the only one in the Revell series that duplicated the Jo-Han version. Both were two-door hardtops. All of the others differed from the AMT or Jo-Han versions in trim level or body style. Neither of those companies offered a Dodge Lancer, Revell had that one to themselves. The Dodge Dart body was modified for the funny car version, so who knows if, or in what form, it would resurface.

Just from the pictures here, I'm seeing parts from the Revell '62 Imperial, '62 Chrysler convertible, '62 Plymouth, and '62 Dodge Lancer...

Darryl Starbird had a tendency to restyle the cars he kept over the years. He didn't do that with the Orange Hauler (Ultra Truck) because he'd sold it to Monogram and they gave it away in a contest. But it might be interesting to see a restyled Seventies version: different bubble (or windscreen), a set of "turbine mag" wheels with obnoxious white-letter tires, and the ubiquitous rectangular headlamps...

If it's a newly bought can, or one you have in stock that you know has been sitting, shake that thing until you can freely roll the agitator ball around the base of the can. The can pictured looks new, but who knows how long it sat in a warehouse...

I'd also consider bagging the pieces and tucking them into the interior until you have the confidence to dive into this repair. Get experience on less valuable items first. Like Ed Roth used to say: "don't mutilate, unless it's cheap!"

Not if you switched the axle shafts and brake drums. Both 5 and 8 lug setups were stock, thus legal for Stock classes. The Grand Prix grille inserts were legal too, they fell under "mild customizing" which was allowed under the rules also.

I'd put the pieces back, but unless the rest of the body is really trashed I wouldn't even think about repainting or anything remotely like it.

If you are using one of the Trophy Series engines with the short closed drive transmission, cut it off and substitute the open drive transmission from either of the engines from the '53 pickup kit. Adapters were available for both (maybe the same one was used?).

Let me guess... They have the flat black paint in stock, but would need to order the primer...

AMT sold a reboxed Jo-Han NASCAR Torino. It was one of the last few Jo-Han kits sold under that arrangement. The MPC kit body (as I understand) is copied from Jo-Han's Torino body, but is closer to accurate for a NASCAR version as it has the trim removed, lights blocked off, etc. The MPC kit uses the two-piece universal chassis, it has leaf springs in back which is wrong for the Torino. Back then, the racing version had to use the same suspension setup as the showroom version of the car in question, meaning the Torino had to have coil springs all around.

The Garlits dragster was only issued once, and no parts other than the slicks were shared with any other kit. It probably got overlooked after its only issue. I'd bet we won't see much drag racing stuff from the "new" Revell, so this kit probably didn't fit into their plans.

The NASCAR body has a hole in the drivers' side quarter panel for a fuel filler, otherwise it is stock. There was also a snap kit which was stock. It had a stock interior (seats molded as part of the bucket), it had red taillight lenses, and it had the scooped hood molded as a unit with the body.

If that New Hampshire photo is indeed 1990, take a look at the dump in resale that someone took on that Renault Alliance! Serves him/her right though, as by 1987 the word was out on what a disaster those things were...

Besides the Torino kits, the Revell '71 Mustang (007 version only) has a 429 engine. Neither the Mustang nor the '70 Torino Cobra kit has optional engine parts like the Torino GT kit however.

Looks like it has different wheels, possibly those from the highboy roadster (the late Nineties one, not the Stacey David Rat Roaster)...

I wonder if the Tri-Power intake, with the two outer carb mounting pads removed, might end up looking like a two-barrel unit.

I'd look at other Monogram kits from that era, that have similar front wheels. Revell and Monogram were separate companies at that time, if parts interchange between kits from that time frame it would be strictly a coincidence.

Both are correct: Hippie Hemi uses the 1964 Garlits chassis, Digger 'Cuda uses the 1970 Ivo car's chassis (probably a Woody Gilmore piece). Neither existed in 1:1, these kits were developed out of a need to get multiple kits off of one main tool. The Garlits rail was also used for a sand dragster (with the chassis inverted and driver positioned in front of the engine!). The Ivo dragster saw one more use, the Too Much dual engine dragster. The original issue included two entire plated trees. AMT essentially molded two kits and dropped the engine parts and plated tree from every second kit into the "other" one.

When radio stations change format, they'll usually play something that will annoy the old listeners until they switch away, often for a couple of days straight in order to get the point across. The choice that station made was genius...

With the '57 Buick, Modelhaus supposedly unearthed a couple of AMT promo bodies molded in styrene. AMT is said to still have had possession of some early promo tools back in the late Sixties, and (then) in a search for "new" items to produce on the cheap, shot some of them in styrene to evaluate them. The '57 Ford two-door sedan promo was one of the others. No word on whether or not the Buick got any consideration, but supposedly the Ford was looked at, only to discover that the 1:1 sedan is on a different wheelbase from the existing hardtop kit. That would prove an obstacle to combining parts from the hardtop kit with the sedan body. Somehow the Modelhaus sedan body got cheated a bit in order to make the hardtop chassis fit. That must have been done along with incorporating the hardtop kit's engine compartment detail into the sedan body.

As often as we've seen them, the engines are great too; the only nitpick being the magneto location on the supercharged Ford. The dragster spoke wheels are among the best ever done in plastic. The other wheels are pretty decent too, though some sandpaper work is needed to knock the ejector pin marks off of the exposed areas. I do wish they'd run the suspension pack through the metallizing chamber though.

When it comes to photoetch emblems and scripts, there's MCG, and then there's one-off items that are here today, gone tomorrow...IF you can even find them.