Mark

Getting one aftermarket seller to offer something (conversion parts, decals) for another aftermarket item is a tough sell because the potential market is so small. I know from my own past experience that sales of items for mainstream car kits drop to near zero when the base kit isn't readily available. I can’t imagine depending on another aftermarket item for a sales base for something I'm doing.

'73 is quite a bit different from the (Revell) '69 and (AMT) '71. I've never seen a '73 even in resin, I doubt anyone would make decals for one unless they also offered the body.

Mackey Thompson briefly cataloged Hemi cylinder heads made to fit Pontiac V8 engines. He also offered them for Ford FE series engines. Not too many pairs were sold, as it was probably cheaper to just build a Chrysler mill as opposed to converting something else with parts available from only one source.

Late Sixties/early Seventies funny car/dragster items: fuel pumps, fittings, dry sump oil pumps, distribution blocks, remote oil filters, magnetos, brake calipers...enough items to detail one car per parts pack. With indentations to indicate where holes are to be drilled for lines or wires. First person doing them will sell a bunch of them...

The last issues of the '48 Ford(s) and VW Beetle were by Union of Japan. Apparently Lindberg didn't get those tools, or the IMC Ford GTs. They (Lindberg) would probably have reissued at least some of those kits. The '48 Fords would have been at the top of the list back then, as Revell hadn't released theirs yet.

Not singling anyone out here, but after so many years it still blows my mind that people will just grab the easiest to reach spray cans and start blasting a never-before-tried paint combination on something they have just put a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH-ton of hours into...

Had some luck at a local automotive swap meet this morning. All complete/unassembled/not even started. The Rambler has red stripe tires (I bought a case of that kit in my early eBay days, those don't have them). Rambler was $15, the others $10 apiece. The Mustang has a straight body; most of those that I see lately has the roof leaning to one side, or crushed altogether. The Petty Talladega is the Round 2 issue; better tires and decals than the original. The Petty Plymouth kits don't sell for crazy money due to the Lindberg '64, but I like the body in the Jo-Han kit a lot better. There were other kits there, either stuff I already have way too many of, stuff I wouldn't be able to resell, or just junk that wasn't worth bothering with.

There were no '70 Coronet promos, hardtop or convertible. For some reason, I can't include the post I'm responding to...

If it's "direct to metal", wonder how it would work for repainting a die-cast as opposed to starting with etching primer?

If the '64 is molded in that dark blue, it's the 98 cent stock-only version. Way tougher to find than the $1.49 four-version annual kit. Not that those are falling out of the trees either...

Doesn't make sense to retool the phone booth for a single issue that will probably sell just as well whether or not it is included. There will be one included in the printed cardstock items. It wouldn't be tough to measure that and trace onto sheet plastic.

That's a Revell 1968.

I like the way the chassis fills out the space inside the body. One thing I can't stand with some kits is when the chassis lacks inner rear wheel houses, letting you see through to the other side of the car around the rear wheels. I picked up a second '68 convertible, I was thinking about swapping as much as possible into a '70 to create a '70 convertible. For a bunch of years I thought there was a '70 Coronet convertible annual kit (there wasn't). I might try to build it the way I imagined it looked like on the box.

The Coronet convertible kit is fantastic. Every time I give it a look, I notice more improvements over the original.

If anyone has a mind to complain about many of the mid-Sixties annual kits having only four tires...that's the way they came originally! (Except when a trailer was included.) No annual kit though 1963 had anything other than stock tires. In 1964 kits, I can only think of the Chevelle wagon having had a pair of slicks included. It wasn't until 1965 that a few more annual kits had extra tires. For '66, AMT threw those plastic "sidewall caps" into some annuals, plastic slicks in others. I'd actually like to try those sidewall pieces on something.

Well, this one first appeared way before the '71 Demon. Round 2 is hoping to get the Demon out this fall according to what they were saying at NNL East last weekend. So, I'd expect to see the Chevelle prior to then.

The extra hood looks like '62 Chrysler from here...

The Demon was never on the Round 2 website, or any print listing from them. It was the USA-1 Vega kit that was shown on the website as "coming soon" for a couple of years early on. Then it disappeared and returned several years later.

Round 2 never actually announced a Demon kit prior to now. Someone spread their wish list around, and a couple of eBay sellers took pre-orders based on that.

I'd assume you would get them as pictured. The black background is there because he's printing on white decal paper. I wouldn't buy those anyway because of that alone. Any seller that can't answer a question also gets into my "bad books" and won't sell me anything...

All of the MPC Jeepster kits have the early Buick/Olds V6. A couple of versions of the MPC Jeep CJ kits had it too, but those particular ones haven't been available for many years.

Chassis are the same; in fact, the '69 and '70 kits use the chassis from the '66 Wildcat kit. The engine from the '69 would of course fit a '70, but try finding one. The 1970 restyle was a pretty extensive one. I'd bet that the '69 kit didn't set the world on fire sales-wise, so the 1970 promo update was done with no consideration given to doing a (then) $2 kit with engine detail. One may have been on the initial listing of AMT 1970 kits, though. I don't have that list in front of me, but it did include several items that never appeared.

Model King commissioned a reissue of this kit during the time they were having kits manufactured by RC2 (prior to 2008). So this isn't the first time since 1970 that this kit has been available. The 1969 Wildcat annual kit did have an engine and separate hood (and optional parts), but the 1970 was never available that way.

The assembled models at the Atlantis table at NNL East looked pretty good. I built one a few years ago, it came out pretty good. Make sure you start with unwarped parts, and resist the temptation to try to re-engineer the thing. It is what it is. But do look at the hinge parts during assembly, and do what you can to keep the doors from sagging when opened.

For the upgrade kits, check eBay. The Mattel unit did have a following, if that is still true you should be able to find the upgrade items as well as predicted plastic sheets. But I wouldn't throw too much money at it...for a little bit more you can step up to a real machine with greater capabilities.