Mark

Only the stepside ('55 or '57) will have those covers. The Cameos only include stock parts.

BTW, the small license plates are choices for the cycle. "C-1163" was the item number for the original Harley parts pack cycle. "H-1292" is a bit off for the original issue of the '29 Ford pickup (the one I checked is H-1272).

Ask, and you shall receive...

Higher out back because the rear suspension is stock height, to accommodate the stock wheels and tires that are no longer in the kit. The dropped axle included for the front brings it down quite nicely.

The six shouldn't be different by much, if at all, between the two years. I'm not positive, but the Torqueflite may have changed from pushbutton control to column shift for '65.

My understanding of CA emissions regulations is that, when the car and engine are of different year of manufacture, the car must then meet the regulations applicable to the newer of the two. There are difficulties in finding correct parts for some newer cars, particularly GM vehicles. They have been discontinuing many mechanical parts for older vehicles. I have read about owners of Nineties Corvettes having trouble getting parts for the ABS brake system. The emissions and fuel system parts are a bigger issue for them in CA, as only OEM items are allowed. If the OEM discontinued them, you are then limited to the existing supply. The sellers of those parts will know that and raise prices accordingly.

The difference might be in the shipper. After reading about "silk fingernail wrap" here (for reinforcing seams between cut parts) I decided to try it on a project. I ordered it on 2/24, pretty much right away it got a postal ID number for tracking. It sat at the seller's chosen "shipping partner" for a week or so before starting to move again yesterday. I'll probably get it on Monday. Contrast that with Spotlight Hobbies, where I can place an order and have the darn thing waiting on my porch two days later. Three business days this time, I think I placed this order very late in the day.

There was one reissue of the GTO after the Elegance Series but before the Modified Stocker. That one did have all of the other parts restored to it. That's all moot now, with the newer Craftsman Plus hardtop kit. The engine from the old kit is pretty close to a drop-in deal.

On one hand, it makes considerable sense. It will keep a lot of occasionally driven vehicles on the road, generating registration fees every year. Maintenance items sold will also generate sales tax revenue. On the other hand, it is still California we're talking about. The details differ from state to state, but here in NY if I had several collector cars I'd probably get a dealer/transporter license plate. Those can be used on any car, said car doesn't have to have a current inspection or registration on it. Too, we pay sales tax on used cars when they are registered (but I don't know how far I'd want to push the sales tax thing). You do need to carry substantial liability insurance with those plates though, and to be a "dealer" you might have to buy/sell X number of vehicles each year. I did know a couple of guys who operated an AMC franchise a bunch of years ago; in some years they only sold one or two new vehicles, not sure how many used cars they moved in a given year but it wasn't many.

I was watching that for a while yesterday; the car was upside down, and they pulled up the frame of the car with at least a couple of the wheels still attached. It was mostly buried under stones and silt, they were using a vacuum of some sort to clear all of that away. What was visible looked fairly intact, as it's in fresh water as opposed to salt water. It will be interesting to see what they find out. There was a similar case some years back; they pulled the car out with the transmission still in Drive which would indicate the car had driven in as opposed to being pushed in in neutral.

The green one is the "Jolly Green Gasser", which is a '65. Different kit.

The second one from the top will probably be molded in red, which is often tougher to paint in some other colors. The one below it will be light gray, the other two will be white. I'd get one of the white ones, those will have better decals and tires.

Looks like they went back to the narrow slicks that were in the first issue. Wish they'd put the stock wheels and tires back in (they're different from those in the '31 Woody).

Yes. AMT blocked off all parts not used for that issue. There were six kits in the series: (yellow) '65 GTO and '57 Chevy, (pastel blue) '32 Vicky and '55 Nomad, and (red) '34 pickup and '57 T-Bird. All had blue tint clear parts, and an extremely small can of clear pearl spray paint. None included a decal sheet to my knowledge. Most of the time these kits are missing the can of pearl spray paint. One eBay sellers tried to pass that off with "this kit was originally sold in California, they didn't allow the paint to be sold there"...nonsense, it was just missing like most others that turn up!

The Monogram Hot Shot (slot and shelf versions) both used 1/32 scale slot car tires. The shelf version had plastic wheels, the slot car had aluminum ones. Not having the slot version, I'd guess that it used a 1/32 scale slot chassis, or possibly a special one made to fit the body. The front tires are tough to find. With a built kit, often the plastic front axle breaks with the broken-off section disappearing and taking a tire and wheel with it.

2004 reissue would have been an SSP item. The box art would closely resemble that of the original issue, which didn't exactly stick out.

No '63 coupe or '64 convertible kits. The '64 coupe was also offered as a slot car body kit (molded in white; the snap kit was yellow).

I have seen it on the H.A.M.B.

If Revell is reissuing the lowrider version of the S-10, that should mean that they found (or retooled) the 2WD front suspension setup. The most recent issue was 4WD, it looked as though it was a GMC Syclone with the S-10 grille.

More mixing would be the next thing to try. I wouldn't even try to cast any parts; just mix a small amount, observe what happens, and test the results. Resin is cheap compared to mold material. Losing/"wasting" some of it is preferable to wasting one or more uses of a mold in my opinion.

The '27 touring from the double kit is definitely the basis of MMTC. Besides the aforementioned parts, the rear window area of the raised top was changed (with a new part, I believe). The earlier XR-6 double kit went over like passing gas in church (the linoleum gray box art didn't help) so the TV car served as a means of salvaging something out of the double kit. The T touring was then revised further for post-MMTC reissues. The Chevrolet Brothers (Frontenac) engine goodies were restored from the double kit, along with the slotted rear wheels. The custom rear window top piece was probably the only part from MMTC that was retained. The other optional parts were (then) newly tooled.

Four things: -Are the two parts meant to be mixed in equal portions? If so, the bottles should be the same size. Everything else being "right", you shouldn't need to alter the mix. Just make sure the two parts are properly measured. -Don't allow utensils or containers used for "A" to come into contact with "B". -How old is the stuff? It does have a shelf life, which drops off drastically once opened. -Make sure "A" and "B" are each mixed individually prior to combining them.

The battery ones I have seen spin pretty fast too. If you slow it down by putting in mostly-used batteries, it won't have enough muscle to do any polishing. A single speed tool with an external speed control unit will let the tool speed drop to near zero. You can't use the external speed control with a tool that already has one built in, so you'd need a single speed tool. I don't think Dremel makes a single-speed tool anymore, but Harbor Freight might still have one. I believe they offer the external control unit also.

Atlantis ought to be making sure buyers know they are getting the Revell parts packs. I have heard that some potential buyers are passing on these kits because they don't know what's in the box. Too, they need to run those suspension parts through the plating chamber...

The Round 2 issue is desirable in that it includes a copy of the display background that came in the original issue kit. The Millennium issue didn't have that.