Mark

No release date announced as of now. Box art will in all likelihood match one of the two issues of the original kit.

The thin tape is the key here. When you use too-thick tape, when paint is applied it goes not only to the area that was masked off, it also settles against the "side" of the tape. Thicker tape = higher ridge created by the paint that settled against the thickness of the tape.

Looks like the Cadillac to me. With the Atlantis versions of those parts pack based kits no longer being two cars in one kit, Atlantis has been putting two engines into each kit. With fewer available engine packs (one Chevy engine was integrated into the '57 Chevy, the Chrysler engine is now in the Studebaker funny car) we will be seeing these engines time and time again. Hopefully they'll at least get the Buick engine into circulation, the Pontiac should start turning up too. That would leave only the turbine, which Revell never used in its double kits because it probably doesn't fit any of the chassis.

I never buy extended warranties on electronics or appliances. First reason would be the "go out of business and reopen under another name" business model. Second, my thought is that if something were to go bad or if the item in question was a lemon, it would krap out right out of the box during the basic warranty. Except for one $100 microwave that went belly up about two weeks after the one-year warranty ended, things have pretty much worked out.

Revell tended to reuse the masters for their engines, which was smart because it made them consistent. All of the small-block Chevy engines have similar long blocks, so the intake setup and valve covers from any of them will drop onto any of the others. Same goes for the Cadillac, Pontiac, Buick, Chrysler, and Ford FE engines (though the Parts Pack FE has that rear mounted distributor setup).

Lifetime warranties go hand in hand with health club memberships; they sign up too many people, go bankrupt, someone else takes over the locations and changes the name, rinse and repeat. When I bought my house in 1989, I bought a washer and dryer from a local company that promoted "free lifetime service". They dropped the appliances off, about a week and a half later the stores closed. The owners kept the service center open and tried to get the customers of the closed stores to purchase service contracts. That didn't fly, and the service center closed shortly thereafter.

Revell issued a fully restored Tweedy Pie a few years back, apparently it didn't sell well and was out only a short time. The new parts needed for the restoration were probably tooled and molded in China, so Atlantis didn't get those, only the basic kit and probably some tooling done in North America much earlier. We'll have to wait and see just what will be in the Atlantis reissue.

Hopefully they'll get another engine into those two parts pack based kits, like the Buick. And, get the suspension parts into the vacuum plating area of the plant.

Same kit. The Revell reissue Outlaw/Robbin Hood Fink kit was similar: added figure plus two-piece wheel/tire units, no decals. The reissue had plated parts same as the "base" kit, not sure if the original was like that.

Round 2 did a couple of Prudhomme cars in recent years. His daughter might have been choking off the flow of licensed items until after the (excellent) book on him came out. Now that the book is out, there might be more new items to catch the wave generated by the book.

The Pontiac was never a kit, it was a promo and probably a "remote control" toy. AMT did offer a few acetate bodied promos in unassembled form, but I believe that practice began in 1953.

The relief guy has probably already had issues in multiple areas already. They're spreading him around so he can't get into too much new trouble in any one area.

Those slicks are MPC units, very early funny car slicks. Round 2 has used them previously in the AMT '66 Nova.

The pickup has a B-series engine (distributor at the front).

Compare the center area of both the Corvette and '57 wheels...

The ones pictured are from the Revell '57 Chevy, I'd bet on it. The AMT Coddington series kits that I have seen had larger diameter wheels, so much so that RC2 (NOT Round 2) created some funky suspension parts to try to make the whole deal look workable. I bought one of the '57 Chevy kits just for giggles, it has a weird looking articulated rear axle setup (but still with the leaf springs). The wheels are downright goofy, the brake rotor and caliper is sandwiched BETWEEN the outer and inner halves of the wheel.

The hardtop isn't in any of the reissue '60/'59 Corvettes because the windshield in all of the reissues is different tooling from the annual kits. AMT probably tooled only a windshield and not the top or custom windscreens.

Aren't those Pontiac promos just a bit smaller than 1/25 scale? I recall seeing info to that effect in the Bob Wingate promo articles in Rod & Custom in the mid-Sixties. The odd scale would be the final nail in that one, on top of the trim parts and chassis plate being metal.

Moebius has shown assembled test shots, unless someone from there chimes in there has been no word regarding which specific car(s) will be offered.

The windows are clear on those pictured. Often they have a frosted or fogged appearance, apparently the plastics used weren't compatible over the long haul. Plated parts on those will be styrene, as the plating (vacuum metallizing) process involves some heat, which acetate didn't take kindly to. Besides warping, the acetate shrinks. Years ago I had a '62 Dodge or Plymouth promo interior, I intended to use it in a USA Oldies kit build...way smaller...not even close to fitting.

Plymouth didn't commission a '68 RR or GTX promo from Jo-Han, so the '69 was the first. Plymouth didn't request a RR promo until '71, so the '69 and '70 kits were done by Jo-Han out of their own pocket. '71 was the opposite of '69-'70; '71 RR was promo and kit while GTX was kit only. '68 4-4-2 kit is extremely tough to find. I can probably count the number of boxed kits that I have seen on my fingers, and I wouldn't use all of them. Promos and frictions are "more common", but you won't trip over any of those anywhere.

The reinforcement inside the roof is probably pulling everything down. Too, when you join two roofs together like that you are also getting an optical illusion where, even if an area is level, it will look concave. Two trucks built with the same suspension, same tires, same ride height, if both look right the longer one will be higher at the highest point on the top panel of the roof. If both are the same height, the longer one will appear to sag in the middle.

Agreed, the Bondo product is just as good as Evercoat for what we are doing. I have used both, and one works as well as the other.

If it's polished, the glue shouldn't really stick to the surface. You should be able to knock it off with a rag wrapped around your finger, or with the end of a flat toothpick. If that doesn't work, then the glue may have burned through the surface. In that case, it probably won't come off short of being sanded away.

I'd argue that the '59 Imperial is the oldest AMT kit still in existence, as it was derived from the '58. There was no SMP '58 Corvette kit, there may have been a promo but I'm not positive.