Mark

They DO carry other items...several brands of paint (shipping on that can get stupid), Molotow pens, an admittedly small selection of Evergreen styrene and K&S metal strips and tubes (more K&S stuff than the LHS presently has), and even casting supplies. And, every so often, there's a new kit or two. LHS seems to be pricing kits at "whatever the market will bear" lately, often $4-7 over retail. I'll pay retail once in a blue moon, but never over. When I can get something dropped on my front porch cheaper than buying local (sales tax included in both)...sorry, local...

The AMT '67 Camaro annual kit was an SS 350.

I'd suspect that with the pricing and payment terms HL gets from the manufacturers, they buy in very large quantities, and don't always get the newest items first. So the last of the "same old" has to be sold before the "new" stuff gets put on the shelves.

Definitely Jo-Han.

A shot of the back side of those Cragars would narrow it down. I will say they are definitely AMT. MPC Cragars often had blank center caps, sometimes only lettering (misspelled on occasion), never the S/S logo that I can recall.

Had the "can you hold that kit for me" deal happen once, years ago. A guy somewhat well known (now long deceased) asked me to hold a kit for him, two weeks later got a letter saying "I found a rebuildable one". Fool me once, shame on you. After that, it was "first person to get me the cash, gets it". These things aren't necessities, either you can afford it or you can't. And if you need to wait for money from somewhere, or aren't confident of your job status, hobby stuff should be a bit lower on the priority list...

Still some goodies left on that tree. Those little "U" shaped thingies are teeth for the '54 Chevy grille; those were separate pieces on the 1:1 car, and customizers often put additional ones on in between the original ones. The '62 Chrysler and Dodge grilles are better than the equivalent Jo-Han parts. The Dodge grille fits the Revell '62 Dodge body perfectly. There's a '60 Oldsmobile grille there too.

I don't have one of those '58 Biarritz kits anymore, but I remember the tires as being branded "Douglas" or something like that. Those Silvertowns do resemble the Monogram Cadillac tire, except for the whitewall insert which looks small. The front tires don't look like anything from any kit I can recall. I still think they might be something Modelhaus did, or the current Modelhaus Tire operation is doing now.

The one on the left is AMT, the one on the right is Jo-Han. It came in a number of kits in the 1970-74 period: original issue Superbird, '70 4-4-2, Javelin, and Roadrunner annual kits, Mark Donohue '70 and (AMT boxed) '71 Javelin Trans-Am racers, '72 Torino NASCAR, among others. At some point in the mid-Seventies, Jo-Han retooled a lot of their racing tires. These hollow one-piece tires were retooled as two-piece, those are okay but not as good as the early one-piece version.

He may have been selling something similar, and used that tactic to keep a competing item off the table for a while.

AMT grille and bumper parts pack.

No, not the whole frame. The Deuce frame is needed with the stock fenders, as the area between the body and running boards IS the outside of the frame rail. The Willys kit frame, in some cases with tweaks to the outer most rails, will work under an Austin body. I think I tried it under a '33 Willys body too, I might be wrong but I remember it being workable for that too.

Why not try it, on a junker body at least? You can probably do it, you just don't know you can just yet.

The pro street look would dictate stock fenders all around, with the rear tires tucked in. You might not go super big with the rear tires, as the diameter of some of them probably won't work with the rear fenders. One kit I'd take a look at would be the Revell pro street '41 Willys coupe. The rear tires are big yet not gigantic, part of that rear frame section might just work with the Deuce frame, and the 392 Hemi is a street version...street blower setup and block hugger headers should work with the '92 in the 5W coupe kit.

You'll have to tackle reworking the '32 chassis yourself, as there aren't any Deuce kits with a pro street chassis setup. Find magazine or online articles for reference, and do what they did, only smaller.

The center hole in AMT slicks will have to be enlarged if you want to put Revell parts pack wheels into them.

Not sure about those front tires, rears look like the BFG Silvertowns from the Monogram '59 Cadillacs. AMT '57 Chrysler has them also, but the whitewall may be bigger on those. The ones pictured might be aftermarket, maybe Modelhaus? Wheels look like the Cragars from the AMT '37 Chevy. The '65 El Camino, Chevelle wagon, and Ford Galaxie have similar Cragar S/S wheels, most have no mounting provisions on the back side.

Round 2 has the MPC Haulaway Trailer, which has the entire upper body molded in clear. It's available now; my LHS has a couple of them. I thought about picking another one up, but remembered I had one or two of the last issue on my sale pile.

The reason for the big-block Chevy engine is that, sometime in 1976, someone at AMT dug through their tool bank for an engine to put into the Ranchero. The best fit apparently turned out to be the 396 from the '66 Impala, by then the Modified Stocker which had fallen out of the catalog a couple of years prior. I'd bet they first checked the four Ford Modified Stocker tools, and found the axle holes in those engines put them too far forward in the Ranchero's chassis. So, in went the Chevy. Engraving a mirror image second exhaust pipe (which worked, ignoring the fact that the chassis never had fuel tank detail--the tank would have been next to the single muffler on the stock six-cylinder truck) and a few more tweaks turned a then dormant tool into a saleable kit. Someone mentioned a Y-block Ford swap...it was done, in a Hot Rod Magazine article in 1960. I can't remember who did the swap, but the recipient of the four-door sedan was one of the Ford brothers (Henry II, or William Clay Ford). The shock towers were trimmed back similar to the Thunderbolt Fairlanes in 1964. The rear axle was replaced but the four-lug wheels remained. Adapters won't leave enough room in front, and the four-lug front hubs can't be redrilled for five-lug due to their design. I remember those hubs not being round, but having protrusions for each wheel stud. Anything other than a 144, 170, or 200 six is nowhere near to a bolt-together deal in an early Falcon (pre-1963-1/2). My older brother put a Windsor 302 and C4 into a '62 sedan delivery. As I remember, the transmission tunnel needed to be enlarged at the front. (Maybe a stick transmission bellhousing would have fit?) He split the difference by lowering the transmission a bit to reduce the amount of hammer work needed where the tunnel met the firewall. The delivery was an Arizona car, he didn't want to butcher it up. Subsequent owners beat that engine (from my mom's '70 Torino) into submission, it was replaced by a 289. I saw the car for sale on Craigslist last year when it resurfaced after a long absence, substantially the same as when it was put together in 1977. The price seemed pretty good, but I've already got a '62 Fairlane. The delivery still had four-lug wheels up front, five in back. The spare tire was on a slotted steel wheel with five-lug pattern, with the four-lug pattern drilled in (one hole was common to both patterns, both were on a 4-1/2" circle). He was never able to find later five-lug parts to change the front end over; by then none of those cars were in junkyards anymore, and the Granada disc conversion wasn't common knowledge yet.

The window opening can be traced from the passenger side, and the pattern used to replace the rain gutter on the driver's side. After that is done, the excess material can be trimmed out. I did the same thing in another thread relating to the 2+2 issue of this kit.

I only go there and search particular items and sellers, not the general "look at everything" like I used to do.

That's what the horn is for. And when they give you the stink-eye, that's what middle fingers are for.

Not positive on this, but I remember the Model King issue not having the unplated spoked wheels. If that is true, hopefully Round 2 will get them back in. Both this and the MPC next-generation Bronco were very good kits back then, still pretty decent by today's standards. Edit: just checked my Model King set, the spoke wheels for the front are included, but not the rear ones.

How deep are those...a little judicious block sanding might square that away...

I'm not so sure sellers are listing items in the wrong categories. When the item comes up, we see it in the wrong category, but I'm thinking eBay is intentionally dumping additional items into random searches, both to prop up the numbers and to keep us occupied longer. They seem to be operating on the "supermarket" business model, where they figure that "the longer you are in the store, the more you are likely to spend".