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It does also resemble the rear fenders in early issue AMT '25 Fords. But all of the Sixties issues I'm aware of were molded in black plastic. I'd still lean towards Monogram, especially if the diameter of that fender is really big. The AMT fenders don't fit over their slicks, if I remember right.

That fender looks like the ones in the Monogram first issue Model A Ford kits.

That looks like a quality piece. I'd build it using as many of the parts you got with it as possible.

Well, automobiles were once considered "expensive and impractical toys"...

The exhaust was removed from the MPC chassis for the first long stepside issue (the gold one with the dirt bike). That version had side pipes, so the molded-in exhaust detail was not needed. I'd suspect that the two pickup tools were combined to get one good one. I built an original MPC '71 Racer's Wedge a few years ago, the cab in that kit had some serious mold misalignment issues. Between the AMT '67 annual, MPC '68-'72 annuals, the stepside, Rolling Thunder, Heavy Pedal, and Cooter's issues, that tool was likely flat worn out. Basing the "new" Chevy pickup on the AMT GMC tool made sense. It probably didn't set the world on fire as a GMC (AMT probably converted it just to make it different from MPC's Chevy). The trim engraving on the current kit is better than the old MPC kit. They could probably have left the big-block in, and the grille could have been done better. But in the end, they made something out of one worn-out tool and one that probably wouldn't have sold well as it sat.

So none of the lowest common denominator will ever steal these things, and none of the "more money than brains" bunch will ever go where they aren't supposed to go?

There was coolant in the block, but it didn't circulate. They would fire up just before each run, and shut off at the end of the run, the engine might run for a minute or so (if that) with plenty of time to cool back down before the next pass.

When you walk down the street, you'll not only have to look both ways when you cross, you'll have to look UP...

Nope, looks like MPC (later AMT). Looks like the passenger side windshield pillar could be bent, too.

All of the AMT C4 ZR1 kits that I have seen have a completely plated engine and transmission. That is probably a regular Corvette. A look at the plated trer, particularly the wheels, would narrow down the year.

For a while now, I've had to walk into the station and ask for a receipt about every other fillup. I keep track of gas mileage, and need to keep track of credit card spending in case the paper statement doesn't arrive in the mail.

Corporate HQ probably told them to change everything. I don't go to McD's often. The one up the street uses the kiosks for ordering. The last half dozen times I was there, I didn't get a receipt because the kiosk ran out of paper and hadn't been reloaded, or was loaded improperly and was jammed. Walk-ins usually take forever anywhere around here, as everyone blows off the walk-in customers to take care of the drive-through window.

Not only do they not know how to drive, they don't know where they are going. But, while they are on the way to wherever they haven't figured out yet, it's an absolute must that they be in front of everyone...

Says "reissue", so I'd suspect the wheels are the five-spokes that have also been used in a number of kits.

The modified Mysterion was issued by Revell a few years earlier, as Dual Jewel. Same dark blue plastic. If the Advent Yellow Fever is based on the Outlaw, it too was issued earlier by Revell, called Canned Heat.

The tooling for NASCAR kits newer than about 1995 is all overseas...no way anyone is going to get it out of China...

Let it sit in some soapy water for a while, then take an old toothbrush and scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub some more.

This kit was mentioned here a few weeks ago. Initially Salvino was going to do this year's car, but with the new one coming for next year it only made sense to switch to that one.

I think the new version of the Camaro was mentioned here some time back. The info on these probably just leaked out somewhere. The manufacturers tend to announce one quarter at a time lately. We'll probably see Revell's first quarter announcements at the "usual" time.

The T bucket body in the Tweedy Pie is not the parts pack body. Both it and the double kit were produced at the same time. The Revellion used the chassis from the Tony Nancy dragster, that chassis was never a parts pack. The parts pack Pontiac engine was neved used in any kit other than maybe one of the double kits. The Challenger I had four of them, and the Ford pickup had its own engine. The same patterns were used for both, and probably for the Challenger I as well. The Ford Cammer and Oldsmobile engines were never offered in parts packs. There were eight parts pack engines: two small-block Chevys, Pontiac, Cadillac, Chrysler, Buick, Ford 427 wedge, and the turbine. Two are now incorporated into kits, four were reissued about twenty years ago, leaving the Buick and turbine (hopefully) still in the tool crib.

If I remember right, the large scale T/A is mentioned in Thomas Graham's book about the history of Monogram. One of the parties involved with it mentioned regretting "having done the anemic Turbo version", which would mean that it was done first, and the tool later converted to the non-Turbo version later. The order of the two releases would seem to confirm this. It does seem that the Turbo versions of the various T/A kits didn't do well for Monogram. They also took their 1/24 scale 1980 Turbo kit and backdated it to the 1970 kit that exists today.

You might take a look at the current AMT Rabbit kit. It's a reissue of the ESCI 1/24 scale Rabbit, not the AMT 1/25 scale kit (why they didn't reissue that one, nobody knows).

Only one part is used from that roadster chassis (originally a push bar, used as a radius rod in the dragster). That leaves the entire roadster frame. The chassis accessories pack has more than enough leftover parts to finish it off.

Common sense and logic would point towards different types of power being used in different situations. But logic fails to take into account the powers that be, and their ability and willingness to put their collective thumb on the scale, handicapping, regulating, and crippling anything not in their favor, and dishing out breaks to the chosen solution (in which they, their families, and friends coincidentally have large investments...)

Didn't they make the '80 Turbo first, then backdate it? Or have they alternated reissues between the two versions?