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  1. Mark
    "A contractor of ---" sounds like "I'm calling from your credit card company". What credit card company? You don't know the name of it? When you came to work this morning, what name was on the building that you walked into? My mom got those types of calls a lot. First off, she was nobody's fool, second, after they'd ask for a credit card number or something like that, she'd tell them that, even if she were dumb enough to fall for their krap, she couldn't see well enough to read the number off of a statement. Click...
  2. Mark
    It's not coincidence...once a reissue is announced, multiple examples of earlier issues appear. Especially projects. It happened with the Nova station wagon, it happened with the '64 Cutlass, it has been happening with the Revell parts pack based kits. Trying to get out before the reissue hits the shelves, shredding the value of pretty much anything but a mint-in-box example.
  3. Mark
    Mike's Miniature Motors (Mike Watgen) offered a complete copy of the 1911 Chevrolet. I believe he also offered a "rod" version (minus stock wheels) and a panel truck version also. I traded some of my own stuff to Mike for one of the stock kits not long before he passed in 1993. I also have a disassembled promo...first thing I ever won on eBay, when I went online in 1999. Round 2 is probably right about the kit...not many of the 1:1 version were built, only one complete one still exists (and a partial one).
  4. Mark
    The AMT tires in the Chevy van and El Camino kits are not the same as the MPC Jeep/Pacer tires. The MPC tires are smaller, and interchange with their stock automotive tires.
  5. Mark
    '67 Shelby GT-350 has the exact same parts, so whichever you find first or cheaper. The '68 GT-500 does NOT have the same parts, it is not as good a choice.
  6. Mark
    Those too appear to be based on the AMT display drums. Backing plates appear to be copies of those in the Revell Roadster Chassis Speed Equipment parts pack (the pack included two of them, not four). The Atlantis Mooneyes dragster kit includes that pack, but does not use those backing plates leaving them as leftover parts. Checking recent AMT reissues, none seem to include the display drum. The '63 Galaxie and '64 Impala kits include a display disc brake however.
  7. Mark
    But they are molded in two halves. All of the halves are exactly the same. Each assembled slick is going the wrong way on one side, and both assembled slicks are identical in that respect. Any way you cut it, when you use that particular set of slicks, one will be correct on the side facing out, the other will be correct on the side facing in. The lettering is also in the same place relative to where the wrinkle detail is. You are more likely to find plastic or resin slicks that are oriented correctly on both sides to the direction of the car. From there, it becomes a question of finding the right size slicks.
  8. Mark
    The chassis from the Tom Daniel 'Vette was recycled into the 1/24 scale '65 Corvette. None of the C3 versions (TD or "wagon" version) has been issued since the '65 came out, so the change is apparently a permanent one.
  9. Mark
    MPC only did that one snow tire. They used it in Jeeps, Jeepsters, '69 and '70 Grand Prixs (Grands Prix?), and some of the mid-Seventies Plymouth intermediates as well as the Pacers. Someone mentioned Fireball Modelworks, I would second that opinion, his stuff is excellent and fairly priced too. I tend to think of "kits first", sometimes forgetting the aftermarket stuff.
  10. Mark
    The ones in the El Camino are larger than shown on the box, they are 4 x 4 tires and are taller and wider than the usual automotive snow tires.
  11. Mark
    But these are cast in two halves, all of the halves are the same. They are all going the wrong way on one side of the slick, and one of those wrong-way sides faces out.
  12. Mark
    MPC made snow tires in 1/25 scale. They substituted them for military tires in their Jeep kit. The recent Round 2 Jeep in the Godzilla movie packaging will have four (five?) of them. MPC's AMC Pacer kits included two of them also. I'm not sure about the reissue '78 Pacer though. (The '77 station wagon is an AMT kit, it never had them.)
  13. Mark
    Any of the styrene wrinkled slicks out there should be done correctly, at least the few I have seen are correct (mirror image, correct for both sides). Vinyl tires are more costly to tool, so short cuts like the "wrong on one side" deal seem to be the norm. Though it shouldn't be...all they would have to do is create two masters as with the plastic ones. Cutting the tool wouldn't cost more one way or the other.
  14. Mark
    On eBay already? The Great Unloading has commenced...
  15. Mark
    No, they wrinkle the same way so they are wrong on one side.
  16. Mark
    These auctioneers have a habit of leaving huge gaps, hoping potential bidders will draw their own conclusions. "Said to be" (by who?), "reputed to be", and so on...
  17. Mark
    I have heard/read that Clark did have the car since '65 (maybe '66). Probably not a lot of info on it from back then...how often did he bring it out, and where did he race it? He always was busy as an entertainer, even back then.
  18. Mark
    The AMT kit has the suspension detail molded as part of the chassis. It's based on the '63-'67 annual convertible kits. The Revell fender flares are a near-perfect fit on an AMT Gremlin body, if you switch them side for side (put the left side flare on the right side, and vice versa). A lot of 1:1 builders adapted Corvette flares to other cars because several suppliers made them. Get the cheapest ones (you're going to have to cut them up to some extent anyway) and have at it!
  19. Mark
    The AMT parts pack also has the in/out box you'll need to replace the transmission.
  20. Mark
    Separate rear flares...you sure that's not the Revell kit?
  21. Mark
    Mine arrived today, something I hadn't thought about was that Atlantis had to tinker with the Chevy engine a bit. The parts pack engine originally had street rod headers, they had to stub in the headers from the other small-block Chevy parts pack, most of which is now in the '57 Chevy kit. The original double kit with the Mooneyes dragster must have included both engine packs, with a bit of parts swapping between the two.
  22. Mark
    One part on the roadster chassis tree is needed for the dragster.
  23. Mark
    The Accelerator was issued immediately after the '68, and was largely based on it. The Greenwood GT came later and incorporated some alterations. A new issue would include alterations made for the Greenwood kit.
  24. Mark
    The 'Vette was not a "for 1968" kit. Those (non-stock) "for 1968" kits included the Camaro (essentially a detrimmed '67), Firebird (an alteration of the Camaro), Corvair (basically a '67 minus stock wheels), and "Chevrolet SS 427" ('67 Impala minus stock bumpers and wheels, and with a detrimmed body with no rear window opening). A weird one for sure, but try finding one now...
  25. Mark
    The original annual was not labeled "for 1968"! Though it probably should have been....
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