Snake45

Finally got around to posting mine up. If you want to see how good yours really is, go take a look at mine:

How about Tales from the Crypt episode "King of the Road," starring a '69 Chevelle, a total badass '57 Chevy, and some unknown young punk named Brad Pitt. Soundtrack by the late great Warren Zevon. Here's the whole thing: Here's just the car parts:

I had the same thought. Might get the '32 Ford SD just for my Switchers collection. Hate paying extra for the Coke decals (not a fan) but I have a feeling I could swap them off for something I could actually use.

For several years in the early/mid '80s, I drove a '76 Buick Skyhawk with a V6 and 5-speed. I remember it as a perky little bugger, and it actually went pretty well in the snow. Around 1985 or '86, though, it just started falling apart. I ended up selling it cheap to a guy who wanted to harvest the V6 to put in a VW van, or something. At some point in there I evidently started building a model of it. I say “evidently” because I'd forgotten all about it, and a few months ago found it still in the original box. I don't remember when or where I bought the MPC '77 Monza—pretty sure I didn't buy it in '77 or the late '70s, but where would I have gotten one in the mid-'80s? But apparently I did, and I painted the interior of it to match my Skyhawk. I think the blue is Model Master WWII US Navy Intermediate Blue, or something of the kind. All I did to the body was sand off all the Chevy emblems (this was in the days before I got obsessive about recribing panel lines, or even fully removing mold marks, for that matter), paint it white, clearcoat it, and put the whole mess back in the box. So when I found it, I just polished out the clearcoat, did the body chrome and black trim, and kicked the little thing through the goalposts. Done, and it only took about 35 years! (I see that the next time I have the airbrush loaded up with Black Chrome Trime I need to paint the bumpers.) Wanted to get it posted here before Daniel (Straightliner59) posts up his beautiful green '75 Monza and makes this one look like the turd that it is. As always, comments welcome.

Never had that model, but I had a giant toy of that thing--I think it was made by Ideal--when I was a kid. It would fling its "atomic shell" from one end of the house to the other! Come to think of it, it might have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/25 scale. Hmmmmmmmm......

I think #9 is from the '80s reissue of the MPC '67 GTO. #8 looks like the ones in the glue bomb '69 Chevelle I rescued not long ago, but I'm not 100% certain they were original to that kit (a reissue). #7 might be from an AMT '65-'69 Corvair.

I actually think "Overtaker" is a pretty clever name for this. AND they dodge having to pay license fees to whoever holds the rights to Munsters.

The basic tooling almost certainly exists, but it's been altered from original. One obvious change is they eliminated the forward set of chrome vents on the hood. Those would have to be restored, and the hood restored to take them. I don't know if Round 2 has that capability. I've never bothered to check as to what all else has been altered. I wouldn't even mind having it back as-is, as a "Fako Shark." I wouldn't mind building a couple of them. Maybe even one on a VW frame as a dune buggy or kit car.

Outstanding rendition of the original art! Well done and model on!

And a STINKY one, too! Lye+Aluminum=Rotten Eggs!

Very cool, and cool backstory to match!

It's not a theory, it's a straight-up fact. Many of us had the Yenko kit (molded in yellow) built long before the Z/28/RS kit (molded in blue) appeared. Third in the series was the Baldwin-Motion, which I think was molded in red. The Pace Car, convertibles, etc. came later. Tim Boyd's book backs me up on this. The text, anyway--the caption of the photo of the Revell '69 Camaro kits is written in such a way that it could be interpreted as meaning the Z kit appeared first if one didn't know the facts.

I thought about it, but kinda liked the late-'60s "highboy" vibe.

Rut Roh...

Profile looks pretty good, so far....

If I didn't get this first-issue MPC Mako Shark for Christmas 1966, I bought and built it not long after. It was one of my first candy paint jobs (AMT Oriental Blue over silver base), and today is either my second or third oldest surviving original paint job (after my yellow AMT Cobra, and either ahead of or behind my Monkeemobile, which I restored a couple years ago). Despite a few runs and dust spots in the paint, I considered it my “best” model for quite a while, but around 1969 it was starting to show its age, so I harvested its frame for a hot rod project that would have involved the body of an AMT TeeVee dune buggy (believe it or not). The intact, complete body/interior lived in a big box of my old finished models for over four decades, often under at least one other model, where the paint picked up both nicks and tire damage. About 2015 I dug it out with the idea of seeing what I could do with it, and here's what I had left of it: I figured I would clean it up and build a simple slammer-type chassis for it, using wheels and tires from a common AMT '63 Corvette reissue. But I kept putting that off. Finally I got the idea a couple weeks ago to borrow the frame from another Mako Shark glue bomb I've acquired, and just paint that black and set it on that. This frame had the advantage of still having the original Mako Shark wheels and cool MPC hollow vinyl Firestone tires. Getting this frame into usable shape turned out to be a LOT more trouble and work than I'd thought, even with no engine, no detailing, and just shooting it with Walmart Flat Black primer. Won't bore you with the hideous details but I had several hours of work in sorting out the front suspension alone, and regluing the rear solid. Suffice it to say, it gone done-ish. If you've ever built this kit, you know how poorly the flip-up nosepiece fits. I glued it down solid which took more time and re-engineering than you might think. My beloved Silver Sharpie saw limited action in this particular campaign, only on the edges of the windshield and the thin trim strip on the roof. Model Master Clear Blue Acryl paint worked even better than I hoped to touch up the various chips, boogers, and damage in the candy blue paint. I have two other original Mako Shark glue bombs, and a mint copy of the '80s reissue “Custom Street Vette” kit, and plan to someday gather enough parts from the three of them to put together one really nice Mako Shark and then one '70s Shark-ish clone custom Vette. In the meantime, I have this one back up on wheels for the first time in nearly half a century and back on the shelf as a memento of my young modeling years. And here it is with a 1/32 Aurora Mako Shark awaiting its own restoration, and an Aurora HO Thunderjet Mako Shark body. Cool, huh? As always, comments welcome.

They're the same size. I seem to recall checking the wheelbase on one of them because I thought it might be big, and it was right on the money for 1/24.

The Yenko 427 was the first Revell '69 Camaro in the series, the blue Z/28 was the second a couple years later.

I dunno, could be quite a wait. I don't believe they've even announced a '69 Chevelle SS.

Okay, the rescue/resto is finished--GOTTER DONE! Hope to have full writeup and pics Under Glass soon!

I dunno. Take a look at Model Airplane World. To this day, at least 50% of the interest, possibly much, much more, is World War II (which was over nearly 10 years before I was born). EVERYTHING else put together--pioneering aviation, WWI, Korea, Vietnam, modern military, ALL commercial and ALL private aviation from 1903 to 2018--together is the other 50% (or less). This includes kits, aftermarket, decals, reference books, etc. Dunno why, but there's just something special and magical about that era. It's sorta the same here in Model Car World--50% or more of the interest is in American cars of the '50s, '60s, and some of the '70s (including earlier American cars reworked in the styles of the '50s, '60s, and '70--i.e., hot rods of various genres). Everything else is the other 50% (or less) of the hobby. Or that's the way I see it, anyway.

Nope. Mine has never discounted all kits at more than 20% off, though a few months back they did have some smokin' deals on about a dozen or so closeouts.

I agree. I got one a couple months ago and could find very little to Snake-Fu on it. I think all I did was sand the tire treads, and hit the rims of the wheels with a Silver Sharpie because I really didn't like the black "rimless" look.

Yes, it was part of a set just as you describe and the guy had the trailer and Blazer but had them priced separately so I was able to get this for just $10 by itself. You might be right about the roll cage. I think I'll take it out, and install a second seat, or, more likely, a set of matching bucket seats of some kind.

If you really wanted to camouflage a Lambo, you'd come up with some body panels that made it looks like a Honda Civic or a Prinus!