Its shaping up well, and I'll be following with interest. I just built this kit and you will find the suspension to sit too far forward at the front and the rear needs a little work to fit as the pins for fitting it to are about 3mm too long so the springs won't fit properly. Also if you use the photoetch kit the bonnet/hood piece is fitted the opposite way to what the instructions say otherwise it sit a little high.
Even the real stratos is a bit like that though so the kit is probably pretty accurate, lol. I helped with the restoration of a road one and nothing lined up if it came from another car, but then I suppose it was mostly hand made.
I remember a plumber near me had a van version as a work van for years. I was always confused by the gear stick and hand (E) brake being next each other on the dash(It was a dodgy repair,not stock). He let me have it cheap when the rear rotted out and myself and some friends wrecked it running about on some waste ground. Have to say that it was reasonably comfortable considering the bit we ran it was little better than a rocky beach. Good times that just wouldn't be allowed now. May have to look this kit out in the future and build a van for the memories.
Yeah I just built one and was stunned at the prices cos I was planning to get another. As far as a car I'd like to see tooled in 1/24 or 1/25 it would have to be a Austin Allegro with the square steering wheel. I want to build a gasser version of it
Revell Germany did a repop of the RS1800 rally car not too many years ago. Haven't seen any on ebay for a while though. Not a bad kit but the suspension needs a bit of work before fitting as the rear needs trimmed down and the front needs moving back a little to line up