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I don't know who made them but they sure were popular. Even my father's '67 Meteor Rideau had them.

In no particular order,,, . . .. .. ..

I was at the local hobby shop one day about 20 years ago and seen a guy buy and open a new, unopened AMT Garlits dragster kit at the counter. Missing all the unplaited trees, which was most of the kit, of course. The plated tree, tires and all the paperwork was in the box.

Revell '65 Chevelle does too and maybe easier to find.

Beautiful work on all of them, Claude. I don't know how you can be so productive and still do such clean builds.

Merry Christmas to you too, Ken. Hope you didn't get blasted too bad by today's storm. We just caught the tail here in Fredericton, less then 4 inches on the ground and pretty well done right now just after 3PM. Lovely illustration, looks like it just came off a post card. 👍

"Custom" is ALWAYS an option, just depends on how creative you can get. 😉

Floor's done and flocked. Now I can finish up the interior.

It's a legitimate GM concept car from 1963, the Pontiac XP-765, not AI generated.

Not to mention, those wheels look right at home on other things. 😉

No worries. After the comment you left on my Plymouth wagon build, I figured we were just good natured ribbing each other back and forth. No harm, no foul.😉🙂

It's just nice to be noticed, Michael. 😁 Sorry, I thought you had thicker skin.😟 I apologize if I offended you.

Well, ya already know I like it Marty.😉

Oh, and BTW, everything I've found on this unit dates back to '84/'85 not exactly "modern" being from 40 years ago. 🙂

OK, so I did some digging and found that the unit is a B&M "Superjection" unit and an article on it, which Ill add a link to below. Although I've seen many throttle body injection units, this seems to be unique with it's air cleaner assembly which seems to have an air meter added to it? But, yea, You would be a lot closer to the hot spots of rodding then I am, here up in N.B. nowhere so you'd see a lot more stuff then I would but I really don't remember seeing any more then that one ad in any magazine. Seems to me the hot setup back then would have been the Holley Pro-jection TBI units or a RamJet style setups , , and of course the factory style TPI units. But, it certainly is different and id more interesting to look at then another 4BBL carb. Still, how cool would a nice RamJet 502 be in scale? 😉 https://www.hotrod.com/features/superjection-may-1985-982-1230-56-1/

I like the kit, mostly. I do not share the others enthusiasm for the wood bed floor. Not really a realistic choice for an Elcamino And while the fuel injection unit is based on a real aftermarket unit, I disagree with that particular setup being "popular". I've only ever seen it in one ad in the back of a magazine once and never on a car in a magazine, let alone real life. The "Heartbeat of America" billet valve covers really date the engine but they can easily be filled or sanded smooth. But it does have a neat little B&M style blower. BUT, the rest of the kit is really nice and sits right with the lowered suspension. I have one that I started when it was originally released but never finished, it's about 80% there. Black with an L-88 hood and the bed floor from the stock kit cut down to fit with the slightly tubbed rear wheel wells. I really should try to finish it up before the kit is re-released. One last thing ,, how come at least 1/2 of the hopped up engines in the AMT kits from this era, while very nice, almost never have headers? Blown, fuel injected big block with stock exhaust manifolds?? 🤨

Electric car fires have been an ongoing problem for a while now.

The Monogram kit is 1/24 and the Revell is 1/25. Might work though.

My uncle Gilbert , who passed about 12 years ago told me,, "Never tell anyone everything you know, then they'll know more then you do".

Now that's something I'd be interested in. Will you be doing one to fit the Revell kit also? The front profile of the AMT is off a bit. A bit too much "W" , kinda makes it have more of a Buick look while the Revell looks spot-on to me.

Pretty sure the early '60s have a completely different body then the '70s ones ,Mike. Early later,

Yup, really. I know that sounds pretty flippant and possibly a bit ignorant but here's how I look at it. Every model kit is just a box of plastic. It may be something you like and want to have or it may not be. If it's something you're not interested in you don't buy it. Say, a model of a sailing ship or a gundam for example. If it doesn't interest you, you ignore it and move on. If it something that does interest you but you don't like the kit, same thing. Ignore it and move on. No one has to buy every kit ever released, nore should they. What's the point? If you don't like the kit or it doesn't interest you, don't buy it. It's just that simple.

But that's the thing with old tooling Chris. The tooling may very well not be "paid for" yet. You have to think of the tooling like an used car. Sure someone bought it off the lot brand new and paid for it. Then they sold it, and it was sold again. Every time it's sold the new buyer has to pay for it , right? Same thing. The tooling was bought new[created] and paid for. But it was bought and sold several times since them and it had to be paid for every time. When Round 2 bought it, they had to pay for it again and the only way they get to recoup their investment it to run the tooling and sell the kits it produces. Do they have to sell them for as much as they do? Probably not but they are in the business to make money, not supply us with kits as a free service. And something to remember is these kit sales help build their accounts so they can afford to have new kits created and released.

Ya know, it's not a problem guys, just don't buy them. It's just a box of plastic, no one's life depends on you buying one. 🤨

I'd definitely be in for a Tahoe. I'd really like to get a hold of one as a follow-up to my last OBS build. So, if anyone has one to trade,[ don't need the wheels], maybe we could work something out after the Canada Post strike ends.