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Tim, the pics in my post above are of an unpainted, unmodified but built '69 annual on E-bay right now. you can even see the mold lines are still on it. Every '69 annual and promo I've ever seen has the vinyl roof. I guess it's similar to the '68 having separate park light lenses in the bumper but the '69 has them molded in. [neither are correct to the real lenses though] Why would they go to the trouble when they only needed to change the grille to be correct for the '69, not anything else on the bumper?

I was kinda wondering if that kit would bleed, Les. We had a blue and white microbus of that generation when I was 13 or 14 so I'm definitely gonna get one eventually.

The '69 Riviera annual definitely did have a vinyl roof. Here's a couple pics from a current auction.

At least there's 2. I bet there wouldn't be any lions show up at a car show hosted my the Lions Club. 😁

no, not yet.

Just called my local shop [Elm City Hobbies] Scott says on the shelves August, possibly last week of July. Just because HPIGuy has a video out of it doesn't mean it's available yet, The model companies usually send him kits to review before they hit the shelves, he doesn't actually go out and buy them from a shop himself.

To further this along,, I've also had orange and yellow bleed but never had blue or green do it. Anyone else have any experience with this? The reason most silver and gold paint will block it [I'm pretty sure based on my 40 years experience being a painter] is they have flakes as the main pigment that lay down like shingles on a roof and form more of a shield then other colors where the pigment is usually more round particles, more like balls in a ball pit, allowing the dye to easily come up through. Shellac works in the same way, made up of flakes in a liquid carrier, when dry it forms a sheet sealing in stains, dyes etc.

I just googled "STS decals" and it was the first return to come up, right on top of the page. Maybe if anyone wanted to get in touch with them, or any other company, maybe they could try that. It might work for them too, who knows. 😐

I have both the '68 kit and promo, Correct, neither has a vinyl roof.

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Ah, I see what you mean. You're probably right about the wheel backs. IIRC, they had 3 sizes of Goodyear Gatorbacks at the time, the smallest size of those would have looked better but the wheels would have looked undersized in them without retooling both the outer rims and body color centers which are separate parts. But then again they might have showed up in the kits too late for the GTZ. The Eagle GS-C tires that were in some kits in the '00s and '10s like the 4th gen F-bodies would have been a good choice for the reissue. The Chevy S-10 Xtreme seems to have the same problem.

That's stunning.

The kit dates back to 1975. That's how MPC did pretty well all their headlights back then. I'd say the only reason we got separate headlights at all is because the grille isn't plated.

No, not really. regular ones had smaller wheels and tires as Jim shows. BUT GTZs had 16" wheels with 206/55R16 tires. Larger then my base model Trans Ams.

There never was a plastic kit. There's several resin and 3-D printed boat tails out there of various quality but none seem to capture the unique shape of the roof/rear 1/4 area correctly. I used to have a '72 myself, bought a resin one but I really can't bring myself to build it "as is". Everything from the cowl back just looks off to me.

Pretty sure most windshield wiper motors were electric by '65. The Comet's definitely were

Cool. Looks like it's the "California Sunshine" pickup with a stock grille. I'm definitely in for at least one of these. 😁

Hi Mark. I've been keeping an eye out for you on the board, don't know how I missed this.🙄 But glad to see you here. Love the Corvair. 👍👍👍

My score from the model show at the Atlantic Nationals car show in Moncton N.B. this past weekend. I bought the Malibu. The AMT Camaro was included with the plaque for "best GM" I won [somehow 😉] with my white/silver OBS Chevy pickup. The other 2 are door prizes. The Academy Hyundai delivery truck is a curbside but very detailed along the lines of what you'd expect a higher lever Japanese curbside car kit would be. I've been wanting one of these Revell VW vans. [is this actually a "combi" ?] now just need a couple little 4mm Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias logo decal for the back windows. 😁

For those interested , I went and measured across the grille of my uncle's old '84 Chevy C-20 pickup today , , , Right across the top of the stainless grille trim it measures 70". So, therefor the grille on the new Revell Blazer and Jimmy when it comes out should measure about 7cm which is very slightly over 2 3/4 inches. I don't have one to measure myself but just wanted to put that out there. Little update, Just measured the grille from the MPC?AMT '84 "Deserter" 4X4. It measures almost exactly 71mm according to my calipers. So it's a hair over 1/25. And the new Revell kits are wider so ??

Had some done by STS last year. It did take a while but I'm very happy with them.

You'd have to get ahold of them Len. I'm sure they can easily do them. When I had these made I just sent them a pic of the decal sheet I had and had them make the strips to the length and height I specified. I could have just sent them the sheet I have from the kit and they would copy the decals you want. I'd suggest to go that route for the Vette decals as they're a more complicated shape. As you can see, they can do them in any color, these are just the ones I asked for.

Why not just sent the kit decal sheet with the stripes to STS and have them make you a copy of them in yellow. Saves a lot of work and if they're an exact copy except for the color you know they'll fit. A set re-sized from the real car set would be a lot of extra work [you'll have to pay for] and may not fit the kit right in the end.