stavanzer

I remember paying $5.00 retail for kits. I remember paying $500.00 for rent on a house. I remember financing a used car for $5000.00. So What? I'd prefer to pay less for new kits too. But, I'm not the one in charge of Inflation in this economy. So, Either the kits is worth it to me to pay the price, or it isn't. In fact, I have been making that same subjective Judgement about relative kit values, since I started buying my own kits with my own money in 1980. If I want the kit badly enough, I pay the price. If I don't, it stays there. All of us do the same. And I remember reading this same argument in the reader letters column of every Car Model magazine of the Modern Era. (SAE, Car Modeler, & Model Cars) It happened at the $20.00 price point particularly loudly. So, this is an old and stale discussion. Do I like the prices? Nope! Will I pay the Prices? Yep, but only for a shrinking number of kits. Will the prices get so high that I only can afford a few kits a year? Most Likely.... It happens. Nothing I can do about it.

Trying to drag this back on trak... Does any body remember using the Buttera kit to build a stock Model T Sedan?

Bring on the A-990! That interests me more than the Altered Cars do. I've seen a Clone A-990 at the March Meets. What a sleeper!

I seem to remember somebody (Art Anderson) using the Buttera kit and the AMT '27 T to build a stock '26 Sedan. Am I mistaken? And, How difficult might it be to kitbash the two to produce a stock Sedan?

Boy, I'd like to see more of that Ford P/U.

Ah. I had missed that news. Thank You.

Scuttlebutt, Straight Skinny, ect,

Good Advice. I still want one.

I've looked at the '26 Mack Bulldog. It has no scoop..... Where did you see a scoop?

They DID tool up parts to make it LOOK like a stock ambulance. Those very funky lights are the real deal, although most of us have never seen them. I will buy your argument about the lack of parts vs the retail price though. However, we have no way of knowing what else is happening behind the scenes with this kit, and it stablemate. We may yet see a complete Caddy Ambulance from Round2, yet. So Give 'em a chance.

Could this car be built as a Dragster like the '64/65 Chevies from Moebius and the AMT Twister that is coming out? Wolud the Drag Chassis from the Twister or Mustang be a good choice for this?

Wow, now I want one....... Neat Car.

Lousy BMF and alternate Foils have been a long running subject over on the "other" board. Molotow Pens and other foils have been some of the answers, but I have not paid that much attention to to the subject really.

Heck, Dave, I take just the Firebug! All I have from that kit is a Mint Decal Sheet!

I just checked the chrome trees/ The additional blower parts are an extra on the already existing chrome tree. Really hard to see how they could be "lost". The wheels on the other hand, it is true that you can only do one set at a time, so you are correct there. I have no camera, or I could lay out the trees, so I could explain the differences in the kits. I'll be quiet now, until HPI Guy (Chris) does his review.

You may be correct, Chris. I don't see much point in the kit now. And the Tunnel ram was the weaker of two intake options that the kit had. So, New Decals (possibly new tires) and not much else. I am really let down by this turn of events. So Much could have been done here. And Revell cheaped out. Bah Humbug!

It looks like those rail form a structural support for the two flatbed floor pieces.

Sweet Save, Snake! I like the colour!

Well, That is 2 kits sold then.

I really like the looks of the Mercer roadster! Sharp looking car. Hard to believe that it has been longer since the revival, than the revivial was from the original. 1913 Mercer Raceabout. 1963 Mercer Revival.= 40 years. 1963 to present (2022) = 59 years. Similar numbers for all the others.

No worries, Greg. I was a T-38 crew chief, so I can tell them apart.

So, any idea when Round2 will try to run the "Beverly Hillbillies" Olds again? How about trying to get a new touring car body tooled up? It would need the Touring Body, Interior floor, Front & rear seats. Running boards, Rear fenders, New Hood, and some New (non chromed) Hub Caps. That would get you a stock Touring car and the B/H Car and then the Jethro's Hot Rod version. Or, how about tooling up a large Mercer/Stutz style gas tank, a small platform and a trunk and have a T.R.O.G. style Speedster? Less tooling and just some decals..... Or, Just bring back the Stutz Bearcat Kit. It would be nice to have the machine guns from the original kit, but they were pretty bland, really, and would be laughed at today. But the kit itself is nice. Just a change in directions, showing where to cut off the fenders, and some Number Decals would allow a 2'n'1 Racer & Stock Stutz to be built. Be nice to have a racing straight exhaust pipe too, but that would require tooling up one part. Lastly, do what the '23 T Depot Hack box always suggested. Run the Depot Hack with the '23 Roadster Hot Rod Parts. Given how the kit was tooled, it "Should" be pretty easy to combine the parts in one box. Do it right and you could have a 4'n'1 Kit. Stock or Rod, '23 T Roadster or Depot Hack. Some ideas to try.

I don't see that argument flying in court, Sean. Have a good attorney before you attempt that line of reasoning in front of a judge. No, if you say it is unfair to use those kinds of marked cars, I agree with 100%

That Trojan is Cheap! too. Used to be a 50-65K Warbird.

No Charger....? Not really a very good 2'n'1 kit then is it. This kits gets worse, the more I learn about it. I see Revell now has a "B" Team working on projects. The choices are narrowed down to "Rollbar or Backseat" & "Your Choice of Hood Scoops" . Way to (not) Go, Revell!