GaryR

It seems all we are going to ever get from RC2 is reissues of old kits. We get Tamp printed tires, colored glass, new/old decals. While I enjoy the old kits I am not going to buy them just for the above. I have 5- 49 Ford kits already! Yesterday I pulled out the 65 Bonneville for a look, not TOO bad, but is it not economically feasible to just tool up a new decent chassis? Not talking about just this kit, but a lot of the old MPC and AMT offerings. Don't know about the dollars and cents end, but I MIGHT buy the reissues IF they were really improved. I guess as long as people buy the same old, same old, they won't pony up for anything much that is new. But isn't there a limit eventually for straight re issues? What do you think? Just an idea.

What Mark said, they all pretty much look the same.

COOL! No VERY COOL! Sox & Martin ruled the world to me in the 60's. I was a big MoPar kid then ( you HAD to pick your allegiance then), my favorite was the 66' Cuda. I really like the transition cars of this era when the weren't yet full tube chassis and flip tops. Still based on real cars. Quite the fleet, how about a group pic of the bunch?

Looks promising! I like this kit, good subject matter, nice detail and it just looks right. I really like late 40's cars, the whole era is very cool in my view. Keep us posted!

Please note that the otherwise OK engine in this kit has the magneto totally wrong. It's a late model 426 Hemi, the mag goes on the passenger side in the front. The kit has it in the rear like a 392. Looks cool so far!

I's build the Charger in a New York minute! If you like 60's drag cars, it's a no brainer. This kit is VERY accurate, particularly for 1967! I'd sand off the emblems, turn it into a fiberglass body, PRESTO! You have a very cool funny car. If you want to sell it, so be it, it's yours do what you want!

The old kit leaves much to be desired as well, first off it's 1/24th, the integral grill / shell radiator, and that God awful roadster / coupe arraignment ! But still it has fenders and you can build a stocker or modified stocker and most 60'd cars were modified stockers down to the chassis. By the way, how about a new 36 Ford COUPE, those old ill fitting roof deals bite! Obviously there are tons of good cars from the new kit, that isn't my point. Gas class cars have fenders.

The Plymouth is a natural for the gas classes. I'm partial to 60's cars myself, but you are really getting the right look! Stance is everything, don't jack it up too much! NICE WORK!

Very NICE! A great job on an underappreciated kit! I'm building one as a d/gas car.

Having learned to drive in my Dads 68 Sport Satellite i disagree! No model is perfect, but having been around the real deal for many years, it ain't bad! Now if you were talking the Revell 67 , you'd have a point!

I'll be very interested in this build, I've often wondered about this kit. When I was a kid a neighbor's son bought one new (the car, not the kit), everyone on our street gathered around to watch the top retract and the reverse and go up! Pretty cool ijn 59! we were amazed! I might just have to get one of these.

Wow! Some very nice A Bones!!! I was VERY dissapointed in the Revel A, no fenders, everything modified to current fashion. I much prefer a more stock offering with DETAILS, that can be built in more variety. Like the A Sedans, can be built in many ways.IF a guy wants to build out of the box, fine, but it's only useful to me now for the basic body. Every time a kit is done in this "flavor of the day" fashion it becomes DATED. Like the 70's Revel Lil John kits, good for then, hopelessly DATED for anything else. My two cents. I LIKE the old A!

One of the three car mags I still buy! I'm old enough to remember a lot of the 60's Petersen stuff from the first go around! That is..the 60! Went to my first sports car race in 62 (?) or so, first drags in late 64! YES, I was a kid but I have been a drag fan ever since! A COOL magazine.

Just FYI, here's what fuel injection on a y block looks like, not even close to Chevy's or other Fords even.

That's what I thought. If I had any decent fabricating skills, I'd make a Y block FI, but I don't! One of those "why doesn't anybody make one of those" things.

"the baby moons, exhaust pipes, custom steering wheel, and fuel injection tubes were white plastic." This kit has a fuel injected Y block? i don't care about custom parts, but I'd buy several if it has even close to accurate fuel injection.

WOW! These are extraordinary! The next level!

COOL! VERY ,VERY NICE!!

Now that is a fine looking 56! Nice clean work, it has the right stance and "feel" to it! My compliments!

Yes it makes a difference. I have over 600 kits to build now, I'm retired on a fixed income, I'm just not going to blow money on models anymore. The same stuff is re issued endlessly, I already have it. I MIGHT buy the Revell 48 Ford and the Galaxie Chevy Coupe, but that's it. Don't want them or need them, priced out of my casual buying range.

Getting old has many advantages!!!

There were no rules on width of tires for the gas classes, just that the tire could not stick out way past the wheel well. Tires sizes were not really limited by rules, but by what was available. Until 69 or so, the biggest you could get was 11.5 or 12 inches. The tech for bigger tires wasn't there.tp produce bigger tires! Don't mean to be a wet blanket, but that would have been a terrible race car in any era. It fits the 70's fad of jacked up street cars that were called gassers (still are), but have nothing to do with real NHRA gas class racers. Google image search NHRA gas class and combinations of those words and you will see. It would be slow and unstable. Yes, I know racing. The pic of me on my Avatar is Famosa Raceway in Bakersfield, I went to my first drag race in 1964 at age 11. Been to a zillion since! It would have been a street car or bracket racer.

The 64 Plymouth looks like a modern "gasser" to me, I don't recall any jacked up new cars in gas classes in 64 or 65, plus the carbs on the blower. Looking at the sign, it says "raced in the 70's" so I think it was a bracket racer, not a gas class car. That would be my guess, the B/G would indicate an non supercharged car. Looks hokey to me, plus it would handle like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, be a dangerous car to drive on the strip. REAL race cars were Loooow by the 70's, not jacked up!

In what year> In NHRA? in 1964 NO CLASS, possibly CC/FD if on nitro, 10 inch slicks were the biggest available, probably would run as an exhibition car.Funny cars weren't invented yet, not until 1966. After 66, 11 inch was max, it would run S/XS (experimental stock),.

These are zoomies. zoomie was a 60's style expression meaning swoopy ! These are not zoomies This is called Bull**** While we are at it, these are gassers' These are what's known in racing as POS's NOT GASSERS!!! CLASS IS POS!!! Glad I can help!