Dave Darby

That's a real nice! Concept and execution flow together nicely.

Well aware. Unfortunately all they had were the orange ones. But that's ok. They'll get painted anyway.

Flat out GORGEOUS.

Those are way cool!

Hopefully molded in white. I picked up a couple of the Original Art series issues at Ollie's last week. Orange...

Times 2. Very cool build.

Hi Tim, Not having owned an original 65-66 kit, I went looking on eBay at unbuilt kits and was pretty surprised at the commonality of the 65-66 kit with the 67. I can certainly see your viewpoint. I seem to recall that George Toteff at some point (perhaps at the beginnings of MPC?) opened a tool making shop (Maybe the one in Windsor). I'm sure many an AMT tool passed through there. Anyway, regarding my previous statement about the provenance of the Barracuda tool, I broke my own rule, which is very much in line with this: "Without data you're just another person with an opinion" W.Edwards Deming None of us are infallible. Dennis isn't and I'm certainly not. That said, it certainly would be interesting to get the full history on this, given the extensive history of cross pollination between MPC and AMT back in the day.

I can live with that. And I do see that two mufflers on the newer Barracuda don't match. But another slight possibility is that MPC also produced the 65-66 kit as well. Cheers!

Here's what I did with an AMT 56 T bird. I cut the plastic axle off the spindle, then drilled a hole higher up and inserted a small nail the same diameter as the plastic axle. Strong and it rolls.

Hi Tim, After further research, I am going to stand by my original belief that the 67 Barracuda is an MPC tool. I will base this on two pieces of evidence. First this, based on an article in Collectible Automobile by Dennis Doty; As with other companies before it, most notably AMT and Jo-Han, MPC developed many of its kits from pre-existing promo toolings. Toteff remained on good terms with his former colleagues at AMT, and many of the first MPC products were distributed in AMT packaging.[3] For example, the 1967 MPC Plymouth Barracuda, originally made as a dealer promotional for Chrysler, was also marketed as a kit in an AMT box. Later, for 1968 and 1969 the newly designed second-iteration Barracuda reverted to an MPC box, with no apparent AMT connection.[5 Doty, Dennis. 2011. Fishing for Barracudas, Collectible Automobile, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 86–89. The second is based off of viewing HPIGuys video review of the reissue AMT Fireball 500. (I also have an original). Both the reissue and original lack the the stock exhaust system, have some ejector pin locations along with some other minor details that differ from the newer Barracuda chassis. More telling is the reissue Fireball 500 kit has a slant 6 intake manifold on one of the trees. So while the 67 Barracuda chassis is nearly identical, it's a separate tool. MPC copied AMT stuff pretty often. A great example is the 50 Mercury. Compare the chassis to the AMT piece sometime. It retains the trunk pattern and the bottom side even has the engine block seam. So for my money, the 67 Barracuda was made by MPC and sold by AMT.

Looks like a very near future Box Art Replicas Facebook banner car, Ron!

Paul's builds have a following on eBay that pay sometimes up 4 figures. I've been drooling over his work for years!

My info is via a Dennis Doty article in Collectible Automobile. The 65-66 kit appears to have ended up being split into the Gasser kit. With the stock chassis and (modified) interior tub used for the underside of the Fireball 500.

You outdid yourself again!

You did it proud Tulio!

Coming along nicely Bernard. Here's the AMT setup. The black one is a first issue, while the purple one is a second issue with the blower and valve covers from a 1st issue to more closely match the box art.

That can sit on my shelf anyday! Sweet tasty build.

Very cool build. Gorgeous color, and the wheels really set it off. Where did you source those from?

Wow! You certainly didn't just bang that one out! What a beauty. I see a ton of creativity involved. Finished off with some great colors too. Even some tasty woodgrain. Super nice build.

What a clean beautiful build. I like it a lot. Not exactly stock period correct colors, but only people who are real familiar with the subject matter would catch that.

That's correct. Like the 28 Model A sedan, the Wild Dream/King T set, and the 65 Coronet, the 67 to 69 Barracuda was tooled by MPC, and the 1967 was sold under the AMT label.

You had to adjust the wheelbase? On the 1:1s, both cars share the same 108 in wheelbase. Which kit was off, I wonder? A little trivia, newer Darts used the 69 Barracuda hood.

This is an old MPC/Ertl issue that I originally built as Pro Street in 1990, then redid the chassis almost 10 years ago. I added the rear wheel wells from the AMT 57 to it. And when I went gasser in 2009 I trimmed away the bumper and grille. A little FYI about this kit is that it shares the tool with the 53 Ford Flip-Nose pickup. In fact, that's what I sourced the replacement frame from.

The burn car was a 2 door hardtop from the junkyard that had fake posts added made out of wood. The stunt car was car number 3 from TLB that ended up as a roundy-round racer before it was scrapped.

Looking good, Bernard, Both the valve covers and the cycle fenders are different between the 1st issue (your box art) and the second issue kit, which Mr Moto based his on. Both front and rear cycle fenders are narrower, and the fronts have the brackets already molded to them. AMT added some rather heavy handed bolt detail to the second issue valve covers. The 53 Truck valve covers are nice, providing you don't mind that they are Desoto instead Chrysler FirePower. The Lindberg roadster pickup and 32 Roadster kits both have a tri carb setup with the baloney cut stacks that are identical to the AMT piece. (Most of the engine in both kits is a direct crib from AMT) One of them might even have a blower that's close. I'd be happy to scan an original decal sheet for you when I get home from my work trip next week, if you like. Looking forward to seeing more of your progress!