Joe Handley

That does look about spot on there Tom! Here's some pics I shot of my original built with the wheels and tires off the new kit and the original rolling stock next to the car with the parts from the new reissue. There are noticeable difference in colors of everything other than the chrome, glass, and tires. 20181007_213704 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181007_213824 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181007_213904 by bjoehandley, on Flickr After seeing that front fender gap, I may cut those off the front suspension on the new kit when I get around to building it

Dad thinks that in using that 'Glide vs trying to fit something with more forward gears, not making tiresmoke and having that car be driveable will be difficult. Oddly enough, his mind went straight to using a C5-C7 transaxle in it too?!

Round 2 brought back AMT/ERTL's Concept Car promo in the past couple months (got picks of it and my original SnapFast kit posted here yesterday), but I hope they fix the stupid "Rides" issue wheels and bring the production car glue kit back, that would actually be worth the $30 like they're asking for the Snap-It kit at Hobby Lobby.

They probably would have if there was one available for the LH cars, since these just used the engine and transaxle from those then separated them from each other with a torque tube to make these Rear Wheel Drive. I think that these may have been the second American production car that had the front engine/rear transaxle layout too, following the '61-'63 Tempest and beating the C5 Vette to market, think it was one of the first non Supercar uses of the cantilevered, pushrod suspension used on a production street car.

That's exactly what he was doing, even though he had owned multiple B-Bodies, he usually had them set up to turn and stop as well as go fast in a straight line, his '62 Plymouth and the '63 Riviera his folks (my grandparents) both had Firestone road race rain tires on them for street duty, apparently the Riv had enough work done to it that it could lift the left from kinda like the Farmtruck does when running on the street. Now that Charger could back up the look the L60-15 tires gave it too, it was a factory 440 Sic Pack/4 Speed/Super Track Pack car, even though he ordered it to look just like a cheaper, more run of the mill 383 powered car. I do wonder is that car got any confused stares with all that tire on all 4 corners like my 200 does when some car guys see it with 235/50r18s on the stock rims, but those probably never had the rental slug stigma that the 200/Avenger has........

Dad ran L60-15's on the '70 he and Mom had back in the day, but he ran them on all 4 corners instead of just the back.

I am surprised they decided to stuff a Powerglide in behind the engine with a LX chassis diff in place of the transaxle, I'd have tried fitting a C5-C7 transaxle in the stock location to try and maintain some semblance of the stock front/rear balance if it were me. Then again, I'd also consider sticking a modded Pentastar 3.6l in there with a built up OEM transaxle in one. At +/- 3000lbs with around 300hp at the wheels would be very entertaining without being as life threatening as the Hellcrate swap

http://www.thedrive.com/news/23865/this-hellcat-swapped-1999-plymouth-prowler-rights-a-historic-wrong

I'll have to get the new kit next to my old build up, but I think the plastics are different colors too than the original kit too. I want to say some of the military greys might be close on the color of the bumper plastics. Can't remember on the interior greys for the original kit OOB, the show car, or my build up there...... To quote my Father, "This gettin' old "stuff" is for the birds."

Picked this up for the wheels to put on my original issue AMT/ERTL Snap-Fast kit of the Concept Prowler, thought I'd post pics of the buildup as it currently sits and a pic of the kit out of the box and bags. To start with, here's the box and contents, minus the instructions. 20181006_194338-1 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181006_205507 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Now here's the old build of the original from probably more than 20 years ago by now, 20181002_224341 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181002_224327 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181002_224354 by bjoehandley, on Flickr

I don't mind the interior, think that red interior and silver paint go well together, same for that interior color with black, white, or red paint.......now those purple wheels and gold calipers, those just look stupid and kinda "StanceBro"-ish.

Picked one one of these to replace the missing wheel and tire on my original issue AMT/ERTL Snapfast kit and treat it as a "resto", even though that build is still in fantastic shape otherwise. 20181006_194338-1 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Going to these big and little Hellas on the new kit, maybe get rid of the bumpers and front fenders while I'm at it. 20181002_224307 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Until I dug my 20+ year old build out the other night, I forgot that this kit was the promo model of the concept car, not the production car like the full detail glue kit was!

These showed up today These will let me go from the factory single piston calipers and 11.57" (or thereabouts) rotors to the 2 piston Charger Pursuit Package calipers and 13.39" (also or thereabouts) rotors on the front of the car.

Look around on YouTube, they are out there and running single digit times. Some may use aftermarket transmissions, just like the RWD racers do, others beefed up stock manuals, alot of the Shelby-Dodge and SRT4 Neon guys are running the Torqueflight based 3 speed transaxles Chrysler brought out in the 70's and 80's for L and K body cars.

Oh, I'm quite familiar with the kit.....well, with the exception of where the right front tire is

Kinda reminds me of the Geneva, IL Michael's when I was there last weekend, they also got rid of all Testors' spray paints too.

Picked this up from Okie Spaulding today.

Lol, that's cheap, and at least you get to finish the assembly yourself compared to this. https://jalopnik.com/today-in-model-cars-that-cost-more-than-a-year-of-colle-1829390270

You know what those taillights remind me of?

I was skeptical on the first couple, but there are enough victims to fill a classroom. That kinda takes it beyond witchhunt and more into "where there's smoke, there's a raging inferno" territory for me. Hate to say it, kinda thinking that with the current situation with the SCOTUS nominee too.

Looks like somebody left Ford for GM, or left Pontiac for Edsel, the went back to Pontiac after it was found to be a flaming mess of a division..........

I like it, the stocker has that gaudy, overdone styling because we can't have horsepower, 70's look to.

this thread, this whole thread....................................

Parts 2 and 3

The snap/promo Prolwer kit it isn't bad, don't believe it's worth the $29.99 that HobbyLobby has on it though. Now if it was the glue kit, without a doubt, but not this kit. I may eventually buy one there with the 40% off coupon, but decided to go with the Lindberg '61 Impala kit when I was there on Friday.