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Our Silverado is a 1992 4x4, should have put the year down when I answered the thread. Sorry 'bout that.

And it's a 1913 Roadster. BUT you were right about it being a Ford.....well, some of it anyway.?

With the mid engine Corvette finally scheduled for release to the public in the not so distant future it will be interesting to see if anything from this design exercise made it to the final production car.

I might be confused by actual facts, BUT the chevy truck wheels I have like that on our Silverado are 16" wheels. I don't believe 16's were EVER offered on the Continental, OR any Chryslers of that time period. And I can't remember seeing any GM truck wheels in 15's in that style.

My first issue '49 Ford coupe was molded in gray plastic and I bought it new in the summer of 1962, BUT at the same time the Ala Kart/Model A kits were molded in the pure white plastic. No rhyme or reason just happened that way.

They've been pretty accurate with the previous issues of the.1940 Ford coupe, 1950 Chevrolet 3100 pickup, and the 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air sedan Coca-Cola kits all being released in the proper to the era color schemes and decals. Don't really know why they might screw it up now, especially since any Coca-Cola endorsed products would have to be given a proper release from the Atlanta home offices first.

I sincerely hope that the braintrust for the new ROG/Blitz/Revell USA company reinstates the North American parts replacement program just as it was in the not so distant past. That was one of my main reasons for purchasing mostly Revell models in the first place and if they drop the ball here it will be a real disappointment.

And before any of these ever saw a truck they ALL were brought to the States by a big freight carrying ship from China, BUT I seriously doubt if that will make anyone except a dedicated maritime modeler want to build one.

It would be a really pleasant surprise if the drag boat was reissued as a stand alone kit instead of putting it in with another kit.

Nope. As an owner of a '56 Bel-Air sedan I'd have to disagree with you there, the exterior trim is just the cherry on top of a very great ice cream sundae with the fancy nuts and extra flavor abundant in the interior also.?

LOL!.that's so bad it shouldn't have even made it through the first proof reader. Even Ray Charles would have noticed that.??

I'd like to see the Monogram/Revell 1/8 scale motorcycles ALL reissued. BUT we know that's NEVER likely to happen. Even if all the molds still exist and are in usable condition.?

That's a fact, my wife tells me that even though I was retired 17years ago that if I started finishing a few of the to numerous to count kits I have started that if I gave up everything, even sleeping and eating it would probably be into the next century before I came anywhere near close to getting my stash down to where I NEEDED any NEW kits. Notice I said NEEDED, because we all know we WANT everything that strikes our imagination, either because it was something we built way back when, or it's something totally new, or just because we want it, and want it NOW!

I had a a '71 Pinto with Sanderson long tube headers and a 2 1/2" exhaust from the collector to out the back of the Turbo muffler, but to get it to the muffler it had to go under the rear end housing, needless to say that on a good day you had almost two inches of ground clearance. BUT it sure surprised a lot of local V-8 powered cars. Oh yeah, I forgot that it didn't help that the front tires were A50x13's B.F. Goodrich Comp T/A radials.The tire guys hated them because the sidewalls were so shallow and stiff they were almost impossible to mount because they wouldn't stretch.

We referred to that as the "San Juan Capistrano school of welding".

All of the early AMT kits used the same motor mounts and engine swaps were super busy. They were kinda patterned after the Ansen frame mounts that used flathead "biscuits" as the engine mount itself and an adapter for each engine, and one for each different chassis with the biscuit sandwiched between them. The 1971 - 1973 four cylinder Pinto's used almost the same style, and were even a little better since they had a restraining cable through them in case the rubber mount separated. But I digress there.

I was in high school when the "jacked up" , gasser look started and remember that one day during lunch a prior student who still had a girlfriend attending our school drove up in the front of the school to pick up his girl in his '66 Fairlane complete with a CAE straight axle and elliptical springs in front and a set of Firestone road racing rain tires out back and the car lifted high enough to clear the rear tires. What was the attention getter was when he walked around, opened the passenger door for his girl and dropped out a rope ladder so she could climb in in her mini skirt without flashing every boy who was looking.

That's probably not a thick thinner on top, but the clear in the formula that has separated from the color pigments.

Still nothing new about the Revell division of Hobbico?

Deuce!

The doors won't fit properly and the hinges will be fiddly to install and not able to support the open door enough to make it look right.

I haven't read every post in the thread, but the ones I have read haven't touched on a problem I have worried about. I really hope that one of their larger debts isn't owed to one of the molding companies in China, they have a record of seizing assets of companies that owe them money, and in at least one case the debt was in some doubt but they went forward with seizing all the tooling of a major diecast collectible company from the U.S. and refusing to deal with that company from that point forward and the result was that one of the better automotive diecast collectible companies was put out of the automotive part of their business and as I have seen the tooling sits in a Chinese warehouse rusting away and haven't been used since the disagreement that ended production. I really doubt that any interested company wants to also inherit Hobbico's debt owed for products they have no chance of getting any income from.

I worked in a muffler shop in the early '70s and we did quite a few of these where we would remove the cross flow muffler by cutting the pipe at the start of the bend into the muffler and in front of the chrome tip and making up a pipe to go between the two. This made a really aggressive sounding exhaust and unless you got a real intelligent officer you could even pass it off as factory stock, as is it was still quieter than the Boss Mustang's were and in California you could get away with stating that it was a Boss muffler replacement and they would pass it. Under the CHP testing standards at the time a Boss tested at 108db with the decibel meter 45 degrees from the exhaust outlet at 50 feet away, it was curious that their list had this system as the loudest production system available for any car. Even louder than the Corvettes with the big block side exhaust.

Just a question from my curious mind. But didn't Round2 buy out all the Aurora molds, giving them access to ANYTHING that might have been buried in inventory? I do know that they have, and plan on producing some of the Aurora aircraft, and a few other things that were released as both Aurora and Polar lights, (that Round2 does have possession of) and don't forget (even though I would like to) those kinda silly monsters that seem to pop up when we least expect (or want) them. Any reputable news or facts on any of this? Or even corrections to my fading memory would be welcomed. ??