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Don't forget the little chrome strip that goes across the windshield wiper panel at the base of the windshield, there's also a tiny stainless piece that goes along the top of the doors, it's actually part of the window felt but it's there just the same.
And like everyone else I love that color, its almost a match to a factory color in '69.
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I'm contemplating putting that 430 MEL engine with the six twos into the Revell Custom Merc for an all Ford Motor Company car, and do the same thing using the supercharged version in the AMT '49 Merc' for a period version hot rod.
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If you do a search for the Baldwin Motion Chevrolet Camaro, you'll find that they offered a two four setup as a streetable BUT extremely potent package. That should be sufficient to roast about any tire you can put on WITHOUT tubbing the thing.
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In the days of the Chrysler Kit cars there were a few Challengers and' 'Cudas that were built, in fact Stock Car Racing Magazine had an article about them and they showed a Challenger that was being tested by Pete Hamilton on the asphalt and some newcomer named Dale Earnhardt on the dirt, that Earnhardt kid was kinda wild though and ended up wrinkling up the right front fender. It's been in my plans to make a model resembling that car, and now with the re-release of the Soapy Sales funny car kit it again gives me a body to use on one of the Chrysler Kit car models that are currently in production.
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Two years ago they adopted new ride height rules and different suspension types, now as long as it doesn't drag the track (actually that's your business but it will definitely slow you down) they NOW use just enough spring to hold the car up off the ground, and bump stops that are basically rubber biscuits between the shock and the a arms they use shim packs to adjust ride heights enough to keep the front splitter from hitting the track in the corners. They do have minimum rear quarter panel heights so the spoilers aren't lowered so low they don't have any drag, after all it's a trade off between downforce and drag, but on the road courses and short tracks the downforce wins out every time.
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On 11/17/2017 at 6:05 PM, unclescott58 said:
A nice proper reissue of an old AMT classic.
Close, BUT no cigar!
BUT it COULD be a really nice reissue if they would just retool the chopped hardtop that WAS in the original release. I built my original if my mushy brain remembers correctly in 1963, and I DO remember that I used the chopped hardtop and that I painted it with the AMT candy blue lacquer over a silver base, but I wish I had used the gold because just to paint the top and get it the color I wanted it took one whole can of the blue. So since I was on a kids budget the car ended up a two tone with a dark blue roof and a light blue body.
But I would REALLY like that top reissued. If they were able to do as much retooling as they did in the Gremlin reissue, then redoing one little top for this gem shouldn't be a problem at all.
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Thanks for the clarification, I did do some research after I posted (yeah I know that I did it dead backwards) and did see that the Ala-Kart used the "baby Hemi" 241c.i. engine and it is smaller BUT not as small as the new kit would lead us to believe. Maybe they were confused and someone provided one of the REALLY little Daimler Hemi's for them to measure. If that's the case then it's out of scale again, but this time it's a bit on the large size. (Would be nice to have one of the Daimler engines in scale to put in one of the Revell Midget kits)
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I was lucky enough to see this beautiful candy red car in person at the NHRA museum a few years back. The pictures don't do it justice, it's a beautiful piece of racing history.
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Yep it's fun how nowadays every car that has a jacked up front end is called a "Gasser" even though it has nothing to do with real Gassers. It's true that Chevy IIs were not common cars in Gasser classes or in Factory Experimental... But my plan is to modify one of those kits into an FX car, but it will be backdated to a '63... Anyway, when considering how popular those Chevy IIs were as Funny Cars/Match Racers, I'm sure bunch of them will be seen on the forum when the kit is out.
I've said it before on the other thread, but I say it again. I can't wait to see these kits available! I'll definitely buy multiples of both Nova/Chevy II kits.
There was a lot of modified production class Chevy II's running at different strips around the country, add some wider slicks two fours on a crossram intake to the 327 and you had a pretty fast little race car.
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Some vintage big rigs might actually be pretty cool, and while everyone has their own idea of what's cool, and I'm sure the folks at Moebius know what they're doing, if you're enthusing over a Chevy II, you're in no position to criticize anyone's tastes om models as boring.
You're 100% correct, the early Chevy II's/Novas are so boring that the aftermarket people now produce a complete steel reproduction of the '66 '67 Nova hardtop for the 1:1 crowd. I don't know of any company producing repro parts of any kind for the truck guys. In fact I bet that the truck builders in the 1:1 world are probably outnumbered by around a 50 to 1 ratio.
But me, I have a couple of truck builds in the works, after all I need something to pull my Sprint car and late model team trailers. See, even our beautiful show cars and race cars are hauled around by those unappreciated trucks.
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Unfortunately, the Buttera engine block scales out to be a full inch shorter (length) than the '32 kit engines. The heads are a full 1.5" too short.
The height from the oil pan rail to the top of the block is about .5" (scale) shorter on the Buttera engine than the '32 versions.
The oil pan itself is about 1.5" short (front to rear) in the Buttera kit too.
This isn't a deal breaker to the garden variety modeler, obviously, and I don't go around measuring these things just to stir up trouble.
But the fact is that I've been looking at greasy bits and fast things professionally for the better part of the last 50 years, and immediately, the engine in the Buttera kit looked wrong to me...just as the underscale "new tool" Ala Kart engine did, the exhaust-port spacing on the nailhead engine in Revell's '29, and the discrepancies between two of Revell's representations of the exact same 6.1L Hemi engine in two contemporary kits, the Magnum and Challenger. It probably doesn't help that I'm also a designer and artist, and have a well developed sense of proportion.
And inevitably, when something looks wrong to me, my apprehension is borne out when I put the calipers to whatever it is.
Funny story...I once walked into an aircraft hangar to look at a brandy-new Cirrus SR22. I immediately remarked that it was longer than the previous version of the airplane, and I thought the difference was in the cowling. The owner disagreed vehemently, so I suggested we just measure the damm thing. Sure enough, it WAS 3/8" longer. I had instantly been aware of a 3/8" difference...on an airplane that's 26 feet long.
Like I said, I don't do it to stir up trouble, but I also believe that accuracy matters...in every field...and if part of a kit designer's job description includes "measuring", he can damm well be expected to get it right.
And WHY the underscale engine? I have no clue. Just as in the "new tool" Ala Kart, the correctly scaled engine WILL FIT in the engine bay. It's tight, just as it is on a real one (in both cases) but it DOES fit.
Maybe the powers that be should just hire me to look at their first 3D-printed pre-tool-cutting models. If I like the proportions, being the prickly anal-retentive SOB I am, you can be pretty sure nobody is going to have any hairs to split on down the road.
I haven't measured them but I do know that the 331 in the real Ala Kart IS smaller than the 354, and 392 Hemi's that some think was the hemi in the Ala Kart. That's why the 331 got the nickname of "the baby hemi". There is virtually nothing that fits the other hemi engines that will interchange with the 331 parts wise, except possibly the transmission's.
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I was going to suggest that you might get one of the AMT/MPC Connoisseur Classic 1932 Chevrolet roadsters, it has the same basic suspension but in a much closer to the proper scale than the big Chrysler and Plymouth roadsters. BUT you're doing an outstanding job on it already. What I get for coming to the party late ?
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You might get one of the AMT/MPC Connoisseur Classic 1932 Chevrolet roadsters, it has the same basic suspension but in a much closer to the proper scale than the big Chrysler and Plymouth roadsters.
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The Hemi Under Glass has the full body, glass and chrome needed to create a Barracuda. The few issues are that it's missing some front emblems and the rear wheel wells are hogged out. The body also has a fixed hood (if I remember right) which will work fine if you are doing a curbside. The chassis in the Fireball originally went in this body. For the Fireball they extended the front and rear of the chassis but you can literally see the lines where you need to cut it back down to size. The Barracuda firewall and radiator panel are in this kit. The Fireball has the original '66 Barracuda interior, but only the front half, and they molded in the bucket seats. There is nothing past the seats. The seats are correct. The bottom of the dash, console and steering wheel are correct. The top of the dash is unique to the Fireball kit. For a small block, the more recent AMT 71 Duster has a nice one.
The interesting part is that the Fireball 500 is a true movie car, only what would be seen was modified. The real car has a 273 automatic, the dashboard and most of the interior parts were stock Barracuda. I sat in the real car back when it lived in New Jersey.
If I wanted to build a stock '65 or '66 Barracuda, I'd buy a resin kit and use the chassis from the later release AMT 71 Duster or Revell 68-9 Darts.
Thanks to both of you for the news about the kit glass. It's been a couple of years since I've opened up the box, and I'd forgot what exactly WAS in the box.
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Yes, we have waited long enough, we need a new 1957 Nomad.
I'd go for one of those! Since they built a new replica of the original used in the art work for the original kit, a new release of the original kit (with the up to date improvements) would only be right.
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Would be nice
They (Revell) WILL make a '57 Ranchero kit as per info I received from the late Bill Lastovich who worked for Revell. Just how soon, I couldn't tell you. I'll bet it'll be here before I finish all the kits I have in my stash, and give you odds on that as well.
If your stash is anything like mine we could start building a kit every other day and couldn't get them all built in my lifetime.
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I'm going to get one and using the body parts from the reissued early Hemi Under Glass kit to build a Barracuda. My only problem is what I'll do for that BIG ol' back glass., and I'd like to be able to put a little 273 in it instead of the engine this monster has in it.........guess I could just build it as a curbside and TELL people it has the 273 in it. ??
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Who ever thought we would ever see this set reissued? The story goes that when this was originally put out in the early '70's, Lee Petty balked because they raced Mopars and a Ford Hauler was included, so that limited production. I guess that doesn't figure now, since the Petty team races Fords, and they have a long Mopar heritage.
The story I heard, even in Stock Car Racing magazine at the time wasn't that Lee Petty complained about it being a Ford truck, but was a MoPar factory rep that complained about the Ford truck. Maybe it was a Lee, but not a Petty, but when did Iacocca leave Ford for MoPar? Maybe it was an Iacocca instead of a Petty that shot it down. -??
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It's probably time for the Grant King Sprint Car to be released again, maybe it's one that's going to a dual kit with the Ford Hauler, or even the Pinto or Mustang II bodied modified kits, their wheelbase would fit the trucks built in wheel divits better than the sprint, and they'd look just about period perfect together. Especially if they had the Troyer decals with the Pinto again.
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I originally thought my kit had a short shot dash, but the kit that was reviewed has the exact same hole in the dash next to the vent, right in the middle of the dash. Was this for something not included in the kit?
Did you look at the pictures posted above? Might help with your question, the dashes in these always looked to me like someone at the assembly plant forgot to put something in place on the dash.
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There was an FM3 Charger R/T with the dual pin stripe on the side the go over the door scoop (no bumble bee stripe) in the Cedar Rapids / Iowa City area. I have talked to the original owner (also a model builder) and he has some good pictures taken of him and the car back when it was new. As the owner of a 68 Coronet 500 convertible myself I have talked to many Mopar people in the area that remember the car. It was stolen in the mid 70's and never seen again.
Carmak
If you search for images of 1970 Chargers you'll find pictures of that car.
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Hubcaps usually get no consideration from the manufacturers for new designs if there was a styled wheel option available. Maybe Fireball Modelworks will come to the rescue with this one?
It would be nice also if they came with either decals or photo reduced items for the centers- either saying "Dodge" or "Challenger" optionally...
...and I always thought it was funny that almost all of the '70 lit showed Rallye wheels without center caps. There are several factory photos of '70 cars with Rallyes and no center caps. I can't imagine that these were designed for the caps to be optional??? They just look too unfinished without center caps...
God! How I hated those steering wheels with the horn on the outer rim. Seemed like every time I went to back up in one I'd end up blowing the horn.....repeatedly!
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In my opinion nobody pays attention to car alarms i hear them go off at a mall and no one cares what does one do ?
Buy the club for the steering wheel it works
But anyway Good luck to you ?
not really, a decent bolt cutter will take care of cutting through the steering wheel and you can just lift the club off. We were taught this by a professional when the tow company I worked with was going to start recovering reposessions, and getting vehicles to settle court cases.
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Never heard anything back on this, so I did a little digging. An online reviewer (who incorrectly calls the landing gear "tricycle" when it's an obvious "taildragger"...so get your salt grains handy) lists the finished wingspan of the model as about 10.5" http://www.rightonreplicas.com/blog/?p=5273
As the REAL ORIGINAL airplane had a wingspan of about 22 feet, multiply that by 12 (for inches...264), and divide by 25 to see if the model is close to 1/25 scale. We get 10.56", which is pretty much dead on...assuming the model represents the EARLY version. The FINAL version had a span of 25 feet, which would be 12" in 1/25 scale.
So...how do we know whether the model is the early or late airplane, and what the approximate scale is? Hmmmmm. The same reviewer lists the model's length as 9.5". The REAL airplane was about 23.4 feet in length. That would be about 11 1/4 inches in 1/25. So, going by the overall length of the model as posted by the reviewer, clearly the model is SMALLER than 1/25. In 1/32, the length should be about 8 3/4 inches. so clearly the model is LARGER than 1/32 scale. Still with me?
So...the kit is somewhere between 1/32 scale and 1/25 scale. The fuselage comes in at about 1/29 scale. Lying morons. Kinda sorta too small to look right with the about 1/26 scale GeeBee from Lindberg (also incorrectly labeled 1/32), and too small to look right with 1/25 scale car models...unless you trick the relative sizes in your photography. Numbers must be a whole hell of a lot harder than I seem to think they OUGHT to be.
Thank you for doing the hard work. I haven't been able to get to my planes, still unable to negotiate climbing over stuff without danger of falling. Stupid surgeries anyway!
And on top of that, I hate doing math, it makes my head hurt ??. Well I guess it's close enough for the people that will see it, to most of them if it has a propeller, and wheels you can see when it's flying they wouldn't know if it was right or not. In fact most wouldn't even know it was a REAL airplane.
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Have you cleared over the paint from the chrome pens yet? I'm curious about what it does to the chrome finish, I know that Alclad and SpazStix have adverse reactions unless you use a specific clear. Next thing I want to try is using the ink/paint from a refill cartridge through an airbrush, if it stays as brilliant as the pens do I can see a ton of possibilities, especially for the aircraft guys, or doing our own bumpers.