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Haven' tried it yet with the Petty Kit Car. It is based on the Original MPC Super Stocker. You can use the recently reissued Model King releases. The Petty kit car isn't based on the Super Stock Series kits, the kits in that series are the Mustang, a 69 Camaro, a 70 Monte Carlo, a late 60s GTO, and a Plymouth 'Cuda, these are the only ones I've seen there may be another one or two that I don't know about.

Holding my breath for the '34 Chevy, will it be a three or five window, trunk, or rumble seat? Please pardon the drool.

NASCAR's top division, was originally called Grand National, it changed to "Cup" cars when Busch beer took over sponsorship of what was previously known as Late Model Sportsman cars, Winston took the Grand division and renamed it Winston Cup, the Grand National and Cup designation has remained through the different series sponsor changes that have occurred since then. The Super Speedway designation is for cars on 1.5 mile and larger track sizes, at that time they were cleaner aerodynamicly than the short track cars with tighter wheel openings, and all surfaces were sleeker and faired in to cut down drag and in the case of the Thunderbird the tops were even different in that from the factory there is a small filler piece along the top the C pillar to cover up a seam where there is a weld strip on the two panels, on the race cars they cut that overlap strip off and butt welded the two pieces together, narrowing the roof by about two inches. They were allowed to do this all the way into the 88 season when NASCAR started to enforce a rule that required the area to be full width and the teams had to start using fabricated metal strip to replace the factory plastic filler piece. But in actuality all of the various stock car models from Revell/Monogram were all super speedway cars but were built with the ride height set to the pre race tech requirements, most people do adjust them to the lower heights to make them appear more like what people remember them looking like. And BOTH tobacco and alcohol sponsors were added to a "non child friendly" list of things that manufacturers were prevented from selling to the general population, they had to be labeled as Adult Collectibles, this began being enforced in around 1986, after that the Winston decals disappeared from the NASCAR kits and Skoal decals were removed from the World Of Outlaws Sprint Cars kits. And the second release of sprint cars didn't have Coors, Coors Light, or Old Milwaukee as sponsor decals on the kits.

Since this is a reissue of an already existing kit I wouldn't hold my breath about seeing anything different in the box, but as they did with the three window and it's last release, it might have some big and little wide whites on steel wheels, but I doubt it since it is totally different from the style of the car itself.

Great build, I have a couple of Chevelle bodies I've set back to do models of the '64 & '65 bodied cars we ran in the early '70s at Shasta Speedway in Anderson CA. We had to use the '55-'57 Chevy chassis and small block engines, so I have one using the short track modified chassis, and one on the late version of the Pro Shop '57 from AMT.

Between 400 & 500 I would guess. How many would it take to line three walls and four rows deep of models stacked up to ten feet high in a 40 x 60 shop? I quit counting years ago, plus I have the top of our closet, and one wall in our bedroom, and under the queen size bed covered too.

My mistake, memory isn't as good as it used to be. But that's the best part.

If you want to gouge up the model where it will require several coats of primer and a lot of wet sanding go ahead and hit it with the 400 grit paper. Personally I don't start out with anything coarser than 600 grit wet on anything that doesn't require body work on any of my paint jobs, to me the "frosted" finish is not anything to worry about.

4, more likely 10.

If the late forties to mid fifties cars were referred to as "shoebox" cars, would these qualify as "cigarette pack" cars?

I believe it was Street Rodder Magazine that did a photo tour of Dan Finks shop during a build up of one these. Just like a family car there were options you could have, or leave off, so it's entirely possible that the one Revell used to make this kit from was just as the model appears, no roof rack and a slightly fancier rear door. And yes, they're definitely wood framed from the cowling back.

Those little $99 engine stands aren't meant for real engines. My brother rebuilt the engine from his boat, a 392 Chrysler stroked to 440 c.i. roller cam,Venolia pistols, 6-71 GMC blower, oh yeah I forgot to say that the boat was a detuned fuel flat bottom. Well anyway when we started the rebuild we pulled the motor from the boat after pulling the supercharger and it's drive pulleys and bolted it to the stand while still hanging from the hoist, and when we started lowering the hoist to take the chain loose no one was paying attention until someone noticed that the engine was starting to point down hill. We had to remove the motor again, straighten up the upright and plate where it kinked and weld in an angle support to the base. After the rebuild we put the engine on a grain scale and discovered that the long block set up weighed a tad over 800 lbs.

A couple of the Camaro kits had the GM six in them too. One that comes to mind is the Lane Automotive number 52 kit.

It's not a Hyper-pac, that's a Clifford Research intake, the Hyper-pac intakes are quite a bit longer runners with a larger plenum area under the carb, and they used an AFB four barrel carb, not Holley. In the late'60s I worked for a local muffler shop and we got picked to build a custom 6 into one header for a local drag racer who was lucky enough to have gotten a 1964 Dart from the factory that had a Hyper-pac set up, it even had an even rarer big valve aluminum head on the 225 c.i. six, I never saw another one with the aluminum head on it, it was a big hit with fans as it put a few pretty good V-8's to shame, it was also the only six cylinder Dart I ever saw with a close ratio four speed transmission direct from the factory, getting a local racer in our area to pick up a factory sponsorship was a pretty big deal back then. That six into one header made an unearthly sound at high RPM kind of like a howling banshsee

In 1968 Pontiac increased the SOHC six to 250 cubic inches, and the Sprint option with its bigger cam, higher compression, and big Quadrajet carb, and dual exhaust manifolds increased from 207 horsepower,to 215, not a slouch in anyone's book.

Beautiful, while the critics were wasting time writing 38 pages of what was wrong with this kit, you were building it to show what was right about it, two thumbs up! Great job. I think maybe it's listed as discontinued because it's on back order everywhere, who knows, maybe the second shipment got held up for corrections. ;-)

That orange coupe is pretty sharp, exceptional quality, only one point, I really think that it would need more than just the center block motor mounts, the transmission mount didn't get bolted in, because I know you made a nice tubular mount, possibly even chromed it that is why it is still in the shop. And coil overs and the old Ford buggy spring? Might be a tad hard on the back on a very long ride.

How about some more photos, and a few close up shots of your art work, killer car!!

Love that wine color, and how many noticed the Ford Y block stuffed in there? Excellent job.

Really like the "hand formed" aluminum hood look you achieved..

And the matching artillery wheels, or just my tricky glasses playing tricks on me again?

I like the dual "barn doors" idea personally, another thought, you can get some hobby birch plywood in 1/64" thickness that would be much closer in scale appearance, and easier to stain and take a clear coat than the balsa wood. Just a thought.

Gold Coast Publishing, dropped Rod and Custom from its line up as with it owning Street Rodder, and Car Craft, along with a few other automobile and pickup related publications it considered it a duplicate. I have a subscription to Car Craft, that just ended with the September issue, I am in the process of dropping all of my "duplicate" automotive magazines, the only one I really liked anyway was Rod and Custom, I'll pick up the occasional magazine as needed, but the publisher won't cut me off without a warning again.

I believe the law for single taillights being legal was 1930 in passenger cars at least, I think that it was 1958 for commercial vehicles, but I'm not real sure on those.

The second coupe in the line up is a very well engineered street driver, it belongs to a great builder who was shown on a one season TV show with Jimmy Shine from So-Cal speed shop in a search for a new apprentice at the shop.