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Now, if I could just find those pictures of that vintage style Model A Coupe I've seen with the deuce style top insert and the padded diamond tuft headliner, I'd have a great idea for some of you. Like I said, IT'S A HOT ROD, not a stock car, and hot rods are built to the owners ideas not the factory designers. If they weren't, there'd never be any Ala Karts, or Chili's Little Deuce Coupe's in existence. I've seen enough Ala Karts and Silhouette kits customized and kit bashed to know that we as model builders can take someone else's ideas of perfection and make them into ours, 'tain't no big thang.

Personally I think that a small block with a streetable water pump / alternator drive to fit a GMC blower and not an aftermarket case would be worth swapping out a blower from one of a zillion drag models scattered in the parts box, I know it's possible, I've seen a manufacturer do it on an Oldsmobile motor. ;-)

Actually I knew that, I was just being a little facetious.

The model year it would have been, Chrysler was using the Hemi in NASCAR and you have to admit it's a lot sleeker than the body styles Petty was running then, just a"phantom" race car.

That one would be the easiest to make on your own, basically all the parts are available in plastic or resin already.

Stevens International? I thought Round2 wasn't working with outside vendors after the DTR deal was finished?

I sort of think that maybe the tool makers in China were sent several different pictures of hot rods with the various parts and pieces that they wanted to incorporate into this kit and it's just possible that since there's probably not a multitude of model A's in China that some different things were confused as belonging on an A body and until it was sent to the states no one noticed the mistakes. I'm really hoping that this is the case and am almost certain that they will be rectified before actual production begins. And to clarify the "I ain't buyin' it" statement, true it hasn't appeared in this thread....yet, but it was heading that way, I've seen it in a couple of other threads where it quickly becomes a rant against the manufacturer and how bad they have become lately. Sorry for jumping the gun.

General Motors did switch to the Iron Duke in the latter years of the Vega family.

Thanks, it's not that hard to point out the good points as well as the bad ones, and it goes a long way to look like the negative comments are being made as a point that could be improved instead of just saying (as some people do) I'm not going to spend my money on this pile of scrap. I'm going to be optimistic and assume that the obvious points will be corrected before actual production.

Dimensions on the blower would depend on which manufacturer they have decided to replicate, and again, it's a test shot, you know, where they make a run of parts to discover if there are any problems that need corrected. It's not a production run, and until they send out a few kits to be built up for reviews, I'm not going to assume anything is set in stone, even the possibility that they just throw up their hands and say "their right, it's not right, no one has anything to say but complaints, just drop it before we spend any more money on a kit that evidently isn't going to sell anyway".

It's not supposed to be a "stock" body, it's a hot rod, and a copy of something someone else built. But the biggest thing is this isn't even a production release, it's a test shot, the key word being TEST until I actually see a built kit from an actual PRODUCTION run, I'll reserve any judgments and comments on how screwed up it is. Until then I'm just happy they're trying to put out something I'd build.

Thanks, that would be excellent. But isn't what you said about the different bodies kinda what I said? I just didn't dig into the shop to get all the different bodies out, I was just "eyeball engineering" them.

That's what I was thinking of, but you could say it was a homolagted body by Chrysler, and put the Hemi into it. That version must be really trick, it has rear axle type hubs in the front, an experimental front wheel drive?

Just an FYI for those that didn't know it, the IFS from the Buttera kits is a scale copy of Jaguar sedan suspension, and is a natural with the Jag rear in those kits, the only difference in sedan and XKE rear suspension is a sedan is wider by a couple of inches, and the XKE rears are a posi traction rear end, for a more contemporary rear end treatment you can make up a center from a Ford 9" that would be a copy of Kugel and a couple of other types that are in the 1:1 market.

While looking at the box art, notice the difference in height between the cowl and the hood, since this body didn't come with a stock hood to my knowledge, the hood in the kit may be robbed from the AMT kit and it shows that this body is closer to correct than the old style AMT Deuces were.

In all my years of being a car freak, and into Hot Rods since '58 or so, that's the first time I've seen an adapter for the injection to level the bug catcher out. It looks like it might be a little more current CNC made part.

Yeah, I guess you would have to be a real dummy of a driver if you need traction control, that's why they put it on F-1 cars, and most racing organizations outlaw it. But since it's a standard item on all new cars I bet more organizations will legalize it. I seriously doubt if you have the reflexes to come anywhere near the control of any vehicle that traction control has. That's the reason that the first government requires vehicle stability control on all new cars, is to protect us from those drivers who think they can do just fine without it.

I'm interested in seeing the Pontiac and Chevy coupe's it wouldn't be that hard once the main body is mastered for those to produce '33-'34s to go along with them, the only big change from the'34 to the'35 would be the fenders, they're more like the '36.

Most of the V type compressors I've seen have been on Chrysler products.

Actually the Twister Vega isn't a Vega or a Monza, in fact it's not even a Chevy, it's a Pontiac, the one shown on the box is a '75 Astre. But the front grille is definitely the Pontiac version, and the Monza bodies didn't resemble the Vegas in any way shape or form.

Extra motor & trans options, like a base six with a three speed, or automatic, and an optional V-8 with optional four speed, or the same auto trans used behind the six, like a C-4 in a Ford, and a TH 350 in a Chevy, and options of base wheels and dog dish caps, or wheel covers and after market wheels for the optional tires. Street rod kits could have a couple of different engine choices, like a vintage V8 for that group, or a more contemporary choice for the new style builders along with a complementary set up for tires and wheels. Rear end types could go with an older banjo Ford or a Ford 9 inch the banjo rear could have an open drive line set up so it would work with the parts for the 9 inch too interior could be a simple tuck and roll that wouldn't look out of place for either style of building, or for some vintage trucks and mid '30s-mid '50s cars, a dead stock setup, and a low rider package with chassis and under hood chrome, and separate suspension, with the lowered parts in show chrome and some more modern wheels and tires might actually be a popular choice, maybe the same idea with some big GM rides in the mid '80s, and give us a couple of mid '9Os Caddy's with stock body styles. These would go with the luxury car guys and the luxury low rider Gangsta group.

Harry, not all states required outside mirrors, California started requiring them in '67, I can remember having to buy them at the local parts store, and drilling holes in the fenders to mount them on my '56 Chevy.

Of if you go shopping with a color chip and search the fingernail polish aisle you can find a color that comes extremely close and in most cases the metallic is very close to scale.

I was going to put that on my list but was afraid of being told that the new one already exists why would they produce the old one. But I would like it, and while I'm here, how about the '64 Chevelle Malibu Craftsman kit?

Another day older and deeper in debt. But the wife did give me '72 Blazer kit to play with, going to build a two wheel drive low boy.