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Also rear wheel opening is enlarged quite a bit clear the big slicks.

Sacrilegious to put Ford taillights on a Chevy, lol.

I'd have to go with the Grand Master, and Hemi-Sphere, just since NO model company has anything in their line up that resembles either one. It's also a tribute to the abilities of Chip Foose that a design study done while he was still studying in school could be picked up by a full size concept hot rod using the "new" Hemi engine and factory drive train parts to build a very popular with the public show car.

The impression is also totally built from the ground up, it just appears like a '37 Ford, but in actuality is a completely hand formed body from Marcel Dulay and sons.

If they used the Foose truck and actually followed the dimensions you'd never see a stock one done using the same tooling, the Foose truck is chopped, the hood is pancaked, the cowl is modified and the fenders front and rear are changed and it has independent front suspension, a nine inch rear end on modified suspension. Its like a lot of Chip's work, very subtle, not enough done to really stand out, just enough so you know something is different, you just aren't sure what it is.

Judging by the colors on the other pre painted kits, and the photos of the box I would bet that the 'Vette will be released in the "Tint Red" color, it appears that this is a three stage color from Chev with a metallic red base, a transparent red (thus "tint red") and a clear top coat. I've seen a couple of C-7s in this color and it's fantastic, it is a very deep appearing Candy Red.

Yes the most teams and the highest popularity per capita are in the Chevrolet and Toyota camps, but along with them is also the highest level of licensing fees and sponsorship deals to have to deal with their licensing rights also. I've said before that due to the limited contingency stickers carried by the team Penske cars that they were probably the easiest team to put the NASCAR experiment behind.

And if anyone did use that as their basis for a kit according to some of the experts it would never sell, and "they" would never buy one if it were produced the front bumper's all wrong, and the roof has to much angle along the drip rail,.... you get the idea, some nice person posts a picture posing the possibility of something being thought about, and fifteen people start tearing it down because they can tell from a very small part in a bigger picture that the dimensions are all wrong, and it's not worthy of being offered to intelligent people.;-)

I'd love to see any '32 - '34 Chevrolet in a coupe, or sedan, in the '32, they even offered a deluxe edition coupe that is often called a sedan because of its resemblance to the Ford Victoria sedans. Engine choices would be a gimmee anything from a 270 c.i. six up to a new LS series engine, and the big block 396-454 will also work.

Want to bet that area where they aren't as good is on side collisions, and I've noticed that since KIA nabbed the top designer from Audi and released their new body style for the Optima in '10 that almost every manufacturer is getting closer to the same silhouette every year since. Thankfully KIA has announced a totally different design in 2016, then the other guys can battle for the five year old design.

As soon as the government and insurance companies quit wanting safer cars in side collisions we will start getting lower door tops and larger window openings, but you know as soon as that happens people will start chopping tops again, and we'll be right back where we are. Glad you have a good enough climate to be able to drive around with your windows down, we aren't so lucky, either it's cold and wet, or you can cook your lunch on the flat surfaces of your car. The other reason for the strange proportions and the inability for your not being able to rest your arm on the window is even though every drivers training course from high school through any performance driving school tells us that the safest position for your hands when driving is both hands on the wheel, people keep forgetting this so they design the performance cars to make it uncomfortable to drive in any other way, lol.

I'd buy a few of those Target cars when/if they come out.

Penske cars is probably one of the best kits licensing fees wise since they don't carry a lot of contingency stickers, just the ones that actually contribute to the team, so the decals on the cars won't be as many as other teams have and all licensing fees should be already worked out with team Penske. There are a couple of other teams that run their program like this Petty Enterprises comes to mind, they actually didn't get to run the Busch Clash one year because of Petty's refusal to put alc contingency decals on his race cars, kind of a little bit of hypocrisy to me, someone who won't run an alcoholic beverage decal because of what it does to people, but raises tobacco and had no problems promoting Winston when they were the series sponsor. But that's just my thoughts.

He said he took the tail lights from the '91 convertible kit that the wheels came from, should answer the question about them.

But how would you guys who are getting your stuff from Japan and spotlight hobbies finding out what they have without the internet? Back in the early building years for me, our tiny town had three places that I could find models at, the local drug store, one of the local grocery stores, a kind of general store that sold a little of everything, and what would pass for a hobby shop in most places, a sporting goods store that sold almost everything a hobby shop carried, but also rifles, ammo, hunting license, supplies.

Want to bet that if one of us were to post a built up of one of Dr. Flintbone's adult figurines that it would've been pulled by a moderator by now as being inappropriate or offensive, but yet this fore mentioned piece is still here? I thought this would be a great thread for my seven year old grandson to go through with me and show him some of the weird kits that are out there (he has a kit of a Polar Bear, and a horse) but I just couldn't come up with an explanation to him for that.

If you don't think overloading on sugary caffeinated drinks can do strange things to your thinking process, try chugging down three or four big cans of Red Bull, or Monster Energy Drink. :-)

I don't think that it's going to be much harder to move the firewall back a bit and round the edges off than it is to remove the mold lines from most kits, and we're assuming that the firewall is a stock one, and not one that was built by a street rodder to resemble a stock firewall, but had the angled stiffening beads changed so they wouldn't be cut off by the recess required to clear the distributor on the small block. And the roof recess will be filled and smoothed on most kits anyway, after all it's a street rod, not a restomod, or a stocker. Oh I forgot to add that the engine in the original Beatnik Bandit is an early Olds, a 303 if I remember correctly, and another bit of useless facts is that motor didn't, and couldn't run, it was truly a "show" engine.

Kinda reminds me of a mini Chrysler Airflow, am in the only one, is this a small car, or like some of the other Japanese early cars fairly large?

You can get some really nice wood molding pieces in Basswood in the miniature doll house wood in a well stocked hobby shop, they're already cut just like some of the wood in real woodies, and are real wood you can stain, and use Krylon Crystal Clear for a nice glossy finish. Use the extra thick Glaze clear for your finish, it has a high solids content and is super shiny on some absorbent surfaces since it builds quickly.

In the current issue of Street Rodder Magazine there's a real full size coupe like this that should give a few others besides me some ideas for a great model using parts from other Revell kits, and will help quell some of the complaints about it not having a different engine. It's also a real coincidence that there's an A roadster with a nailhead Buick in it for power, looks like Revell must be talking to some builders of 1:1 cars to get their ideas.

Looking at a full sized version of this in this month's Street Rodder Magazine the firewall looks pretty much just as the full sized version does. The pictures should give a few guys ideas of a kit bashed version all with Revell models.

You would need a rear panhard bar to locate and keep the rear end centered from side to side, look at a few full size car magazines to get an idea of the one that is easiest to add to your build. But other than the Chevrolet valve covers on a Ford the rest is really nice.

How did you accomplish the side spear with the groove through it?

Just FYI, those wheels were painted a little darker gray in almost every case except the American Torq Thrust wheels that were a Shelby option in 1967 on Mustangs, those were the light gray like these