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I'd love to see a '64 Chevelle, especially if it was a bench seat Malibu. It'd be really cool if the model manufacturers would release more mid range optioned cars and less of the top of the line ones.

I wonder why it wouldn't be possible to pop in the tires and wire wheels from the Revellogram 1/24th scale Deuce Roadster that had its origins in the L'il Deuce copy of the 1/8th scale Big Deuce kit.

Tim! Now that's just plain evil, you definitely know how to keep a few hundred (at the least) rabid model car builder/collectors in suspense. By the time your hints become known items half of us will have imagined about a jillion kits that they're absolutely sure to be the ones that are going to be released. In the meantime you sit there with a cup of coffee watching the lower life forms drive themselves into a total frenzy arguing with each other that each one of them is sure THEY are the ones who are in the know.?

Maybe those rumored Pro Stock kit rereleases are more fact than fiction!?

Pop off the "pony" tire and stick a jack stand under the axle, then it will really give it a "Hot Rod" look. I like what you did with the extinguisher, you could have given it a light dusting of a transparent orange (that's what they use for gold anodized parts) and given it a polished brass look too.

You could just use one of the roadster frames and graft on the rear crossmember from one of the earlier Model A kits and use the "buggy" rear spring and using the spring mounts and possibly even the rear axle from the '48 Ford kit or maybe the one from the AMT '41 Hot Rod Woodie. Not much different than using a different engine and trans, or changing the interior and I almost guarantee that there will be a lot of that going on.

I would put a Ford 2.3 four cylinder in it with two side draft Weber carbs, these little engines make well into the 300 horsepower range with some of the Esslinger Engineering parts. They even make a plate that bolts to the fuel injection manifold that fit a Holley four barrel carb if you don't want the Weber carbs, oh by the way a Ford produced a manifold for them, and Esslinger has a D port aluminum head that without any work flows better than the best factory OEM manifold worked to the maximum possible and the best thing about it is that it has a Ford part number and is available through a Ford parts department.

If they really wanted to build a rare NASCAR model they should look at the San Jose Super Modifieds, both the earlier asphalt ones or the later dirt supers that raced at the fairgrounds and until they were outlawed by the World Of Outlaws who didn't want Super Modifieds whipping up on their Sprint cars they were the only Super Modifieds sanctioned by NASCAR anywhere in the country and that alone would make a few want them to settle their curiosity and there would be a lot of short track racers who would buy multiples just for parts to build dirt or early asphalt race cars.

I was looking at a new Mustang the other day and two colors really got my heart rate up, one was a pearl yellow tint that is a tri coat requiring a pearl yellow, or even a bright gold base with a transparent. (Kandy) mid coat and a top coat(s) of clear, the other is one that I originally saw on a gen 7 Corvette and it's a red tint tri coat and the colors are even available from Tamiya to make it easier, first use one of the Metallic or Pearl reds (the Red metallic will have a little more glitter, or sparkle however you want to call it, and a pearl or Mica red will have a "glow" to the highlights because the pearls are a lot finer metallic) then use transparent red over it as a mid coat just remember the more you add the more you high the base and the darker the red, I try to just get the color even and stop there but it's purely up to the painter. And again the final coats are clear that's the "Tri" part in a Tri Coat color. Good luck I know you'll find a good color even if you have to look at a House of Kolor chip book for getting that just right repeatable color (you know how nice cars seem to attract parking lot chips and dings and don't even get me started on birds or that one neighbor who thought giving his kid a BB gun for Christmas was a good idea.???

Those are beautiful pieces of engineering but with those rods they're definitely not the ones submitted for NASCAR use, also the NASCAR engines didn't have roller cams as they weren't allowed. In fact when Bobby Allison won the race in California in one of the Penske Matadors they were caught running a roller cam and claimed they didn't know that they were not allowed. But somehow I don't see Penske Racing not knowing every little clause in the rule book.

Didn't Pete Jackson make a complete gear drive for these that he ran in a AA/FD?

I'm thinking it looks like two of the inline four barrel carbs that Ford used on the Trans Am Boss 302 engines. I think they are Autolites but were Weber or Delorto copies.

The Revell pickup that was originally released as the Moving Violation kit has an injected SOHC Ford in it as the kit engine. And if you want a 427 Ford engine without the chrome or even the shiny clear bond coat that hides a lot of the detail Atlantis now has that in their lineup, also that's the engine that the Thunderbolt engine is based on.

To kinda work off of the 50/50 creamsicle bars I'd go with the same orange and Tamiya Racing White for the interior since it's a little off white and not a pure white.

The photo that is on the website shows a STOCK '57 Bel-Air hardtop, and the only hardtop that Revell currently has molds for is the snap version, but the stock version hasn't been released for quite awhile, the version that is currently in the catalog is the snap HOT ROD/CUSTOM version, that is probably why they are saying it's a new release is that particular kit hasn't been in the catalog for quite awhile and definitely not since the new ownership. I admit I am probably wrong, but all of the clues point toward the snap version, I just don't see Revell tooling up a new two door hardtop since they sold off the one they had to Atlantis and their own photos show a stock Hardtop version and not a sedan.

I believe that the '57 that is going to be reissued is the snap version of the '57 Bel-Air since the previous '57 that has been around since the '60s and was last released as the Ed Roth version has been purchased by Atlantis and is on their current list of new releases. The '57 based on the '55 & '56 kits were the 150 Black Widow kit and a 210 series sedan not a Bel-Air.

Me three?

I was thinking the same thing.? A little grinding on the inside and take the ol' standby # 11 blade to peel out some rough edges and it's on its way to a great farm or woods truck.

If you want to make a cool hot rod version of the old GM four cylinder engine find one of the Mickey Thompson Attempt I kits and use the engine and speed equipment from the four cylinder. I'm going to use that engine in an AMT '29 A Roadster with a powerglide behind it.

With all the new Craftsman series kits making a comeback and those releases with all new tooling I'm still hoping for a '64 Chevelle Malibu, (NOT the SS version)

Steve, I'm unable to make out any of the interior details, but I would really be happy if it was at least offered an option for the factory bench seat w.

I've been a Marine mechanic since the early '70s and my younger brother had a blown fuel Chrysler Sanger flatbottom and the majority of the boats that I've experienced and all the ones we've owned have all been left hand drivers, even though the Sanger was originally a center steer, my brother had a photo array from an auto wind camera that had around 15-20 frames of it going through the traps at a race in the L.A. area when the engine came apart or a prop blade came off (after the crash it was hard to tell which had happened first) it was from the first owner and was way before any of the safety cocoons and the boat is upside down facing backwards down the course with the driver flailing along on the water in front of the boat and it still went through the traps at over 170 mph.

I am too!! I'd like to get a couple of just the boats with running gear I have enough old Chrysler "First Edition" hemis for them, I am going to build a close replica of my younger brother's Sanger blown Chrysler flat bottom.

I hope this '96 has the camper shell since it's the only one of the originals that had a shell, but if I remember it was not a dually but the shell fit the dually's pretty well.

I made a mistake like that when I was MUCH younger but later found out it was just a misprint?