Brett Barrow

The 'new' white one is the same as the blue one. Older pops of this kit tend to be a little better in the flash and fit departments, but it is what it is - an annual kit from 1967. If you just want this style of GTO, go with Revell's modern tooling 66. But if it's gotta be a 67 then it's either deal with the MPC or convert the Revell, MPC's is the only 67.

Yeah, this thing deserves to be bumped up to the main page every now and then! I'm guessing "Pennsylvania Bluebird" is a takeoff on Billy Gibbons' "Mexican Blackbird"

If the stories about how they treat V-Rod riders are true, I'd say not well...

Quid is slang for a pound. Just like we say buck for a dollar.

But how will it leak oil? Maybe it'll leak battery acid instead...

or this: http://youtu.be/WQdctW8EqIs

First accessory will be this -but in chrome, of course!

Ever notice how everyone in front of you is a slowpoke, and everyone behind you is a maniac?

Must be cursed. John Mueller owned a 34 and his even his attempt at fixing up the AMT 34 in the 90s still fell short. So much for the theory of having access to a 1:1! Still, it wasn't his design from the start, and I think he was the third designer to work on the tooling. Revell's snapper is the best by a mile.

Maybe they rode 'em high pre-war, but I can't say I've ever seen one that high post war. Definitely not once the Grabowski "Kookie T" came to prominence in the late 50's. Both photos from 1947.

Oh yeah, the large landscaping set from Phoenix Toys has a push mower. We even sell them. Totally forgot! Oops, never mind. That's an edger, not a push mower.

MPC's old Indy cars had lawn tractors without mower decks. Scale Equipment Ltd. makes resin ones too, I think they're based on the MPC tractor with added deck. Check G scale train stuff, too, there's bound to be some mowers out there for those, I know there are for smaller scales.

I've never seen the rod built up. The stock T does look rather nice from the pictures I've seen - http://members.home.nl/ahazelaar/22t-roadster.htm If anybody's into stock T's (I'm not so I don't know much about the differences) the rest of this site might be worth a look. http://members.home.nl/ahazelaar/model-t.htm Tim Boyd's new Hot Rod V-8 article in SA has a picture of the instruction sheet for the MEL engine in the Aurora kit, it looks like a hot mess. (the Aurora engine, not Tim's article!). They'd have you mount the Latham supercharger backwards!

Cool looking model, glad I got to see it finally! When I was a kid my dad had a 69 El Camino with a Smokey Yunick-inspired black & gold paint job!

I honestly think this one would sell better if it was in white plastic and just had regular box art showing the features of the kits. I don't know how these tie-in kits are doing in a broader retail setting, but for our hobby-focused website they aren't doing that well. This one seems like it would just get passed over and no one would ever know about all the extra parts lurking inside. Thanks for the review.

From what little I've seen of it, the street rod version of their 22 T is a near copy to AMT's Double T. Except that their MEL has "Corvette" valve covers! It was the '60's! Who cared?!? On the 34 Ford they gave you equally spaced headers for the Pontiac (which has the middle two exhaust ports close together like a SBC - it was the '60's! Who cared?!?) I like the idea of what they were attempting with the 34 street rod, but I'd would much rather see a newly tooled 34 than this. Not my photos, found through Google search:

Same sources you give, just started with today's ballpark figure of $25 retail and worked backwards. That's why I said "for a while". Sure, when you compare $1.49 kits from back when they were selling 10 times (or more) as they do now there's a difference. And 2014 kits tend to be a little more detailed than 1964 kits, so they probably cost a bit more to develop and produce. But since the 90's at least, I think they've stayed around the same price adjusted for inflation. I remember kits being between $10 and $15 when I was buying them in the 90's. When I started in the hobby business in 2001, I think $17.99 was what new Revell kits were retailing for. Given all the challenges facing the hobby I think they've done an admirable job keeping domestic car model kit prices in line with inflation. Furrin' kits on the other hand, especially armor and aircraft - yikes! Those things are off the chart!

Based on inflation, $25 today is the same as $20 in 2004, $15 in 1994, $10 in 1984, $5 in 1974 and $3.25 in 1964. Seems to me that model kit prices have pretty much just been keeping up with inflation for a while... What happens is they keep the prices constant for a few years, then they have to jump up a couple bucks to keep up.

You have to chose image size when you're setting up the album in Album Properties > Advanced Properties > Photo View Size. It'll do up to 1000 x 1000px. Default setting is 500 x 500. You have to remember to change it before you upload the pics. Even if you change later it they will still display at the size when they were uploaded. Your Photobucket bandwidth resets at the first of the month (or is it the day of the month you signed up on?) This pic is hosted on my Fotki, I wouldn't call it small -

Move the pics to a hosting site that doesn't have bandwidth restrictions. I use Fotki, there are others.

Ford's cruise control recall ended up affecting more than 14 million cars. Go to any manufacturer's website and you'll find dozens of active recalls. Right now GM's going through it. A few years ago it was Ford, Toyota, or whoever, they all go through it at some time. Next year it'll be somebody different. Make enough cars, you're bound to have a few lousy ones in there. Learn from it, and make them better in the future. GM certainly doesn't have the market cornered on $&@/+#! cars...

Probably when Germany reunified this was the easiest way to do it instead of buying a new "D" sticker, just cross out the other letters in DDR. I noticed the trailer hitch, too. I doubt Trabis could tow that much. Shoot, just the added weight of the hitch alone was probably enough to make them pop a wheelie! It's a great looking model, I like that the roof can stay loose to show off the interior. Might have to snag one of these...

I think they do better in a hobby-focused setting like us or a brick-and-mortar hobby shop. In a regular big-box store like a WalMart they probably wouldn't do as well. Big, expensive models sell well for us these days. We've sold a ton of the 1/200 Trumpeter Missouri, Revell Germany's 1/200 Bucket Wheel Excavator, Revell's 1/144 Space Shuttle with Launch Tower, Tamiya's 1/32 Birdcage Corsair, HK Models' 1/32 B-17 and B-25, and many other big ships and big 1/32 planes. The Peterbilt Wrecker was our #1 automotive model for calendar year 2013, both in dollars and quantity sold! It was amazing. If I were running Moebius I'd be seriously considering a LoneStar wrecker! I think it'd be awesome!

We had a pretty good idea the Lil Coffin would do well, maybe not that well... We had a lot of preorders for it, and I believe we wrote a blog post about it back when we were still keeping up with that. Had a good response on our Facebook page as well. It's interesting to see what other models it gets bought with, a lot bought it together with the Munsters' cars, some were paired with Roth cars, Weird-Oh's, monster figures or movie cars.

Whoops, my bad. My sales report works off of the item's name and if you change something it will consider it a different product. I was only seeing the 2 we sold before I added "New Tool" to the name. We've sold considerably more than 2. It's actually just off that top 25 list by only a couple pieces. I thought I had seen more than 2 go out the door! I could put a brick in a Revell box and sell more than 2 of them! Revell US had been calling it a "60's VW Beetle" during the pre-sell phase since it really didn't match up to any specific year US-spec car. In the end they decided to go with 1968 as used on the Revell Germany box. It is a very nice kit.