Brett Barrow

I've been saying the same thing, citing that Round2 has tire deals, so why doesn't Revell? As I mentioned, the Revell-Germany LaFerrari will have branded tires, so this bodes well for the future. We'll have to wait and see if Revell US starts doing them too.

Like it or not, everything Art's said has been spot on. And, on a positive note, the upcoming Revell-Germany LaFerrari will have branded tires.

All those came from about 5 minutes digging on one thread over at the HAMB. "Northwind" got lots of search hits, so there might be more, but there's also a rail dragster with the same name. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201085&highlight=northwind

Hard to tell, but I think the cowl and tulip panel are gold, but the trunk doesn't have the gold across it like the hood. *EDIT* Scratch that, after looking at the rear pic on a different monitor, I now think it has the gold like the hood.

http://roadtrippers.kinja.com/ford-is-putting-a-mustang-on-top-of-the-empire-state-bu-1551115033 I'd leave it up there for longer than 2 days, after all the trouble...

Decals are accurate for the 1964 season. Earlier pics: Later pics (I believe it had been sold by this point:

I've always considered Pony Cars to be a subset of Muscle Cars.

Ugh. Maybe if Leonard Nimoy leaned on it....

I agree that "advertsied" and actual HP didn't always match up The 50's were probably overrated (more sales), and 60's were probably underrated (better insurance premiums). Thanks for explaining, I see where you're coming from. Makes sense.

When did the 389 ever make 389 or more HP? In the 389's last year, 1966, the Tri-Power made 360, and it's replacement, the 400, never made more than 370. http://ultimategto.com/cgi-bin/statsexplorer.cgi?year=all&f1=dtengine I don't mean to keep pressing on this, but the 1hp/ci rule would negate a lot of classic, universally-agreed-upon "muscle cars", making 1hp/ci wasn't very common during the carbureted, push-rod V-8 era. Now, pretty much everything on the road does it, but that's with OHC's, multiple valves, fuel-injection, computers, etc.... You're the first person I've ever heard that said that 1hp/ci defined a muscle car and I'm interested as to why you think so, and then what cars you believe actually qualify under this standard.

Hmmmm, I wonder if they're actual brand name (Bridgestone it looks like?) or gibberish, which is how some aircraft and armor models and resin upgrade are getting around licensing, with names like "CONTINENTAU" and "GOOO YEAB" Actual brand names are nice, but I'd take that over nothing.

So you're saying that the 64 GTO - 389ci/348hp w/ Tri-Power- a car that pretty much everybody would say is a muscle car was not really a muscle car, but a 57 De Soto - 354ci/354hp - a car that I doubt anyone would ever classify as a "muscle car" actually was? That's a new one. edit - by that calculation my 2002 PT Cruiser 2.4L(146ci)/150hp is a muscle car! Or maybe you meant that the first cars to break the 1hp/ci barrier were the first muscle cars?

A lot of folks define a Muscle Car as an intermediate with the engine from a full-size. To me that means the 49 Olds 88 is the first*. But I think that the 64 GTO really launched the Muscle Car as an actual genre of car and it became something that all the manufacturers had to offer in their lineup to stay competitive. *actually it would be the 1936 Buick Century, which paired the big Roadmaster's straight-8 with the Special's smaller body. But the Olds had a V-8. What muscle car doesn't have a V-8?

Can always use the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20140208005329/http://www.revell.de/en/

It's been pretty thoroughly debunked. If it really was 7/8 it would have been the size of a Vega. http://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/2013/08/21/the-truth-about-smokey-yunicks-78-scale-chevelle/

Interesting article on one man's attempt at desktop 3-D printing: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/03/solidoodle_4_testing_the_home_3_d_printer.html

It was a J Lloyd project and apparently the new Hawk/Lindberg owners (Round 2) don't want to do it. J Lloyd was always long on ambition, but always short on cash. You have to complete a box mockup to get preliminary licensing approval from Ford, so that explains why they did the box first. Looks like they even got to the actual product mock-up stage. Who knows, they could have even tooled it up before running out of money. If that's the case, somebody could come along with the cash and release it, but it doesn't look like it'll be Round 2.

The 1/6 scale are die-cast and fit in with the Liberty Classics (sold as Revell kits) line. the 1/4 Hemis were originally the visible clear plastic kits manufactured by J Lloyd and sold by Testors before J Lloyd bought the Hawk brandname, but now with diecast engine blocks.

It's De Agostini. http://www.model-space.com/us/

HAK- 11090 1/4 Visible Flathead V8 Engine CANCELLED $0.00 From Stevens Int'l, one of their main distributors. Well, when I wrote that over a year ago, J Lloyd still owned Hawk/Lindberg and it had not been cancelled. The tread title at the time had the wrong scale, but has since been corrected.

That was many Decembers ago... This thing was supposedly "in the works" since the Testors (J Lloyd) 1/4 Visible Hemi and 1/2 Visible V-Twin, those were from like 10 years ago.

Since it's not in the new Round 2-produced Lindberg/Hawk catalog, I'm going to call this one cancelled.

Cool, but the R/C car is definitely sandbagging! Those things can out-accelerate and out-corner the real thing! http://youtu.be/YUHqlFYspfM

Yes, where are you seeing them? The whole thing is airbrushed out of the box art photo, and you do get the "Powered by" part [not shown] to use if you have some spare blue ovals from another kit. So you actually get more decals than they advertise...

Think he won a Facebook contest or something. Revell air freights over a case or two of each new kit to send out for magazine reviews or whatever, his probably came from that.