Brett Barrow

I believe it was still 9.36 lbs per Cubic inch back then so 427 x 9.36 = 3,996lbs. That wasn't really a hinderance in those days as Detroit was just making street cars with the intention of using them in NASCAR. That's why the Superbird and Daytona and all the homologation special aero cars existed in the first place. NASCAR clamped down on them before they got out of hand Everything done to NASCAR today is for the sake of parity for better TV racing with driver and fan safety factoring in as well. "Golden Age" NASCAR was boring as %#*@ Richard Petty won Martinsville in 1972 by 7 laps after dropping a cylinder halfway through. Ned Jarrett won Darlington one year by 14 laps and he was actually running 3rd before the 2 leaders blew up with about 40 laps to go. People read about the races in the newspaper on Monday or watched a edited version on Wide World of Sorts a month later. Not to mention a couple drivers died every year. It would never have made it on live TV. The 358 ci, common wheelbase cars of the late 70's made NASCAR a spectator sport.

No. The cab has had a whole lot done to it from stock that's not apparent at first glance. Look at where the windshield wipers sit on the Foose truck (more or lees flat) vs stock (ramps up to windshield). There's not a stock piece of sheet metal on the thing. A lot of subtle changes.

I swear that story gets 1mph faster everytime it's posted somewhere. It was 240 on a 7-mile proving ground track in Ohio against a 962 Porsche pre-restrictor plate era (1986). They had to tape over the side windows and body seams, riveted plates over the headlights, and changed to a taller gear to get there. NASCAR was keeping up with IndyCar speeds before restrictor plates so I think they'd probably be doing 240 today without them. http://sporttoday.org/9_79a2db408810029b_1.htm

Modern car would smoke it everywhere but the plate tracks. And if you took the plates off it'd smoke it there, too. Downforce and side stability are a big part of the equation that the Superbird doesn't have.

Hmmm. I can get in fine. Does this direct link work? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/122940-magnetic-frustrations/

This is such a cool project and you're off to a great start. Muscle Car Review did an article on the real car. Neat idea, it's actually a vinyl wrap that was painted and everything on the car is totally reversible and removable Link - http://www.hotrod.com/articles/wild-1970-plymouth-barracuda-famous-muscle-car-never-existed/

AMT Silhouette for the rear*, Round2 Parts Pack Gasser wheels for the fronts (4 lug wheels from Ohio George Willys reworked to 5-lug). Who does decals for this car? I like it. *pretty sure the Silhouette and 65 Riv have the same wheels, Buick wires and <s>Ansen</s> Astro slots) Gasser Parts Pack wheels:

Aw man, I used to be a big Mitch Hedberg fan. I still am, but I used to, too.

I wish them well, I really do, but I just don't see it working this time. I grew up in a NASCAR town (Martinsville, VA) and I cut my teeth building NASCAR kits, but I just don't see the enthusiasm there anymore. Vintage or modern. But all that really matters is whether or not Revell can sell them to Hobby Lobby & the other chain stores, which is why i doubt you'll ever see the blank kits again, no way big box stores would ever go for that. I doubt Mikes or anyone else has the clout to do a run of 3 - 5,000 for themselves if Revell would even let them. Who knows, maybe I'm just isolated from it since I'm in the northeast now but I don't think that many people care about NASCAR anymore.

Yeah, in my collection I've only seen it happen with Testors Lacquers. About 1/4 of mine have done it. Probably something different with lacquers on the molecular level that lets them seep out of the seam. I've decanted a couple of them afterwards and they were fine. Luckily they had enough pressure left to force the paint out but it wasn't enough to atomize it. Actually made decanting easier now that I think about it. It's great paint, like Bob I wish Testors had better cans/nozzles or made all their lacquer colors available in bottles.

I think James has got it. Did he use a Priority Envelope? White with red stripes on 2 sides? Those have to go Priorty, the USPS workers look for the red stripes and pull them out for hand sorting. Priority gets hand sorted, First Class gets machine sorted, that's the difference. USPS will ding the recipient for the balance. Tell him to use plain yellow envelopes for First Class and he shouldn't have any problems.

Something he's doing is preventing it from being machine sorted. An item that size sould be able to go First Class with no problem. If it has to be hand sorted it will be considered Priority. Could be the size & shape of the envelope or even the way he's addressing the envelopes if they're hand-addressed. Did the envelope have a metal clasp? That's a no-go for machine sorting.

This, popular on "stance whips", whatever that means: I'm sure Aoshima has done some in their wheel and tire sets. Not sure which ones, though. I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

We got it yesterday.

They don't give you transfer tape? The Pegasus ones have transfer tape.

Pretty sure that one's the old Monogram Super Modified. Not that bad a kit - http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/70865-don-edmunds-supermodified-reissue/ They've also done other kits of some of the Lindberg modifieds and AMT modifieds, its the '32 Ford kits that used the stock kits.

Yeah, the molds definitely still exist but some parts probably need restoring if they go the full retro treatment. Dirt Track Racecars did the coupe and Vicky during the time 3rd parties could do exclusive runs just before Round2 took over. Looks like they still have some left. http://www.dirttrackracecars.com/OrderModels.htm All those DTR "jalopy" kits were just the standard AMT kits with instructions on how to modify into a jalopy racer. I would have thought Ebay would be full of them. Maybe it is time for a reissue!

Mk II is a much different beast. Scoops and radiator outlet are totally different. Tail is totally different. Basically everything body-wise behind the doors.

I don't think it's anything more than Round2 hasn't gotten around to them yet, the Vicky is the only one that's gotten the retro-deluxe treatment so far and that was just fairly recently. The 5-window was run near the end of the RC2 era.

I guess these are safe to circulate now. They were saved to my computer July 2014. Resin tooling mockups of the AFX Plymouth.

Hey, glad somebody got some pics! Thanks! Looks like they got the taillights of the 70 Charger wrong, but in a good way. They're really still 2 lights with the sheetmetal divider painted black and the trim just makes it look like one unit.

I had two, one was yellowed and really showed up on the white, the other had a big splodge of one of the other ink colors right smack dab in the big clear open area. Then it wrinkled after MicroSol and I hoped I could sand some of it out after clear then this happened when I started sanding. It's been stripped and will get repainted and I have a line on a Fred Cady sheet if my post in Wanted doesn't come through.

But seriously, they account for it. They know something like .5% will be bad. A run of 5,000 kits will really be 5,004 or maybe 5,016. If they need them for parts, they're there, if not they're gravy.

They just write it off.

Whelp... it wouldn't be one of my projects if something didn't go wrong. Anybody got a spare black one?