Brett Barrow

I gotta ask, and mind you I earn a living selling model kits, but should buying $40-50 car models really be that high on the priority list in that situation? But anyway, my company can get you one when they come out, I'll pass along the info when I get more info myself. I think these are still a fair ways out from release.

Looking good, sorry I missed the call for two-tone pics, but you've got it right now. Fairlanes and Customs are quite different cars. I've got a couple two-tone Custom pics on the other computer I'll post them when I can. One tip I'd share with BMF is to color your knife blade with a Sharpie, it'll help with the snow blindness!

I don't like the "equal" car idea either, and I hope that's what they get away from. That's how it got in the 90's where one make would win a couple races in a row and they'd start tweaking the rules to give the other cars more of an advantage and it was one little rule change every week or two for years until we ended up with a bunch of cars that were the same except for stickers. The fans didn't like that. They tried to make it into one big IROC series of equally prepared cars. What they should do now is let the manufacturers design the race cars how they see fit, if one make ends up with a better car then the other makes just need to step their game up.

ICM has US distribution. I sell it. Not a lot of it, but I sell it. Any good old fashioned hobby shop or online retailer can get them, if they choose to. Not a big secret who they can get it from. The hard part is getting them to choose to carry it.

More than likely a case of the Canadian distributor not seeing the appeal of a kit of a car from a TV show that might not even air on Canadian TV. Does it air up there? Who is the Canadian distributor, anyway?

The Packard could happen. They did it in 35th because Stalin had one. Have to see how they sell in 24th. They've already done the hard part, the design work. Scaling up and cutting new steel is easy once you have the design done.

NASCAR "stock" cars quit being "stock" cars in 1966 when Holman-Moody convinced NASCAR to allow them to use a full-frame under the unibodied Ford Fairlane. Every car since then has been a purpose-built hand-fabricated race car. You know who told me that? Leonard Wood. Think he knows a thing or two about NASCAR. I grew up in a NASCAR town and was in and around NASCAR teams and garages my whole childhood. Those cars didn't arrive at the garages on a trailer or were picked up from a local dealer, they arrived as a few factory sheet metal stampings and various other components shipped in cardboard boxes or wooden crates and also as raw steel sheet metal and tubular stock. I think these new cars look as close to the street car as NASCAR car has looked in the last 20 years, and I think they'll have the desired effect of getting the manufacturers more involved with the development of the race cars. When we start seeing the manufacturers start designing street cars just so they can race them in NASCAR, I think we'll be seeing the effect they're after. I think we're already seeing it with the Chevy SS. The era of "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" might just be coming back...

Love that (Ed) Fluckin' interior!

Stock, except for the wheels and tires.

What are you using for the white? Looks like you got good coverage over the red. I dig these Watson style paint jobs so much! I'll be trying my first one soon on a 62 T-Bird.

They're not open holes on the real car, they're upholstered. The kit is correct in that sense. But if you like them better as open holes, go ahead. I like the blue, too, and I'm actually a fan of green cars, usually. But has to be the right car.

The smart thing to do these days be to include the hauler's decals on the Kit car's sheet and issue the hauler separately with something different, that would avoid any cross brand licensing issues, but with Petty's team now running Fords I'm sure they wouldn't have as much of a problem with it now as back then.

I think the difference in this issue is that the mags are now able to work with the newer "rat rod" whitewalls. At least that is the case with the last reissue of the 29 pickup, and the box for the 31 sedan shows the mags and whitewalls used together. Older issues either omitted mention of the mag wheels (Americans in the 29) or had optional tires for the mags (I think this is what the last issue of the 31 did).

One year, 1969, out of protest because Chrysler insisted he continue to run Plymouths while Dodge drivers got the superior Charger Daytona. Petty would get his winged Road Runner Superbird for 1970. As for the hauler, you used whatever would get you from race to race to race. Brand loyalties didn't run that deep.

it's the way it was originally issued. And word on the street is they're going to cook up something similar to this, too, out of the AMT C600 City Hauler... http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=391409

Well, I'm assuming you're normally able to get Ford models up there, so the only other licensor is Rattletrap Productions, which is Stacey David himself.

A 225/60-15 would be 25.60" in real life, so make a note of that and I'll break out the calipers as soon as the kit hits the office. That'd be 1.024" or 26mm in 25th scale. The tire should have a section height of 5.4" (.216“ or 5.5mm).

Looking back at page one, these are definitely the same models they had on display. I'm thinking it's got something to do with photshopping out the shadow underneath the cars, because in the other pics you can see they fill up the wheelwells the same way, but don't look so high.

Dollars to doughnuts they're photoshopped on anyway. But I'm thinking Revell's throwing them in there as a bonus for police car modelers for use on other more appropriate K-9 cars.

Anybody know the best way to cook a hat?!?!? 'Cuz the latest intel from Revell says May release (and that's the first official word from them on any date). Now, in Revell-speak, that means every day, up to and including the last day of May to ship out of their facility, and their stuff typically does ship right at the end of the month.

I voted Vicky, but I think a panel/sedan delivery would probably be the easiest one to do (it's pretty easy to do already, basically just blank off the windows and scribe a door line). Something tells me the 32 pickup would be the most likely choice for them to make, though, but it doesn't have that much appeal to me personally. Engine choices would be one of the early GM OHV's (Cad or Olds) with tons of speed parts we could use on the 50 Olds and the Cad in the 49 Merc. - Or if they're feeling really frisky a Nailhead would be awesome... Some sort of cool old rear end, too, either a Hallibrand quick change or Columbia 2-speed. Juice brake backing plates (if we're lucky some finned Buick drums, but that would be asking a lot Proper set of big n little blackwall skinny tires would be nice, they've got a decent start going - the newer style hollow 50 olds and 62 vette tires make a decent combination (or the 57 ford/57 Chevy 150 solid tire for the fronts). And for the love of Pete, a 4" drop Super Bell I-beam front axle!!! Heck, give us a stock front axle and some friction shocks while you're at it...

Yet again, there are no shades of gray on the internet. "GM has announced that the next generation Camaro production will shift to Lansing, Michigan" becomes "Anything not made in America is a worthless pile of junk". Why don't people just read what's written in a post, instead of thinking of everything that can possibly be read into it? Read the lines, not between them.

The model IN the box does...

Does that mean you're a Geiger (post) Counter?

He mentioned it on the show but it didn't end up making it in the end. At least it wasn't in there when it came back from the Hot Rod Institute.