Reegs

Or with firecrackers.

Was the driver the old Revell slot car "Smiley"?

Beg pardon - HH message board?

Uhhhh, yeah, okay, I guess ...

Maybe the word should have been "radical".

But everything else stays ... http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2018/01/17/raceway-park-discontinues-drag-racing-events/1039555001/

As long as the retailer re-orders those kits because of those sales.

Blob undercarriage or separate parts?

Ohhhhhhhh yeah to both, only make 'em 2-in-1 kits (none of this 'later' thinking!). Also: a mid-'60s Kent Fuller/Don Long-type digger with a blown 392 and, as an option, an Enderle injected SBC for the junior fuel fans.

The Fireball 500 Barracuda was purpose-built by George Barris for the stock car racing movie Fireball 500. There was absolutely no drag racing influence, let alone topless match-race car.

I'd love to have the basement all to myself, but the cats would sit at the closed door and cry to be let down stairs. They also did this at three o'clock in the morning. It got so bad that I cut a "kitty door" into the basement door. And yes, they pilfer. My wife once found my #11 X-Acto knife in the kitchen.

I second the Cheetah, but throw in some extras so's I can make it a /MSP. And it would be nice to get some of the American 'off' brands. Early iron anything other than a Ford (there are plenty of those). GMs, Mopars, Mercs from the '50s. Anything from the '60s - as long as it isn't a re-issued promo with the blob undercarriage and molded-in seats. Hey, howzabout a Javelin? Make 'em all 2-in-1s, too. Street/strip/oval/custom or bone stock for those poor rivet counters. Hey, I can dream, can't I? Oh, and all 1/25 (my fantasy, my rules).

Reminds me of the Christmas when I got TWELVE models! Everyone a 49¢ Pyro 1/32 (more-or-less) kit. I also remember getting a handful of Palmer kits on a different Christmas. But the thought was there.

FWIW - As per the late Byron Stack at Gasser Madness: (Starting in 1968) AA/GS through B/G and all cars with unibody construction would now be allowed to use rectangular or square steel tubing in frame construction. The minimum was .120 wall thickness and 2x3 inch rectangular or the equivalent square tubing. Prior to this, the rules called for a “stock automobile type frame”. As for the match racers, I seem to recall guys running 2"x3" square tubing from the front clip to the rear in order to keep the floor pan from twisting. That can be replicated by a couple of strips of square styrene. Otherwise, as much as I'd like a blown sb, I'd suggest to the good folks at Moebius to just include parts for a classy looking /MP (if offering a 2-in-1 kit is their plan).

That's the first thing I thought of (except for the blower). Will it be sold as a gasser?

AMT 1932 Ford Coupe. First build ever, from way back when it was still a reasonably new release. I guess I was about ten or eleven and I remember doing the 'vroom vroom' bit.

I remember buying that kit back in the '60s (and being ribbed by my buddies for buying a Monogram kit). Sorry, but I just liked the look of it (and I think it was only 98¢ at the time). And, even though I'm a 1/25 scale kinda person, I wouldn't be upset in Monovell re-issued that kit and some of the others from that era.

Told by his doctor that he was too stressed out and that he should get a hobby to relax. So he picked drag racing. RIP

A/GS, the 'S' denoting supercharged. Then the NHRA standardized the class designation along the lines of other supercharged classes and it became AA/G. The fans and teams complained so it became AA/GS.

The AHRA always tried to get everybody into the show, hence all those stocker breakdowns. They seemed to know what the fans "between the coasts" were lining up to see. Oh, and the stock classes were a snap to figure out - if you brought a slide rule.

- The AHRA allowed short wheelbase cars (f'rinstance: Skipper's Critter). - For a starting point on weight: http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/make.aspx - Since we're making believe anyway, guesstimate what the weight savings would be re: fiberglass fenders, etc. Same with cubic inches.

So Jim, did you ever get an answer to your question?

Seems like most here have forgotten (or ignored) Jim's original post. He wrote: This is a historical question concerning the model industry. I am not a big fan of 1/24 scale model cars. 1/25 scale is my preference. Why did the model companies adopt a 1/24 scale? As you car modelers know, the difference is small, but drastic (if you know what I mean). WHAT IS THE STORY? Would love to hear the "scoop" from you car model historians. Thanks I blanked out the parts of the post that were an opinion, which generated all these responses to the opinion and not answers to the question. Carry on.

Or whatever it was.

If I remember correctly (and I probably don't), 1/25 was called the "engineering" scale (whatever that means) and the promo makers decided to crank out their product in 1/25. When they started offering their promos as kits they were already geared-up for that scale and the rest is history. Monogram supposedly chose 1/24 (the architects scale) back in the '50s for the Deuce Coupe kit because that was the European scale (how big the model car industry in Yurrip was back then I don't know) and I guess they wanted to be competitive over on the continent (although how many units of the Long John dragster they expected to move in Dusseldorf I can't imagine). They might have been the red-headed step-child all those years but as history shows 1/24 did become the "international" scale. Revell chose 1/25 because ... uh, jeez, beats me ... a coin toss? In retrospect 1/24 should have been the de facto scale, but hey, who knew? Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.