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The Ranger and Pacer are based on the Ford Fairlane, the station wagons Roundup, Villager Bermuda on the Ford wagons, and the more expensive Corsair and Citation are based on the larger Mercury Montclair.

I wish they would on all of the original Monogram kits, when they use the brand names as they have done lately it just gets confusing. It's a little easier if you have been around in the hobby the last 30-40 years but for a newcomer it's not easy to know what the kit originally was. They could use the Revell name on the 1/25 kits and the kits made after the merge in the mid 80's and use the Monogram name on the old original Monogram 1/24 kits.

It's a nice kit...you can't say anything else. This one together with the '60 Ford Galaxie Starliner kits are my favourites from the AMT later tooling lineup and holds the same standard detailwise. But I allready have a couple of the earlier issues of the '62 Pontiac kits so I will probably not buy another one right now.

And the other Revell modern era Funny Car kits from the mid 80's and forward, the Pontiac Trans Am, Ford Mustang, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Dodge Avenger and Pontiac Firebird FC kits has the same engine with some small updates over the years.

As many here has allready said, this is not all new kit and it's not based on any annual or even the old Polyglass Gasser kit, the kit is the same as the pre RC2 and Round 2 late 90's then all new tooling 62 Pontiac 421 SD and Custom kits combined to a 2 'n 1 kit, so what's new from those issues are the box, decals and tires, everything else is the same as the late 90's kits.

I have nothing against diggin up old threads for research, of course everyone can dig up any old thread they want, I don't care about that, it's the bringing them up to the surface with a new reply several years after the thread was last replied to that I don't see necessary...and some here seems to think it's funny to rub it in...none mentioned, none forgotten...pretty chilidish as I see it. But as most here seems to missunderstand what I meant with this post, maybe because of the language barrier, I give up and will not continue this so this whole thread may be deleted by the moderators as far as I'm concerned.

Yes I know that.

Impressive work Yuri, thanks for showing us.

Nice and clean build you have there Juergen.

I haven't commented on this before but I'm really impressed, the material choice might not be my cup of tea but your work is outstanding. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Okay, so many here thinks it's allright to dig up for example an old review thread every time Round 2 or Revell decides to reissue a kit that has been out last at least once 5-10 years ago and add to that old thread instead of starting a new one about the new reissue wich in fact can have been changed from the last one...well I don't but that's me and I might be old and stubborn. I would start a new thread, describe what's in the kit with text and pictures and tell what's different from the earlier issue if there are any, and in this thread one can refer to the older review thread and link to it and all who are interested can click on the link and read it if they want to. Of course all old threads should be left on the forum, there are lots and lots of information written by many of the talented and knowledgeable participants of this forum, so it's a goldmine of knowledge and shouldn't be lost...so it's not that I react to. And it's allright to continue on an old project thread when it is started up again after a long hiatus, otherwise it's hard to keep up with what it is.

I don't have anything against keeping the older topics on the forum as they can contain useful information and the forum is somewhat searchable, but unfortunatley many of the pictures in the old topics are gone due to the PB issue, but I don't see any reason to delete them for that. But I find it a bit frustrating when I open a topic up high in some of the category pages like the Car and Truck Kit News and Review pages as someone has replied to it recently, and when I open it I find out that it's an old old topic wich was originally posted in for example 2006, and most of the other replies except for the last one or two all are from the time the topic was originally posted...a topic like that is quite cold as I see it.

If you do a long extended frame behind the drive wheels you have to do an extendable telescopic reach for the trailer drag bar as the turning point of the log load and the turning point of the coupling are on different places and too far from eachother so they will work against eachother otherwise. The extended frame and extendable reach setup helps the trailer making tighter turns on the narrow logging roads.

Why do a lot of people dig up old old threads on this forum, it has happened a lot lately. I don't know but topics started and discussed, and the last reply before the new recent ones are from 6-12 years ago isn't that interesting now, especially when the pictures are gone due to the photobucket issue, it has to be better to start a new topic instead of digging up an old pretty much dead one. That's what I think anyway.

The last issue I got before this one (#204) had the address lable on the outside of the plastic bag...much better.

Nice to see you take up this project again Rickard.

Nice work Roger.

Me Too!

I got my copy in the mail yesterday in good shape, but I wasn't that happy about the address lable glued to the lower right corner of the cover front page. Why can't they put it on outside of the plastic bag the magazine comes in, or print it on a smaller loose paper in front of the magazine inside the plastic bag, as they did it now the cover is pretty much destroyed.

I suppose you mean the Camaro ZL-1 body, not the SS.

Well I was more thinking about Revell wich did the investment for new tool NASCAR kits...and they really are nice ones...but the bodystyle in one of these all new kit is obsolete less than half a year after the kit is released...talk about bad timing. Revell will most likely tool up a new body for the Chevy kits soon to get the most out of their investment, I don't believe the cost for the tooling is covered just yet.

Maybe they had to or wanted to change the grille on the boxart to make it look more like something else than a Cat due to the licensing.

Very nice. I just got a couple of the new tool Revell NASCAR kits, 1 Ford and 1 Chevy, and they looks to be quite nice. But Revell has had bad timing again...right after they release a new tool kit of the Chevy SS the Chevy teams change bodystyle to Camaro.

Mopar had three Hemi familys in the 50's. Chrysler Firepower 331-354-392 was the largest both in displacement and outside dimensions...and is the most popular of the three, DeSoto Firedome 276-291-330-341-345 was slightly smaller than the Chrysler, and Dodge Red Ram 241-270-315-325 was the smallest of the three. They look similar but they are completely different and there are not much that interchange between them.

Yes International had the engine manufacturers to paint the engines delivered to them red but that ended sometime in the 70's...I don't know exactly when, the 903 was otherwise originally dark grey from the Cummins factory. So you can go either way.