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Here is one. Pictures borrowed from the now defunct Hanks Truck Pictures site.

Yes, when they do such a nice kit they could have taken the time to tool up the engine too, what difference will 10-15 parts more do to the total and I hate when they leave this "minor detail" out. Nice work by the way.

I also have two kits, one Accurate Miniatures original issue and one Revell issue...and headers from HRM. Maybe I get motivated to start one up when I follow your builds.

Nice dragster. You don't see the front wheel fairings anymore, I heard is that they worked like rudders and the cars got twitchy steering as a result, that's not fun in 200+ mph.

That's not what I'm saying. The proposed changes will in my opinion make the NASCAR Cup cars loose what distinguished NASCAR Cup racing from other saloon car series. I mean, they use large wheels with low profile tires and center nuts, air jacks, 6-speed sequential transmissions, individual rear ends, exotic materials in almost any other series and NASCAR haven't had that so far. I don't think these changes will make the cars go slower (wich NASCAR has tried to do for the last 20-30 years) or be any cheaper for the teams as they all have to start from a clean sheet and can't use anything from the old cars as mostly everything except for engines are obsolete if all changes go through...so it will most likely favor teams with large budgets. I like the limitations the current rules has regarding the wheel size, tires, brakes, 5 lug nuts on each wheel, 4-speed H-pattern transmission, rigid rear axle and so forth...and for me they can go back to using engine programs based on current production engines instead of the for NASCAR developed special non production engines they have used since 2006-2007. If you're not careful and letting the development go too far too fast it can kill the series instead of making it go forward, that has happened lots of times before in motor racing...less people watching and fewer teams will do that.

The pattern for the doors and quarter panels are the same for both so that will work, they need arm rests as you mentioned and the sedan doesn't have any cranks for the rear side windows. The Sports Coupe has bucket seats with folding back rest and the seats in the Thunderbolt's are buckets but rigid lightweight Bostrom seats from a Van so they are not correct for the Sports Coupe, but the seats from the Thunderbolt can be made to work if they are detailed right. You also need to use the center console as all 1963-64 Sports Coupe's had them, Ford used consoles from the 1962-64 Galaxie 500XL/Mercury Marauder S-55 in the 1963-64 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe. Nice save of the body.

Well, put on all the left over parts you have in your spare parts box and you should have a Mad Max version.

It's really worth saving if it's possible as the 1964 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe kit was issued only once. The interior is different between the Sports Coupe and the Sedan, but you might already know that, and I don't know if the Revell interior tub will fit in the old AMT body as the roof line is different, I have not tried that myself. If it does fit the upholstery on the back seat is wrong for a Sports Coupe anyway, the Sports Coupe was top of the line and had vinyl upholstery, bucket seats and console so you might have to do with the AMT interior. I used to own a 64 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe with a 289 2V and C4 myself so I will follow this.

Nice lineup. I will follow this.

Nice.

Yes it will happen regardless of what all fans say, as I see it the new 2021-22 cup cars will be pretty much like slightly larger less stock appearing versions of Australian V8 Supercars racing on ovals, if NASCAR likes the V8 supercars so much why don't they take the whole concept then. The V8 Supercars looks more stock (except for the wings and spoilers) than the 2021-22 NASCAR Cup car will ever be anyway. I don't know but budgetwise I think these changes will benefit the larger teams with lots of money more than the smaller teams.

Cool, I remember watching these Group C cars on TV back in the day with the Jaguar XJR-9LM, Sauber-Mercedes C9 and Porsche 956 and 962, the Jaguar V12 sound was very distiguishable. I have one Jaguar XJR-9LM in my stash together with a couple of Sauber-Mercedes C9's and a Porsche 956...I liked the old Group C class wich was very popular and it was unfortunate that FIA "killed it off" when they introduced the later 3.5 litre Formula 1 sourced engine class wich were more expensive than the earlier C1 cars was.

Nice. I did one back in the day too.

Of course the safety issues has to be addressed and have been, Ryan Newman would most likely have been a lot more injured of even have lost his life if it wasn't for the safety developments over the years. But I don't like the other changes they are thinking of doing. If this continues these things will come in NASCAR too...just wait and see. What's wrong with the chassis they use, a H-pattern shifter 4-speed transmission, 15 inch wheels, 5 lugs each with higher profile tires and smaller brakes when it works, these things together with the limitations they have as a result are what distinguish NASCAR from any other saloon car series. I think the modern Factory Stock and Factory Super Stock drag racing Camaros, Mustangs and Challengers looks a lot better and cooler with the 15 inch wheels with high profile tires they use on these drag cars than the large wheels/low profile tires the regular cars are equipped with from the factory...call me old and reactionist but that's the fact. NASCAR is trying to reduce overall speed with safety in mind but the changes they want to do will do just the opposite, larger wheels will result in larger brakes so they can go faster on the straight lines, lower profile tires allows for higher corner speeds as the sides flexes less, single lug nuts reduce pit stop times and there is only a matter of time before air jacks are allowed. I think it's bad enough with the engines they use in the Cup Series now wich are not based on any production engine, they are specially developed for NASCAR Cup cars and not available in any street car.

This is going to be expensive.

Another of your "Gems".

It's most likely so...the Revell kit is much better even tho' it's only a hot rod and no stock parts in it. The box for the AMT Pro Shop version is not that wrong, you can build either of the three versions with what's in the kit...but you have to do the modifications of the parts yourself, the highboy you leave out the fenders completely and the bobbed rear fenders are modified from the full fenders.

I for one is not that excited about the Supernatural Impala, it's a four door and four door cars are a lot "colder" among car enthusiast at least over here and the Supernatural TV series has not been aired here as far as I know...so what can you do with a four door Impala except for the Supernatural car...a family car, police car, fire chief car or taxi maybe. But I really like the fact that Round 2 DID a "semi new" automotive kit and I hope they will do more in the future as they have lots of possibillities for more cost efficient kits than to do them from scratch, like doing new 1961, 1963 and 1964 Galaxie kits based on the excellent 1960 Starliner tooling...I have mentioned this before but that must be doable as the 1960 Starliner is one of the newest tools they have in their inventory developed just before RC 2 bought AMT/ERTL, the 1967 Impala tooling the Supernatural Impala is based on is earlier but also from that late 90's early 00's era. Yes Round 2 have just re-issued the 1963½ Galaxie 500XL kit and it was maybe adequate back in the 60's when it was new but it's so wrong when you look at details and compare it with a real one...I do own a real one so I know. The 1964 Galaxie kits are either an old Craftsman curbside kit or a Modified Stocker so we don't have a decent one, the 1961 available to us now is also a Craftsman kit and the old 1961 Starliner tooling is most likely gone. Sci-Fi is maybe hot right now but there are more to modeling than that, the military side with aviation, tanks and other things related has been a large piece of the modeling hobby for many years, automotive may not be as large as those two but I think automotive builders are entitled to some new tooling kits now and then...more often than one every 15-20 years. Now when Revell is under new ownership who knows what they will do for new tools, the owner is European so who knows if they will do any new American car kits ever, the Asian manufacturers don't have much in that direction and the market there is so large that they don't have to go elsewere if they don't want to, they sell enough anyway. What's left...Moebius and Round 2. I don't care if they devote an entire production to Coca Cola or any other multi million company for collectors or any other connection as long as we get model kits, and a new one now and then wouldn't hurt. No need for comments from "naysayers" and "pessimists", I allready know what they will say as this issue has come up before. But if we don't ask for anything we will certainly not get it...that's the fact.

As I see it we don't need another "Aussie Supercars or DTM series", we allready have the originals. I think NASCAR CUP has stood out from most of the other series due to how the cars has been up to now, but the way they want to change the cars they will become more like cars in any other series and it will most likely not stop there. As I see it, if you loosen up the rules for the cars and let it go too far the series gets less interesting, one can only look at the DTM series, when it started the cars were close to production cars but now they looks more like space ships with all the wings and thingamagigs and are far from the cars they are supposed to be, and NASCAR don't have to go that way to be interesting.

I don't think making the cars look and behave like any other racing saloon car is the key for success, I like the fact that you have restrictions like a smaller wheel size wich in turn restricts how large brakes you can use, the five lugnuts makes it take longer to change the wheels, going to more exotic materials doesn't make it any cheaper, making them even more cookie cutter doesn't help much and to call them stock cars is a joke when nothing is stock anymore. You also need manufacturer support for it to be interesting, look at the Pro Stock class in drag racing, they use one engine as the GM DRCE enigne, wich like the NASCAR engines not are a production engine available in any car, is the most competitive right now, and most of the teams use the same "Camaro" body...boring if you ask me.

Yes it has, and I think it will die off even more if they go through with all the things the rumours tells regarding changes to the cars, all the fun and excitement will be taken out of it and I can just as well watch any other racing series as the cup series will be almost like them when it comes to the cars.

Very nice model, I like it a lot.

You are not wrong with that statement, Hamilton is on a roll.

Likewise with the Mustang. The latest Ford kits was Fusions and they are like the Chevy SS really good...but they disappeared from the market way too soon, partly because the Hobbico bankruptsy thing and the change of body styles. So unfortunately Revell "missed the boat" again with these kits as GM and Ford changed the body styles they have used for several years right after these full detail glue kits came out, the kits came out 2017 and GM changed to the Camaro body for the 2018 season and Ford to the Mustang body for the 2019 season. Revell only issued two Ford Fusions from this all new tooling, the #10 Danica Patrick and #4 Kevin Harvick cars and only one Chevy SS wich was the #24 Chase Elliott car.

Yes you have to be cautious with information like that...not everyone has seen the race...yet...over here these races are aired live but we in most of Europe are 6-9 hours ahead of you in the States depending on where the race is held, so the finish of this race was around 1.00 AM and a workday today. The earlier night races from Darlington and Charlotte started around 1.00 AM and finished around 6.00 AM so I usually record them and watch them later.