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Yes they are quite nice, I have found one bought at a swap meet in L.A. All of them, the Revell slingshot dragsters looks more accurate than the MPC slingshots wich are more on the crude side detailwise. But of course it's easier to do details on a 1:16th model than a 1:25th. Revell did rear engine dragsters and funny cars in both 1:16 and 1:25 but the slingshots were only done in 1:16th scale.

This is not a car I would build but all your work and your attention to detail is impressive, keep the updates coming.

Very nice model. I met Tommy at the NHRA Dragracing Museum in Pomona a couple of years ago right before his 80th birthday...a very nice guy indeed, here is a photo of me and him in front of this particular car.

Check the Revell/Monogram 37 Ford Convertible with Trailer, Kit #85-7245

Well I think the Revell slingshots were better than the old MPC ones, so it would have been nice to have them downscaled to 1:25th scale.

I built one of these Revell/Monogram Cobras back in 1988-89 when it first came out (the metal flake blue Cobra S/C with #98 on it) and don't remember having any problems at all, it went together nicely without any modifications as I recall.

Very nice!

Me too, Revell did several front engine dragsters but only in 1:16th scale...I love the slingshots but I don't do large scale models as I don't have room for them.

Very nice. but I wouldn't call it a Pro Stock, it does not fit within the rules (super chargers and nitrous oxide are not allowed in Pro Stock), this is a Pro Street car where you can do whatever you like as it's not built for competition.

Yeah I noticed and that's one of the reasons they look nice, your 5-hole wheel look very nice too...and correct for the time period. The AMT kit wheels are close but no cigar in my book as they don't look quite right, I might be picky but that's me. It may not be that hard to correct the kit wheels tho', sand down the flat area until it meets the curved part and put in new lugnut detail...the upside is that you only have to do the two front wheels as this never shows on the rear duals.

No one on the aftermarket does these type of wheels, at least none that I'm aware of. The AMT truck front wheels does not look right, the wheels above are more like the wheels I have seen and would be a nice to be alble to get, both in 20 and 22 inch as it seems like 22 inch wheels were quite popular on highway trucks back in the day. I think it's a bit strange that most aftermarket wheels for model trucks are more modern tubeless type when the US model trucks re-issued lately from Round 2 are from the late 60's and early 70's and modern truck kits are far between. Here is a picture to illustrate what I mean. The sharp ridge outside the lugnuts where the flat part meets the curved part on the front wheels should not be there, on early aluminum 10-hole or 5-hole lock ring wheels it should be a smooth transition from the curved part to the flat part, both the AMT 20 inch and 22 inch wheels are like this. I borrowed the picture from Old Albion's post here on the forum wich was the best I could find for this illustration. A couple of pictures of the real deal, most of the old aluminum lock ring wheels I have seen looks like this. 10-hole. 5-hole

Okay I'll try to explain once more even tho' I said I wouldn't waste any more time on this topic... I point out the differences because there are obvious differences between the kits, you might think they are small and insignificant but if you want to do an accurate model of the Mr Gasket Mustang you can't do one from the Malco Mustang kit alone as the body in the Malco kit is the wrong model year...1967 for the Malco car vs 1969 for the Mr Gasket car. I also don't understand why you are talking about putting a blower on the engine in Malco Mustang kit...as I have said before in my earlier replies, the engine in the Malco Mustang kit is a Supercharged 427 SOHC and a Supercharger IS a Blower, so there is no need to do anything as it allready has a blower as also Can-Con Steve pointed out above. The Mr Gasket Mustang kit had a Supercharged BOSS 429, a totally different engine than the 427 SOHC...and as it's supercharged it also has a blower on it. Here you can see for yourself. First the Malco Gasser...it sure looks like a blower on top of the 427 SOHC engine to me. The Mr Gasket car...a blown BOSS 429...yes the "Cougar engine" IS a BOSS 429. The real Mr Gasket Gasser Mustang on the other hand first ran a blown 427 SOHC pretty much the same setup as the Malco car had but it was later changed to a dual turbocharged BOSS 429 as Ford wanted George to run the then new BOSS 429 engine instead of the older 427 and you do as the sponsor says. None of these engine options are in the MPC Mr Gasket Mustang kit so MPC took a little artistic freedom there when they did the kit...but you can take the blown 427 SOHC from the Malco car and do the early version. Ohio George ran both his Mustangs at the same time so they are two different cars...so the Malco car is not rebodied with a newer body to do the Mr Gasket car. The latest version of the Mr Gasket Gasser with the Dual Turbo BOSS 429. Okay...now I'm through with this.

I give up. I have tried to explain three times what the difference in the two different MPC Ohio George Mustang Gasser kits are but you still don't seem to understand...or want to. I suggest you go out and buy the Ohio George Mustang kit that's available on the shelfs now, open it and see what's inside before you discuss anymore about it...I have the kits and I know what's in them...appearently you don't. Regarding the Ramchargers Dragster and Transporter. According to your reasoning all kit's ever made are available even though some of them hasn't been in production for 60 years....for me and most of the other builders an available kit is one you can buy from the shelf at any hobby shop right now and is currently or very recently in production...not kits that has been out of production for a decade or two. I'm not waisting anymore of my time in this topic.

You have to have the facts straight to avoid confusion, by that I mean when you are talking about kit releases and what's available right now you have to show the correct pictures and not old ones from the original issue 40-50 years ago, and of course show pictures of the correct kit. If we take the Ramchargers Dragster it was last reissued in 1998, that's 20 years ago, and the Daytona Transporter 6 years ago in 2012 so you will most likely not find them at the hobby shop today if it isn't well stocked with old outdated kits...so I would not call these kits currently available everywhere as none of them are currently in production. For the record, "Ohio George" competed in the Gas class with his 1967 and 1969 Mustangs and was very successful, he raced in the Altered class and BB/Funny Car (Alcohol) class later with other cars...so the Mustangs were Gassers like the 1933 Willys he had before them and nothing else. .The AMT Don Garlits Wynns Jammer/Hemisphere is probably the closest, but the Greer-Black-Prudhomme car was earlier at 1962 and the Wynns Jammer 1964-65.

No I don't think they are...at least not now anyway, otherwise it would be all over the internet by now but I can't find anything about this kit on any site that sells models and not on the Round 2 website...so I can't understand where you got it from. The only place I find any of them for sale is on ebay...and they are original issue kits from 1969. But you can get the kits separate as both has been reissued, one in 1998 and one in 2012 as I mentioned before. Well you did use the clear body Mr Gasket Gasser picture in your first post and said it was available now...that it ain't...and the "parts restored" on the Malco Gasser kit means that the flip front is redone to better resemble the original as it was modified from the first version earlier in it's life and some other parts was also redone, so it has nothing to do with the Mr Gasket Gasser. MPC did both the 1967 Malco Gasser and the 1969 Mr Gasket Gasser back in the day and as I said in my earlier post, they are NOT the same kit with just different decals, the bodies are also different as one is a 1967 Mustang with a separate flip front molded in regular plastic and the other is a 1969 Mustang molded in clear plastic with the front clip attached (no flip front in that kit)...I have both these kits so I do know what I'm talking about. The 1967 Malco Gasser Mustang ran a blown 427 SOHC all it's life wich the MPC Malco Gasser kit has. The 1969 Mr Gasket Gasser Mustang first ran a blown 427 SOHC, later a blown 429 BOSS wich later was converted to a dual turbo, and the MPC Mr Gasket Gasser kit is the blown 429 BOSS version.

Hey Bob, aren't you aware of that Round 2 Corporation owns both the AMT and MPC brands together with Polar Lights, Lindberg and Hawk, so MPC is not a separate company and hasn't been for a long time, all these brands are under one and the same roof and they use the MPC brand on old MPC kits. The Ramchargers Dragster was reissued 1998 in the Buyers Choice Limited Edition Series and the Daytona Transport Truck was reissued in 2012, but they have not been reissued together recently as on the boxart you show. The Ohio George Montgomery Mr Gasket Gasser has not been reissued for a long time as Dave says in his reply, it's the Malco Gasser that has been reissued recently and are available. Both kits use the same chassis but different bodys, the Mr Gasket Gasser has a 1969-70 Mustang body wich originally was molded in one piece with the front clip attached and in clear plastic, the Malco Gasser has a 1967-68 Mustang body molded with a separate flip front and was never molded in clear plastic...they are similar but different, so it's not only that one body is molded in clear and the other isn't, the bodies for these two kits are different alltogether and the decals are not the same either.

This is not such a sought after kit anymore as RC2 reissued it back in 2005 when they owned AMT in the Buyers Choice series (it has wrong front wheels tho'), I allready have two of them and will not buy more.

Put in four round or square headlights instead of the weird looking headlights it has and I can live with it

Well the Volvo PV 444 (1944-57 first car delivered February 1947) and PV 544 (1958-65) may look a lot like a 1946-48 Ford but it's a lot smaller, it's based on 40's American car designs but was an unibody with individual front suspension and 4 cylinder engines. The P 445 and P 210 Duett (1953-69) Wagons has a steel frame under the body tho', except for the P 445 and P 210 Volvo sold bare chassis with complete front clip and dash and some body manufacturers made other bodys on that chassis, some convertibles as well as pickups were made. After that came the Volvo 121, 122S and 123GT (1956-70) and P 221 Wagon (1962-69) also a unibody, in Sweden and some other countrys called Amazon, it was a late 40's-early 50's design and looks similar to the 49-51 Ford and Mercury with a 1955 Chrysler inspired grille, but it's also a lot smaller than the cars wich inspired the design. Volvo skipped the whole 50's "wing" era and kept the previous models under the 50's and most of the 60's, and the successor was the boxy 140 series (1966-74) wich first came as a 1967 model.

Exactly, I got my order today and the quality is super as usual.

Ford used Holley model 4160 carbs with vacuum secondarys and no choke on the FE race engines with dual carbs, the carbs are turned backwards so the distributor will fit because if you turn them the normal way the float bowl on the front carb will interfere with the distributor cap. So these carburetors will work nicely for your build. Otherwise you can use the carburetors from the AMT 1960 Starliner Custom or 2 'n 1 kits, they looks pretty good too. For the Injection manifold you could use one from the AMT Street Freak Mustang or similar and use aluminum tubes.

I hope so, I'm waiting to order some of his drive tires for one of my upcoming projects and maybe someting else when I'm at it.

Yes that's right. The blue pipe "thingy" with the breathers were mostly used in circle and road track cars like NASCAR and Trans Am to prevent oil from the valve covers leaking out through the breather caps due to the centrifugal force in the turns, that can happen if the breathers are in the usual place on the valve covers and the long tube helps.

Too many to list, I will never afford all my favourite cars and that's why I'm in this hobby and can build models of all of them.

The blue "something" and red "thingy" on the inner fenders in the pictures above are not a fuel filter or a fuel distribution block, it's adjustable fuel pressure regulators used when you have electric fuel pumps, you don't need these regulators when you use regular mechanical fuel pumps.