Rob Hall

One thing interesting w/ the 3D printed resin kits is that, for example--there are multiple printing vendors--at least 4--currently offering the XJ Cherokee (all originating from Andrey Bezrondy's files, I believe) on FB and eBay...some ship quicker than others, some with higher quality than others...and if you have your own 3D printer and the skills and time, you can theoretically print your own since AB's files are available for purchase on cults3D and other sites. Lots of choices. Interesting times, and so much now available in the 3D space that will never be offered as a mainstream styrene kit or traditional resin kit. I've bought a number of 3D prints of a variety of subjects, esp. the 70s land yachts I love...got to find the time and motivation to build them, though.

Yes..I use very few stamps in a year (pay all my bills online), so I order them from the USPS website. Got a few sets of the neat pony car series last year.

One related car I’ve never seen in resin or 3D printed form is the ‘68-69 Mercury Cyclone GT fastback or Montego coupe. Would love to see those eventually.

That sounds right...I do recall seeing one advertised...maybe 15-20 years ago. The '63-66 generation of Dart is definitely a gap in scale form..

The difference w/ Round 2 is that they have a vast tooling bank to draw upon for reissues and modified reissues to pay for cloning and new tools. This Jo-Han is starting from nothing...will be interesting to see where they go. The 3D market is growing, definitely seems like one viable direction to go...lots of potential there.

I heard it explained at the Akron show, but don't recall...something about wood filaments for the bed decking, I think...looking forward to getting mine.

My '87 Mustang GT and my '69 Mustang are my long term project cars. I don't have the time, tools and skills to do the restoration work myself, but definitely can write checks to professionals to do that. The '87 was mostly finished last week (needs a few small things still done that I can probably do myself without ruining things), and the work on the '69 is just getting started after close to 30 years in the barn (my Dad bought it new, the year before I was born).

Anything they would do, though would have to be new tooling since the old tooling no longer exists. This is just the first item.

I recall the street machine version having a Super Bee hood decal.

I've bought a number of diecast, model kits, resin kits and parts, 3d printed etc from hobby shops/vendors in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Ukraine and Estonia--never had any issues, just long waits in some occasions. Same with Hong Kong and Japanese vendors. I guess I've just been lucky. The worst vendor issues I've had to deal with were vendors in the US.

I saw the display and the trailer at the Akron show recently, looking forward to see where they go with it...

Saw a white RHD Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III on the freeway yesterday, big rear wing and the license plate 'EVO III'...neat

I was on the road today in this…drove my ‘87 Mustang GT 100 miles home from the shop. Turned 65k miles today. Drove great..(drove it throughout the 1990s).. Had been stored at my family farm for 20 years and driven very little over the last 20 years. Got it home in time to store for winter. Put in a couple favorite CDs from the 90s to listen to--Pink Floyd's 'The Division Bell' and Pearl Jam's 'Vs'. I felt 25 again...

That would be too cool..David Mann's ride. There is a 3D 4dr Valiant out there--I have one on order--, it's a '68 though..different grille than the movie car (which was a '70 or '71?).

Could be..I found a pic of a 1960 F600 that has the 1960 style grille..

That looks a lot like the 1959 F-100 grille. I'd like to see a '59 grille and trim for the '60 kit. One thing peculiar I've noticed about the '58-60 Ford trucks is they seem to have huge gaps between the grille and hood.

Those are neat. There is also a '65 GMC stepside crew cab in Andrey Bezrodny's files, has a different greenhouse.

Oh well.

The engine from the '71 Charger Super Bee street machine kit represents an aftermarket, non-factory Hemi IIRC. The regular R/T kit was a 440 w/ A/C and bench/bucket seat, IIRC.

A '72 Demon would be nice, along w/ a '70 Dart Swinger.

I assume Round 2 wanted to be consistent with the original MPC tooling so they can use the Retro Deluxe branding..

Looking forward to it, have a couple on preorder.

Reissue? Been a while since it was last out.

Same trailer I’d assume. There are pics of it from the DAAM show with the trailer on FB.

I would think any of the '68-72 A body kits would work, the chassis didn't change much for the '73-77 generation..same 112 inch wheelbase for 2drs. The recent Revell '68-69 Chevelle or MPC/AMT '69 Cutlass would be good chassis donors as they have the most detail compared to the older AMT/MPC kits. I have resin '73 Cutlasses and a resin '73 Chevelle that came w/ chassis, and the caster's chassis looks a lot like the AMT or Revell kits, IMO.