Rob Hall

Yeah, those don't make any sense on a street car...drag slicks on the street?

Yeah, but the Revell MC is an SS..different front end. I remember the Donk version w/ the big wheels, don't recall one w/ small low rider style wheels/tires.

The driver absorbs the impact in those old cars.. I'm amazed, though that it could get to 150 on those old-style tires..

kind of a scratch 'n' dent

No idea..it doesn't say that on the Revell one-pager.

These are the ones I know of.. MCW has a resin '56 Bel Air 2dr ht and '57 Nomad. The Modelhaus has a '56 Sedan Delivery and '57 150 4dr sedan Resin Realm has a '57 4dr ht (not sure if that works w/ AMT or Revell)

Or molded on w/ raised lines.. As for alternate wheels and tires, well, that is what parts boxes and the aftermarket are for...

I like Gibbs' yellow Challenger seen occasionally on that show..

To go w/ Starsky's Torino, how about Hutch's beater '73/74 Ford Custom? For more recent, I'd like to see Walter White's Pontiac Aztek and Jesse Pinkman's '81 Monte Carlo lowrider and Toyota Tercel wagon from 'Breaking Bad'. Or Ray Donovan's Merc CLS...(a car that I'd love to see kitted with or without any TV tie-in, my favorite current Mercedes).

IIRC, the CMW one is pretty nice overall, though the roof is too narrow at the windshield top edge..

One of those 'And Now You Know' moments..didn't realize there was a '58 Cameo Carrier. '58 saw the introduction of the Apache fleetside, which did have steel bedsides.

That's not a Cameo, it's a stepside..step sides had steel fenders. The Cameo was a special edition model from '55-57 w/ smooth fiberglass fenders..

Ok, but what would be made out of? Products made in a lab start from some base elements that are of reality...

The article didn't mention the price, but it had 38k miles. The Hardbody generation came out during 1986, ran for a long time. IIRC, Aoshima kitted the Pathfinder version but not the pickup.. IIRC, '83-84 was when they made the transition and the advertising emphasized 'The Name is Nissan'. Some cars--maybe the Sentra or Stanza--had dual badging on the decklids...both Datsun and Nissan for a year or two.

Found some pics of one like this kit, an '82 in very clean shape.. http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2011/02/21/kidney-anyone-38000-mile-datsun-720-king-cab-pickup/ The pics I found of '84-86 ones all Nissan grille and tailgate badging.

1980-83, I believe...IIRC, '84 is when they started badging them as Nissans in NA.

I think it is...I don't believe Hobby Bench is, don't know about the westside places..

Sounds like my LHS... I went there on Friday and they didn't have any of the Datsun trucks left, but had 2 of the '57 Chevy convertibles of which I got one.

By today's standards, that's pretty reasonable. It's pretty easy to price something as mainstream as a Malibu or Fusion up to that level. IIRC, the average transaction price of a new car is just over $30k today..

That's amazing..there have to be some around Chicagoland...I've seen them around the metro Phoenix area for years...have a silver one in my neighborhood, and there was a white one at a place I worked a few years ago..

the R8 has been out for 7 years..you must not get out much.. (j/k)

I'd love to see one of these kitted, esp. the '83/84 Hurst/Olds..it's too bad Monogram didn't do one back in the day to go w/ the Grand National and Monte Carlo SS kits...

Revell has been HQ'ed there for a long time...I'd assume it's manufactured in China, as the tire bag photo shows. Edit: That is odd-- it says 'Packaged in USA', 'Plastic Parts Molded in USA', 'Tires Molded in China'. What's up with that? Revell has US manufacturing/molding capability? Thought that had long ago been offshored.... Checked a few other recent Revell kits in my closet--the new '57 Chevy Bel Air convertible and S&M Cuda simply say made in China, while the old tool '57 Chevy ht (Roth kit) has similar notes to the Datsun..

Looks like the same style of tires and wheels as the original... I built the first issue of this back around '83-84, molded in an off-white then. Neat little kit. This was originally a Monogram kit, IIRC Revell also did a Datsun pickup (in 1/25th) of this generation, but a 2wd King Cab.

The sedans and hardtop/convertible doors have different dips, I believe. The door shape is different at the window line.