Rob Hall

I've got about 100 or so I've accumulated over the years...mostly mint but some worn. I started off in the '80s with the MPC '80s Camaros and Corvettes, but have a lot of '60s Fords and some Johan Cadillacs. I have the MPC '71-76 full size cars, probably the most I paid for a promo was the '71 Impala convertible. Not much in the way of Mopars.

Yes, I enjoyed DKR..saw it on the big IMAX screen. Have the Blu Ray now, watched it again recently. Anyway, looking forward to this kit...haven't bought the Bat Pod yet.

Isn't the engine in the Revell '70 Mach 1 a 351C? It's 1/24th though.

Sharp build. Did the Jo-han S&M kit include that hood w/ the 6 pack scoop or did you add the scoop? Thinking of building something similar...

Very cool...very clever and different.

Canada..probably a delay in border crossing for magazines.

Probably something like that. It looks like Learning Curve is now owned by Tomy.

Yes...Racing Champions evolved into RC2 then Learning Curve or something like that (through aquisitions, etc). Round 2 is called that I presume because 'Round 1' for Tom Lowe was Playing Mantis.

I have read that Round 2 is really big on pursuing pop-culture licenses and tie-ins, considering all the Star Trek and Batman merch, in addition to Pepsi, etc. Agreed new tooling would be great to see, in the short term it seems for car kits it's limited to the curbside unassembled promos...I'm looking forward to the Camaro ZL1 that is upcoming. Anyway, I've been enjoying many of the reissues so far and am looking forward to many of the upcoming ones, esp. the '69 Chevelle conv and '71 Demon.

That's a reissue of the stock version that had a light blue car on the box. They changed the box art car color with the reissue.

Feb/March issue, looks good at first read thru..it's the annual contest issue.

Tim's was gray? IIRC the box top kit was gray or silver. I have 4 of these kits, but they are in storage and I haven't seen them in years.

I hadn't heard anything about a reissue...MK issued this back around 2006-2007.

Pretty cool...and reasonably priced, all things considered. Look at the price of multimedia kits from Studio 27, for instance.

Yep, '67-72 is the fifth gen (which some call a 'bumpside'), '73-79 is the sixth gen, which some call a ( 'dentside' or 'grooveside'). The two generations have some dirty bits in common, but the body and interior are different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series_fifth_generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series_sixth_generation

These look good from the early pics. Looking forward to seeing the final product later this year.

Completely different body and interior. These are the '67-72 generation. For a '78, I'd use the AMT '78-79 which was last out as a Model King issue maybe 5-7 years ago.

I remember seeing as a kid in the '70s a neat Ford F700 box truck also in the Mini-Lindys line.

No slot cars, I was bidding on a lot of vintage Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi, etc diecast then. I have a few slot cars, Aurora T-Jets my brother gave me when I was a kid....when I have larger house I want to set up a slot track.

I've found pricing usually pretty reasonable at swap meets, but you can't beat eBay for selection. At swap meets I rarely find things that I don't have.

As far as the trucks, nothing unusual about two kit makers tooling up the same item of the same/similar year....AMT and Revell both did mid '90s Mustangs and Camaros, for instance. Tom Lowe mentioned that kit in the press release, so it's probably inevitable.

I remember something weird about the Cuda...it definitely has a Cuda body and the 4 round taillights rear, but the grille is wrong--like a '72-74 grille but w/ 4 headlights. Haven't seen it in years, stashed away back in Ohio.

I've been buying old model kits, resin kits and parts, etc on eBay since 1997 and probably 99% of the transactions have been successful.

They made a '73-74 Cuda that also seemed to be out of scale. I have a bunch of the Lindberg 1/32 kits from childhood, those and the Revell Snap Tite kits were the first models I built, back around 1976-77...I've got the Dodge Charger, Granada, Monza, '77 T-Bird, Cuda, Grand Am, Grand Prix, El Camino, and Merc SL from back then IIRC.

Not sure if it was ever released, never saw it. I think it was a re-issue of the Testors Boyds kit from about 10 years ago.