Rob Hall

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.

I don't think those 4 were released then....though some of those were released 10-15 years ago w/ silly box art with flames.

Very nice. Love those old annuals.

Depends on the sellers schedule, I guess. One very reputable eBay seller I personally know only ships on Saturdays because they are only home on the weekends.

Sweet!

No, separate city. But surrounded by Detroit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtramck

'They' probably signed NDAs..or they are saving their secrets for a lucrative tell all book deal.

Speaking of Johan kits, what are the differences between the Sox & Martin Superbird and the Petty one? I have the Petty one...I assume the wheels/tires and decals are different in the S&M one, any other differences in parts?

I use Fed Ex for shipments from Hobby Link Japan and set up online for them to be dropped off at my local Fed Ex store, since they inevitably deliver when I'm not home. USPS is generally the most reliable for domestic shipments for me, I've had the most problems w/ UPS (like them delivering to the wrong address).

Round 2 announced a bunch of releases last year at iHobby, but more recently a number of other releases have surfaced through the underground and via vendor listings (like Tower Hobbies--they list a whole bunch of 2013 Round 2 AMT & MPC releases that have been discussed here and on other forums, but weren't announced at iHobby).

I believe so... I don't think those parts ever changed over the years.

The speculation over what became of various Johan tools is one of those things that's going to be an internet legend for decades to come...