Rob Hall

LHS had 3-4 of these new Revell AG buses at about $28 yesterday. Evers Toy Store (my favorite online kit seller for Revell) has them listed for $22.30. So this LHS is competitive w/ online when you factor in shipping, at least this one shop and this one kit. Varies widely for other kits, of course.

Odd they went w/ a multipiece body on a new tool. That's one retro detail that should stay in the past, IMHO.

Ya, the original issue '70 Bonneville conv that was reissued as an MK issue a couple years back. I have an original ht, but not one of the convertibles.

The DOH, TJ Hooker, and Joker 4dr issues all have wheels and tires that are way too wide. I've never had the Force 440 kit--did it have the same wheels or more realistic police wheels?

That thing is hideous...looks like a '40s car humpy rear roof grafted onto a Falcon. Was it finished?

Yeah, or a thread on cars named after animals or mythical creatures...

At least they didn't name it the Ant or Tick.

As defined in my previous post. Anyway, it's all a moot point. Why is it that much of what goes on on the Internet is just arguing over trivia, over and over again

Because the Camaro and Firebird were GM's pony cars. The Chevy II was just Chevy's Falcon equivalent compact (along with the unorthodox Corvair)..not a pony car. Same reason the Barracuda and Challenger were Mopar's pony cars and not the Valiant and Dart, likewise for the Javelin and not the Rambler American. What the 'pony cars' had in common is they all had specific body work, sporty styling, and were all 2drs and seated 4, and tended to have the long hood, short deck styling of the era. No 4drs, no wagons. That's what separated them from the conventional compacts like the Chevy II, Falcon, etc. I tend to think of terms such as muscle car, pony car as specific to the '60s-70s. For today's cars, I think in terms like performance car, sports sedan, sports coupe, sports car, etc.

Ford had an interesting run of bird and horse cars there for a while, with the Thunderbird, Falcon, Mustang, Bronco, Maverick, Pinto...and cats at Mercury w/ Cougar and Bobcat.

So had the Barracuda been a bigger success than the Mustang, would the niche have been called 'fish cars'?

Beautiful builds... I've been an F1 fan for about 30 years, since I discovered it reading Road & Track as a kid...only recently I've started getting into the kits. What kits are these?

I've ridden in a regular HHR, found it difficult to see out of, can imagine the panel is worse. Pretty funny line about the interior plastic.... I've seen nicer interior plastic in Revell kits.. Alas, the HHR, like so many cars at the cheaper end of the market today, is a sea of nasty gray plastic inside...not as nasty as the Caliber I've ridden in, though. I hate gray plastic interiors.

Maybe part of it was that the original Barracuda was just a Valiant with a different roof, while though the Mustang was based on the Falcon, it had it's own body and interior..didn't look like the Falcon at all... The most appealing Barracudas weren't until the '70-74 E-bodies, IMHO.

I always use 'View New Posts' then later occasionally go to individual forums (New Releases, Resin, etc) to see past threads I might have missed previously that are of interest. 'View New Posts' is the most useful feature on the various forums (modeling, 1:1 cars, technology, etc) on the internet that I frequent.

Ya, I preordered a couple from my usual OLD for $17.55 each..pretty reasonable for a new tool 2 n 1. Nice to see the windshield frame done as a separate chrome part, that's the way they are usually done on Danbury Mint and Franklin Mint 1:24th diecasts.

Maybe..I bet there will be an interesting 2nd kit next year to follow on. And of course, I've gathered all the resin parts and aftermarket stripes to do a '70 442 W30, Rally 350, and '71 and '72 442s w/ my 5 Johan '70 fastbacks... Given R-M's history of IPC kits, I wouldn't be surprised if #2 isn't a '70 442 Indy Pace Car convertible. One thing I realized...is this Revell's first stock Oldsmobile kit ever? (or Monogram, for that matter) Can't think of any others in the past.

Cool Rambler...that color reminds me of the color of the '66 Rambler Classic my grandpa had in the mid to late '70s...he and grandma would come up from Kentucky and visit us in Ohio; my Dad would always dump several quarts of oil in it, it smoked.

I wonder what the big blank area to the left of the hood on the tree is for. To be filled in a second version w/ a plain 442 hood?

One thing I wondered about the TMR uptop is if it is 1:24th... I wonder if it was mastered off a part from a Danbury Mint diecast, since DM makes the Cutlass convertible among others...

Nooo on the '77 Monte, wrong generation. But the AMT '70 Monte Carlo or Malibu would be a good starting point for the roof. That's what I have in mind (but I'm sure by the time I start such a conversion, a resin body will be out).

This is going to be sweet...looking forward to seeing how it goes together.

If it had been 1:25th, I would think the box would be a lot larger...

I've got an Aoshima Midget II truck in my unbuilt collection. Neat little thingy.

Yeah, since I have the AMT convertible, I won't hack one up...will wait for Revell to do one... it would be sweet if one of the resin casters did a Caprice or Impala 4dr ht. I have the resin Caprice coupe and Biscayne, I think R&R makes a wagon also. R