Chuck Most

Exact same situation here. I have nothing else to add to this thread but for some reason I just had to comment on that.

^Corman is a minor god.

Given the last few "Originally issued as or intended to be pre-painted" kits by Revell, these will probably be hitting the clearance shelves more quickly than you'd think....

Bought mine for parts, so I'm pretty much satisfied. The tires are a bit of a loose fit on the whitewall inserts on the fronts. Not too bad but I see it on mine and it's just noticeable to bug me but I think I can get over it. No such problem with the rear tires, though. Trouble is, picking through this one, a few random observations come to mind, and I can think of all sorts of inappropriate uses for the contents... (feel free to steal any/all you like) 1. That chassis could work under a couple of other existing kits, some of which have already been mentioned. It more or less has the right look for any GM car of the period, and since it's not a stock item anyway it would probably work under just about anything, but sticking with the GM theme... AMT '51 Chevy comes to mind, but I'm leaning toward a Revell '50 Olds. Keep the Caddy air filter for another project, discard the big block Chevy into the nearest storm drain, and swap in the Aurora V8 from a Revell Shelby Series 1. You'd need to find a suitable transmission.... or go ahead and work in the rear-mounted C5 Vette transaxle from that kit. You'd have the best-handling "lead sled" in the land. 2. The rolling stock. GOOD GOD I LOVE THOSE WHEELS. I really wish they didn't have the pre-painted red stripe, but whatever. I can work around that. The white wall is so narrow they wouldn't look terribly out of place on a newer vehicle, though you may run the risk of giving the recipient a kind of narrow-white "old man" vibe. When the second kit shows up I have every intention of seeing what other tires will work with the wheels and vice versa. I want to use them as-is on a '30's luxo rod (Monogram Packard, maybe?) just because they'd look so perfect on it AND the very idea would cheese of the "Full Classic" automotive enthusiasts out there. 3. The big block does nothing for me personally, but the engine itself is fairly well done, and I do like that fuel injection setup. One of these engines might end up in a Revell Suburban. (I don't have a storm drain near me, but I do have another '66 Suburban). Dress it up like a GMPP crate engine and go to town. Might work in an MPC/AMT Chevrolet C1500 kit ('88 body style) if you still have a few of those kicking around. 4. Don't like the metal axles? That's what K&S rod is for. Replace the axles with pins cut from said material if it's that bothersome. Or save a couple bucks and cut down the kit-supplied axles. If you're into such things I think you could really wake up this kit's chassis with little more than basic painting/detailing tricks. 5. I spent about 25 bucks on this kit, and for that I got a nice set of wheels, the Caddy air cleaner, a radiator with molded dual puller fans, a presentable chassis with halfway decent C4 suspensions fore and aft, a workable engine (and if not, I could rob quite a few parts from it, such as the AC compressor, pulley setup, etc.), a couple of nice looking bucket seats, and a heaping handful of various detailing parts (some might need to be cut away from the host part, like the kick panel speaker pods). I shudder to think how much I would have spent for all that stuff had I gotten it piecemeal from various aftermarket sources. I might even come up with a use for the Cadillac body at some point or, gasp... built the kit more or less intact at some point, albeit with my own touches. I like Foose's overall design but I think I'd build this with a closer-to-stock Caddy grille and a hard top.

Very cool! Weird, I used those same Thumper decals on a pulling truck I built years ago.

Not a Mopar guy per se, but I figured I'd have a look. Glad I did. When did they start letting AMC products into Mopar meets? I mean, I might go to a few if I knew I was going to see... things like this.... *creepy moaning*... And that 4-door Barracuda prototype/one-off/thingie... I have a Revell '70 Hemi 'Cuda kit laying around and I've been wondering what to do with it.

I'd go with the Slingster body. Somewhere around here I have one I started reworking for use as a hot rod body. I filled in the wheel cutouts and the hole in the roof, bought plastic strip to recreate some of the beltline detail, and stopped right about there.

Pretty much just a box-stock buildup of the Academy kit, though I did fill in the licence plate recesses it make it more closely resemble a US-market version. I left the Korean market "waterfall" style grille just the way it is. I figure if Japanese car guys can get JDM parts for their cars, why couldn't a US Hyundai owner get a "KDM" grille for his Azera. The ZR1 plate is there just to mess with people's heads. I also deepened the door lines. This kit's one major flaw are the "barely there" panel lines. Other than a few required touchups needed on the window pillars (don't you just love digital photography?) I'm pretty happy with how it came out. In hindsight I wish I'd used the optional glass sky roof to show off more of the interior.

I think he bears an uncanny resemblance to James Doohan.

Very cool! I have a Big Al about half finished around here somewhere. I think that'll be what, the third one ever done in scale? I was thinking of putting it in a Bighorn but now I might need to formulate a Plan B.

Since I've been on a roll finishing long-stalled projects lately, I decided to ride the crest for as long as I possibly can. This is a mild street rod built by a guy who's fond of both Art Deco Chevrolets, and early Datsun Z cars. Kit is the weird old Monogram kit (Hey, let's have an opening rear door even though there are NO INTERIOR SIDE PANELS), with the Nissan L24 straight six from the Fujimi Nostalgic Racing parts pack. The wheels and front plate came from the Revell Datsun 720 4x4, and the tires are oldies from Satco.

I started this ages ago for a mini-truck CBP here on this very forum. Got it paint ready... then it sat for a bit. And by a bit, I mean a couple of years. Finally got it finished yesterday, though I might foil the backup lights into the taillights at some point. They're painted completely red because I'm a doofus and left the tops chrome, not realizing I painted them upside down until I was ready to attach them to the bed... Anyway... AMT kit, lowered, wheels from the Revell '50 Ford F1, Toyo Proxes tires from one of the Revell Tuner series kits, and it's been re-Mazdafied with a 13B turbo rotary from an RX-7, which is also where the hood scoop came from.

I seem to remember being told it was 1962 or 63.

Started this thing about 150 years ago, but finally got it done this weekend. Amazing what you can accomplish on a project when you stop letting it do little more than sit around in a box, right? Normally, I resist using Small Block Chevy engines, but I figured in this case the rest of the car made up for any lack of imagination using such a generic engine would normally carry with it. That, and I had an old Accu-Pro B&M supercharger for a 1:24 Chevy V8, and I had to use it on something, right? The Tamiya body sits on a partial NASCAR T-Bird chassis, and much of the interior was made from plastic sheet. The car is meant to be laid out on air suspension, and I added a pressure gauge and switches for that on the console. '37 Ford artillery wheels are used, with the hubcaps from an Austin FX4 taxi kit. The front bumper is from a Fujimi Rover Mini, which includes an earlier style set of bumpers and grille on the chrome sprue. Other than the plug wires touching on the scratchbuilt headers (which were a last-minute addition) I'm about as pleased as I possibly could be about the finished product. There's no room to route the wires under the headers (which I think is how it was done on stock Chevy V8's?), so maybe I'll just use some comically long plug boots.

This is the Revell of Germany kit, done up as a rat rod. I retained the factory engine and front-drive setup, but added a turbo charger and intercooler. The car is chopped, channeled, and severely distressed, and the interior uses a suitcase and cooler from a Johan '59 Rambler, along with a skateboard and roller blades casually tossed behind the seat. Those came from a Fujimi accessories set. The surf boards came from the Rambler as well.

It's done on demolition derby cars as well- in that case it's for safety reasons. If a car flips over or or gets wedged in with another car, the first responders can easily tell if a wheel is still spinning.

Not yet, but it's going into a car that was originally intended to be rotary powered. That's all I've got for now.

Just a box-stock buildup of the Arii 1:32 scale "Owner's Club" kit.

Nice.

I actually finished this months ago, but I don't think I ever put up any pics of it. I bought the kit for the 13B rotary engine for another project. I decided to build the remainder of the kit as a curbside. I used wheels and tires from a third-gen RX-7 and added some larger tailpipes from an Aohsima hop-up set, but aside from that it's box stock. Well, aside from that and the lack of drivetrain detail, I guess.

Like this? 1966 Chevrolet C10 by Chuck Most, on Flickr

"Modern American Conventional Truck". Choke on that, Daimler copyright lawyers. Or fitted with a dump body. A guy in my area has one of these as a dump with a lift axle and more running lights than Manhattan at Christmastime.

This is the new Revell kit- if you're familiar with the '64, '65, and/or '66 C10 pickups, let's just say you'll be in familiar territory. I only encountered two problems with the project, and both were entirely my fault... you'll see the first but not the second. The first was, while I found and fixed the mold seams on the body at the cowl, I missed the ones on the rear pillars until after I'd painted the body... I saw the driver's side one as I was applying the dry transfer lettering. I'll know better next time. Maybe. The second was that I misplaced some of the engine parts during detailing. So, I'll be raiding some replacements from a '65 kit I have laying around, or possibly transplant the straight six from an AMT '60 Chevy pickup. My only real gripe is that low-hanging spare, but I think if you cut out the crossmember it attaches to and modified things a bit so it would tuck up just a little higher into the chassis, that wouldn't be a problem. And yes, the wheel for the spare is still a five-lug piece. Other than some dechroming, blacking out the whitewall inserts, and adding the dry transfer lettering, it's box stock. A 9-passenger Suburban would have been better suited for a mini school bus, but add a third seat and simulate the "slider" posts on the rearmost quarter windows and it would be a fairly easy conversion.

Thanks guys. I'd have about 20 more of these kits if they weren't so hard to find.

This started with a glue-bomb AMT annual back in 2014 or so. A chassis from an AMT Pro Street Nova had the front suspension and rear axle from an AMT '67 Mustang added, and was set up on wheels and tires from a Revell Willys street rod. The engine is a 351 Windsor fitted with twin McCullough superchargers from the Barris Surf Woody kit, I think I used Testors Star Spangled blue for the body color. Rear 1/4 windows were cut from clear plastic sheet.