Dave Van

Empty PO Box today........................?

This issue of the Matador NASCAR kits had the stock grille on the chrome tree. All other versions DID NOT. Owning a reall 74 Matador coupe I have every model Matador I know was made including some 1/64 die cast that had a short run. BTW: These cars were and are ahead of their time. Mine has the 304 / 727 combo, big disk brakes and fat sway bars front and rear. The car still drives much like a modern car considering it's FIFTY years old!!! The 304 is about as good as the 302 Ford....and very much alike with lots of FORD parts. All from the factory. Thx

CHANGE ....the only CONSTANT. I have 5 'collector' cars and another under construction. I don't really care what there value is. NONE are leaving my garage while I am here. After that??? 2 of mine.....

I have a bunch of stuff left over from my HO days.......nothing really $$$ so I figured I do a dio. Wlather White Castle kit. Simple 18 parts. Tamiya gloss white and chrome pen. Roof details are parrts box stuff. Thanks s

Cloning a kit just removes some work. Work = $$$$. I lent my Monorgram Dragon Wagon to RM to clone. It took out a step for the tool maker and saved cash and made the project viable. I did the same for another unnamed stock production car with Moebius. That project was killed mid way when Pegasus bought Moebius and I hope it can be shopped to someone. Even partial kits are cloned. Trumpeter Nova parts made it into others kits. Cloning is just another option. Thx

I think I have all the 1961-3 multi build kits. Very cool kits.....

I have a 1961 issue of the kit. FILLED with cool stuf. It was a 6 in 1 kit. You got a deal in my book!!

JUST STAY TUNED.....................?

The kits IMC was going reissue did exist at that time. And yes......those tools are from a different time and will not run im todays injection machines. Atlantis and Glencoe HAVE the machines needed but more importantly they have the SKILL to make them run and produce a product that is decent. That tooling was looked into after IMC bailed by Moebius, along with a few other late 1950's Chrysler kits. ALL were found to be in such poor condition it would be cheaper to clone the tools in China than fix them. Moebius bailed too. IF you have the CASH and the ability to fix and run old tools it can be found out there. But everyone from IMC, Accurate Miniatures and Moebius have all looked at it and said NO. If you have a $1M to loose....I can hook you up! Thx

The only thing Ill add to Mark's comments right now is I repro'd and printed many of the decal sheets Okey sold loose. AMX, Turbine and a few others. What all he had I do not know.......but I did that for a few years for him. Thx

I like this!!

Cady did them,.....still some out there

It's a long story........Final word is Atomic City owns the JoHan name, logo and trade dress.

I like the Monogram kit. There us a issue with using the Warner Bros Road Runner image. EZ fix for aftermarket.

A nice clean build of one of my favorite Cup cars. I had a 'IN' in NASCAR during that era and Penske/Bobby was a Fav! So much so I bought a real 74 Matador coupe later on. The kit is a little simple. I have used the 90's era AMT Thunderbird chassis under mine and it works well with mods. Well done.... My 1/1 Mat....next project!

That looks like a real car!!! I have that kit.....if I ever get to it. I did build two of the 1/24 versions.....cool car...well done!

ONE of my other hobbies, Model railroading in O3r, has gone way out of hand. Back in the 1990's I could get a new loco $300. Now they are crossing the $2500 range. Yes...more stuff in them, more sounds etc......but I have given up buing anything new. Thx One of my custom painted 'cheap' locos. Painting model cars pays off!!

I am building a 23 T right now. Mine will NOT have a vertical steering. For comfort and drivability I am going with a C Cab. Because my prosthetic leg I need room. Those buckets with the guys folded up look horrible to drive. I am finding they are cooler looking than really fun!!!! We'll find out...

VERY COOL SPIN!

I don't have access to FSM but I can pretty much guess what it talks about. I built more of these kits than I care to count. AM sent two of them to McLaren in the UK as part of the license agreement. They were not EASY kits but if you left off the fuel lines (I do so on all the kits I built) that was half the battle. A little fiddley but after one it got easier. From what I know the deal with BcLaren did not end well and it was said the kit would never be run again by anyone. One we sent to UK

Last known they were in Korea.....but who knows if they survive or not. They were well done but never sold big volumes as they hoped. I always thought if the set had a big and little set up they sold better.

I can't say 100% who had those. Someone in the Concord NC area came in and bought everything left in the AM II warehouse at the very end. It included a bunch of XS Tuning wheels which were a off shot of AM II. They sold off the inventory on ebay out of kannapolis IIRC. But that stuff is running together in my mind now. Thx

1/24th

I was freelancing for both AM back in the day. The Vette went through a few tooling updates. I do not recall if headers were part of that.....but in the many builds they do not come to mind. If you get a AM II kit (look for Concord NC addy) it will be the most up to date version. thx

Saw online that a company called GTM Models is releasing a Grand Sport Vette kit. Injection molded, full detail with photo etch parts. This MUST be the old AM kit. Due after Sept and also has a resin driver figure )Penske?). MSRP around $36 My AM build