Dave Van

The pre-sell is going very strong and we may sell out again before the kits hit stateside. I know there are a number of dealers with kits available but don't wait long. This kit is as good or better than the Hudson......

Dare to be different!!! I like it!

We got photos today of production kits. As soon as we have a date I will post. Thanks and enjoy!

There is also a toy on the market right now that would work. I used one for a hot rod quarry truck!!! It's a CAT 777 toy and it's around $17 so not too costly to cut up.....and it's assembled with phillips screws. I love movie vehicles so maybe some day.....

HLJ or ebay.....used both....got good service and kits never found here.

That Buffalo 6x6 is cool too....but I can't do 1/35.

What make was the Revell oG airport crash truck.....a eruo brand???

NICE WORK!!! Love them 70's era F1 models!!

I have too many projects going myself....but there is a 1/29 scale GP-9 loco available that would be close enough being so big!!! It would make a cool model!!

There are a lot of kits I'd like to see parts restored to. But I bet many are lost being replaced by other inserts. All the early Fords up through the 36 Ford had a bunch of cool stuff. The 30 Pheaton was a 8 in 1 kit at one time!! But for now I'll just make my own and not pay collector prices. Parts box build........

UNREAL BUILD!!! Thanks for sharing

Never saw the film....but I love movie cars!! thanks for posting!

Clean, good stance. Only suggestion for next NASCAR build is flip the tires around so the raised letters are inside and use GY decals on the smooth side. Other than that SUPER!

Looks good so far. It is correct that this car/kit should have coil springs and trailing arms. The type of trailing arms differed by chassis maker or car builder/driver. The long GM truck arms were legal by 76 but a number still used short arms like a Monte Carlo street car would have. But this kit is based off the 1971 MPC kit which was never really fully updated so leaf springs stayed in the kit even when real cars had moved on. But Model King paid $$$ to just get the kit usable the cost to fully correct it would have made it impossible. The CHEAP AMT 90's era stock car kits are the best source for more correct rear suspension. And it is correct leaf springs were still around on the Mopar cars. The leafs were adjustable at the shackles but not easy during a race! The seat is incorrect because MPC cloned the seat for the CannonBall Chevy kit to make it a two seater like in the movie and when RC2 removed one seat they picked the wrong one!!! Still very grateful Model King reissued these kits and allowed me to help out on them.

Nice clean work!

Road Knights........I am a founding member of the club. We had a HUGE group at one time. I moved away in 2003 so I am not sure of the status today....but a friend said he went to a meeting not long ago but they seem to be down to less than 10 members. The Road Knights put on two shows that I do not feel have ever been eclipsed. The 1990 show at the Charlotte Hilton which had NASCAR show tours, a Holman & Moody tour, NASCAR drivers and Bud Anderson, the Kat from AMT in attendance. If you want to see the national TV coverage we got it here....... Then in 1993 the Road Knights club held another huge model show. We took over 2 floors of the tower at Charlotte Motor Speedway. We had a whole floor for just models and another just for vendors. We had a number of NASCAR drivers on hand, bus tours of the race track. Tours of race shops......and for a few dollars you got a ride in a two seat NASCAR Cup car on the track at speed!! So the Charlotte area has had a great club. Ask around at the hobby shops. I think the HobbyTown in Pineville may have info....contact them. Sorry for the trip down memory lane!!!

Great build and colors!!!!

You're making me want to do something I said I'd not do again.....build a AM McLaren!!!! Nice work!

Looks great so far!!! Nice paint job too! Glad you saw Last American Hero....a great film.

You are building about the best AM McLaren I've seen! I know how tough a build it is. I built 4 of them for the original Accurate Minatures company....two of which went to McLaren itself! The vinyl lines are cool and tough! I got all of them to work but never did get injector lines on.....If I did you had to leave the engine cover off. Great woork....... My last build for AM...... PS....when AM closed shop they tossed a bunch of kits as they couldn't sell them any longer.

I know they are hard to see....but I made all of mine from the oven bake clay from craft stores. Bought off white clay and painted them after baking. Easy to do.....

Well....I geuss living in Charlotte and working in NASCAR my view is different than most. The movie was filled with so much junk it made it laughable. So many things they talked about were just goofy. Made it hard for me to watch. Then in the movie they would be racing at 'Atlanta' but the film footage would be Charlotte.....Then when in the film they are racing at Charlotte....it would be Michigan. WHY??? If you go to all these tracks use the right track. Also the manufacture of a car will change in the middle of a lap. Watch and see the BUD T-Bird change into a Monte Carlo in the race!! Come on....cars are wrecked then show up fixed a lap later.....It was a slap in the face to fans who could read the walls at the tracks. No respect for the sport in my book. Want to see a REAL NASCAR movie??? Get Last American Hero......THAT'S a racing movie. Tom Cruise haters??? Well my daughter is a child development specialist. 6 years of hard schooling. She has seen and helped treat 1000's for kids with development disabilites. So how can Tom get on national TV (Today show) and say all kids with 'development issues' are just soft parents that don't raise their kids right. If he was talking about a race he would have been hung....but kids with metal issues....it's OK to slander. Look it up! Anyway....model cars.....the only thing I don't like about the MC kit is the headers are wrong. Find a set from a 1/24 scale Monogram 57 Chevy if you car. Much more correct for this car.

A Very Very Bad movie....... Anyway.....the Revell Monogram Monte Carlo kit is a pretty decent kit. The chassis is just a little dated for the car but it's very close.....and it builds easily so a plus. Watch the decals in that kit. One run had bad decals. IIRC the white backing was omitted on one run so the decals bleed so bad they are not usable. BUT there are good aftermarket decals available if you got a bad set.

All my builds for the last ten years are spray can. 99.999% Tamiya TS. Start here........ http://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/2008-model-builds/

The GLue Batmobile has a bunch more stuff. Two complete motors and chassis and a huge photo etch. This size pfoto etch for planes or ship kits sell alone for $25+....so....no I don't like high prices....but the value in the glue kit is great....or settle for the snap kit.