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1956, 1968 and 1969, right?

Guys when I say normal or regular price I mean around the average price of an American 1/25 kit. meaning 20-30 $US. AMT annuals do not fall under this category. I bought some 1960-1960 Lincoln Promo/Built annual kits in horrible conditions and paid well above 60 $US for them. True there are never kitted brands.... all those disappeared before the advent of the hobby were not kitted. Exotic and rare cars - the phantom Corsair for example - were never kitted either. I am talking here about regular kits of main stream mass produced cars that one can get at normal price.

I do not want to be rude, but wouldn't it have been easier to start with Revell Bel Air or MPC flip nose?

When I compare the Boomerang, Carabo and Marzal prototypes of the sixties and seventies to this it seems to me we are in 1955 not 2016.

.... is the Lincoln. I can hardly find anything in plastic except AMT '65, Monogram '41, and Lindberg '48. Is there anything else available for a normal price?

That I will be looking forward and be sure, I will be watching like "Big Brother". I tried to make the conversion myself when I was still a free man (before I fell a slave of the wify and kidis) using Monogram convertible and a Modelhaus resin roof. The rood, originally a Jo-Han (I think) did not exactly fit the Imapala body. The glass did not fit either. It requires skills and time beyond my capability.

Great work as usual. But I cannot imagine someone building '59 Impala in single tone.

Well, they should say bye bye Ferrari and start making Lamborghini kits. There are enough interesting subjects that they can find. The second is more probable. I remember something like 10 year ago Ferrari licenses were limited to Mattel. That would be interesting to see. Also possible.

What about the cab? Any suggestions?

If you dig a bit deeper you can get it cheaper

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Emhar-2401-1-24-Bedford-OLBD-LWB-O-Series-5-Ton-Dropsi-/331731650841?hash=item4d3cbf4919:g:BvoAAOSwcOFWbQQV

And by the way, Chevy shipped corvettes also to their dealers' show rooms.

I had similar thoughts for a long time, but as usual ended in the to-do list. However, I made then a survey on Tri-Five Chevy kits. If my memory serves me well the situations looks like the following: 1955 Chevy 1. Bel Air 2DR HT. Very old kit from Revell. Avaialble separately and in the Hot Rod box with a 57 and 54 Chevys. Hendrix offers resin conversion. I think it is based on the cabrio and a 57 roof. I do not have it so I am not sure. Now we have the new kit from Revell nobody needs the previous nonsense. 2. Bel Air Cabrio./convertible. Revell USA and reboxed by Revell AG in the ninties. An excellent kit. 3. Bel Air 2DR Sedan. AMT, AMT, AMT,... and nothing but an AMT. Not because it is a great kit, but because it is all what you can get. 4. Nomad. see Nr. 3 5. Bel Air 4DR. Resin conversion by Hendrix. Star Models sells them. 6. 210 2DR sedan/club cope. Nothing I am aware of. 7. 210 4DR sedan. See 6 8. 210 2DR sport Cope. see 6 9. 210 Townsman/Bel air Beauville (2DR S/W). Resin conversion were available from R&R. A useless kit because of incorrect chrome trim. the trim is taken from the regular Bel Air and is different for the S/W. 10. 150. Nothing at all. But perhaps the AMT 2DR Coupe can be easily converted by removing the side chrome trim (not an easy task on the front fender), but what about the scripts and crests? There are no suitable scripts available, neither water slide nor photo etch parts. Any advice, suggestion and tip is greatly appreciated. The interior is another pain in the a... I mean the neck. New seats and door panels have to be made. However, this might not be terrible as it seems because the 150 series had a simple seat trim. 10.b The R&R kit (see 9) may be useful here to build a handy man (150 2DR S/W) by removing the incorrect chrome (God why did not they do it themselves). Again, the scripts and the interior have to be made. 11. Sedan delivery resin conversion is offered by the Modelhaus. 12 Nomad: AMT ================================================================================================================================================ 1956 Chevy 1- Bel Air 2 DR Sedan -> Hendrix/Star Models resin conversion kit. 2- Bel Air 2 DR Sport Coupe (HT) -> MCW resin conversion kit, or old Monogram 1/24 kit. 3-Bel Air 4 DR Sedan: Nothing I am aware of. 4-Bel Air 4 DR Sport Sedan (HT) -> R&R resin -> Nomad chrome trim = Wrong 5-210 Nothing at all. (Resin Realm sells a resin 4DR conversion to Revell Del Ray kit. But as far as I know there has never been a 4DR Del Ray) 6-210 Club/Del Ray: Revell 7-150 : Nothing except an old unknown resin 2DR sedan conversion kit, probably made by MCW. 8-Nomad: Revell 9-210 Wagons: R&R made a 2DR Townsman with really bad side trim. 150 (Handyman?) and 240 (Beauville?) -> Nothing I am aware of. 10- Convertible : Nothing. ================================================================================================================================================ 1957 Chevy 1- 150 2DR Sedan -> Revell Black Widow with some conversion work. 2- 150 4DR Sedan -> Modelhaus conversion kit of 1 3- 150 Wagons -> Nothing, at least nothing accurate. 4- 210: Perhaps the old MPC flip nose 2DR HT? There was also a resin 4DR Sedan conversion of the old tool AMT. 5- Bel Air 2DR HT: AMT old and new tooling, Revell. 6- Bel Air convertible -> Revell and old resing conversion kit (Modelhaus?) 7- Nomad: Old Revell 1/25 and 1/24 (Monogram?) kits -> several issues 7b- MCW resin conversion kit 8- Bel Air 4DR sport sedan (HT): was made by F&F, and still being made by another caster. Currently sold by resin realm. 9- Wgons (other than the Nomad): Resin, mostly R&R, nothing correct s far as I know. 10- and of course Revell 2DR Bel Air sedan Regards W.

>And if you understand the biz, you know why. Versions..... The 59' and '60 Biscaynes can be offered in several versions, police... dirt track racer.... NASCAR.... drag.... countless custom versions..... and perhaps as demolition derby. However, they were never made although Revell can take over many of the parts from the Impalas.

We need a trailer for this tractor.

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Very nice. Too bad it is 1/24.

In plastic/resin please, no Die Cast. Thanks.

There is not hardtop included. Anyone knows if the real car comes with a hardtop option? Also a soft top is AFAK is not included. All this with a limited choice of body colours.... I wish there is a justification to buy more than one kit, but apparently there is not.

Thanks, John, for your comments. Indeed the roofs are not similar. Well, the conversion will not be as trivial as it originally seemed or hoped for.

Thanks for the reply. It seems there is a misunderstanding here. I was thinking about swapping the wild cat roofs for the Impala and Bonneville. For the Wild Cat itself I do not need to swap anything. And yes, I have a resin copy of the 2DR HT Bonneville. Did the 2DR and 4DR HT share the same roof?

Sadly Heller makes some of the most annoying kits of the most interesting subjects.

Inspired (or better say re-inspired) by a couple of recent posts I thought again (and will do nothing, as usual) about converting some 1970 GM B-Body kits to four door hardtops. First and foremost model king Bonneville. I could not find any reference of 4DR HT 1970 Bonneville, so maybe I will consider an Executive. The second is AMT 1970 Impala. The third I have in mind is AMT 1970 Wild Cat. For these conversions I thought the Wild Cat roof would be probably the best choice. The question is, did all 2DR and 4DR B-Body hardtops share the same roof? Thanks in advance.

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Nice work on the bumpers, but if I may make suggestions this gem deserves re-chromed parts.