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I figure it's probably a fiberglass kit on a newer Mercedes chassis. Something fun to hotrod.

While I love and build 60s-70s models, my youth was more the 80s-90s Rad period. My memories of the muscle cars was more when they had been through a few owners, rusty, dented, with lots of Bondo, a cueball shifter from Western Auto, Montgomery Ward mags and offbrand wide tires. For newer cars, I more remember the Miami Vice exotics, or the everyday Omnis, Escorts, and Civics. If you had gas money back in those days, you might get a third gen Camaro, or Foxbody Mustang. I'd even buy models of the proto-SUVs like the Cherokee and Bronco II or those raised roof Chevy vans with the captain's chairs, shag carpet, and bay windows cut into the sides. Sorry, I fell into a nostalgia rant, I'm better now.

Just me, but I totally approve of what they are doing with this cloning kit thing. I wonder if it's cheaper to do than the old fashioned way? I bought four of the Chevy II wagon and I'll be doing the same with these. I asked about the chrome bumper 77 Camaro in another post, and it would be nice if they'd do this with some of the MPC kits as well. It would be nice to see that Camaro and a Firebird in a base model, maybe even another small bumper Pinto and Vega.

I have most of a 1/24th 76 Camaro somewhere but I think it was set up as a motorized kit. Maybe an Otaki or Fujimi?

I'm thinking this kit with a widebody flare set and modern engine might be a cool project.

After seeing these pictures, I remember now why I preferred the MPC kits. That AMT kit just doesn't look quite right does it? I do remember being given some unbuilt kits as a kid, including an MPC Pinto and an AMT Pinto. I saved them and built them over a summer when school was out. I remember the MPC being the much better kit.

It seems like a few years back I heard that AMT might be rereleasing the old 1977 chrome bumper Camaro kit. Not the MPC version. Is there any chance this kit might make a comeback? Wouldn't say no to a rerelease of the 1978 version too, maybe they could make a duo release!

I suppose the Tom Cruise angle might bring in viewers but I'm not sure NASCAR is still a big draw. At least for me, I sort of gave up on that around 2010.

Thanks for that! I'll have to get one. Maybe they'll do a GMC variant later and do the blue and white one from Jaws II. I already have plans to get the Blazer, the VW, and a Camaro. It looks like the Camaro might be easliy turned into an RS.

Has anyone seen the new Blazer? I just hope they got the proportions correct.

I still have some of the last reissues of this pickup kit, but I'll buy another for that motorcycle kit! I hope they either can find the original Triumph kit molds, too, or that they decide to clone it. I'd sure buy a few of a double motorcycle kit.

I like that 74 Camaro and have written to Round 2 asking if they might consider either cloning the tool or backdating the old tool to make a 74 to 76 version again. An uncle was a Chevy mechanic for decades and he bought a 76 through GMs employee discount program. It was a metallic brown with a tan vinyl half top. Shortly after he bought it, he used department store pinstriping tape and 'customized' it. Think Trans Am style pinstripes all over it then triple that. My dad took one look at it and walked away. I don't know what happened to that car, but I'd love to have it nowadays, less the pinstripes.

For me, I prefer the flathead out of the 50 Ford truck. It was the Ardun heads and looks right to me.

Could it be scratchbuilt? The parts where the paint it chipped look like metal.

I used to order from Sales Shack fairly often a couple years ago, but I just went to it and it was flagged as a potential security risk. Anyone know if they were hacked or lost their website or something?

This car reminds me of when I was little, I had an uncle who had a big collection of the 'Little Page' custom magazines and he let me have them. They were old and yellowed, but I spent many a hot and humid Texas coast summer in my bedroom reading those. Sure wish I still had them, but I lost them when I joined the Navy and my stuff got packed up.

This is one I'm really looking forward to! I have a couple of the Westfalia versions, and one of the flattop UN version, but I have a lot of projects that need that flattop version.

I always liked Chip Foose. He comes off as a decent guy unlike a lot of the other builders who had a show. And most of his designs I like, which is rare for me.

I have one each of the AMT 1960 and 1963 Ford F-100s that I bought and built 10 years ago. They used to be rare! I also have two of the 1/24th Otaki Porsche 911s waiting to be built.

I used Duplicolor's Hot Rod Primer as it is a dark gray, almost black. It seemed to work well.

I'd say go with the AMT Camaro and use the chassis from the MPC Grumpy's Vega kit that was rereleased last year. If I remember right the wheelbases are close. Those kits should get you most of what you need.

No pictures, but I stopped at HobbyTown in Austin Tx and got one of AMT's redone 93 Chevy Silverados and the Revell Chevy Luv kit.

That's a shame! Maybe they can pull a Round 2 and clone the tooling?

We bought a 2018 Outlander new and never liked it. Put 40k miles on it and it was nice inside, but the CVT always felt unsettled. A friend had a similar 2016 and the transmission went out at 65k miles just after the warranty expired. The dealer quoted $6500 to replace it. We ended up trading our Outlander for a 2019 Frontier truck and haven't regretted it.

This summer my old Lexus R350 went over 220k miles. She still runs great but we wanted something with lower miles to take a road trip. We ended up with another RX350, a late model, low mileage one with some warranty left. It's a great car and we put 4800 miles on it in 2 weeks going from central Texas to the Florida Keys and back.