oldcarfan

Does anyone have an old build of this kit? I'm wondering if the vinyl interior parts attack the body the way vinyl tires attack polystyrene wheels?

The '70-71 was unibody, the '72-up was a new body on frame chassis so that won't work.

I built the Testor's release of this last year and then promptly dropped it while putting it in a case. I'm still finding parts of it occasionally.

Nail polish or even straight acetone generally removes tampo printing without touching the underlying paint.

Looks like you have a nice place! Our youngest will be a senior this next year and after that we are planning to move a bit north of Austin to a place similar to this.

A high school friend had a 77 Pinto as his new/used first car. For the time it wasn't all that bad, definitely better than the equivalent Vega or Gremlin but maybe not as good as a Corolla which I had. I grew up in coastal Texas and the Vega's started rusting while sitting on the new car lot. The Pinto he drove had the bullet-proof 2.3 engine and though not fast, it was fun when driven fast. I'm watching Hobby Lobby and Hobbytown to see if they decide to carry this kit.

It would indeed!

When they reintroduced the Camaro in 2009 it was interesting but flawed, sacrificing everything for fleeting style, but that is typical for GM. Rather than doing a facelift in 2016, they should have taken the opportunity to address the flaws and maybe use the 70-1/2 split bumper as a touchstone for an updated look.

Anyone have insider info on what is coming to the shelves to replace these?

I got a couple of the AMT speed boat, the Lindberg boat, a Suburban and a few more just because.

I got a one of these too. I like it, but it definitely is a product of the 50s.

I've pretty much bought everything from them that I need, but I did get a couple of extra of the El Camino with the minibike and the AMT 'wood' Chris Craft yesterday just because they were $7.49. I may go back and some more of the Datsun, the Scout and the Jeep truck.

I noticed that The Race Of Gentlemen guys tend to wear period style headgear. Maybe do a Google image search and look through them for ideas and inspiration. Most seem to wear either the leather flight caps and goggles or a half helmet.

I could use a couple of sets of the wheels and tires if you do them for sale.

They've reissued the stock one several times now. I'm ready for a 2n1 or maybe a an updated street machine version with new style wheels and low-profile tires or maybe some 50's style salt flats wheels and tires.

Dude! You should be teaching classes on how to build! This looks amazing.

I have 3 survivors builds from the summer of 1994. I was in the Navy and had a rented room that I used when in port to work on my car and build models and generally to get away from ship life. I had the room for two years and built about 30 models in that time and set up a 1:1 car for a planned One Lap of America run which ended before it started due to a semi truck driver falling asleep on the highway. Two boxes of them disappeared off the moving truck when I got out. Allied Movers had no record of them of course. I came across these old builds a while back when looking for something else. Somehow they had survived 20 years of living in a box in an un-cooled garage. Those old Johan display cases are really tough.

I've got a extra Tamiya GT2 kit. This would make an interesting build of it!

Sorry for the lack of follow through. I got the parts and then set them aside, then promptly forgot where I put them. Anyway, here they are. Not too bad, but it looks like they will need some clean-up. The dash in particular is pretty rough. I'm thinking they are a repop of the original which is pretty much unobtainable. It's one of those things I bought to build later.

Beautiful build. I've looked at this kit on the shelf, but haven't bought. I may need to now!

Love the conversion. I would buy one if someone did it as a kit.

I bought two of these as well and did one in red and one in a similar shade of blue. Not sure what I will do with them built up, but I'm kind of thinking of finding one of those Welly Porsche SUV's and doing a whole German lawn care service theme.

Beautiful build!

I've been putting together a list of both movie and real-world competitors from the Cannonball rallies. I've managed to collect quite a few for future builds. With the reissue of the AMT Subaru Brat, I'm wondering if anyone has ever made or is considering making a conversion to turn the BRAT into a Subaru GL as driven by Jackie Chan in the original movie? I found an obscure Japanese kit a couple years ago, but it was in 1/20 scale.

I love seeing your builds, both here and on your web page. I had just bought an original still-in-box MPC Datsun truck when they bought the reissue. I had no need for another, but I still bought 3 more just two do my part to encourage them to reissue old and unusual kits. I would definitely buy a couple of each of the kits you mentioned above, especially the California Sunshine.