1972coronet

Looks GREAT so far ! Man , what a handful those 427 Nova models must've been ! They're wild enough with an L-78 ! Now , if only someone would make a 1970 Yenko Deuce LT-1...

Thanks , Rico , Brandon , Steve , Snake , and Casey ! I think that I screwed up with the kit I'm working on --- I separated the grille from valance ; glued the valance to the fenders ; filed one side smooth ; filed other side down ; smeared a dab of Tamiya putty over the remaining seams . The problem with my hair-brained approach ? Now I'm going to have a devil of a time getting the radiator core support assembly secured properly ! D'oh ! Oh , well ... if worse come to worse , I have another unbuilt example in storage ---- perhaps I'll start fresh ( although , I already completed the deepening of the door lines , boot lines , Dutchman Panel depressions ( very lightly ) , and windscreen / backlight trim gaps ) Thanks again , one and all !

I couldn't find anything (within a reasonable time frame) about correcting-modifying the front fascia of the old Monogram 1971 Hemi'Cuda ... I seem to recall that a few members built that (now ancient) kit , and in the process , performed some surgery to correct the lower-front-valance-to-front-fenders assembly (e.g. , modifying the assembly to accurately represent how the real car appears / is assembled) . Please , point me in the right direction or provide a link to an archived On The Work Bench tutorial . Thanks .

That Car Of the Year award for the phantom '73 GTO SD-455 was bestowed by High Performance CARS :

The Pacer may be worth a go if it happens to be a Randall Jeep-AMC conversion model with a 401 under its bonnet ! The Newport may be a Fury 'S-23' in actuality (although , unlikely) . If its V.I.N. is PS23N then buy it ! Wouldn't it be funny if that Dodge pickup was one of the few built with a powerhouse Mitsubishi naturally-aspirated diesel ?

They were required starting in the 1968 season ( at least in Super Stock ) , but I'm fairly certain that they were around a few years earlier .

Planning to replicate the green Motion Chevelle ?

At this point , these two are it . Both were factory-sealed ; bought when I had spare money .

When this kit premiered in 1984 , 1985 , it was a HUGE improvement over Monogram's earlier efforts ; the mid-late 80's were a definite renaissance for Monogram . I haven't personally laid hands on one of these since 1986 (the one that I'd built that year was destroyed in the 1987 Whittier Earthquake) , but I do recall that it builds-up nicely. Enjoy !

I certainly don't remember the 1969 Dart GTS 383 being a failure , sales-wise or otherwise ! Quite the opposite ; that kit was groundbreaking and a runaway sales success . The de facto backdating to a '68 was proposed for 1996 , as the back page of the Revell-Monogram catalogue alluded to a Hurst-Hemi variant . While that proposal was ostensibly the very last to be released in the Dart series , the other 1968 variants were successful in preceding the 'LO23' : - Mr. Norms 1968 GSS 440 (with moulded-on vinyl top) - Landy's 1968 SS/EA "'M' Code" (vinyl top trim evidence on C-pillars) - The "2-in1" 1968 GTS 383 / Hurst-Hemi SS/A(A)

Not sure if you're aware of this (excellent) site ; it's full of factory documentation , TSB's , brochures , etc. Here's a page out of the 1971 Valiant & Duster catalogue :

In my opinion , the 1970 Road Runner kit would be an excellent starting point . Like Snake stated , its lineage dates-back to the Monogram 1970 GTX ; however , its tooling was updated (downgraded ?) to represent a Road Runner , and has a number of improvements versus the c.1981 original : - Separate door panels ( i.e. , interior sides ) - Bench Seat (with correct Road Runner upholstery pattern) - Two sets of wheels ( the old standby 'Road Wheels' [ colloq. , 'Magnum 500' ] and a set of 1978 'A38' Police Car / Taxi Wheels with some nice c.1969-1974 Plymouth hub caps ) - Expanded and nicely-presented decal sheet (including a 'poster' of the 1970 Rapid Transit System dealership showroom dress-up !) It's a very simple kit (construction-wise ) yet it yields impressive results with a minimum of efforts .

Very , very cool build and accompanying story ! I've had a life-long fascination with old , beat-up pickups ; the first one that I recall seeing was owned by a Japanese gardener and landscaper ; it was an early 60's GMC . I'll never forget those cool looking "V6" emblems on the hood ! Interesting note about Esso fuel stations : many of them handed-out the Green Book during a time in the U.S.' history when travelling safely was a task for some people .

The Valiants (yes , plural) used in the movie were FE5 red .

I've seen worse on a daily basis ( *cough* NAFTA *cough* ) .

- Two-wheel-drive suspension for the MPC Fall Guy (et al.) pickup --- basically , a resin re-pop of the 1978 C-10 parts . - 1970-1972 conversion for the AMT 1968 El Camino (including interior , and possibly a '71-'72 GMC Sprint conversion) - Two-wheel-drive suspension for the Monogram 1980 F-100

I've still got to get me a copy of that . I love the (phantom) 1971 LS-6 Chevelle on the cover ! Too bad that G.M. didn't make that engine available in the Chevelle (though , mysteriously , the 1971 LS-5 "gained" 5hp over its 1970 predecessor : 360hp vs 365hp --- after a 2-point-drop in compression !) . If you're interested I can link Schorr's facebook page here .

That botched 1997 issue body (was the glass proportionally-undersized as well ?) would be a great piece for a 1969-era Funny Car ( I believe that there was a Lindamood Color Me Gone ! Charger in '68 or '69 , no ?). A customer at the gas station I worked at 30 years ago showed me photos of the 1969 Charger that he bought new ( from Atlantic Dodge in East Los Angeles --- long defunct ) and customised : - Chopped top - Frenched fuel filler - Miles-deep Night Watch Blue lacquer paint - Fenton Sharks I wish that I had access to those photos again , as it would be a neat car to build a replica of based on the Revell goof .

Glad that you found them and are enjoying them ; very high quality books .

That (ancient , long-in-the-tooth) MPC representation of the Chrysler LA-Series (273-318-340-360) is so severely underscale that it truly does look like a 25th scale 3.9 litre (239 cube) V6 !

Nice Camaro ! The L-89 heads were indeed left "raw" , just like the intake manifold (of the L-78) , but was sans engine colour overspray (as the heads weren't painted) .

Quite nice ! Where'd you get that Hone-O-Drive lever ?

Too bad that Round2 bought the MPC (et al.) moulds from Racing Chumps --- box art-versus- actual contents was their forté .

I was peeved when Ford dropped the Ranger ! The rationale that I'd heard was , "A (fully-optioned) Ranger is close-in-price to an F-150." . Bullocks ! That's the problem : not everyone is in the market for a 'Cowboy Cadillac' ! One of the trucks that the company where I work had was a 2008 model --- it was optioned perfectly : 2.5 litre DFI 4 cylinder ; 5-speed auto ( "5R55" ? ) ; 4.10 gear ; AM/FM stereo ; A/C . It's what was "missing" that made it so great ; it had rubber floor covering , vinyl seat , manual windows , manual locks . ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to the original post's directive : I recognise that the Revell 1994 Impala SS shares its basis with the wildly-popular Revell 1991 9C1 Caprice . While this certainly isn't news to most , it proves the point of the O.P. / thread .

Fenton produced some of the nicest-looking wheels of the era . I must admit that my favourite wheel is the Motor Wheels ** Spyder ( I've loved them since I first built a model with them back in the mid-70's ) . ** Motor Wheel ( "MW" in a styllised font ) was an OEM supplier to the Big 4 . No affiliation with Fenton .