1972coronet

The nomenclature comes from a conversion company which was based in northern - or even central - California. The only info that I could find regarding this specific pickup - likely the same info you've managed to glean - is an ad seen here (see link to eBay listing). Ostensibly, their main gig was for step-side beds. In the U.S., all Japanese pickups were shipped sans bed due to the so-called Chicken Tax; the beds were installed at the port. None-the-less, I hope this helps in some capacity : 1978 Datsun 620 Pickup Truck California Sunshine Car Sales Brochure Folder | eBay

Here's an unboxing of the kit (see below). This dude must've lucked out -- different batch, maybe? Shame, shame, shame on the warpage that you folks are encountering.

Dang! That is rough! Man, with as much coin as these kits are these days, the Q.C. issues are even less 'acceptable' and are virtually unforgivable. I'll keep my duckets until the Q.C. issues are resolved...

Reading about these Q.C. issues make me glad that I didn't order one before I saw how it actually looked.

Air is the heir to all whom error

!!! WOW !!! Now that is a slick Olds! Love that colour, too (touchup paint?).

What are those wheel covers like? Are they the 'typical' hubcaps-with-wide-trim-rings setup (i.e., the ones seen frequently on the Mach 1 models of the same year)? The handful of 1971 BOSS 351's I've seen all had the 15" Magnum [et al.] wheels.

You beat me to it, my good man. The Yenko bonnet is this instance is 'merely' the JL-2 [?] model that all of the 1969 COPO Camaro were shod with, L72 or ZL-1.

An oldie but a goodie: My Name Is Earl.

The Motown Missile in either 1972 Barracuda or 1973 [?] Duster guise would be fantastic. I would be shocked to see the Challenger (especially since I recently dropped a long-note on a 1974 annual). The c.1978 Mustang II was issued during the Racing Chumps era, IIRC. Even that's been years ago already... The Pinto iteration (backdated, Gapp & Rousch livery would be boss!) could easily share its chassis, etc., with the Mustang II - just like the 1:1.

Glad that I got me a bottle of the stuff already. No explanation as to why it was discontinued?? I bought a bottle of it at the local Ace Hardware (no one else had it in-stock). I don't have any recommendations for a replacement.

Every time I hear or see that film's name, I'm reminded of All By Myself by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (written by and sung by Walter Lure): I don't need no wedding hall I just watch your roller ball Forget your friends and what they do I got to get inside of you

A set of deeper Cragars for the rear, plus Round2's famous pad printed tyres (heck, include the Blue Streak slicks, too!) with the thin blue line and thin Good Year logo. I'm not sure just how Dolenz (the only surviving member) and/or whoever owns the rights would be with giving the go-ahead with all of the livery, etc. And, who knows about Jeffries's heirs feelings on having Dean's namesake restored for his brainchild? ** EDIT ** I just read @SteveG's reply.

I'm keen on the 1972 catalogue's cover art (see image). I want to have that image on a shirt -- I even got the okay from Martyn Schorr and Joel Rosen to use that illustration.

Thanks much! I've long pondered which unit Motion employed -- I'd assumed it was the unit which included the differential gearbox. Hone-O-Drive was about a mile away from where I grew up. I used to see their shop on Washington Blvd. all of the time when I was young, playing little attention to it other than its interesting business name (and a handful of pickups with huge campers on them, ostensibly having one of the overdrive units installed -- this was in the seventies). My scratch building skills have atrophied, unfortunately (arthritis and age-related vision blurring). I'll perhaps whittle something out of an existing kit part (perhaps one of the generic MPC manual transmissions would suffice -- or the B&M Hydro-Stick from the AMT parts pack). Thanks for your reply and the info therein.

Wonder if a police version is planned? Sure, the police-specific interior mods would have to be included (column-shift, etc.) in addition to plain wheels, Unity spotlights, partition, etc.

Perhaps the Monkeemobile ? It'd be nice to see it with the Dean Jeffries emblems restored, and any mention of Bondo Barris removed entirely.

Some time soon enough here, I'm going to be building the R-M 1970 Chevelle Baldwin-Motion SS-454 (hold the wild decals, except for maybe the bonnet) and am wanting to add a Hone-O-Drive to it. Oddly (or not) this version of the kit includes not only a reverse-lockout lever, but the "one-armed-bandit" shifter for the Hone-O... but no accompanying Hone-O gear-splitter [?!?] Looking for recommendations here -- does anyone make one of these gear boxes? If not, what offering would be close enough (e.g., rear portion of a kit's manual gear box)? Thanks in advance.

The only Can-annada car magazine that I'm aware of that's in print is Muscle Cars: Bone Stock & Modified (I'm a subscriber). Muscle Cars Magazine - Summer 2022 Subscriptions | Pocketmags

I, too, have fond memories of the Tom Daniel kits (and their later issue iterations with name changes). Even his name brings me back to GEMCO (discount store in the Los Angeles area) -- especially the Vandal (and its offshoot Vanbulance) and the topics of this thread; even the S'cool Bus [et alia]. I'm no fan of so-called 'Show Rods'; but, for some reason, Daniel's designs don't arse me like the stuff from MPC. I even built the 1986 reissue of the Pie Wagon when it was released! Me older neighbours had the original issue (1968? 1970?), and that thing and its box art fascinated me. but, by the late seventies, it was long out-of-production... I'd dig on reissues -- hopefully Atlantis does have the moulds -- of any and all of Tom's crazy works. heck, they'd be a GREAT way to introduce a first glue kit to interested kids.

Ugly enough to cause a miscarriage

Considering that that steamer was built in c.1977, it likely has a cassette player. The seats are carved Bondo and stuffed with cardboard and business cards. Firestone Fire Hawk originally. Product placement, indeed -- and super authentic. I wonder if the new owner of Grease Bondo put a better paint scheme on it?

Never been a fan of that schlockfest. Even as a kid when it was new, I thought it was a poodle show -- especially that godawful "fifties" custom.

While I haven't any applied theories in this respect, I have been playing with the idea of a dead-flat aluminium paint, a mist of flat white (primer, likely) from a distance, and the dullest top coat I can find. I may even give Tamiya Pearl White 'TS' a try vs. the primer, that way some semblance of metallic sparklies will hint at a rough-cast metal finish. I'm planning to try it on the Tarantula intake of the 1970 Chevelle Baldwin-Motion kit.