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No it was just an "Art Car" boxing with the big "painting" of the box art. But just like the original 1975 kit it has both the stock & custom parts.

The production run of the Shelby is probably half of what the C8s are, given it's a chin spoiler and decal sheet of difference over the '69. I can see where they'd hedge their bets on exactly how many you'd make of something so slightly different. Compared to the C8 being a brand new tool with (in theory at least) a much larger appeal if for nothing else that you couldn't ever build one before now.

Based on the CAD (and the built test shot) the floor has the "bare bones" stamped texture. I can all but promise you some form of race car is coming out of this tooling in 2025. The only time Hasegawa does this is on their subjects that are dual use tools (R32, Mk III Supra, AE92 Levin, etc). The 61 Starlet was used in touring car and rally spec (the kit description even mentions this), and Hasegawa did that series of 1st Gen Civic Touring Car kits, I suspect this will get the same treatment. As for the various arrangements of features the kit is labeled "Mid-Late" and if the past 8 years of new tooling are anything to go on I'm sure there will be an Early, Late, Mid-Afternoon, Early Evening, Late Morning, 3am, et al versions coming.

To my understanding yes. Although there are boatloads of '69 kits over three releases out there that could be purchased for less than what the new '70 boxing will sell for when it's released.

If the tooling exists (and doesn't fall into the stuff AMT/Ertl had out sourced and no long have access to anymore) it would be the face lifted '94/'95 version.

A serious chunk of the upcoming Tamiya R/C stuff is Porsche themed, so it wouldn't be impossible to believe. Plus there is the big fall Hobby Show in Tokyo coming up and pre-orders for that will be announced this week (Hasegawa for example will be tomorrow [Tuesday 9/3] at 11pm Eastern). So it'll be official in short order.

I don't doubt the tooling still exists, I just wonder what point it would serve to reissue some old promo "kit" when there's already a full detail kit that's 30 years newer on the shelves already. It might have made financial and logical sense in the early 90s before the Revell created the '64 Chevy in 1996. Heck the fact that kits are usually in the pipeline 18 months in advance the news that Revell was doing a new tool truck might be what killed the American SATCO project.

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Legit question - With Revell having done a '66 Fleetline as part of their '64-'66 Chevy truck line, what would be the point of resurrecting an old promo be? With all the grumbling about the curbside nature of the Craftsmen Plus kits (aka - "I'll wait for the version with an engine") I can't see where cloning something to provide the market with a curbside version of an already existing full detail kit makes them any money. Back when American SATCO threatened to produce it the Revell kits didn't exist yet.

...such as? The ZG came out over three years ago, if there was a problem you would have heard about it.

But all of that stuff was in the ZG, the single parts tree is the only difference between the two, other than decals and the subtraction of the ZG nose parts.

Well it only took like 3.5 years if waiting...

I have 6 sitting and if you're willing to wait a few days for ECMS (the method Pete mentioned above) it works out to $11.70@ and now we're in USPS Priority shipping at the corporate discount rate (on a single kit basis) for anything West of the Rockies.

$17 per kit vs. $12 per kit. If you shipped a single kit USPS Priority from Coast to Coast you're going to pay $14, so $12 from the other side of the world seems reasonable. I love Hobby Search to look at instructions, but they've never had the best price on kits, or their shipping options. HLJ is cheaper on both, plus you can hoard kits for 60 days (6 months really, they haven't fully rolled back the Covid relaxation of their prior time limit.) which can spread out the cost of 5 kits over 2 months rather than having to make a one time bulk order. Of course that's just an evil plot to not realize how much you're spending...?

I'm sure it sold adequately in the first initial batch to justify making the H/T, which I suspect would have outsold it 3 to 1 anyways because Convertibles are clunkers of kits most of the time. That's why it was released in the order it was, get all the initial excitement sales on that kit and then do the H/T people wanted. If the Convertible came second, I doubt they would have sold very many of them at all (in overall terms). There's still a bunch of people insisting they're going to wait for the "full kit" of that '68 GTO, that 99.9% will never arrive given Round2 cloned a promo, not an annual to make it (and the '65 GTO). There's a whole mess of those sitting in the Wally World endcaps as well. One thing to consider is that Wal*Mart most likely paid Round2 up front at least partially to carry those endcaps in the stores that sell model kits. Because they've been in there now for several Christmases, so they must sell enough kits at their given prices to justify carrying them. One thing Wal*Mart does is turn stock on shelves that doesn't sell, they have too many people wanting to sell stuff on too few sq feet of display space to keep poor performing items on the sales floor over the long haul.

No these Ohio guys created a whole new thing out of hole cloth. I'm still not sure why they want to be associated with JoHan Oldies anyways, those were the last run Seville Industries kits that were missing all the inserts, and had horrible tooling alignment that created flash monster kits. I don't know anyone who's all - Whoooooo doogie I do enjoy those no custom parts, wrong interiored JoHan Oldie kits!! It's why I call them FauxHan and FauxHan II. Neither entity is every going to produce an actual JoHan kit from actual JoHan tooling unless the Ohio crew can track down the few known tools to still exist, find a machine that would actually be able to run said tools, and have the wherewithal to be able to afford the product licensing and liability insurance to produce the kits. That last part is something that they get to dodge (rimshot) by making these garage aftermarket resin items.

To further Justin's point my local Wally World has the Round2 end caps (well two of them actually) and jointly they must hold a dozen of those '68 Coronet Verts at a $24.98 price tag. There's gonna be a tsunami of those things at Ollie's next Spring when Wal*Mart blows them out of the DC after Christmas.

Sure but that came out back in 1998, the year after the new tool kit was initially released. There have been several reissues of the factory stock version of the new '57 between then and the present day, but there's only been the initial release, and one RC2 era reissue of the Street Machine (19 yrs ago).

Gotta bulk up those orders, one kit direct importing is not very efficient. The shipping is based on weight and volume, so there are cutoffs that make shipping say 4 kits the same price as one.

I doubt I'll ever build any of them, but ya know the point of having a well stocked home hobby shop and all of that. On the other hand vintage F-Series aren't my forte, not that I would throw a 1:1 out of my garage for leaking some oil. But all in all so much of this hobby is the idea of owning something I most likely couldn't in real life, so I'm not terribly concerned about the ins and out minutia of the kit when it comes to the "right" transmission, or the "correct" size of the rearend or the rest of that.

They're quite popular with a number of friends who build more traditional IPMS type subject matter.

The factory stock DeLorean is being released this morning (8/19).