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It also ran in the BTCC where it won the Privateer Championship several years in a row, and was also entered by a pair of factory backed teams which had some moderate success as well. Toyota was either 2nd or 3rd in the Manufacturer's Points during those seasons also.

Went to the second closest Ollie's today while I was out getting my eyes poked and prodded for my annual contact script and THERE they had most of the good stuff. Picked up a '48 Ford Custom - because after holding out for a stock roof kit all these years, I'm willing to bury that grudge for $8. Also a VW Rabbit, because $8 is a much more reasonable price to sacrifice a kit for parts - for my C1 Models Caddy Transkit - than the regular U.S. boxing price or one of the nearly $30 GTi RevellAG kits.

Not to be Debbie Downer, but I doubt you'll succeed. You're 40 miles from Fayetteville and there are several hobby outlets there. Personally if I was looking for a place to open up a shop, a town of 3k people in a county of 35k, just up the road from major competition wouldn't be my pick. There's simply not enough customer base to justify a shop where you live.

Unfortunately the ill-fitting & ill-mating parts and final assembly interfaces leading to ill-tempered modelers plagues pretty much all of the Monogram Exotics, except maybe the BMW 6 Series (but it's been a long time since I built mine). However you've done a marvelous job of beating this one into submission. Two thumbs up.

Rolled through the local store on the way to Lowe's and it was nothing but Pre-Round2 Lindberg junk. The only car kits were a couple of Bull Horns and the small scale Bugatti. I'll stick my head in the one in the next town over on Tuesday, $8 for a Rabbit to base kit my C1 Models Caddy transkit sounded really appealing.

Someone on FB showed their Ollie's haul and they had several of the first issue police car LX kits.

For all the lamenting we might do about accuracy this, proportion that or wheel size the other thing, Revell has the engineering thing down pretty good.

I appreciate the offer, however I already have one.

The problem with this exercise as I see it is that 95% of modelers don't know, and probably don't care how their models get to them, just so long as they get there. It might be even higher on FB where I see people routinely asking model companies to reissue kits that already reissued, or asking the WRONG company to reissue a kit. The 5% that can straddle the fence and see how things need to work - rather than as Tom put it "Run the company out of business ideas" - already have the ear of whatever manufacturer tickles our fancy and whisper ideas and proposals on a regular basis. For the people that want to play around with this idea, the key thing to remember when plotting out your "Hupmobile 5000" idea is that the vehicle in question has to have 3-5 viable tooling variations. Think Revell tooling up a new '70 Charger that can be Dom's Charger from F&F and a '70 R/T with a few insert changes and parts additions. Or how Moebius' F-Series line can span from 1964 to 1979 based on the running gear/frame/suspension with relatively minimal tooling for bodies and interior variables. Because in order for something to be successful "Factory Stock, Gasser, DRAG, KUSTOM 4n1" isn't the answer.

Long story short, it's because things are shipped by weight AND volume. Chances are that first box was large enough it was in a different max weight class than the smaller box. If the smaller box weighed more than the max allowable for the rate, then you're stuck paying what amounts to an excess baggage fee on an airline flight. Anyone who imports kits directly from Japan knows the weight by volume game where a certain number of kits will ship for a certain rate, but adding one more kit makes it go up a rate class and adds $25-30 to the shipping.

Priority Mail is most indeed machine sorted. Unless it's something so heavy/bulky that it can't ride the belts. Those NMOs (Non Machineable Outsides) are the only thing that get hand sorted at this point. There's also a difference between First Class Metered Mail (stuff with just stamps on it) and First Class Packages which go into the same sort stream/facility as Priority Mail. It also doesn't need to be the entire envelope, if it uses Priority Sealing tape, or one of those self adhesive Priority address label it automatically makes it a Priority package. Edit - what are the dimensions? There is an envelope size maximum to 1st Class Package. If it fits, I'd go raise a ruckus at your Post Office (not sure it's worth it being you got refunded) to find out why they tried to kick that up a rate.

Were there any Priority stickers on it? Even tape? Or a Priority envelope? When you use one of those free priority shippers from the Post Office you can't ship it any other way (eg 1st Class Package) just by printing out a different postage label on one of those home postage printers.

Cleaned a few more models out of some closets in Japan. The Super GT kits have some OOP Shunko liveries that correspond to the base kits. My NNL East purchases, pretty sure I paid for Chris' flight back to the U.K. When you have a certain volume of model kits in your basement, there really isn't much to buy (heresy I know!) as the new issue kits I can pick up locally.

There's a certain logic to that, he knows the pictures will be distributed far and wide beyond the attendees at Milwaukee and New Jersey. Seeing the kits in photos, and then in person has certainly opened me up to the possibility of purchasing a few that really didn't interest me from the flyer.

Yeah the chassis that came into being in 1964 was basically unchanged up through 1979, which is why the AMT 4x4 parts can be massaged into the Moebius trucks with relative ease.

I have no hard proof, but my guess is the little black section of the taillamps will be a decal. Remember final decal sheets aren't available for building the test shot, especially given the '70 is a 3Q kit and not due out for awhile.

Burban is barn doors in the back.

Like Luc said it's an all new RevellAG tooling, it was supposed to come out before the end of 2016, but I'm not sure it's even out in Germany, let alone here in the U.S.

With the volume of people here already you're still gonna stand in line at 9am.

There's an Indianapolis 500 Pace Car "Fifty" version of the new Camaro coming...that's "new" in the most loose of terms.

Except that there already exists a plastic (Revell) and diecast (Miasto/Testors) kits of 2000-2005 Impala police car out there. I agree with Jordon, if this car was going to be done, it needed to be done back when the car was still new.