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I'm not the biggest rat-rod fan but that thing is just BAD-***! I really dig the scoop too, very creative. If it were done up shiny it would look like some Hot Wheels car on steroids. Way Kool!

Man, that is really nice! Awesome paint, great detail and clean. I love a good show rod!

Very cool, they both look great! I've always liked these kits and had both back in the day. Very outside-the-box choices for funny cars and a great job of getting more mileage out of existing molds by Revell. I used to question the choice of body style for the Revellion, until I saw photos of real cars like the Austin-Grassi "Fuel Cuda" and Sheldon Kornblatts "Peanuts" 4dr. Galaxie. I've got a couple of the reissue Miss Deal, but never wanted to pay what the Revellions were going for. I did score some decals for it though, and I recall seeing a resin repop of the body somewhere, and I do have a couple of Tony Nancy kits sooo....

I can honestly say, with no Uncertain-T, that is one bad rod. Awesome!

Wow, that's really nice!

Whoa! I'll just second what everyone else said!

I too have this kit. Have not built it yet but it is a very clean and well-done piece. Their stuff is great!

Suh-weeeet! Some of those shots look like they could've come from a dealers brochure.

Way cool, very nice clean work! I too had this kit back then, and the Canned Heat version of the Outlaw, without ever being aware of the original kits or the actual cars they reperesented. I just thought Revell was doing some really cool new street rods. After all it was '72, I was only 12 and my automotive interests went no further than drag racing. Those cartoonish slicks came from Revells' first attempts at funny car kits.

That is so wild, I love it!

Very nice, Great subject matter. I'd like to know more about those headers too.

Very cool, looks great!

I've amassed a bit of a collection over the years. Primarily drag racing related, starting with The Sox & Martin book of Drag Racing in 1974. I'm always on the lookout for new releases on vintage drag racing, and there have been some really good ones in recent years. I also have a collection-in-progress of vintage hot rod magazines, titles include Popular Hot Rodding, Car Craft, Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, etc. These start around 1960 and I peg the cutoff at about '74 or so. Used to be able to score good deals on the 'bay, but magazine prices have gotten out of hand lately. Being a bit of a bottom-feeder, I've found much better deals at automotive swap meets.

That's nice!

Larry, That's correct, born in Chicago and lived in the area for 38 years. Funny you should mention US30, that place was Disneyland to me as a kid. We lived next door to some hard-core hot rodders who ran a bracket car there. You were liable to be assualted by the sound of a big-block Chevy with a tunnel ram through open headers almost anytime in the evening or weekends. Always on Sunday morning before they towed to the strip. Unfortunately being the neighbor kid, I only got to go to US30 twice during it's heyday. The bracket classes (US30 called it Run Tuff Eliminator, cool no?)had everything from T-buckets & dueces to Camaros and Super Bees, and everything in between. That place will live forever in my memeory along with those obnoxiously awesome commercials! Thanks! Scott

Thanks for the warm welcome. I appreciate it!

Greetings! I've been on the forum for a while now, but never a formal introduction. I started building in the early '70s, with the usual interruptions of life along the way. Resumed in the early '90s when I had some time to kill and wandered into a hobby shop where I encountered the double-whammy of the reissued Little Red Wagon and the new Gas Ronda T-Bolt. I have yet to recover from relocating 15 yrs ago, and haven't been able to line up space and time to get back to building for what will be the fourth time. My main interest is drag cars from what I consider the "golden era" 1960 to about '74, along with some customs, rods and such. This forum is an endless source of inspiration with many gifted builders and brings me a little closer to the bench each time I visit it. Thanks! Scott

Had a '65 Barracuda 273/auto w/A.C. as a daily driver around '77. Much later a '63 Continental, white w/turquoise leather, a very solid, driveable project that never took off (*see below). But the one that I miss most was my '65 Dart GT Convertible, 273/4spd. I really needed a car for work when I layed eyes on it in a used car lot. It conjured up images of an A/FX machine with its' nose-high stance and Torque-Thrusts on the front. Little did I know that awsome stance was due to blown-out air shocks in back, Ha! Owned it for about 10 years and got as far as rebuilt suspension/brakes, installing an 8-3/4" rear w/3:23 Sure Grip, new top... then got married and sold it a couple years later. That car was a blast, the only power was under the hood: manual trans, brakes, steering and top! I worked in the automotive parts industry at the time and sold it to one of my customers who was in a much better position than I to restore it. So much so that it made the cover of a Mopar magazine when he finished it. *Seems I could never combine those two important elements of time and money. I think of what I paid for it in the early '80s ($1250.00), and the sale prices I see today on all of those televised auctions (Barrett-Jackson, etc) and just cringe. It definately got away and I will probably never get the chance to own something like that again.

Great news! And in 1/25th to boot. I've wanted a Sizzler for wayyy too long. Definately getting a couple.

The photo of the copper-colored Stude can also be found in the book Drag Racing Gassers by Lou Hart, and I admit Miss Deal immediately sprang to mind when I first saw it. The book was published in 2007 and is loaded with great reference photos, that particular photo being credited to the authors scrap book.

Wow, that's one mean-lookin' rod. Tuff-Enuff!

When I started building (1970) it was mostly 1/25th scale as that was what was available in subject matter that interested me. The only 1/24 stuff I ever had was really all Monogram, with the occasional 1/20th MPC kit and a few of the Revell 1/16th drag kits when they first came out. Not having been able to resume building going on 15 years now, I have to wonder how much I'll enjoy the "standard" scale what with the toll time has taken on the eyes and hands. But there is that 400+ 1/24-25th kit stash to deal with...

I belonged to the Revell "Master Modelers Club", or something like that, in the early '70s. You got a kit, plastic "tools", jacket patch, etc. for the initial sign-up fee. I can't recall if you got the actual kit or just an anouncement of the next selection, and you either accepted and payed or refused it. I also don't recall the frequency the kits were offered. I do remember the newsletter, maybe quarterly, that featured building tips, new releases, adventure-type stories and photos of members builds and drawings they submitted. In most of those stories the Revell characters' arch rival was Monty Graham (Monogram). How ironic when those two companies merged!

That is just awesome! Really cool, really unique, really clean. Where did the wheels come from?

Nice shot! Got a soft spot for Gretschs, huh?