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Art, that is incorrect. It's listed as a '66 SS 396 Hardtop. No conversion work necessary. Photo source Tom Carter

Mine is the Lindberg issue from 1979, and the boxart shows it w/Minilite wheels...unfortunately they're not in the kit I got mine for a good price a few years back from the late (but never forgotten) Dan Morgan. He was a great guy to buy and trade with.

This gives you some idea of what you get. I've glued the roof section to the body sides. Much more work required to make it right. Hood fit isn't great. Door fit isn't good either. Things don't line up well. It's a handful...lots of effort will yield a decent model, OOB it's going to look awfully goofy. They did a good buildup for the new box, but picked flattering angles. This model can be really cool, but just remember it's a very crude start with a number of questionable design elements. If this was new tooling Lindberg would be crucified beyond belief, and there are going to be some who buy this model and really find it disappointing. I look forward to building it...I think

No, they're "stock" and very bleh versions of the open wheel/hubcap. Depth/detail is lame.

Yes, it's a fastback. Not much work to convert it to a Spitfire, actually. Revise windshield surround, chop off top, make decklid... It's a full-detail kit w/engine and opening doors. I'll probably ditch the opening doors since that kind of feature isn't what I'm after, I'd rather have a decent looking model w/o crazy door gaps and it's not worth spending a ton of time getting them to look and work nice.

Yeah, it's the old Pyro kit; mine is a Lindberg w/the white car on the lid and it's molded in white. It's quite a handful. I'm working on one slowly, the main body is together but I have to work on the windshield opening and redo some of the trim on the roof to make it look like a model and not a toy. With great car it can result in a neat model, but it certainly has it's challenges due to the multi-piece body. It's also a tiny model due to the 1/25 scale nature (I'd far prefer 1/24 for a subject like this). The wheels are bleh. I'm trying to build the Group 44 car that raced at Daytona.

Yuck. I could not disagree more While I don't think the new Camaro is perfect, those computer renderings are hideous, to my eyes. They look exactly like what they are; computer renderings by an amateur who wants to design but doesn't have the experience for the big leagues yet. They look fake and plastic and very un-realistic. But they sure do appeal to a lot of people. Just not me. Whatsoever Oh, and the Prowler idea that was great as a concept but not so much as a production car (dumbed down and cheap and cheesy)...idea was originally done by Foose. He also does his own designs. But since you seem so anti-Foose, I won't bother to scrounge up a bunch of research that can just as easily be done on Google, I'll just include a link to his website. He's a very good designer, he has his niche, and he's making a boatload of $, so regardless of whether you like his talent or not, he's quite successful and happy and has an impressive clientele. The car in my avatar, the Sportstar, was a custom designed streetrod from scratch using a Lexus drivetrain. It was done when Chip worked for Boyd. There's a lot of depth to his work beyond stupid television/reality show stuff that has to be done in a week. Foose Design

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I don't obsess over what a newspaper hack says about the styling of a car. Most times they're way off the mark for being accurate with their observations. If I want car information, I steer clear of any newspaper. Car magazines and websites are where it's at. The new Camaro is what it is; it's a very modern take on the first generation. It has hints from that era, with a lot of modern details. Personally I'm tired of '69 Camaros, they're the Toyota Camry of collector cars. They're everywhere and everyone seems to have one. To me they're so ubiquitous they end up boring me unless there's something really unique about it. Chances are at every cruise night there are 10 of these to any one original Challenger or Charger. Or even '67 or '68 Camaro. I find myself going right past them and being drawn to the cars that aren't so common. I love the new Camaro style a lot more than any '69; I got used to the grille and I really like the way they did the detailing. The Challenger, by comparison, is overly-simplistic, way oversized (needs a serious section job), and to me it's a bad take on the original that I like much better. Is it awful? No, not at all, I just think it's silly to call such a huge car a "Challenger" or a pony car. I take it as a full size RWD V8 American car. In that respect, I like it. Comfort, visibility, trunk space and overall daily use it's going to spank the prettier Camaro, which is very hard to see out of and the trunk is almost as tiny as a Miata's. I'll bet the Camaro is much more fun to drive, but I was surprised how much you feel like you're in a chopped-top custom in it, it would take a lot of getting used to such poor visibility.

Can I interest you in doing a modification of the AMT '69 Galaxie into a Mercury Marauder X100? Speaking of Chezoom, years ago Pat Covert was thinking seriously about writing an article for the April issue of SAE "how to convert the Chezoom into a stock Bel Air" Now that I think about it, your conversion could have been shown in reverse chronological order, and voila! Your tribute to Harry Charon probably still means more to you and him that you did all that work yourself vs. just a simple kitbash. Great model, for sure. And it's a 210, Revell's doing the Bel Air so it may very well have the ribbed section inside the chrome on the rear fenders.

Pleasepleasepleaseplease tell me this isn't getting clown car wagon wheels

I'm interested in two of them, the Impala and the Olds . It's not lost on me that every one of these new announcements is an antique. I'm an antique, but I don't think like one. Not quite yet, at least I'd sure be happy if the next batch of announcements from Revell included the ZR1, CTS-V, 2010 Camaro SS, 2010 Mustang.

That's rather odd, as they usually do replace it if it's sent back. And they did revise the formula recently and the packages have "new/improved" sticker on them so you know it's not the same batch that wrinkled and cracked. They certainly knew there was an issue. I have a feeling if you had sent them your sheet, rather than just a letter, they would have replaced it and you wouldn't have gotten such an out-of-character response. But if they had done the same to me, I'd feel just like you do. Problem is, there really is not a better alternative.

With a slight variation to the antenna mast...

I look for the closest guy w/a Mustang and ask him nicely for it back before I sic Guido on him

Cool Hope to see the parts ASAP; I'd love to know what the wheels (optional) and decals look like. You'd think since Revell had this kit in full view (built and parts trees) at the Milwaukee NNL that someone would have taken some nice photos...nope, it was ignored, all I saw was one small photo of the overall scene on the table, no details were able to be picked out. Sometimes I get the impression that 99.9% of model builders don't care about anything newer than 1970

To me the best place for the filler is on the driver's side. Think of the gas pump island like a road; your car on the right side of the island, the cars on the opposite side facing the other way. Also, the fuel filler is on the driver's side up relatively high because it's safer there than the other side or in back. In a rear end collision (which is the most common kind), cars tend to veer to the right to avoid if possible, there's generally more damage to the right rear than the left. If you think about it, it makes sense. If it becomes standard on all cars, eventually it won't be confusing when you get in a different car and it's not in the same place. I have two Mazdas, and the fuel fillers are on different sides of each car, and I have to recite to myself as I drive up to a pump which side the filler is on. The cars have different controls for wipers, cruise control, etc. and it's amazing how 2 cars from the same company can have such different control locations. I have never had any problem whatsoever with opening a door into a concrete island when getting out of the car to pump gas. But then again, I don't drive a big American coupe w/big, heavy doors

That looks like a good simple method as well.

All you need is a drinking straw and maybe some fun tack to seal it to the nozzle, some straws fit with just friction. It's painfully easy. Try not to listen to those that will tell you grand stories of buying hardware store items that allow you to "safely" poke a hole in the can, aka the Rube Goldberg method. Yes, that will work, and so will taking a Hummer H1 or a Bugatti Veyron to the corner store to pick up a gallon of milk. Try the simple method first... How To Decant Tamiya Sprays Easily & Safely

My issue made it here today in fine shape, my friend IM'ed me from Alpharetta GA and his got there today as well but very mangled, he had to call for a replacement.

If it's got a barcode it's never going to be worth much, if anything, more than you paid, and quite likely it will end up worth much less. The days of collector value for stuff like that is gone, too many people buy models and keep them packaged. Take them out and enjoy them. They're a lousy investment if you think they're going to make you any money.

There has been quarter-sized hail here at my house three times this spring already Not really big enough to cause any major damage, cars were protected. We had a near-hurricane-force windstorm about a month ago that was pretty freaky...just a light rain had passed and then we got this major windstorm out of nowhere, they said it was a once in a hundred years kind of weather phenomenon.

Either you have to scribe the lines in the new fender, or better yet just take a bit of superglue and fill the fuel filler and pretend it's not there. It's not like anyone's going to know but us... and then you could find an aftermarket racing style fuel filler and drill a hole somewhere appropriate for that, if you wanted to have a fuel filler somewhere. I'd take the easy route and fill the door that's on the car.

S&S is long gone (we're probably talking 15 years gone), and Arrowhead...I haven't heard anything good about them delivering anything in anything close to a timely fashion due to the illnesses and back problems and whatever else. You're going to need to figure out an alternative.