Fat Brian

I've noticed that problem with a lot of Revell kits, I don't know why they cant get that area right.

I scratch built this one. The ribbed portion is from a Plastruct sheet with Evergreen strip around it. The other bits are more Evergreen and the chains are from the Hobby Lobby jewelry section. It's meant to look home built and doesn't represent any specific style or brand. This one is pretty much the same, the handles are from the Revell snap Peterbilt kit.

That looks very good, Dave. I bought a stock grille, rear bumper, and hood from a resin company and I'm going to take the back half of the Bobby Isaac cars roof and the top of the rear quarters and trunk area and transplant them onto the Revell kit along with some of the area around the grille.

Ok, how I noticed the difference was I wanted to build a better detailed stock 72 so I tried to swap the Bobby Isaac stock car body onto the Revell chassis. When comparing the two kits it's like putting a 1/24th kit next to a 1/25th kit, I haven't run the numbers to see which one is correct.

I've noticed that too with the AMT body, I dont know if the Johan body is different.

If you want to build it stock the Revell Starsky and Hutch Torino car will give you some good stock pieces.

Nothing beats actual firsthand info, thanks KJ. It's odd though the 6-71 wasn't even listed as an available engine option.

Based on the link Jim posted you've got two easy engine options, the 8v-71 Brian mentioned or a Cummins NHC-250. The 8v-71 was most recently available in the California Hauler kit and the Cummins is in the Freightliner cabover kits. I'm sure you could trade for either one pretty easily.

The Louisville kit will have the right wheels. Do you know what engine the hauler had? The Louisville has a Caterpillar diesel engine that was used in lots of brands of trucks while the C600 has a Ford gasoline engine.

This is an issue for me. I still have unfinished builds from my teens and early twenties, probably a third of my kits overall at least. I had severe kit ADD back then and just jumped from one build to another constantly. Now that I'm older and my skills are improved I have trouble going back and working on these kits when the quality isn't up to my current work. So they get used as donors and if the concept is sound I'll start again with a new kit.

I can't remember if the tunnel ram intake is on that parts tree or a separate one.

If this kits ends up getting the parts for the overhead cam Hemi there are better carbs on that parts tree.

I attached the front and rear before I put the chassis in on mine, I think I might have had to shorten the front of the frame just a touch but you dont notice it once its together.

Great info everyone and it matches my recollection of the car. It didn't, and still doesn't, have a/c so the orange engine is correct. By the time I was around the car in the late 80's it had been through 16 owners so it wasn't 100% stock anymore. One of them added the big oval air cleaner from the 440 model but I dont know if the under hood duct work was there.

I want to replicate a neighbor's car from my childhood, probably THE car that got me into cars in the first place. Also, what color should it be? I'd swear it was orange but I was pretty young at the time.

That kit shares a ton of parts with the Monogram Chevy and GMC trucks so you can pull just about anything you need from currently available kits.

That Blazer is a good find.

I've seen reviews of this kit, it looks amazing. I don't really have room for 1/48 aircraft but I've got a 1/72 Academy P-38 I'll get to eventually.

Maybe what was once lost has now been found? They're definitely digging deep in the stash.

Even though I didn't do many modifications to the kit one of my favorite builds is my 59 Eldorado. It's one of those builds where I just totally nailed my initial vision.

TWINNSIES!!!

The Nova's are supposed to be in the pipeline, no definitive date though.

So who told the other guy it was coming? That was from official Round2 channels.

The Hobbytown near me had all their Testors paints in clearance when I was there two weeks ago. At that time they said that the paints were coming back but in Rustoleum packaging. The total discontinuation of hobby paints is news to me.

It's a shame they didn't do the printed windows like in the Monte Carlo kit.