niteowl7710 Posted February 24, 2017 Posted February 24, 2017 I could care more.I have two each and the recently rereliesed AMT '29 Roadster / Kinda Ala-Kart.I'm sure there are many modelers here that would like at least one.It just being "another car" might just be the car they are interested in.Well then maybe they should have bought one when it came out. If there are still dozens of them floating around at this point in 1st line retail sales (Hobby Lobby, LHS, etc) then clearly the buying frenzy wasn't to the point where people were lined up outside of their local vendors like they were 14 y/o girls buying N'Sync tickets.Don't give me the financial sob story either, the '30 Ford was known about - thanks to the newspaper article about Revell where the mock-up was sitting in the background - for almost a year before it came out. Then there was over a 3 month warning on the basis of the quarterly flyer. If you couldn't scrape together the $22 over the course of 3-12 months, then frankly you probably don't need to have ANY hobby. This relentless - "Oh it'll be cheaper later" bit a bunch of you on the backside.
Jonathan Posted February 25, 2017 Posted February 25, 2017 For what it's worth, I stopped in at a Hobby Lobby today while visiting family. Wouldn't you know it - there was one 1930 Revell Ford Coupe on the shelf. I bought it. So, I suppose there are at least a few still in the wild. Maybe not dozens, but at least a few. Good hunting!
High octane Posted February 25, 2017 Posted February 25, 2017 There's a Revell '29 Ford Roadster kit still sitting on the shelf of my local Hobby Lobby as well.
socal76 Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 Jonathan, I still see the roadsters in Hobby Lobby, but I sure could use a couple of Coupes. Not seen any of those Coupes anywhere except the bay, and I just will not pay $45.00 and up for that kit. Call me cheap, call me thrifty!
socal76 Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 Jonathan, I still see the roadsters in Hobby Lobby, but I sure could use a couple of Coupes. Not seen any of those Coupes anywhere except the bay, and I just will not pay $45.00 and up for that kit. Call me cheap, call me thrifty!
1930fordpickup Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 Jonathan, I still see the roadsters in Hobby Lobby, but I sure could use a couple of Coupes. Not seen any of those Coupes anywhere except the bay, and I just will not pay $45.00 and up for that kit. Call me cheap, call me thrifty!I will just call you smart for not paying that much. If we ever get the Coupe back again they will sell briskly for the first few weeks out of the gate.
Modelbuilder Mark Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 I have PLENTY of other kits to build besides a '29 Roadster and a '30 Ford Coupe, so I could care less if Revell ever gets the issue resolved. I'm sure there are many other modelers who can live without these kits also. It's just another car. True, but so is every model kit. Using that same logic, why make any more models at all if they are all just another car? For me, it is a "missing" year/ make that will not only fill a Gap, but interests me a great deal. The reason there are more than one make and model to begin with is because everyone has different tastes, and thankfully so, as it would be a very dull world indeed if we had one car, one color, or everything else for that matter was exactly the same. That being said, if it does not come back, my world will not end, and i will still build models as I too have many kits, but that does not mean people do not desire it. Clearly, demand exists for the kit.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 11 pages, no hard info on what happened or when the kits will be back. Fascinating.
mk11 Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 11 pages, no hard info ... Wow! That's never happened before .... mike
Rob Hall Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 11 pages, no hard info on what happened or when the kits will be back. Fascinating.What is known is that Revell announced that the kits had been discontinued. The why is irrelevant to us, the consumers. The same kits or something similar may be issued in the future. That's all we know for now. Anything else is pointless speculation.
High octane Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 I saw Ed Sexton from Revell this morning at a local swap meet, and I didn't even bother to ask him 'bout the '29 Roadster and '30 Model A Coupe. One vendor had a '30 Coupe kit and was open to offers. I guess someone one the bay is selling one for $100 and that's not the "asking" price from what I've heard.
Tom Geiger Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 I heard that every time someone asks Ed the same tired old question, Revell puts production off another month!
Exotics_Builder Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 I heard that every time someone asks Ed the same tired old question, Revell puts production off another month!
High octane Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 Revell can put off production for as long as they want as I haven't even opened my '29 Model A Roadster or '30 Model A Coupe kits as of yet. I have other things to build.
keyser Posted February 27, 2017 Posted February 27, 2017 11 pages, no hard info on what happened or when the kits will be back. Fascinating. Good, time for mold related rumors! Wow! That's never happened before .... Nope, never could imagine I heard that every time someone asks Ed the same tired old question, Revell puts production off another month! Plus a troll slays a unicorn. All 3 of you owe me a keyboard. Funny chit, mang! Bwahahahahahaha
ChrisBcritter Posted February 27, 2017 Posted February 27, 2017 Swapped the one I got from HL (with the coupon) off to a dealer today for a Moebius Belvedere I - good deal, like getting 1/3 off on the Plymouth.
High octane Posted February 27, 2017 Posted February 27, 2017 Swapped the one I got from HL (with the coupon) off to a dealer today for a Moebius Belvedere I - good deal, like getting 1/3 off on the Plymouth.is that the one I saw Brian holding in his hands today at the Du Page show?
ChrisBcritter Posted February 27, 2017 Posted February 27, 2017 Could be - I didn't get the name of the gentleman I traded it to.
horsepower Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 I'm just hoping that they get enough in production for a replacement engine block. You'd think I would have learned by now that if I drop anything on the floor to go after it instantly, before my playful plastic chomping dachshund gets it. That little four legged trash compactor can crush a twelve ounce coke bottle in less than two minutes, and destroy a nice Chevrolet small block half in the time it takes to run around a queen size bed and jump on it. If they don't get any in soon I guess I can put a 427 parts pack engine in, or rob a block from something else and transplant the intake and accessories to it, I even looked at a 409, with the cross ram and it looks inviting, and the headers can be used with just a tiny bit of work. A lot easier than putting the Chrysler from the deuce coupe into it.
tim boyd Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Why not swap in the Nailhead from the Revell 29 Roadster kit? This is a simple swap.....and can be accomplished with no further modifications if you know the right parts to pull from the Roadster kit. I think there will be instructions on how to do this in the next issue of the other model car magazine. There are also instructions on how to further personalize the Nailhead in the newest (Issue #203) Model Cars magazine, published a couple of weeks ago.. TIM
stavanzer Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 The Small Block in the Rat Roaster might work too. I don't have the RR kit anymore, or I'd check it out for you.
tim boyd Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Alan makes a great suggestion for those that gotta have an SBC in their Ford hot rod.....and another excellent is the blown Chevy 327 in the '62 Corvette Gasser kit. Here is more on both of these engines.....
horsepower Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 I am kinda leaning to something that's not on the average hot rodders list (if they're under sixty years old anyway) the other engine I really like is the Olds out of the Orange crate kit, but with the tri-power stuff from the '50 Olds custom kit, or actually just the dress up parts and headers on the '50's engine, I don't like the idea of a blower on a vintage type street rod or the Olds from the original Stone Woods &Cook kit would be almost perfect, but again the headers aren't really in the mode I'm thinking of, there's also the Revell Cadillac parts pack motor, that just MIGHT be what I'm looking for, and it wouldn't be a Chevy in a Ford, but it ain't a Ford either. And it REALLY wouldn't be another "belly button" street rod.
tim boyd Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Del......sounds to me like what you need is the J2-like engine from the Revell '50 Olds Custom kit (the second release from that tool, not the first factory stock version). If you aren't familiar with this one, let me know and I can post pictures The other Olds option I like is the 4-71 blown Olds from the Beatnik Bandit kit. It has the same basic block as the Orange Crate, but is setup with a water pump/generator fan belt drive and dual strombergs - both important for street use. TIM
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