Resin 69 AMC Rebel

[GMP440]

Has any one purchased the resin 69 AMC Rebel SMH?  How is the casting quality.  Is it the stock body? Thanks.

[DrKerry]

It shows it's stock or funny car...

http://stores.smhracing.com/johan-69-rebel-stock-funny-car/

I'd like to get the bumpers from him as I've been looking for a pair of bumpers for many years for this year of Rebel!!!!!

[Mr mopar]

I have other casting from SMH and they are really good, very smooth and nice detail. if this helps you ?

[Ron Hamilton]

I have their '70 Road Runner, and it is very good. It is based from the old 1/25 JoHan, which I prefer over the Revell 1/24 offering. I scrapped an old broken, built up '70 Super bird I built back when I was in high school for the interior and the chassis. I may adapt an AMT '68 Road Runner chassis and running gear to it for a more detailed build.

I looked at their catalog, and they have some interesting pieces I may have to invest in.

[Rob Hall]

Looks good...guess you would have to find a Jo-Han '70 Rebel Machine for the chassis, engine and interior...

[Sportabout]

Looks good...guess you would have to find a Jo-Han '70 Rebel Machine for the chassis, engine and interior...

This is not correct way to build 1969 Rebel.

1970 Rebel Machine kit has wrong dash, engine, tranny and old torque tube chassis. A bit the same as putting X-frame chassis to 1969 Chevelle. It is a challenge to build correct AMC but you can use Mustang/Torino/Talladega chassis and AMT Gremlin/Matador engine and modify them.

[Rob Hall]

This is not correct way to build 1969 Rebel.

1970 Rebel Machine kit has wrong dash, engine, tranny and old torque tube chassis. A bit the same as putting X-frame chassis to 1969 Chevelle. It is a challenge to build correct AMC but you can use Mustang/Torino/Talladega chassis and AMT Gremlin/Matador engine and modify them.

Chassis should be the same from '69-70...  The '70 Rebel was just a restyle of the rear clip..the Johan '69 and '70 should be the same under the skin..

Edited July 13, 2017 by Rob Hall

[Sportabout]

Chassis should be the same from '69-70...  The '70 Rebel was just a restyle of the rear clip..the Johan '69 and '70 should be the same under the skin..

You are right but only with 1:1 Rebels. Those had normal rear spring suspension and drive shaft in 1967-70, not old torque tube that dropped away in 1966. Only Rebel 1966 had torque tube chassis.

Despite it Jo-Han Rebel kits 69-70 have old gen 1 327 V8 engine, unknown manual tranny and torque tube chassis from '66 Marlin. Interior is from Ambassador. A real  jigsaw puzzle like sadly famous Jo-Han '69 SC/Rambler ('66 body, convertible interior and so on).

Luckily those kits bodies are quite nice and it is possible to build correct models.

[Mark]

The ideal chassis to use would probably be the Jo-Han Ambassador/Rebel/Marlin (from the firewall forward) with the rest coming from an AMT Matador coupe.  You'd need a stock Matador kit; the later NASCAR and Sportsman issues have alterations like a fuel cell.

The resin body is probably being done more with the funny car version in mind, even though the 1:1 never ran as a '69.

[Merkur XR4Ti]

I built my Johan Rebel Machine with the engine from a Matador kit. It's more or less a drop in fit.

 

I just used the kit chassis as it wasn't worth it for me to make substantial changes in that area.