Surfboard I.D Help, Please

[Casey]

Does anyone recognize this surfboard, or know which kit in which it was included? It's molded in a dark (fine) metallic teal color, with an integrally molded skeg , an has two ejector pin marks on either side of the skeg. Overall length is 4.25" and max width is .710", and it's the same size and shape as two of the boards found in the Revell Surfite kit but the ejector pin marks are slightly different, and I don't think the Surfite was ever molded in this color, so I'm guessing it's from another Revell kit...'31 Ford "Woody", maybe?

Edited January 27, 2018 by Casey

[Mark]

The first issue of the Revell '31 Ford as the sedan delivery was molded in that color.

[Casey]

Never though to look at the Sedan delivery. Thanks, Mark, that's the one:

 

[Casey]

Also, are the surfboards found in the JO-HAN Heavenly Hearse and '59 Rambler Wagon kit the same? I have the below boards from various HH releases, but  the none from the Rambler wagon to compare:

[Mark]

The Rambler wagon boards look exactly like the ones pictured.  The accessories in the Rambler kit are drawn from various sources: '59 Dodge wheel covers,  Rambler American custom side pipes, Plymouth police wagon roof light, and so on. 

[ChrisBcritter]

On the Revell surfboards: The Bed Bug VW panel also used them; I have a couple molded in metallic brown.

[Casey]

1 hour ago, ChrisBcritter said:

On the Revell surfboards: The Bed Bug VW panel also used them; I have a couple molded in metallic brown.

Thanks, Chris. Another one added to the list. 

1 hour ago, Mark said:

The accessories in the Rambler kit are drawn from various sources: '59 Dodge wheel covers,  Rambler American custom side pipes, Plymouth police wagon roof light, and so on. 

Has that always been the case for the '59 Rambler Wagon kit? I ask because after looking at the runners on the two (I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly) Heavenly Hearse sections I have here, one area looks much more hand-modified than the other, making me wonder if the two surfboards and skegs were an insert swapped between various kit bases:

[Mark]

There's only the one issue of the Rambler wagon as a kit.  It wasn't offered as a '59 annual kit, and the original Jo-Han didn't offer it in the USA Oldies series (probably for lack of engine/chassis detail).  Their X-EL division did sell assembled reproduction promo models. but those don't even have an interior.  Some of the leftover X-EL items were sold in unassembled form, but like the assembled version those didn't have interiors.

The one issue of the kit was done post-SeVille, by Okey Spaulding's Johan.  Accessories like this are usually done as inserts.  As I understand it, most of Jo-Han's kit tooling consisted of a small number of mold bases, and a number of inserts had to be assembled upon one of them in order to produce a particular kit.  John Haenle was probably the only person who knew how it all worked; with him gone, subsequent owners of the Jo-Han tools were probably wandering around in the desert trying to figure any of it out.  SeVille didn't really do anything "new" during their tenure, all they did was repackage stuff that was intact from the end of the Haenle era.  Not that there was much left at the end anyway.  Okey only had two kits molded: the Rambler wagon, and the snap-together Chrysler Turbine car.  

The surfboards probably first appeared in the hearse kit in the Seventies (replacing the casket in the first issue), so they would have been an insert.