1966 Chevy Impala Modified Stocker

[Drag Monster]

This has to be the worst fitting kit I have ever built. I started this kit thinking it would be a quick box stock build. Almost nothing on this kit fit without reworking the parts. This is the first kit in this series I have built, are the rest as poor fitting. 

[1930fordpickup]

Looks good, being an old race car a little twist would be the norm. 

[Tom Geiger]

The Modified Stockers were to be the last hurrah for obsolete tooling that the then AMT saw as worthless.  So a number of annuals were hacked... yea, hacked into stockers to get a bit more revenue out of the tooling. They are not accurate stock car, note that the primary market then was kids. 

I have all the reissued ones, and the only one I have experience with is the Falcon.  They must not have even had the interior bucket for that one since the interior... or lack of one..  builds off the floor, or actually the top side of the chassis, indents and all.  So yes they are a challenge to build, and something we all bought because we remembered them from when we were kids.

[shoopdog]

Regardless of the kit quality, yours is looking might fine. I'm really liking the paint scheme and can't wait to see it finished.

I built the 65 Olds 88 stocker and it was definitely lacking but turned out ok.

Edited April 9, 2018 by shoopdog

[Sledsel]

It is looking good to me.

I have only done the Olds so far and really had no problems with it. Now, I did a bunch of work to it out of personal preference.

The front suspension bugged me, so I grafted the front of the frame from a Monogram 70 Chevelle. The Chevelle was 1/24 and the Olds 1/25, and the frame lined up really nicely. Granted, the frame is not super detailed, but better than it was.