Need a 1967 car

[r60man]

So my local club is having a contest in a couple of months, "anything 1967". I typically build race cars and I have poked around on the web but nothing really peaks my interests. Any ideas? The more unusual the better.

[Snake45]

1967 was a great year for race cars. What type of racers do you usually build?

[Gramps46]

1967 was a great year with a Ford GTMKIV winning Le Mans with AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney.  Both IMC  and MPC made kits of the winner.

[iBorg]

Super stock Mustang or early funny car.

[espo]

This would depend on what type of race cars you are thinking about. Drag racing, NASCAR, SCCA Trans Am, and many others. Also is there a brand that is more appealing than any other to you ? For 1967 there are more options than you may think. I'll start with GM, Chevrolet would probably offer the widest selection there. The Impala, Chevelle SS 396, both AMT and Revell., and the Camaro or Corvette. If Fords are more interesting to you the new tool Revell Ford tudoor or wagon, the Thunderbird, and even the old tool AMT '57 Fairlane 500 has a lot to offer. Mopar is a little slim on '57 offerings but the old tool AMT '58 Plymouth might be something you could use to back date to a '57 model. I don't know what all is out there in the Import side but I'm sure there is a few. Does this help in anyway ?   

[Bucky]

1967 was a year of "Firsts".

1967 Camaro, Firebird, Cougar.

1967 GTX.

1967 Coronet R/T.

First year for big block Barracuda.

First year for big block Mustang.

New body styles for Ford and Chevy pickups.

 

Several opportunities here for 1967.

[HomerS]

1967 Corvette 427ci/435hp

[Bucky]

First front drive Caddy....1967 ElDorado.

[Richard Bartrop]

1967 has the Jaguar E-type, the Lamborghini Miura, the Buick Riviera.... 1967 has a bumper crop of attractive cars. You say you like race cars, but that covers a lot of territory.

If you want unusual, I think Tamiya's 1/12 Honda F1 car is a '67, and of course there's the STP turbine Indy car.   Heller did a Alpine A110. 

 

[Bucky]

You could build Richard Petty's 1967 NASCAR champion Plymouth, although it is actually a '66 Belvedere.

https://autoweek.com/article/monster-energy-nascar-cup/dream-season-richard-petty-set-nascar-records-1967-will-never-be

[stitchdup]

one of those toyota 2000gt cars would be pretty unusual, and I think there is a race version as a kit but for the life of me I cant remeber who made it, possibly fujimi

[Bucky]

9 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

one of those toyota 2000gt cars would be pretty unusual, and I think there is a race version as a kit but for the life of me I cant remeber who made it, possibly fujimi

Hasegawa makes this one and a car with number 1 on it.

[afx]

[Foxer]

I've been working on the '67 TR4A I had in 1/24 resin, but this smaller version even has an engine.

[Xingu]

1967 Dodge Charger. These kits can still be found fairly cheap on eBay.

[Classicgas]

67 Chevy Impala. Should be easy to find.

[r60man]

You guys are great. I am loving the Toyota 2000GT, now to see if I can find one at a reasonable price. Thanks again.

[niteowl7710]

6 hours ago, r60man said:

You guys are great. I am loving the Toyota 2000GT, now to see if I can find one at a reasonable price. Thanks again.

All three of them have been recently reissued/released in 2018, so they're plentiful and should be easy to find for the normal price  ($24-28 in Japan).

[chepp]

If the rules really mean "anything 1967" it was the Summer of Love so a hippie flower-power deco'd VW microbus of any year older than 1968 ought to be OK.

[Junkman]

This is my 1967 car.

Note total absence of Flower Power, strangely enough.
Being first registered in Paris, it miraculously escaped the May 1968 Flower Power celebrations there as well.

Although one could hardly call it a race car, they have been raced.
A very nice 1/20 scale kit was made by Heller, which was later reissued by Union.

[Jantrix]

On 1/5/2019 at 6:04 PM, r60man said:

 The more unusual the better.

How about one of the old MPC offerings with the very dated banner graphics like the Corvette or Charger, build it up USING said graphics.

[oldcarfan]

You could do Revell's 1968 Beetle, or maybe a nice VW van as a hippie-mobile. Lots of groovy slogans and daisies painted on it. I also remember seeing a picture of a Beetle that was owned by a pest control company from back in that time that had mouse teeth under the bumper, mouse ears on the top and a tail sticking up on the rear deck.