1/25 Revell SnapTite Taxi/Fire Chief Chevy Caprice

[martinfan5]

16 hours ago, gray07 said:

ive always liked the chopped off rear fenderwells, couldnt u put the ss frame and interier in this to make a fancy stock chevy

The frame/chassis is the same between the SS and the Caprice kits, the only difference is two extra holes on the SS one for the second exhaust pipe. 

 

[StanGlover]

I should probably post this in the wanted section, but since this topic is relatively current: does anyone have a front and rear windshield set for a glue kit ‘94 Impala SS (or other compatible version) they’d want to trade for? Send me a pm!

[OldNYJim]

On 3/6/2021 at 4:51 AM, Captain Spaulding said:

was surprised the amount of detail it had for a snap kit.

Agreed!  I'm just starting to dig into one of these now too, and it's well done!  The engine suffers from simplification the most, it looks like, but so much of the block is hidden anyway that I THINK it's not worth re-engineering it completely or finding other parts to swap in.

[Luc Janssens]

Even tho it's possible, I wonder if there still a market for this kit.

[av405]

19 minutes ago, Luc Janssens said:

Even tho it's possible, I wonder if there still a market for this kit.

I wonder how sales have been for the recent re-issues of the 94 Impala SS and other older-style police car kits. We're at the point where a re-release of the Caprice could be marketed as a "vintage police car." If Revell could include a comprehensive decal sheet with NYPD/other major agency markings and some light bars, wheel options, and other goodies, I think it would stand a chance.

They could even re-tool the Impala SS into a 1994-1996 Caprice since I know the original 91 Caprice tooling was changed to make the SS. That would probably be more realistic than making the significant body changes back to a 91. A 1994-1996 Caprice police car would technically be an all new kit ? 

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by av405

[av405]

Double post.

Edited July 13, 2023 by av405

[Luc Janssens]

13 minutes ago, av405 said:

I wonder how sales have been for the recent re-issues of the 94 Impala SS and other older-style police car kits. We're at the point where a re-release of the Caprice could be marketed as a "vintage police car." If Revell could include a comprehensive decal sheet with NYPD/other major agency markings and some light bars, wheel options, and other goodies, I think it would stand a chance.

They could even re-tool the Impala SS into a 1994-1996 Caprice since I know the original 91 Caprice tooling was changed to make the SS. That would probably be more realistic than making the significant body changes back to a 91. A 1994-1996 Caprice police car would technically be an all new kit ? 

 

IMHO making the trunklid a separate piece and some body mods could facilitate both models to come out of the same tooling, preferably as the final model year for both. but again is there ROI?

[av405]

4 minutes ago, Luc Janssens said:

but again is there ROI?

Again, I think that goes back to examining how sales of other vintage police car kits have gone. I realize it's a different company, but AMT has had more police re-issues recently and I wonder how those kits have done (including the CHP Monaco). As an outsider, I would think that you could find some ROI in using an existing tooling as a basis for a new variant never released before. Plus the 1996 Caprice is one of those cars that just about every agency used, so the possibilities would be endless. 

Edited July 13, 2023 by av405