1/25 AMT '68 Chevy Corvette Custom

[pack rat]

6 minutes ago, Jack L said:

it had 2pc open wheels , kelsey mag star 1  wheels and daton raidial laced wire wheels

Those Dayton laced wheels must be the ones that I'm thinking were the stock-ish wheels on the annual; I seem to recall seeing them somewhere else too.....The T.H.E. Cat maybe?

The Acelerator had the open wheels as well.

 

[Jack L]

14 hours ago, pack rat said:

Those Dayton laced wheels must be the ones that I'm thinking were the stock-ish wheels on the annual; I seem to recall seeing them somewhere else too.....The T.H.E. Cat maybe?

The Acelerator had the open wheels as well.

 

yes they are in the  Cat Corvette kit

[deuces wild]

15 hours ago, Jack L said:

it had 2pc open wheels , kelsey mag star 1  wheels and daton raidial laced wire wheels

Are these the kelsey mags you were referring to????....

[Jack L]

5 minutes ago, deuces wild said:

Are these the kelsey mags you were referring to????....

no they are the 5 spoke ones

[deuces wild]

Ok, sorry....

[Rob Hall]

28 minutes ago, deuces wild said:

Are these the kelsey mags you were referring to????....

Those are neat wheels.  Never seen them in 1:1.  Similar to something I’ve seen in some older AMT kits.  

[deuces wild]

Apparently they were an option on the Dick Harrell 427 Camaros... I  don't know anything else about those... Sorry...?

[keyser]

They’re in AMT 53 Vette and 66 Merc off top of my head. Cool. 

[pack rat]

1 hour ago, deuces wild said:

Are these the kelsey mags you were referring to????....

Here are the Mag Star i wheels

[deuces wild]

Those almost look like the ones in the Revell '69 Shelby GT-500 kit.... Thank you!...

[deuces wild]

1 hour ago, keyser said:

They’re in AMT 53 Vette and 66 Merc off top of my head. Cool. 

I think I have that Merc kit.. I'll have to look...

[Snake45]

Oh, and a tip for those of you thinking of losing the ugly hood and swapping in one from some other AMT, MPC, or Revell C3 kit: It won't work. This kit's hood shape is completely unique and nothing else will fit in there without extensive adaptation/modification. 

[stavanzer]

Thanks, Richard, you read my mind. At least you have saved me fruitless searching.

[keyser]

I had Accelerator. Body pretty awful. Bought Greenwood not realizing it was same lump. 
Mag stars still in parts bin. Now I know where they’re from. 

[Justin Porter]

It's genuinely impressive to me how much buzz a kit with proportion issues this bad is generating. According to Scalemates it has been ten years since the last time the Revell '68 Roadster was issued and I am certain that if Revell announced it was coming back out third quarter this year it would barely register.

[dodgefever]

This is the chrome sprue in the original annual issue (grille & bumpers fell off):

And the rest:

 

[stavanzer]

So, large Chunks of what will be in the new kit then.

Thank You for posting these photos' They will be useful for a comparison when the new kit comes out.

[Snake45]

5 hours ago, Justin Porter said:

It's genuinely impressive to me how much buzz a kit with proportion issues this bad is generating. According to Scalemates it has been ten years since the last time the Revell '68 Roadster was issued and I am certain that if Revell announced it was coming back out third quarter this year it would barely register.

Well, I've still got three or four of the Revell '68 roadsters in the stash, but I've never had this kit--not a new one, anyway (I do have a couple restorable glue bombs). 

[1972coronet]

Silly enquiry: is the Revell 1968 Corvette a different kit than the 1969 coupe (i.e., not up-dated to a '69 model from its 1968 origins)?

[Don Sikora II]

1 hour ago, 1972coronet said:

Silly enquiry: is the Revell 1968 Corvette a different kit than the 1969 coupe (i.e., not up-dated to a '69 model from its 1968 origins)?

Correct, the Revell Corvette roadster remains a 1968 model. Only the coupe uses the 1969 parts. 

[blizzy63]

On 2/8/2022 at 10:03 AM, pack rat said:

Here are the Mag Star i wheels

Mag Star I ad, Road & Track, January 1966.

The AMT '67 and '68 Ford Galaxie annual kits featured these 'mags'.

Edited February 9, 2022 by blizzy63

[Casey]

Here are the instruction sheets for the T 389 John Greenwood GTCorvette: https://modelkitreviews.proboards.com/thread/1356/amt-389-john-greenwoods-corvette

...and the ACCLLERATOR Street 'N' Strip 'Vette: https://modelkitreviews.proboards.com/thread/965/amt-accellerator-street-strip-vette

Some unique and interesting parts for sure.

[stavanzer]

I don't see how the '67 Vette Grille that is on the chrome tree is going to fit this kit.

I guess that the '67 Grille is leftover from when the chrome tree was used on a '67 Vette? 

Casey is correct. Some great parts and kitbashing possibilities in this box.

[kjohan]

Looked at the Greenwood instructions

Therein it is said the wheels are Minilites (which is correct acc to what I understand)
But there are infos (complaints) saying that the wheels are of a 5-spoke design (Kelsey hayes perhaps?), which is incorrect

= confused 

Are there several versions of the 1971 Greenwood Sebring car , with different wheels ?

[SteveG]

13 minutes ago, alexis said:

I don't see how the '67 Vette Grille that is on the chrome tree is going to fit this kit.

I guess that the '67 Grille is leftover from when the chrome tree was used on a '67 Vette? 

Casey is correct. Some great parts and kitbashing possibilities in this box.

Yes, it's a leftover part from a previous version but surprisingly it fits in the opening fairly well.   I actually like it better than the Greewood bumper-grille part. 

-Steve