Salvinos JR 1/25 Tour Type Modified

[Justin Porter]

For oval racing fans, these are probably some of the most exciting kits that Salvinos has announced in some time. Preorders were opened at two of my wholesale distributors today and I am seriously looking forward to putting these kits on my shop's shelves. 

[shoopdog]

NICE!

[Bowtienutz]

Wes has posted many videos of the process of bringing this into reality you can preorder from his site. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1715810092006055/media .

https://wesmodelcarcorner.myshopify.com/

[stavanzer]

Wow! A potential Game Changer!

I cannot wait to see more details on these kits.

[bbowser]

Great news!  This will be a must have.

[Vettegasser]

Can't wait for mi e to arrive. Really looking forward to this one 

[OldNYJim]

Oh AWESOME!  Need a couple of these for sure!  Way cool!

[Rbray47]

I can see a lot of these being rebodied. 

[stavanzer]

Going to be a whole lot of Vac-u-form bodies for these in a few months.

[Justin Porter]

I would imagine so as far as aftermarket updates to capture some of the variations in roof and window cutout. The box art cars show two different roofs and two different noses and while nothing has been shown as far as the finished plastic I wouldn't imagine that Salvinos is going to go to those lengths to capture such subtle things.

More critically, I am hoping that it won't be long before we get some New England schemes in decal form for these kits. I know I'd be inclined to build Jon McKennedy's car.  

[TonyK]

Yes, I'll be getting a couple of these!

[Jim B]

These look pretty cool.  Probably much better quality than the MPC modified cars.

[stavanzer]

I would think, that much like the old MPC Modified's, that one tree of Air Cleaners, Bumpers, Nerf Bars & Hoods, could cater to any differences in cars, as long as the Body Shell stayed the same. And like the MPC Kits, different body shells could be used, giving many variants.

From a tooling & kit engineering stand point, these will be some fascinating kits to see.  I really look forward to seeing them.

Do these cars race both Dirt Track and Pavement?

[Justin Porter]

16 hours ago, stavanzer said:

I would think, that much like the old MPC Modified's, that one tree of Air Cleaners, Bumpers, Nerf Bars & Hoods, could cater to any differences in cars, as long as the Body Shell stayed the same. And like the MPC Kits, different body shells could be used, giving many variants.

From a tooling & kit engineering stand point, these will be some fascinating kits to see.  I really look forward to seeing them.

Do these cars race both Dirt Track and Pavement?

These cars are dedicated pavement cars. Salvinos already had said they were taking a very "general" approach with the chassis as opposed to reflecting small variations between various chassis suppliers (Troyer vs LFR and so on) so I would imagine they'll offer small variations but nothing too radical as the cars in a field of Tour modifieds are all quite similar to each other. IMCA style modifieds (sometimes called economy modifieds or e-mods) run dirt or asphalt and have a bit more variation between each other, but even in those cases dirt and asphalt cars have become quite specialized in terms of chassis and bodywork. 

As far as the dirt side of things, I would absolutely LOVE a kit of a modern big block dirt modified but I realize that's even more niche than an asphalt Tour modified. 

[WGaree]

I’m looking forward to these  

[stavanzer]

Read over on the Other Board, that these kits are supposed to have 2 intakes and 2 hoods, so that you can simulate a FOMOCO or GM Motor. It will be neat to see what else might be offered as build options.

Probably just one kit, and many, many decals....

[Justin Porter]

Builders should be expecting this kit to be hitting their local hobby shop's shelves fairly soon. They hit both of my distributors late last week and sold out at the distributors VERY fast.