Revell '57 Chevy Black Widow question

[TonyK]

Years ago I built the Revell kit that had the #64 box art and liked it so much that I recently bought the kit with the Daytona beach #47 box art. I thought it was the same kit but looking at the instructions doesn't seem to have the details to build a stock car as much as I recall. Also, looking at my original build it has racing exhaust going through the frame and exiting out the side of the car. This new kit doesn't have this exhaust system.

Am I forgetting what I had done to the previous build? Am I nuts or is this new kit changed from the fist version? And not for the better.

[64Comet404]

The original kit never had the side exhaust; that was a detail the builder had to add. I haven't bought the second version of the kit (still have a few of the originals), but sounds like there are no major changes.

[espo]

1 hour ago, TonyK said:

Years ago I built the Revell kit that had the #64 box art and liked it so much that I recently bought the kit with the Daytona beach #47 box art. I thought it was the same kit but looking at the instructions doesn't seem to have the details to build a stock car as much as I recall. Also, looking at my original build it has racing exhaust going through the frame and exiting out the side of the car. This new kit doesn't have this exhaust system.

Am I forgetting what I had done to the previous build? Am I nuts or is this new kit changed from the fist version? And not for the better.

Have you looked thru the parts in the box yet to verify that everything is there?  I'll mention a bit of trivia that may or may or may not apply to your kit. As I recall the second reissue of the Black Widow kit had a parts issue. Somehow the Bel Air trimmed two door body got put in instead of the 150 body. When Revelle realized the problem, they bought back all of the models from the hobby shops.  I happened to be at my local shop when all this was happening, and I was looking for another Black Widow kit to build. The owner was telling me about the issue and the kit I wanted had the wrong body in it. He went ahead and sold it to me for what the return price would have been for him. I wish I could remember what the car numbers were on the box, but it was some time ago and the boxes are gone. This is why I'm mentioning if you have inventoried what's in the box. Maybe, and only maybe, you may have found one of the kits with the wrong body. In my case everything in the box was the same as the first issue but had the Bel Air body instead of the 150 body. 

[TonyK]

Thanks for the replies. I compared the body in the new kit with my built model and it looks exactly the same.

I'm guessing I may have had some tips from the Internet to change things on the model to replicate the real stock car because there is nothing in the instructions to do this. It was awhile ago and I'm getting older so it's easy to forget. I was surprised I did a decent job before so will have to use my built model as a guide to build another. btw, I got some nice decals from Mike's to do this one as the decals in the kit are a bit generic. Nice, but wanted a more complete version.