72 Jeepster. Anyone know anything about this coming out.

[M W Elky]

On 8/20/2025 at 11:01 AM, stavanzer said:

Um, A few Things.

427 Ford "Cammer" engine.

The Neat Soft Top and Clever Surfboard Rack.....

The Snow Plow... Note that except for the Plow, everything else shown on this boxart is in the the newest re-issues.

The Bottoms Up Drag Car. Note that between Step 1, and step 4, there is no mention of the Gearbox/Final Drive unit that connects the Trans to the backwards rear axle.

Just by using these directions, any MPC CJ5 Kit could be kit-bashed to the Wheelstander.....

 

That’s the jeepster I was hoping for

[Volzfan59]

On 8/1/2025 at 2:36 PM, 66c10 said:

Does anyone know when pre order will be for this kit 

I pre-ordered one from Auto World last week. Supposed to ship in September.

[gui_tarzan]

I pre-ordered mine on Aug 1st, it's still showing "waiting for fulfillment" where I ordered it. 

[mikemodeler]

I believe they have shipped to the distributors, just a matter of time before they end up at the hobby shops and online sellers

 

[ChrisBcritter]

If you are masochistic creative enough to want to recreate the early full wheel covers:

...then here's your source. Looks like the V-6 wasn't the only tooling Jeep got from Buick:

You'd just have to very carefully carve off those ten extra blades the Electra got, drill out the centers for the fronts and add the Jeepster kit centers to the rears. 

[stavanzer]

Here is HPI Guys review.

 

[stavanzer]

Another Video on the Jeepster.

Petersen Automotive Museum.

 

[gui_tarzan]

I had a '64 Buick Special that had that engine in it. It was very peppy! 

[stavanzer]

That's the engine that's in the kit, too.

Nice Shots of it in the Video. Great close ups of the Dash too.

[garagepunk66]

On 9/8/2025 at 12:52 AM, ChrisBcritter said:

If you are masochistic creative enough to want to recreate the early full wheel covers:

...then here's your source. Looks like the V-6 wasn't the only tooling Jeep got from Buick:

You'd just have to very carefully carve off those ten extra blades the Electra got, drill out the centers for the fronts and add the Jeepster kit centers to the rears. 

I think it might be easiest instead, to 3D scan those, manipulate the image, then 3D print some. 

Edited Monday at 02:11 AM by garagepunk66

[mikemodeler]

my pre-ordered kit from Wes's Model Car Corner showed up yesterday, haven't had a chance to open it up but pretty stoked about the full cab being back in the kit!