Keeler's Kustom '23 pickup

[rattle can man]

I've been trying to find an unboxing/ review/ kit contents photo to no avail. I was just wondering are there extra parts like the yellow fever, Skorpion, etc. For me it has a big draw back because it has a SBC as one of the engines.

[Ace-Garageguy]

21 minutes ago, rattle can man said:

I was just wondering are there extra parts like the yellow fever, etc. .

This is another of Atlantis's semi-repops of Revell's double kits from the 1960s that were made up from the then-current parts packs.

So...yes...it has a lot of extra parts. The extra engine is a 427 Ford, which can be built either blown/injected, or with two 4bbl carbs.

The Ford engine is this parts-pack kit tree, not chromed:

 

 

Edited Saturday at 02:53 AM by Ace-Garageguy

[Mark]

The parts trees with the wheels, and the chassis accessories (axles, brakes, radius rods) are the same in all of the Keeler's Kustoms kits.  That's not a bad thing; again they are the ex-Parts Pack items.  Slicks and tires are the same too (similar to the Revell Pirelli front tires, dragster front tires, and M&H slicks) only the Atlantis ones have no brand name detail.

Frame is the roadster parts pack frame with flat side rails (as opposed to the round tubular unit in the Fiat coupe kit).

As with all of these kits, if you know what you are getting, then you know you are getting a pile of parts in each kit.  But, some massaging is needed to get everything to work as a unit.  The parts packs sort of work with one another, some minor rework was done to combine them into car kits, but they still don't fall together out of the box.  On the flip side, if you know what you are looking at and can ID parts not shown in the instructions, you have many more building options.

[rattle can man]

Thankyou both! I knew it was based on the parts packs. I just wasn't sure which engine was the second one or is the suspension, wheels, etc. were the same ones. It will probably be a kit I will get if I find it on sale/ clearance.

[sidcharles]

21 hours ago, Mark said:

. . .  parts trees with the wheels, and the chassis accessories . . . 

i like the added bonus that some trees which were originally gaudy [= chromed] are now, not.

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 hours ago, sidcharles said:

i like the added bonus that some trees which were originally gaudy [= chromed] are now, not.

Yeah, I've yet to see a chromed engine block on a real car...though somebody's surely done it.  

[stitchdup]

20 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yeah, I've yet to see a chromed engine block on a real car...though somebody's surely done it.  

Dave Shuten has

[sidcharles]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

. . . yet to see a chromed engine block. . . 

very much like the "All You Can Eat" buffet.

just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[Chris V]

23 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yeah, I've yet to see a chromed engine block on a real car...though somebody's surely done it.  

I'm pretty sure that the Oldsmobile engine in John Gregarthy's famous "Grasshopper" '23 T, which was the direct inspiration for Monogram's original "Green Hornet" kit, was fully chromed (not so sure if the car ever ran under its own power, though...).

[Mark]

2 hours ago, Chris V said:

I'm pretty sure that the Oldsmobile engine in John Gregarthy's famous "Grasshopper" '23 T, which was the direct inspiration for Monogram's original "Green Hornet" kit, was fully chromed (not so sure if the car ever ran under its own power, though...).

The plated block had parts of it cut out prior to plating, it couldn't run.  They may have put a running engine in for racing.  Or, like a number of other cars, it was raced first, found to be uncompetitive, then rebuilt into a show car.  The Orange Crate Deuce sedan falls into this category.

The Benicki Brothers (sp?) Chrome Coffin competition roadster also had a chromed engine block and heads.  Again, not sure it was raced with the chromed block.  And again, once determined it wasn't competitive, sold to Carl Casper who changed the intake setup and body making it into the Undertaker dragster.

[Mark]

Too, at an ISCA car show in the late Seventies, someone had a completely chrome plated small-block Windsor Ford engine on a stand.  Chrome block, heads, exhaust manifolds, sheet metal "Powered by Ford" valve covers, stock air cleaner, the whole nine yards.  It was supposedly going to be put in a custom Ford van.

[rattle can man]

If it don 't go, chrome it! AS I stated earlier, I'm just looking at this a box of non-chrome parts- packs. I have a bunch of '90's era chrome Revell engines packs, so these issues will save me from stripping chrome. I would love to see the grille parts packs re-released.

Edited Monday at 05:25 PM by rattle can man
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[bytownshaker]

During the late 70's we had a guy with a 67 GTX with a tilt front end and a very healthy 440 cruising the street. The following spring he showed up with a fully chromed engine, we only saw it out that one night as the chrome peeled off the internal surfaces and plugged the oil pump pickup and seized the engine and couldn't afford to repair it that year.