Round 2 September 2025

[sfhess]

The "Street Machine" 69 Cougar (molded in tan styrene) still has the XR 7 parts.  The later 428CJ and Eliminator versions Lost the XR 7 seats and badging.  Those versions have high-back front seats.

[Robberbaron]

On 8/28/2025 at 11:10 PM, Shon Wittenbarger said:

I don't know who is calling the shots at Round 2, but they need to go. The Nova is another reissue they have butcherd. I bought 2 of them when it first came out in the 70s. It was a Pro Stock not Pro Street when it first came out. Again they have halfa$$ a pretty decent kit, they have taken the fiber glass bucket seats out and put the puffed up bucket seats in it and added mufflers and of course a new decal sheet.

        They screwed up the Baja Patrol reissue, and now they screwed this one up.  I can not tell you when the last time I have bought a kit from them. I not going to pay the price what they want for a kit with less parts and more decals. It's beginning to be a joke.

Round 2 didn't butcher anything.  Sounds like your beef goes back about 45 years and four owners ago, when they were briefly owned by Lesney/Matchbox.  That's when the current configuration of this kit came out as a mash up between the original "Pro Stock" and the factory stock versions.  Think its been fifty years since the race buckets were included in the original '75 Pro Stock version.

This new reissue box art pays homage to that original Pro Stock release, but with the needed description change to "Pro Street" along with revising the grill to the 76-78 style.  As the tooling currently exists, I'd wager that it's probably not possible to reissue it as either a straight pro stock or factory stock anymore.  I think Round 2 would have done that if they could.

And no, I don't think enough interest exists to justify retooling any parts for either of those versions.  With the awful roof proportions of this body, that would just be turd polishing

 

Edited Monday at 04:11 AM by Robberbaron

[Ragtop Man]

Use the Nova body on a cut down throwaway RC GM NA$CAR chassis from the early '90s give it a touch of the dremel and tune it a skosh, presto, BGN car.

With all the colors and decals on the body, it hides the hideous proportions. 

With dremel work (more than I'd anticipated frankly) the much-better MPC X-Body chasis sit nicely on the pro-whateveryacallit chassis. 

[Stt226]

Definitely looking forward to The scorpion, nova , hurst olds since I’ve never had the pleasure of building one and the Chevy Extreme.   The Cougar also intrigues me but the hot wheels packaging and it being molded in red is a turn off. Wondering if you can build it stock? The 69 Chevelle I would not even give it a second look because of the much superior revell one.