AMT 1960 Chevy Nomad Wagon and 1965 Barracuda Craftsman Plus Kits Interesting Features.

[Ragtop Man]

I'm recalling a magazine story (HRM?) that showed the original Mk 1. Mod 0 HUG being fitted with a S/S cross ram Hemi. 

Front suspension was stock, or darn close.

Anyone have that to post? 

[Mark]

The original HUG did have stock front suspension and a cross-ram Hemi.  Like the Little Red Wagon, it was originally intended to be a racing package.  The injectors went on both because they were easier to deal with in a wheelstand situation.

[John M.]

Do both cars have provisions for a modeler to install an engine of any type? When I saw the R2 video featuring the Nomad and Barracuda, the bottom of the boxes that featured the parts trees showed the hoods of both cars that were separated from the main bodies of both. 

[Mark]

Hoods will be separate in both kits, and there will be some underhood parts like firewalls.  The earlier '64 Chevelle and '68 GTO also had separate hoods.

[Stef]

Wow, this Nomad is SICK!

Separate exhaust, engine plug, and suspensions; I have to get at least TWO of these kits now, possibly even THREE. I wanna do one as a drift wagon, one as a gasser, and possibly one bone stock.

Thank you Round 2; you guys rock harder than Eddie playing Master of Puppets in Stranger Things!

 

 

[FoMoCo66]

19 minutes ago, Stef said:

Wow, this Nomad is SICK!

Separate exhaust, engine plug, and suspensions; I have to get at least TWO of these kits now, possibly even THREE. I wanna do one as a drift wagon, one as a gasser, and possibly one bone stock.

Thank you Round 2; you guys rock harder than Eddie playing Master of Puppets in Stranger Things!

 

 

This would be awesome as a surf wagon or a stock car to push laesters/rails.

[OldSkool81]

I will humbly admit that I am of the first to b*tch and moan when I see curbside kits come out, but this one properly shuts me up!!!! It's so well done that I have to get one! If an engine plug and engine bay detail is the sacrifice to make for an otherwise nicely detailed kit, that lets us have rare subject matter for an affordable price, well sign me up then!

[ChrisBcritter]

Aw, this is a shame:

Six blades instead of eight on the full wheel covers, and the dog dishes are the full covers shrunken down (and with eight blades!) instead of what they're supposed to look like.

Hopefully the 3-D crowd can make some correct ones (paging Chief Joseph). At least I have a set of correct full size covers from an original issue '60 El Camino.

[M W Elky]

36 minutes ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Aw, this is a shame:

Six blades instead of eight on the full wheel covers, and the dog dishes are the full covers shrunken down (and with eight blades!) instead of what they're supposed to look like.

Hopefully the 3-D crowd can make some correct ones (paging Chief Joseph). At least I have a set of correct full size covers from an original issue '60 El Camino.

I can guarantee that no one is coming to my house to count the bars on the hub caps of a model car

[M W Elky]

27 minutes ago, M W Elky said:

I can guarantee that no one is coming to my house to count the bars on the hub caps of a model car

Is it possible that the 6 cylinder’s had the 6 bar hub caps and the v-8’s had the 8 bar hub caps ?

[Can-Con]

14 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Aw, this is a shame:

Six blades instead of eight on the full wheel covers, and the dog dishes are the full covers shrunken down (and with eight blades!) instead of what they're supposed to look like.

Hopefully the 3-D crowd can make some correct ones (paging Chief Joseph). At least I have a set of correct full size covers from an original issue '60 El Camino.

I agree. How could they have pulled such a bonehead move. This makes the kit totally unbuildable. 

 

BTW, I just can't stand the fact that me feet get wet when I take a shower.  I'm never gonna do that again until we have waterless sonic showers like on Star trek !! 🙄😉

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,OK, 12 hours later I think my little joke probably went a bit far, unfair to Chris. It's just that it looks to be such a nice kit for what it is. The number of ridges on a hubcap seems a bit trivial.  I hope there's no hard feelings, none were meant.

Edited 18 hours ago by Can-Con

[stavanzer]

1 hour ago, Can-Con said:

How could they have pulled such a bonehead move. This makes the kit totally unbuildable. 

That does it. After Watching the Review, I was in for at Least 2 of them. One as a UFO Chaser (using the '63 Nova Decals), and One for a Sheriff's Car.

But after seeing the Hub Cap problem, the Kit is ruined for me.

I'll look for something else to build.

[1972coronet]

12 hours ago, stavanzer said:

That does it. After Watching the Review, I was in for at Least 2 of them. One as a UFO Chaser (using the '63 Nova Decals), and One for a Sheriff's Car.

But after seeing the Hub Cap problem, the Kit is ruined for me.

I'll look for something else to build.

I agree . Not only does the hubcap & wheel cover faux pas turn me off, the whole curbside-doesn't-include-an-engine thing really bothers me. 

I mean Come. On. !!!

[blizzy63]

3 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

I agree . Not only does the hubcap & wheel cover faux pas turn me off, the whole curbside-doesn't-include-an-engine thing really bothers me. 

I mean Come. On. !!!

John, at this point in the thread, I don't know where the sarcasm begins and ends.

I happen to agree with Christopher, above.

I think that this new AMT Craftsman Plus '60 Nomad kit is impressive and I will be purchasing one. I have an AMT '59 El Camino donor kit on stand-by for an engine, etc.

The dogdish hubcap option supplied in this kit does have me baffled too. They don't represent anthing in the real world.  It has me asking: Why bother?

Anyways, thumbs up to Round2!

[John M.]

I don't have the modeling skills that many here do but still, building a full size station wagon even right out of the box would be a welcome departure from the usual 2 door ones. 

[ChrisBcritter]

Tough crowd, tough crowd!  I'll be buying a couple anyway and using the '59 El Camino for the underpinnings and engine. Nice job on those door handles, too - should be easy to open them up.

(Good thing I didn't mention the sedan gas tank and no spare tire well lol...)

Edited 11 hours ago by ChrisBcritter

[Can-Con]

13 minutes ago, ChrisBcritter said:

 

(Good thing I didn't mention the sedan gas tank and no spare tire well lol...)

Humm, sedan chassis and a red gumball on the tail light tree , , Police car in the future?? [ just speculation, I know nothing]

[tim boyd]

54 minutes ago, Can-Con said:

Humm, sedan chassis and a red gumball on the tail light tree , , Police car in the future?? [ just speculation, I know nothing]

I think it would be a pretty safe assumption that Round 2 has any number of future kit derivatives in mind for this tool.  I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that how that will play out depends on how well the first kit release sells....so as usual, to a considerable degree we have our own future in our hands....TB 

[Chris V]

4 minutes ago, tim boyd said:

I think it would be a pretty safe assumption that Round 2 has any number of future kit derivatives in mind for this tool.  I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that how that will play out depends on how well the first kit release sells....so as usual, to a considerable degree we have our own future in our hands....TB 

I have an awful hard time imagining that an El Camino version has not been a part of the plan all along… 😉

[sfhess]

21 hours ago, stavanzer said:

 

Please delete.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by sfhess

[Mark C.]

I get the hubcap thing.  I mean, if you’re going to tool up all new hubcaps, then why wouldn’t the designer take a few minutes to research how they are supposed to look and get it right?

With that said, I am super stoked to get this one.  In fact I will officially place this as my #1 on the must have multiple copies list!  I can’t say how much joy it brings me to see Round 2 re-engineer the tool and bring it back to us, better than ever!  Thanks folks!  👍🏻

[blizzy63]

4 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Tough crowd, tough crowd!  I'll be buying a couple anyway and using the '59 El Camino for the underpinnings and engine. Nice job on those door handles, too - should be easy to open them up.

(Good thing I didn't mention the sedan gas tank and no spare tire well lol...)

Good catch on the chassis. I haven't noticed that yet.

The '59 El Camino chassis is closer to reality but it too is missing the wagon's spare tire well.

Below: 1) AMT Jr. Trophy 04-740 '60 Chevy Wagon kit (1963) chassis.

            2) AMT '59 El Camino kit (1964) chassis.

[stavanzer]

Does this mean the the Custom Parts from the '59 Elky might fit the '60 Wagon?

If so, That opens new possibilities.

 

[FoMoCo66]

37 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

Does this mean the the Custom Parts from the '59 Elky might fit the '60 Wagon?

If so, That opens new possibilities.

 

Anything fits my friend...

If you make it.

[Brian Austin]

IIRC it seems to me the 1959 El Camino chassis is closer to that of a 1958 Chevy in terms of floorpan detail.

A stalled project of mine combines a Revell '59 Impala with a Monogram '60 Chevy sedan-delivery custom.  I replaced the Revell gas tank with a spare tire well from an AMT '55 '56 Chevy truck and fit a gas tank cut from the '59 El Camino against it.