Revell thinking about NASCAR again

[martinfan5]

This makes me a little happy, on Revells Face Book page, they have a pole going asking if we would like or build new NASCAR glue kits.

Here is the link

http://www.facebook.com/RevellUSA

[bbowser]

That would be great. I'd love to see glue versions of the rumored '13 Taurus or any of the Nationwide cars.

[martinfan5]

That would be great. I'd love to see glue versions of the rumored '13 Taurus or any of the Nationwide cars.

Go vote and help make that happen

[weirich1]

_{But it will take them forever to release these kits and they will be outdated and will require modding to make them accurate}

Edited July 26, 2012 by weirich1

[Darbo]

New nascars, and how about some new Pro Stock or Funny Cars too!

[Austin T]

Kinda wana build the Challenger stock car,don't know or care who drives it,it just looked sweet.

[Harry P.]

At the risk of "insulting" NASCAR guys... wouldn't all the manufacturers have to do is tool up just ONE kit, and a bunch of different decal sheets? I mean, all the cars are the same except for the graphics.

[kurth]

I hope it is true. It would be neat to see what they can do with modern tooling techniques. I like cars from 94 and earlier, but I would like to build a Dale Jr or Jimmie Johnson car. It will be tricky to pick a scheme for the new kits with so many different schemes per team per season.

[Fat Brian]

Harry, it's my understanding that starting in 2013 that the cars will go back to more individualized bodies. While still being Car of Tomorrow underneath, the bodies will not be the cookie cutter stuff used now due to some rules changes that freed up some areas of the car for makers to bring in styling for the street cars.

[Lownslow]

yep GM succeeded in dropping the ball too but then again after 5 or 6 beers theyll look like camaros to fans or are they hinting at camaro 4 door sedan

penskes reaction

"were going Ford"

Edited July 26, 2012 by Lownslow

[Joe Handley]

The "Mustang" and "Challenger" are like that too LownSlow the nose and tail kinda, sorta look like the production car while the middle looks...well...............not so much like any of the production cars the race cars are named after right now.

At the risk of "insulting" NASCAR guys... wouldn't all the manufacturers have to do is tool up just ONE kit, and a bunch of different decal sheets? I mean, all the cars are the same except for the graphics.

Well, make the chassis one specific set of tools and the body and engine tools separate but 100% compatable with the chassis tool. Then either provide the approriate decals for the car in question and offer just a plain, decal-less kit (like theLinberg cop car kits) for those that want a driver they havent licensed just yet.

[Harry P.]

Why do they even continue with this stupid charade? Obviously the cars have nothing to do with Chevy, Ford, etc. Why not just drop the silly games and refer to the cars as the "Joe Smith Hooters car" and the "Bill Jones Arbys car" and the "Tom Adams Nabisco car" and whatever? Why even pretend that the manufacturers have any connection to the cars? Isn't it all a little silly by this point?

[martinfan5]

Why do they even continue with this stupid charade? Obviously the cars have nothing to do with Chevy, Ford, etc. Why not just drop the silly games and refer to the cars as the "Joe Smith Hooters car" and the "Bill Jones Arbys car" and the "Tom Adams Nabisco car" and whatever? Why even pretend that the manufacturers have any connection to the cars? Isn't it all a little silly by this point?

Because the manufacturers still do have some connection to the cars, it may not be like it was 30 years ago, but its still there.

[Lownslow]

Because the manufacturers still do have some connection to the cars, it may not be like it was 30 years ago, but its still there.

how?

[MachinistMark]

Money.

[martinfan5]

how?

I understand the cars on track are nothing like the cars in the showroom, Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota still have to make the engine block that the teams use .

Now 2013, things are going to change, the new cars are going to look a lot closer to the showroom counter parts, which is something the manufacturer's have been lobbing even more so since the COT came out in 2007. So next year the cars on track

will look like whats at the dealer, so that connection will be a lot closet then it is now.

[Harry P.]

I understand the cars on track are nothing like the cars in the showroom, Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota still have to make the engine block that the teams use .

I thought all the engines (and all the cars) were the same.

[martinfan5]

I thought all the engines (and all the cars) were the same.

No,you are mistaking NASCAR with what was the IROC series, yes, in many area's of a NASCAR race car are the same, there are some things that are different .

[Harry P.]

yes, in many area's of a NASCAR race car are the same, there are some things that are different .

Like what?

For starters, neither Ford, Chevy, Dodge or Toyota ( or anyone, for that matter) makes a carbureted engine.

[martinfan5]

Like what?

To be honest, I think the only thing that is different for the current cars, is just the engine, there are some styling difference in the nose of the cars, the rear quarter windows are different, but thats about it.

Yep, just like Harry Hogg said ,"there aint nothing stock about a stock car"

[MachinistMark]

Not in production cars harry. But the performance divisions all build carbed crate engines. Also nascar as of this season runs efi

[Harry P.]

Not in production cars harry. But the performance divisions all build carbed crate engines. Also nascar as of this season runs efi

NASCAR. National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

Time for a name change...

[martinfan5]

Not in production cars harry. But the performance divisions all build carbed crate engines. Also nascar as of this season runs efi

Only in the Sprint Cup series, every other series still use's carbs

[slusher]

l may be wrong but l really thought that nacscar kits had slowed down and the interest in them has faded over time. you just don't see them as much as in the past. l have nothing against them l have a couple older ones....

[bbowser]

Why the animosity Harry? If you don't like stock cars that's fine, but many do. They got me back in the hobby after a 30 year hiatus. Is it like the "good old days"? No, but then drag racing goes 1,000' and Indycars all run the same bodies. Times change. It is now and always has been about entertainment. Folks who don't like it vote with their feet and wallets.