Two of the Craziest "Funny Cars" ever kitted by Revell....

[Greg Myers]

[Maxicoop]

Very cool on both pieces always like Studebaker's and the Dodge Dart is really a rare build haven't seen that kit in a long while ..........again awesome builds !!!!!!!!

[Tom Geiger]

Another was to reissue several of the kits molded in translucent metalflake plastic.

Back when the model car business revolved around annuals, they were always looking for mid year releases. Those were the days when you'd get the hardtop in the fall, and the convertible later at that mid year. A vendor had come into Revell trying to sell metal flake. Jim Keeler thought it would be cool to see how it would look suspended in clear plastic so he took some out to the plant and asked the workers to pop out some windows with the metal flakes suspended in the plastic. Thus those metal flake cars were born!

I don't think they worked out all that well. You were supposed to paint the inside of the bodies like slot cars, so the metal flake would pop. Most of them I've seen got built without any paint, and all the glue used for assembly visible through the plastic.

In those days the annual kit either was modified into the next years car or it was trash! Nobody had any foresight that there would be a market for older cars, nor did they think very far into the future. There was no collector market, they were in the toy business. So annuals would become chopped up funny cars the next year to pull some more value out of the obsolete mold. Models like Revell's VW bus became that awful custom... Bob Paeth admitted to being responsible for that one!

Edited July 24, 2014 by Tom Geiger

[Greg Myers]

[Pete L.]

Very nice builds of some really unique models, they bring back memories from back in the day !!!

[Bob Ellis]

I think Revell did to the '69/'70 Mustang kit what they did to make the Revellution funny kit.

It appears that Miss Deal is a result of an aborted plan by Revell to do a stock '53 Studebaker. Maybe they kit after finding out AMT was doing the kit too?

[TFchronos]

Very nice job on both of them!

[squirrel886]

........love the Revellion!

[rmvw guy]

Well done! Took me a while to find this thread, thanks for keeping it around guys. Good stuff!

[DynoMight]

Those are all pretty "funny" cars, haha, ba dum tissss

[stavanzer]

Bob Paeth, on his late night phone calls to me would reminisce about many of the kits he was involve with.

I remember him talking about this one.

He was proud of having had a hand in getting some more use out of what was then, a useless tool.

I wish I had asked him to tell me more about the Miss Deal kit. He was proud of his part in that one too.

Great Builds of Both Kits.

Like others, I suspect we'll never see the '62 Mopar kits again.

[Jade043]

They both look sweet. Top job!

[Hubert Rollins]

Those are really cool cars. I really love those paint jobs!!! Awesome colors and finish!