Flip front '57 is an MPC kit. It and the "stock body" version have alternated as there are two '57 bodies for that kit...

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...the flip front body is probably the ex-slot car body. No MPC '57 has stock rear wheel openings, they have been slightly oversize from day one.
The MPC '57 and '60 kits share one chassis. Both have been issued as flip-front and opening hood versions. MPC seems to have tooled a flip-front '60 body so there are four bodies that get used with that one chassis.
The AMT '57 is totally different; it has been issued as stock and street machine versions, both use the stock body with separate hood. Neither version has any top (either a hard top or raised convertible top). MPC kits have both.
Revell's 1/24 kit has been issued as a stock version but I believe it was a '65. I have never had any version of that kit so someone else will know more about it.
--Mark

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I have 2 Corvette question for the kit historians.....
- Flip front '57 is an MPC kit. It and the "stock body" version have alternated as there are two '57 bodies for that kit...
  - To add to what Mark said, believe the last issue of the stock-body MPC '57 was the Corvette Collectors Set from the 1980s *NM*
    - I'm pretty sure there was a 5-car set in the mid/late Nineties with it also. That set was out alongside the then-new AMT '57 kit *NM*
- 1:24-scale Monogram/Revell '65/'66 Corvette....
- Thanx Guys for the history lesson, I knew someone would have the answers *NM*