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• Musing on potential Round2/MPC reissues - the remaining Super Stocker short track series. Would they be popular enough to justify cloning the Camaro, Mustang, Chevelle, and Barracuda bodies?
  • Let's just say they have been brought up at R2..........any info more than that someone in the know will need to chime in. *NM*
    • Well, the fact that they have been discussed is encouraging… fingers crossed. These were among my favourite kits back in the day and I’d love to see them again. *NM*
  • Sorry, forgot to indicate that there are *PICS* in my post above. *NM*
  • I guess it would depend on how well the GTO and Monte were selling
    • Business case goes without saying. I don’t have that info but thought it would be interesting to discuss… *NM*
  • I really want these cars that we haven't seen in a long time. *NM*
  • It wouldn't be tough to find Camaros, Mustangs, and Chevelles (started/built ones will do) to cut up for bodies. I always thought the 'Cuda was an oddball, especially with the AMT Mopar Kit cars out there *NM*
    • But, IMHO, the Cuda is the coolest one of the bunch! *NM*
      • Yeah, and I recall Mopar bodied short track cars that weren’t kit cars. Not everybody had the cash to put out for a new kit car. Often people would buy a used race car and rebody it. Plus weren’t the kit cars later than the Super Stocker series? *NM*
        • I heard the Kit Car program started after a couple of Chrysler guys went to a short track, and saw only Chevies and one Ford in that night's field...not a Mopar in sight *NM*
          • yep, years ago Bill Coulter did a story in SAE about the whole Kit Car progam-remember as a kid seeing a few of em running at our local tracks *NM*
          • I recall a time when almost every short track car was Camaro bodied, but there were also a few Mopars around. My point is that the Barracuda was not out to lunch, even if not common. The kit cars were a nice package and worked well when set up right. They won a lot. *NM*
            • Besides, in the model car world, the Barracuda made a sharp looking race car, which is really all that mattered…. ;-) *NM*
            • Chryco worked closely with some known short track racers to get the Kit Kar right
              • Some local dirt track racer named Dale Earnhardt helped them . First Kit Car wore a Challenger body. Buddy Baker drove the Dart Sport Kit Car that Car and Driver had built.
                • This is the Car and Driver issue with the Dart they built *NM* *PIC*
                • Yep, and for awhile that prototype Challenger ended up on the east coast of Canada *PIC*
              • Funny you would mention the Kit Cars built by the Pettys... *PICS*
                • Do you remember when Chrysler used to release the Kit Car Report in the racing rags? *PICS*
    • That’s true for any stock car, really, and I’ve done a few like that. For me, the original body mods done with decals and box art is just cool and nostalgic. I don’t know if there’s a business case for it but luckily that’s not my decision… *NM*
    • I'm totally on board, especially the camaro and cuda
  • Surprised with the Monte and GTO re-issues no one re popped the other bodies in resin, wasnt the base chassis and engine shared in them or did the cuda and mustang have mopar and ford engines? *NM*
    • All big block Chevys. *NM*
    • A couple of those cars had a different rear suspension setup, but all of the reissues use one set of parts *NM*
  • They should have left the wheel well cut outs to the builder. That would have at least saved the bodies for a future stock release if need be. How hard would it be to hog out the wheel wells? I could do that at 8 years old. *NM*
    • I think that would be a tough sell, though. When you open a kit, you expect it to be a reasonable facsimile to what is pictured on the box, not like the old "car model kits" that were a block of wood that you had to carve with some wheels included (I'm exaggerating)...
      • I do have vague memories….
        • I think the target audience for those kits were people who attended stock car races, and the wheel arches were necessary to accomodate larger tires (and to prevent a tire from being cut down if the fender was 'rubbed'). It's not for everybody, but fans recognize it. *NM*
      • Interestingly, AMT had the promo contract for Monte Carlos, not MPC, so I wonder if MPC did the short track body from 'scratch'. *NM*
        • MPC did the '72 Monte promo (AMT did '70 and '71) *NM*