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Post by styrenesurfer on Mar 12, 2018 16:08:37 GMT -6
So, I purchased this old Revell "Heavy Hugger" funny car kit on E-Bay a while ago with the intention to build it up box stock.(maybe just a few tweaks). Everything about this early adventure for Revell into the flopper body funny car era is just wrong. Wonky drag slicks,a Ford motor in a Chevy,moulded in red styrene. You get what I mean. Well for some reason, I have a soft spot for this crummy kit from my youth. It is going to share my workbench along with the "wailin- wedge". I find myself just staring at that build most of the time anyway  Ummm, well the Ford 427 SOHC is still a problem.  |
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Post by another rick on Mar 12, 2018 17:23:04 GMT -6
Ain't nothing wrong with putting a real Ford racing engine in a Chevy, I mean lots of people put Mopar boat anchor Hemi's in almost everything. Do what you can with it and be happy, after all it is still just a hobby.
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Post by styrenesurfer on Mar 12, 2018 18:02:40 GMT -6
Ha , I guess I need to clarify here. I'm really more of a Ford guy.
But why did Revell put a ford engine in this kit and call it "heavy Hugger" ?
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Post by 70sprostockfan on Mar 12, 2018 20:03:52 GMT -6
If I'm not badly mistaken And someone feel free to correct if I'm wrong. I think the original kit was a Maverick and they changed the body but nothing else. It is kind of a hokey kit but some of them were
You could always trade it to gloozalot for a pie wagon LOL
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Post by styrenesurfer on Mar 12, 2018 20:58:00 GMT -6
I think it was a BOSS Mustang, and totally a hokey kit.
So long ago... yet it might be fun to go with it.
Maybe this could be a future contest idea.
Try to make something out of the worst kits voted by this group.
70sprostockfan... I got my unopened Monogram "horn-Toad" kit to get me buy. LOL
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Post by styrenesurfer on Mar 29, 2018 18:57:10 GMT -6
Well, I just got a new Kit in the mail (an E-Bay purchase) That will move ahead of this build. This one is a Ford thru and thru.  |
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Post by gloozalot on Apr 28, 2018 20:55:44 GMT -6
Awww Geeeeezzzzzzzz! Ya HAD to bring up that……….that……..Pie thing didn't ya 70? I'm still eaten' Rolaids from that. Heck, I would trade it in a blink for one of them hokey Funny kits Surfer is talking about. I know what he means, It looks like something out of Hot Rod Cartoons. I think the only thing that beats it is those Palmer kits. There shoulda been a Federal Law against those.
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