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I picked up one of the re-releases of the AMT Hippie Hemi today at Hobby Lobby. I'm not much for the body, but grabbed it for the FED chassis instead. Its a nice looking kit, with (in my opinion) some neat parts & cool accesories. Heck, the detailed Hemi w/ rubber blower drive belt & the rear mags were worth the cost of the kit alone.
Probably gonna eventually build it into a more typical sixties FED. Though the Hemi might make its way into a Model A drag car I'm gearing up to build.....
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That kit was the AMT Don Garlits' Wynn's Jammer with the added body and decals. I had an original issue a few years ago, around the time the Wynn's Jammer was re-issued and compared the two kits..... everything under the bodies is the same.
Reason I didn't was I thought the box made it look sorta..... hokey? Any reviews on the actual kit from someone who's built or bought one? I hate it when the box doesn't show a photo of the actual kit- even though the old box art is pretty darn cool.
I did buy the Infini-T and while it is kind of cool, it's more of a show car than an actual drag car. It had a boxed frame rather than a tubular one like you would see on an actual drag car. Plus, what the hell class would it fit in? Those goofy radius rods on the suspension spoil the looks, in my opinion..... if I ever get around to building it, those will probably be replaced.
Here's the funny thing..... when this kit first came out, I ignored it. I wouldn't have wasted my hard earned (or begged, since I had to hit up the folks) money on it or many of the other crazy kits AMT was offering at the time (Digger Cuda, Bugaloo, Stingeree, etc). Now, 35 years later, I'm buying just about every one of them! I've even gotten or plan to get many of the Monogram Show Rods that Tom Daniel designed..... once again stuff I considered junk back in the day. Weird, huh?
As for the original or original-style box art, I think that's what makes these kits. When Ertl was running things, I thought their photo box art stunk.... it did nothing to fire the imagination (and many times didn't make you aware of half the stuff that was in the box)! Happily, with Round 2 running the show, they are tapping into what we old-timers miss about the kits of our youth and are doing the best to recreate it. And that, my friends, will mean more sales for them in the long run. Take for instance the re-issue of the Double Dragster kit..... I have 3 of them from the old Ertl "Blueprinter Exclusive" limited edition series but plan to buy at leat one of the latest re-issues. Why? Well, the box art is a major factor but the fact that they've issued it with the decals from the first two issues of the kit, included two trees of tinted glass with the original clear tree, added a third chrome tree with reproductions of the original issue parts that were changed or eliminated in later issues and tooled new Racemaster "pie crust" slicks (one set lettered, one set wide whitewall) make this a must-have in my book.
If you're really interested in the contents of the Infini-T, let me know and I'll see if I can get a chance to take pics of it.
No need for pics of the Infini-T contents. Ironically enuff, the link I posted to it shows a built model. Its not my bag, that for sure.
As for the box art, like I said, it is pretty cool. But I grew up in the '80s and we had boxes that showed pics of the actual built model, so I'm more used to that. The kits from then did fire my imagination. I guess I'm saying "its what you're used to". Now then, I hate my Lindberg Auburn Speedster kit. The box showed pics of an actual car, not art like the '60s or actual built kits from the '80s. The model is an underdetailed pile of junk. Had I seen actual photos of the kit back when I bought it, I'd have spent my $$ elsewhere.
Round 2 can appease us both easily- retro box art all around, but actual pics on the box bottoms.
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