Whether is wins the 2016 Ridler Award of not it is a truly outstanding Great 8 award selection here at the 2016 Detroit Autorama. One, and did we mention it has a modern fuel injected 409 engine? This classic custom station wagon has it all. And they are executed with a Foose-like quality. This one has more custom modifications than the Foose car. Most spectators here are comparing it to the Chip Foose built 1965 Chevy Impala called “The Impostor” which won the Ridler Award last year. It is one of the reasons that this 1961 Chevy Impala Double Bubble Great 8 selection is a favorite to win the 2016 Ridler Award. I’ve never thought that an undercarriage on a classic car might be a work of art, but this one qualifies. I personally think big Chevys of this vintage look best with slick paint jobs and Chevy rally wheels and that’s how I intend to build my kit.Note the photos of the undercarriage on this car. I like this kit a lot it has infinite building possibilities beyond the two offered out of the box. However, anyone with a couple car kits under his or her belt should be able to get the kit together with relatively few issues. I wouldn’t recommend it as anyone’s first model car kit getting the multipiece rear suspension together is a bit tricky. Revell rates this kit as a Skill Level 2 offering and that seems about right to me. In addition to the aforementioned items and the red stripes for the flanks of the Foose car, the excellent decal sheet has a very comprehensive set of factory-stock markings, including all of the body scripts and emblems.Īs with the other kits in the series, the eye-catching box art features Foose’s conceptual drawing of the 1:1 car on the top and the end panels, photos of the assembled model on one of the side panels and a list of modeling tips for beginning builders on the other side panel. Perhaps the wisest decision Revell made with regard to this kit was to leave ALL of the factor-stock parts in the box, making this kit a 2-in-1, even though that fact isn’t mentioned anywhere on the box top. The contains 142 parts, molded in white, clear, chrome and transparent red. The parts in my sample kit were cleanly molded, with little flash. The only other new parts are a set of brake rotors (with decals to reproduce a cross-drilled appearance, but sans caliper detail) and a front suspension crossmember to drop the ride height of the front of the vehicle. The thin red stripes around the outer perimeters of the wheels are reproduced on the decal sheet. Foose based the design of these on the stock ‘65 Impala hubcap and the kit wheels look to be fairly accurate reproductions of the 1:1 items. Of course, then you’d have to find reasonable facsimilies of the Foose valve covers to fit a small-block engine you could probably get by with using the air cleaner from the ‘65 kit.Īlso among the newly tooled parts added by Revell for this version are a set of large-diameter custom wheels. In fact, another kit in the Foose series, the ‘64 Impala, has an excellent one. If the kit having the wrong engine for the Foose car bothers you, you could always swap in a small block those are plentiful in 1/25 scale. Those parts are very well-done, however, they need to be stripped and painted black to replicate the look of the parts on the 1:1 car. To that, Revell has added a new Foose-designed chromed finned air cleaner and valve covers. The car Foose and his crew rebuilt on the program was powered by a 327 small-block engine this kit includes only a 396 big block, as it has ever since its inception. One thing that should be noted right off is this kit cannot be built straight from the box as an accurate replica of the “Overhaulin’” ‘65 Impala. This newest issue of the ‘65 hardtop is the latest addition to Revell’s Chip Foose Series, a kit line based on cars designed by the popular automotive artist and designer and built on the popular cable TV series “Overhaulin’.” All of the kits in the Foose Series have been created by adding new decals, box art and smatterings of newly tooled parts to existing kits, and this one is no exception. It’s a good kit and always has been and it does an excellent job of capturing the character of the 1:1 vehicle. It was later released a lowrider, and its tooling was later used as the basis for a ‘65 convertible kit (which was recently reissued as part of Revell’s “California Wheels” series) and a ‘66 hardtop. Revell’s ‘65 Chevy Impala hardtop kit first hit the market in the late 1990s as a factory-stock-only offering.
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