Atlantis (Former Monogram) Sidewinder Show Car Done

Went into with serious doubts on that engine but boy she came together well above my expectations.

I do fear that I have developed an addiction.


There are at least 75 kits in the Tom Daniels collection. www.tomdaniel.com/85_kits/frm_85kits.html#:~:text=Tom's%2075%2B%20kits%20with%20Monogram&text=To%20the%20left%20are%20all,Monongram%20from%201967%20to%201975.

A few have been rereleased by Monogram and Atlantis is supposed to have many of the old molds that they plan to kit as "close" to the name of the original kits so I don't really care which ones I get. As I am going to build them I will NOT pay $200+ collector's prices for originals so will be restricted to what is rereleased. Several of the more popular ones seem to come out every 10 years or so so they should be due again soon.

I mostly want to build the weirder "show cars" so that eliminates many of the dragster and normal hot rods and have zero interest in the smaller snap kits or wild construction equipment series so that leaves about a dozen I am looking out for. Now, if I came across a deal on any of the others I may bend on that.












And my new Holy Grail!

I really enjoy these for their simplicity. No alterations needed, low parts count but parts are actually really nice, no engine bay detailing or complex suspensions to fight with, and can be built in a weekend without any issue. Make a great break from more intense builds.
The Boot Hill Express is not a Daniel design but would be an exception for me (along with the Munsters cars and the Monkeemobile) since they are all very close to his stuff.

Well the instructions claim that it is a Pontiac straight six that was "common" in track cars of the era. But in reality it is just sort of an imaginary generic North American type six. 

The trick will be finding any of them without mortgaging the house or selling off my first born. Fingers crossed for Atlantis to have the molds.

My dad worked in the Talbotville Ontario Ford plant from when it opened until 1976. When they switched to Mavericks in 1970 they had a big open house that we attended. At the event there was a model of the finish line of the plant with promo models of the Maverick rolling out where the kids could just grab one. I ended up with 3 (two gold an an orange) since I stole my sisters. They are Jo Hans of course but at least they were made of styrene not the old shrinking resin stuff of earlier promos. They were also pretty well detailed for promos.
Someplace around here, packed away in a box that hasn't been opened since we moved 23 years ago I still have two of them (the a gold was lost in the Great BB Gun Wars of '72). If I get real bored some day I will try to find them and send one your way. Won't be tomorrow though.

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