What if no models?revell model quits nascar models,

I couldn't agree more on these 2 points!

It's sad how Cup guys can have at least one extra practice session by running the busch race the night before. Plus, like you said, how do other get a chance to prove themselves!?

It ****s that some 18 year old that car drive a Go Kart is all the sudden put behind the wheel of a 600hp Nextel car and told to "go play in traffic at 200 mph". I miss the days of guy "earning" their ride at the next level by proving their ablities in a lower level. Not just getting put in a car because their young and maybe decent looking....

As far as DW...you sumed him up perfectly!

 

With resin bodies and waterslides you can run through your inkjet printer, who needs licensing?

 

Uh, you really didn't think about your statement, did'ja?

Go read a book and learn about NASCAR and what the **** do you think these guys started out with in the begining? Toyotas?

This is another piece of American Culture going down the drain that affects and will affect thousands of Americans in one way or another. Its big.

But, I am sure all the folks on here from the South don't give a **** about it, right? Just like us Westerners don't care about dissapearing race tracks around here.

 

Uhhh good point, BUT, if NASCAR is shriveling up and dying, it's NASCAR's doing. Another outta control monster iden***y.....mmmmm, maybe it's too big too fail, never fear, send in a BAIL OUT! HAHAHHAAAAA

Here's a helluva great idea....release ALL of the Dave Deal kits!!! A true PIONEER, and all around GREAT GUY...a thinker...a tinkerer....an artist.
NASCAR?! What's a nascar?!

 

NHRA,...listen up here,hope you learn from anothers screw up....

 

Im going to go buy a model car just to support revell, Nascar is sinking their own ship with this ****

 

Oh yeah, NAS**** is dying by its own sword and taking tons of folks with them!

There once was a time when their poop did not smell and they did as they pleased. Money came pouring in and they discovered that anything with NAS**** on it was instant cash! Need our name, pay! Need to use one of our teams, Pay! Know someone who knows a guy that has a decal made by someone else that likes NA****? Pay!!

Funny that at one time model kit companies actually used to get no only permission to use someones name or product but actually get product from them!

Now, forget it! Revell has actually started using no name tires in their kits! Really, no lettering on them at all! Sli** Decals was once the top maker and seller of NASCAR related decals but totally dropped them after royalty fees skyrocketted!

If you buy a kit now, they have a Ford, Chevy or Chrysler logo on the box stating that they are officially approved by the automaker!

As long as they keep making Drag Racing kits then we are.... oh, whait, they pretty much stopped those too!

Yes, NHRA should start reading the writing on the wall.

 

Right on....
Dave

 

Iam working with my 5 year old son to build a 32 3 window model. He is always asking to work on it. When we work on the coupster he has to make sure we spend some time on his model.

On the NASCAR thing all they care about is money. Its become big business. They have lost most all of the short tracks around the country. Then they did away with the tours. That blew.

If you want to see real racing the way it should be, go support your local short track. We would love to have you guys out there watching. Its real racing without the corporate greed. There are a ton of asphalt and dirt tracks across the country.

P.S. If your ever in the southwest look us up at the races, we'll have a good time!!

 

Ford said they were selling counterfit Ford stuff. I can understand why they are suing now. I think there is more to the story than what we saw the first time around.

 

Another case of overzealous corporate attorneys losing touch with the real reason to not queer the deal. Give a little, take a little is not in their vocabulary. This **** makes me sick...

 

It is heartwarming to see all this negativity towards nas**** - it gives me hope for the future of racing.
I was starting to believe that they had successfully mind-washed the entire nation.

 

He's making a left turn..............

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I'm sort of surprised Na$car hasen't mandated the car of tomorrow be fabricated by Chinamen. Guess they haven't realised they could make a few more bucks if they did. By the way the modified thread is still going strong, maybe they'll come back even better when Na$car fades a little.

 

I've built many a model car in my days, and I always find the nascar models boring as hell to build. Mostly because you can't customize them to your own liking.So I couldn't really care less.

 

Big thumbs up to Revell for giving NASCAR the big middle finger up. This is purely a business decision I'd ***ume- which means they make money off the Hot Rod kits, not the fruiter NASCAR ****. Models were definitely part of the whole gearhead/hotrodding **** growing up- long before all the aftermarket resin parts were available, I can remember stockpiling a 'boneyard' of 2 'n 1 and 3 'n 1 spare parts in order to chop and customize other kits with.
Bill France is doing his best to beat out Bernie Ecclestone for the ***le of 'Biggest ****up in the History of Auto Racing.' I'd say they're neck and neck at the moment.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan- I didn't quit NASCAR, NASCAR quit me. This current 'Car of Tomorrow' ********- what the **** is this, IROC in drag? Hey, I've got an idea- let's homologate the entire field, making them totally and completely unrecognizable as anything that would be considered 'stock' as in something that is available off a showroom floor. If they would run stock showroom floor bodies and DOT tires I might could consider watching it again- but as long as it's this queer pro wrestling southern fried Formula 1 freakout **** that's going on, **** 'em in their goat sniffing ***.
I'm with everyone else- real racing is going on at a local track near you!!!

 

You think this is bad, just check out WalMart & how they don't even carry model cars anymore. I grew up in a one horse town and Wallyworld was about the only place to even get a model car. Now I'm in the city and it's still rough. The only place you can find model car kits here is Hobby Lobby. The whole model car industry in general is going down fast. Carl Hagan

 

No doubt, man!

~Jason

 

That's the best damn line all day!

 

If you have one NASCAR model, you have them all.

 

The last time I tried to go to a Nascar race, it was when they had the Buschenwide and truck series at Watkins Glen, Trucks Saturday, Busch Sunday. So I go down on Saturday, drive up to the gate, and get told I have to buy a $60 weekend ticket to get in at all. Well, I wasn't going to camp out in the back seat of my car, so I turned around and left and put it on the radio in the car while I used the $30 I would have paid for a one-day ticket, on gas to basically go for a long joyride.

Petty never should have gone back to Dodge, they were going pretty well with Pontiac, winning here and there, how many wins have they had with a Dodge? One? How many Dodges have won this year? One? Even Gan***i figured out it was time to go elsewhere.

Those Nascar kits haven't changed much since they came out in about 1983, except they change the body shell and if they need to change the roll cage a bit to make the new body fit. It's not like we're talking a great expense other than the decals they put in there. I'm not that surprised they're not tooling up a COT, though. For $20 even I can get a die cast Winners Circle in the same scale I can put right on the shelf and not mess with - like everything else no one wants to build them anymore. That's why Wal-mart dropped the kits.

 

Great,now please put out more cl***ics, especially 30's to 60's era, dragsters, muscle cars. Revell's recent 49 Chopped MERC set the standard, it's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please more, more of these. I would kill for a new tooled 49 chopped shoebox, or NEW tool: 70 challenger, '40 zephyr with chop..., 56 merc, 64-65 falcon, please more new tools of the true US cl***ics.

 

If nascar was based off of a STOCK car all you would need was decals

 

wouldnt those models be a cash cow for them? They all have the same body and everything all they need to make is different decals.

 

Incorrect. Santa Fe paid the fee to make the paint masks for the F-3 Warbonnet paint job. Gm paid a small fee to get the GM decal put on the F-3s.

 

$$$$ I agree !! Who would want a clone *** model car kit of a so called race car that all look alike !! And those gay *** spoliers they all run now look like they belong on the ying-ying **** >>>>.

 

I second that! Would love to see David Pearson & Cale Yorborough back out there! Too bad about the model kits though, I have dozens of 'em, mostly olders ones from the 80s. But yeah, the sport's too big for its own good anymore. The local tracks are where we can still see races run by folks who want to race, & for ticket prices that are reasonable.

 

It costs me ten bucks to get into the local dirt tracks here in the Dallas area, twenty five if I want in the pits! Hell that's a meal at the Dead Lobster! Do that at one of the big speedways.
And, most Friday or Saturday nights the racing on dirt can't be beat. It's like going to the fair every weekend, a joy for ALL the senses.
We did get a bit off topic, didn't we!?! Thanks, Mike

 

Henry Blankfort (sp?) was a VP at Revell and wanted to use real speed equipment company logos on models. He contacted Dean Moon, Els Lohn, Isky, Fred Offenhauser, Roy Richter and Vic Edelbrock, to find out if there was some sort of ***ociation that could act as a clearing house to license logos for use on Revell models. That, gentlemen (and ladies) was the beginning of the Speed Equipment Manufacturers ***ociation better known as SEMA.

 

You know.... back on topic, some of us have been modeling for decades. I was modeling when Rod&Custom was little pages. And it's really dissapointing to go look for models these days. There are a lot of models that I can't do now because I've used up all my kit bashing parts.
Maybe the glue sniffing idiots ruined it. Maybe the G%^d#$n internet killed it, but I do agree that the market isn't there like it was.
Kids don't want to build kits anymore. "It's tooooo haaarrrddd" Quote from my grandson who will spend hours in front of some lame *** game on the frikin' TV.
How do we get them at a table with models laid out in front of them?
I STILL believe that kids that build models grow up building cars. That's my rant..... Thanks, Mike