As many of you may or may not be aware, the 62-64 Nova/Chevy II kits were only made by Trumpeter and have been out of production for many years. When you can find one for sale its usually well north of $150 on a good day. There just are not any choices out there, that I can find, to build the Gen 1 Novas.
With some looking I did find a China made diecast car from Newray in 1/25 scale, and cheap. So I ordered one knowing full well that the price indicates it's like crap. But, I thought if the body is usable I can build the rest around that. Well, the body is pretty good, and diecast with opening doors, a plus for sure.
The shape is right and most of the details are decent. What I am going to do with it is this. I will use the body, shave the mirror and door handles off, as they are cast in and use a PE set and parts from the AMT 66 Nova kit. Fortuneatley for me, Gen 2 Novas are largely an outside body change with much of the chassis and engine bay unchanged. The interior is pretty close so I use that too. When I'm done I hope to have a nice model of a pro-touring 64 Nova SS that is mostly accurate. The 66 will be the donar kit for chassis, engine, interior and some odds and ends. I will us PE for badges, grille, trim where it works and paint it two tone. This will only be worked on when I'm waiting for other GB's to dry or something. I don't plan to rush this.
I've owned 3 of these and built one from bare shell with no parts to a running street machine in 10 days. I know these cars better than I know may own hands. So this will be fun to whip one up that you can't just go pick up off the shelf. If this works it opens the door to pick up other hard to come by cars that you never see. This should be fun.
BK
