New Baker Olds Kit

[Lefturns75]

I just watched a kit review video on youtube of the new Baker Olds Kit.  To me, it looks like a re-tooled MPC kit from the 70's.  I'll be spending my money on bubble gum and cheezits.  search Baker Olds Review on YT to see it. 

[Brian Conn]

    Seen it a few times on the web....it's a shame that who ever came up with this could not have devoted more time to the end product instead of getting in a big hurry to release it.....to be quite honest its a hideous piece.

[Tom Birky]

[Tom Birky]

The body isn't too bad. I have an AMT chassis under it and have a lead on some resin bumpers.

tb

[Tom Birky]

Rear one is the wrong year, pointed on the corners instead of squared off. Truthfully, I can live with the rear one. The front one is really too wide, too tall and too square. No vent openings or vent screen detail in the lower bumper. I know these bumpers were big, but this one takes it to a whole new level. A gentleman on another board is fabricating one from a Camaro bumper and is looking good. Kinda reminds me of a Bogard build!

Tb

[Tom Birky]

The trouble is compounded by the fact that it is real chrome electroplating on the bumper with what looks like a copper base coat. Only a grinder is going to strip that chrome.   Tb

[Brian Conn]

....To elaborate more on what I said,
..... this is more of a Modified than a Winston Cup car of the late 70's...rear leafs on a G.M product circa 1976-1977 I could have sworn the last time I looked they had coil springs front and rear and it looks like they copied the Ford Fairlane Strut type Lower control arm set up on the front and added a MOPAR torsion arm suspension to the lower control arms.   Please correct me if I am wrong here, but weren't these, for the most part, Banjo Matthews chassis cars? 
  We, as builders, are in need of accurate, not necessarily totally perfect, Winston Cup cars of the 70's .....that's bumper to bumper and top to bottom.
  Hopefully this isn't the flagship piece for this company.     

[Lefturns75]

To me, that kit looks like it was designed by some guy that has never seen a real nascar stocker or any stocker.  Looks like he was told that we need a new kit with a chassis we can use under a few different bodies and call em nascar stockers.  The guy looked at a Polar lights charger kit and one of the 70's MPC kits and figured "Well heck, I got this".   I'll wait and see what they come up with next.  I'll pass this one up.