Showing posts with label Kit Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kit Review. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Kit Review: Revell 2010 Corvette ZR1


ZR1: The Ultimate Corvette
A luxury sports car carved of power, performance and prestige, ZR1 boasts a handcrafted LS9 638-horsepower supercharged V8 with titanium connecting rods and intake valves and a test track top speed of 205 mph. Experience 0-60 mph in only 3.4 seconds and 1.05g skid pad, or over 1.13g with available ZR1 High Performance Package (PDE), while nestled in a refined and luxurious interior. All while maintaining a fuel efficiency of 21 MPG highway.
ZR1 is the fastest, most powerful car Chevrolet has ever produced, and rivals the world’s best luxury sports vehicles both on and off the track, and was the overall winner of the 2010 Car and Driver Lightning Lap competition, which pitted the ZR1 against the fastest cars in the world. And because it’s Corvette, it’s the only truly American sports car in the competitive class.  -chevrolet.com

Monday, January 28, 2013

Kit Review: Revell-Monogram 1962 Corvette


 When it came to the 1961/62 Corvette for almost 50 years all modelers had to choose from was the very flawed AMT/MPC offering. The original suffered greatly due to the tooling technology of the day with an undersized body, chrome headlights, a front end that was far too vertical, metal axles that slid through the oil pan, and an overall poor parts breakdown. As the years went on and the molds aged further problems cropped up such as an overabundance of flash, heavy mold lines, poor quality plating, scratches in the clear parts, the list goes on and on.