Revell 1968 and 1969 Dodge Dart kit history
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2021
- Here is a look at the Revell Dodge Darts from the 1969 GTS kit through the latest 68 Hemi Dart. Showing you the differences and contents of each kit.
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One thing you do that other video builders don't do, are the kit history and comparisons, which really is enjoyable and helpful. Keep Em coming!
I was trying to think of different things and I had enjoyed looking at the differences myself so I did a few and they are well received. It’s hard if I don’t have many of a certain version or if their are many different issues.
Thanks for all your work on detailing what to expect in these kits, I just ordered the 68' Dodge Dart Hemi.
Enjoy! When I really enjoy a kit I tend to buy a few!
Great review makes me wanna build another one
Go for it!
That was a GOOD ONE!
Thanks!
Thanks Raul for the in depth history of the Dodge Dart/kits and your builds look excellent!!!
Glad you like them!
Cool review. I have several of the 68 Hemi Darts and one of the 69 Dart. I wish I had bought a couple more of the 69 back when it came out.
Thanks! 👍 I have a hard time passing up one of these kits at a good price!
Another excellent video from you with the history and review and builds of your Revell 1968 & 1969 Dodge Darts.
Thank you!
Great video Raul, I always enjoy your history videos. thanks for the knowledge.
My pleasure!
The little red wagon has those seats .l read somewhere that the Hemi cars came with van seats in it . I'm was restoring a Hemi Dart when l happened across your vidio live the information you provide it's been along thine
Thank you. Enjoy your Hemi Dart!
Thanks for your extensive work. Your builds are beautiful. I’m going to start taking notes on your videos. Stay safe
Awesome! Thank you!
As usual, beautiful builds! Great history lesson also. Thanks for sharing Raul. KUTGW buddy.
Thanks again!
Cool kits build the last one a year ago and was fun to do keep up the great work thanks for sharing.
Thanks, will do!
Cool video. Great looking builds.
Thanks 👍
Great video, really enjoyed!!!!!!!
Thank you!
really enjoy your kit history videos!
Glad you like them!
The Revell Darts are my all-time favorite kits. My patience has been rewarded in all the waiting for any '67 - '69 Dart kit. Great job on highlighting these wonderful kits. Hears hoping the learn from these kits' success and offer a '70 340 someday. I know that for myself it would spawn a whole new wave of kitbashing and alternate builds.
You and me both! A resin 70 was available at one time. I have one!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler Yes I just found a source for the '70 Dart and will let you know after I get one. Sorry, my budget won't allow me to buy one till the first lol so you will have to wait a bit.
We called these mini roadrunners.....great video. Thanks
Glad you like them!
Very cool kit's Like them all!! Thanks for the information.
These are nice! Thanks for watching!
Nicely detailed parts in these kits too!
These kits are very well done!
Awesome review of great kits
Thanks 👍
Very cool comparison video Raoul!
Thanks! 👍
You're correct in saying we can't tell the difference to the 383 and 440 engines in scale.
Trivia time: What is the easiest way to know a 383 from a 440?
A 440 would have a 2x3 inch ID pad right next to the distributor. 383 does not. Well the B engine 383 anyways. Don't forget Mopar did make a RB 383 (59-60 only) before they made the 413/426/440!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler. You're only part correct. Both engines have the stamp pad. B engines, (361, 383, 400), have them by the distributor. RB engines, (413, 426, 440), have the stamp pad in front of the lifter valley by the drivers side head.
So the easiest way to tell if you have a B or RB block is where the stamp pad is. With the detail that 3D printing can do now, adding that to 3D printed blocks would be one detail that would make a model Mopar stand out. lol
Good explanation of the '68 - '69 Darts ----- Wish they did or included in the '69 the stock version ---- slant six ---- for now they develop close to three hundred horsepower --- over four- hundred-foot pounds of torque ----- some dress up parts for the six --- add exhaust ----- you'll have a Sleeper ------ have the regular hood ------ disc brakes ------ with 14" or 15" wheels instead of the 13"----- Hope they release another '69 ------ Thank You for video ----- enjoyed your coverage ------ Rodney
Thanks! Add the hyper pack parts!
Great show!
Thank you!
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Cool reviews. Love the dart. I don't have a lindy kit have some of each of the others. Built a norm dart put a viper v10 in it. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool!
I have one of the Hemi Dart kits currently on the way, will be using the body for a 1/24 slot drag car build. Planning on making it look more like a street version modded for the drag strip old school style with all the street emblems and trim including the tail stripe but probably utilize the 6 pack style hood. Have not decided yet whether to cut out the wheel wells or do it more of a pro street look with the tires tucked inside the stock wheel wells.
Should make a nice looking ride. Also going to do a '71 Duster as well.
Your completed models are really nice, great looking work.
Some of the slot cars that I have seen are really amazing. I was a bit surprised at how much is put into a body that could be damaged racing it! I have also fount that slot car guys are great to trade with since you don't really use the engines or chassis.
The cars and the kit are amazing !
👍🥇🏆👏👏👏
Glad you like them!
The '69 Dart was one of the most requested kits we ever had at Revell. However, the kit didn't sell all that well, so the tooling was changed to make it a '68, which is why the '69 was never reissued. Product Development team manager, the late Bill Lastovich chose the image for the box cover and some folks thought the tan car wasn't exciting enough and it may have hurt sales. I always thought it was a nice looking box top. I actually took the photo of the Mr. Norm '68 Dart from a car I found somewhere down in Arkansas, I believe. I asked the car owner to suggest a nice backdrop for the photo and he drove us down to a river in the area and that's where I shot the pic. I must have taken 20 rolls of film taking photos of his car to bring back to the engineering department.
Thank you Dean for that info! That is good to know. The 68 GSS is a very rare car with only 48 made and Dodge made 6 of the 68 440 GTS. Both of those combined and qualified the min 50 (440 GTS) for drag racing. Then came the 68 Hemi Darts and 68 Hemi Barracudas. The Hemi Darts I'm sure were a hit with Revell and I'm sure if a 68 Hemi Barracuda were to come out it would also be a hit as they are both Legends! Much Like the 64 Thunderbolts that must have sold well for Revell and keep getting reissued!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler Yes, the '64 T-Bolt always sold well. In fact, I chose it as the car to go with the Taco Bell diorama I had designed, but unfortunately Taco Bell never bothered to return the signed contract, so that version of the kit never came out. facebook.com/photo?fbid=10221485534380205&set=a.10221485495299228
awesome kits and builds
Thanks 👍
As always, Excellent video!!! Love all the history!!! 1;1 and 1:25. Keep Up The Great Work!!!!
Thank you! Will do!
This reminds me I have a kit of a 69 somewhere I need to take it out and build
I think we all have that problem. I actually have two of the 69's unbuilt and really only have plans for 1 but it is such a great kit that I could not pass another one up.
Would love to see you do a comparison like this of all of the variations of the Revell Chargers.
That may happen as I have a bunch of them. I have built the 68 Charger RT, 69 Charger RT and the 69 Daytona. Also built a 69 Charger 500 from these kits. That one is shown on my channel along with the Daytona. Unbuilt I have a stock 68 Charger, 68 Charger Dick Landy, 69 Charger, a stock only 69 Daytona and a 2 n 1 (race and stock) 69 Daytona and both the 70 Charger kits (Fast & Furious and stock RT) What I don't have is the bad 69 Charger (Bad roof) and 2 in 1 69 Charger.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler I really enjoyed the post you did of the Charger comparisons. I am very much looking forward to seeing your videos of the '69 Dart GTS, the 69 Charger R/T and, the '68 Charger R/T. Further, I am hoping to see build videos of both the '67 and the '70 Chargers soon.
Nice little Darts!
Thanks!
Excellent history you got swinger decals who makes those finding those is about like finding the Rally Nova decal
Thanks! I got them from Keith Marks many years ago.
I built the 2n1 kit as a stock drag car so it had the 426 and drag tires but everything else was stock it was a lot of trimming and test fitting to get the drag tires on the stock suspension but it worked and looks pretty good
Edit: I didnt have to trim the fenders to fit the tires
Very cool! that would be a tight fit!
Your builds are amazing! Glad I found your channel. Personally I am not a fan of big block Darts after having driven a 1:1. Kind of overkill, especially that 383 lump of low HP iron. I wish Revell would circle back over these kits and give us a 340 4 speed version. If I had a time machine, that is what I would travel back and buy in 1:1. Would be amazing if they updated to a 1970 kit as well.
That would be cool if Revell did a 1970 Dart 340. It will probably happen right after I finish my resin one!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler I would be happy with a regurgitated 1969 with the 340. A 1970 340 Swinger would over the moon.
You mentioned in the video that you were going to build a Swinger version, Where did you get the decals for that?
Keith marks decals!
Nice like look of them litte Dodge Darts awsome mate, 👍
Thanks 👍
@@TheMuscleCarModeler my pleasure buddy
My dad &I attended the Landy Performance Clinic at the local Dodge dealer in '68. Cool show. I saw my first black '68 GTS, red bumblebee stripe. Google MANNIX DART GTS on CZcams for one of the coolest tv hero cars ever.
Thanks!. I'll check it out.
This is a great kit, I've had all 3 kits over the years.
Sold the 69 GTS kit many years ago and haven't found it since..... That was a stupid thing to do.
I have the 68 Mr Norm kit
And I built the Hemi Dart as a super stock, its on my channel I think
They are nice kits. I keep buying them even though I don’t need anymore.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler We all suffer that problem Raoul 😂👍
Awesome kits . don't have the Landy kit yet.
Thanks! That Landy kit is getting hard to find but they are out there.
Lol I have 4 of the Landy Dart....I also have the Landy Charger by Revell
Very cool! I also have the Landy Charger. I used one to build a stock 68 Charger before the stock version came out from Revell and have another one in my stash.
Excellent review of the 68 Hemi Dart.
Do you know if anyone ever issued the 68 Hemi Barracuda ?
Bandit Resin used to offer a 68 Hemicuda for the AMT 69 Barracuda kit. I don't know if it is still available.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler
Thank you sir, I will start investigating that now. Some of the models I have unbuilt is from the 70s. I do know I have a unbuilt Petty 64 Plymouth by Limburg, one by Jo-han and a 1970 petty superbird by Jo-han. All first releases. A few of Monograms first releases of Tom Daniels design models.
But 90% are all Mopar. Including 2 1965 Plymouth Belvedere resin kits. A couple sets of machined aluminum hemi valve covers and top fuel hemi blowers with hats.
Lol, sorry, I get excited talking about some of this.
Keep up the great job you are doing and especially the in depth reviews. I truly enjoy them and learn a good bit about the different models.
Thank you.
Thanks again. If Bandit still sells it, It is pretty nice. I should dig mine out and show it off.
Great in-depth view of the kit differences!
I am currently building a modern ss/ah version of the hemi dart that is correct for the Hemi Shootout cars using Slixx decals and the hemi dart kit.
Your 69 and Landy kits reminded me I need to pick up a couple more hemi kits before they decide they’ve produced enough.
Thanks! Hemi Dart kit was last issued in 2017! I have seen them at Michael's here locally but they may be drying up. See them on eBay but I prefer to buy locally.
Excellent reviews and builds. I've built the dick landy car and the 68 stock. I have several of the 69 to build. Thanks for great reviews
You're welcome!
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Thanks!
Your title has a typo you wrote dark instead of Dart.
Thank you! I fixed it.
wtf look out now
@@scooterdoughmas3012 Uh?
thanks dou have dick landys and sox martin cars been wantin a 68 dart had tree darts as a teen this was great stuff luved the vid thanks again scooter ps have the decals just need to decide on colors snagdaggit hahaha cooter out
You're welcome.
Why can't Revell make a nice set cragar wheels ? Deep dish and more accurate ?? All the wheels by revell SUCK !
I thought they look good. Deep dish wheels didn't really exist back then. They started showing up in the mid to late 80's. Before then 15x8 was as wide as they got and those were rare.