Though I'm not really a
huge fan of the GTO, I decided to make an exception in
this case, mainly because of the flash paint job and that
cute little tiger fella that came with the kit. Mr. Tiger
turned out to be a royal pain in the butt to get him to
fit behind the wheel properly, and if I was to do another
one (there was also a Gold over White version of this
car) I would leave him out. But that would make sense
anyway since he wouldn't be driving two cars at once.
With the exception of spark
plug and battery wires and replacing the rear tires with
racing slicks from the spare parts stash, this was straight
out of the box. There were a couple of issues with warped
parts that caused problems however, the chassis being
the worst. I never did get this straightened out satisfactorily
despite my best efforts, consequently the front left wheel
doesn't quite touch the ground. We'll just say it's down
to engine torque lifting the front end up on takeoff.
The decals were very nicely
printed and thin and included options for the Black/Gold
& White/Gold cars, which were raced in the '60s. I
had to coat the entire sheet with Microscale decal film
however as the decals were very fragile and broke into
many pieces in the water. A not uncommon problem with
Revell kits it would seem, as my Orange
Crate had the same issue.
Nothing fancy here, just
a bit of wiring as I mentioned.
The kit includes redline
tires that would have been very nice, had the red lines
not been printed off centre. I turned the fronts around
so the plain blackwalls faced outwards. These cars were
raced with slicks on the rear and I managed to find some
suitable ones in the spares box to replace the kit tires.
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