1:25 SCALE 'MOONEYES' DRAGSTER FROM ATLANTIS MODELS
ATLANTIS MODELS CONTINUES to reissue kits from the past with this 1:25 scale Revell Mooneyes Dragster. However, it’s not quite the original Revell model. Although Atlantis has all the parts required, Revell never issued the kit in exactly this form. Mat Irvine: The model indeed depicts the famed Mooneyes dragster, built by Dean Moon in 1961, but what Revell issued at the time was a Double Car Kit, where you could build two complete kits from the one box. This box contained the so-called sanitary bucket ‘T’ (a hot rod based on a Ford Model T) and a Mooneyes dragster. Revell never issued Mooneyes by itself, though the individual runners were issued separately in various parts boxes, you could assemble enough components to build Mooneyes individually. This time round, Atlantis have rectified the situation by supplying half a dozen of the separate runners in one box, with brand-new box art. One runner has the engine parts, another the wheels, others the chassis and body pan...