Revell Olds Cutlass Pro Stock

What’s it take to be considered a classic kit?

Tim Boyd

Can a model car kit introduced as recently as 1994 still be considered a classic kit? More than three decades ago, Revell introduced what would be its last, newly tooled, Pro Stock drag-racing kit. The project was marketed in two forms: Warren Johnson’s GM Performance Parts Olds Pro Stock (No. 7363), and the kit shown here, Larry Morgan’s Olds Cutlass sponsored by Castrol Super Clean. Prior to the mid-1980s, most Pro Stock model-car kits were inaccurate replicas based on showroom, stock, model-car tooling. Monogram, fresh off the overwhelming success of its 1983-84 NASCAR kit series, undertook development of two super-accurate Pro Stock projects based on state-of-the-art 1/1 scale 1984 Camaro and Thunderbird racers. Kits produced from this project were resoundingly successful, and the tooling was periodically updated with new versions…

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