This classic 1966 MPC Corvette Stingray kit is too cool!!

[@carlkandetzki9077]

I love your videos especially when you open up vintage kits brings back memories

[@michaelcooke2559]

That kit is a great find. Very nice stash add. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidhinkson8856]

It's always fascinating to look at these older model kits, and even more so when you get one that was already started a very long time ago. Makes you wonder how old the original builder was, whether they improved as time went on, and I guess it can remind us of the first model kits we built as children, before all those snap together or Quickbuild Lego type kits came on the market.

[@thescalemodelcarguychannel8681]

Vintage kits are the best Matt ❤

[@timothyharrison8953]

MPC C1, C2, and C3 Corvettes had working suspensions from the beginning. They even had metal springs at one point. Then they started deconteting them. Chrondek was/is the dragstrip lights/timing system.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@RonaldBryan-kv7lr]

Awesome I have that same kit...got off eBay about 15 years ago.

[@michaelhintzmikesminiature1812]

Nice to hear the web site is working well. Awesome Find Matt!!!!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks Mike!

[@robertelliott6206]

M and H Racemaster drag slick....

[@calvincooley1074]

I'd love to see a vast (as possible) wheel and tire selection to shop. Hopefully, I'll have a future need for some of these products!

[@daviddanglis7135]

Those MPC '66 Vettes are very hard to find...I think I've only seen one, and it's the one I got when I bought a collection 5 years ago. And we haven't seen a '66 Corvette kit since 1966 so you have one of the few years of Corvettes that are really hard to find. I believe the chrome tree is from an MPC 1928 Lincoln Sport Touring, which would also have been the source of the black piece with the gun indentations. Thanks for the video -- I thought my '66 was missing its decal sheet, but when I saw what was on yours, I found that I did have a spare in my decal sheet box, so now my kit is a little closer to complete.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@kyledehartsscaleworks]

Well that’s a really super cool find!! So much fun to see this stuff and can’t pass it up for 10 bucks!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@johndean2110]

That is a cool kit. 😊

[@6704sprint]

I have this same kit definitely a neat piece of the past for sure and rare

[@harveykeeler2661]

Pretty cool

[@christesta2521]

Very cool Mat!!! I also like going to antique stores and yard sales to find kits.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

As Forest Gump said "you never know what you're gonna get"

[@doinstuffwiththings]

Those are always fun finds, I like the challenge of cleaning up after someone and rescuing the kit!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

That's something I've not done yet

[@doinstuffwiththings]

You should def try it, take an absolute glue bomb hand brushed wonky parts thing and turn it into a shelf display car. super satisfying. I call it a rescue rebuild.

[@starcityscalemodeling]

Nice old kit. Great find.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@johnlarkin5822]

What a great find! Yes, those old MPC Vette's had working suspension...I'd love to happen on one that is buildable! By the way, Budd Anderson was later the "Kat from AMT" and was a large figure in car models in the 60's. I met him once around 1990...what a character! We all (car modelers) owe a lot to him and his imagination! Thanks for sharing!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Too cool!

[@rc67die-castcollector]

Cool find! I found a MPC 1967 corvette that had been opened as well, but never put together. I kept it just for the nostalgia of it. If they could talk.

[@sambaldwin3730]

Watch out Matthew I was born in 66. Looks like a awesome car to build

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Lol!

[@BamaScaleModels-vq7hk]

Hey cool kit

[@maxbrandt6]

Neat find, enjoy your vintage glue bomb!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Lol! For sure

[@kenmorris2858]

Cool vintage kit. Love old Vettes especially since I own a 1960 Vette since 1983. Maine is not very far from Nova Scotia. I've driven to Maine in a day quite a few times. Cheers from Nova Scotia.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

🖐🖐

[@hortonshotrodshop2003]

Pick up a 64 boxed one this year very cool to have nice box on that one I like the old bud Anderson boxed kits.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool

[@tombower450]

Great find Matthew. I remember building kits in the mid 60's that had the little spring front suspension. I don't remember if it was the kit you found. It was probably the Mako Shark kit. Thanks for sharing and sparking a few pleasant memories of my youth. 👍👍

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@stevegriffin1675]

Time for a trip to the purpe pond

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Lol

[@Funsho97]

That's a cool Corvette. Take the parts that are glued together and put them in the freezer for about 24 hours. The glue will freeze and you will be able to easily separate things with less of a chance of breaking the parts. 👍👍👍

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@danielpaulsness6951]

Nice 😅

[@deandee8082]

MPC were my favorite late 60's early 70's I prolly done 10 of their nascars

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@mattomon1045]

i had one of these and it had working front suspension with metal springs

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@calvincooley1074]

64's have two horizontal "vents" behind the front wheels. 65 has three vertical vents. The Kustom wheels are Halibrands.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks

[@davidchin350]

Good that you can buy a repop to replace the parts you need!😊

[@johngligo4049]

Congrats on your online business Matt! I hope things go well with time! That is a neat Stingray kit! Never seen one before! Happy Thanksgiving to you and family!

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks John!

[@sabledriver]

Chrondek is/was a company that made the electronics for timing the cars at the drag strip , like “Christmas tree”, staging lights, etc

[@lancerevell5979]

Chrondek.... 'kron-deck". 'Chron' from the Greek god Chronos, and having to do with time. As in chronometers, fancy timepieces.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks

[@michaeldeckert6023]

Working suspension yours does have it. Look to the one on the left and it shows that kit has it. I just got the one to the left of that with the parachutes. Got 4 different Vets on eBay. I'm 69 now and I got this is one as one of my first models when I was 11 or 12!! Just like you were wondering. Got these all for a total of $79. 1/25 MPC '65 Corvette Sting Ray #2-149 Accurate Miniatures 1/24 Corvette Grand Sport Sebring, 1964 #5000 new AMT 2012 1/25 Chevy Corvette Coupe #AMT756/12 in In an unopened factory sealed box Revell 1/25 2017 Corvette C7.R #85-4304 Had to pay $6.94 for shipping.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Nice!

[@geoffhipwell2198]

You did quite well with the '66 Corvette Matthew, one of my favorites!!, (next to the '63 'Split Window'). That '66 had working suspension too! I'm glad that 'Pro-Tech' is selling well for you too Matt.👍 I was wondering if you are also handling 'International Orders'?? All the best to you buddy!! 🤔

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks Geoff, if you decide to order just email me and I will look fo the cheapest shipping option.

[@tomasharris3883]

chrondek { kron-dek} was a trap timing system used to time drag racing back in the day for records. i think it was the only unit used to recognize official records..

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@mattomon1045]

The tire are M&H Drag Master slick !

[@animalyze7120]

Man I wish I could send money to you and have him grab that Ghost rider kit. LOts of nice kits in that shop, I would have dropped $100 far too easily lol.

[@Rom3_29]

10:16 - that's like my car kits. Squeeze some more glue pffft... little bit more pffffft. Perfect.

[@Matt_LeBlanc]

Chrondek was a drag race timing system.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@dustymojave]

Chrondek is pronounced "kron-dek". Yep. It was/is the company that made rhe timing equipment used by NHRA and others. I remember when I was real little, like 4 or 5, going with my dad to Chrondek's shop in Pomona, a little north of the LA County fairgrounds to order, then back again some time later to pick up, what was then the only closed course electronic timing rig, for dad to use for road racing. He had a side business called Timing Associates and he and mom with a little help from me as go-fer (my 2 older brothers were never interested). We did Timing of all sorts of road racing in SoCal, from the Times Grand Prix, to Cal Club local sports car races, to motorcycles, to go karts, to slaloms and traloms in parking lots. The system used lights that shined across the track aimed at electric eyes to sense something blocking the beam, much as modern systems use, to trigger solenoids that actuated stop watches on the face of the box. Dad had watches accurate to 1/100th of a second. I would run the timing slips Mom wrote, to the people who kept track of who was leading.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Too cool!!

[@LeeBrown-b4l]

64 corvettes have two horizontal brake vents vice three vertical in 65&66

[@dannyhughes9299]

I'm new to your channel the first video of yours I saw was the two part '69 Dodge Charger build I liked and subscriber and commented on it. I live here in Maine, where are these models? I would like to go see what I can see.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Not sure but I can find out.

[@rongross5102]

I would build that just as it is, no paint!

[@robertelliott6206]

You no there OLD when there is no UPC on the box. Crondex is time system at the drag strip.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@MrMakemyday3]

64 nothing like a 66, different side cove vents, wheel covers, interior etc

[@MAPRTX]

I have been trying to find one thats nice.But they all look like yours.

[@donwest5387]

I had the '65 Stingray; the body was horrible. Chassis was nice

[@donwest5387]

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