Monogram's Deal's Wheels

[Luca Roveda]

According to Thomas Graham’s book “Remembering Revell”, when Revell turned up at the February 1970 Hobby Industry Association trade show to present their Deal’s Wheels they found that Monogram had their own cartoon cars that “looked astonishingly like the first concept drawings for Deal’s Wheels. How had this happened?”.....................I guess we will never know.

It’s interesting that three of the first four of Monogram’s “Snap Draggins” were the same subjects as the Deal’s Wheels – a VW Bug, a Dune Bug and a Corvette. The Z28 followed in the next set of Snap Draggins.

Thunder Bug (1970) – painted in Tamiya TS8 Italian Red.










Dune Rat (1970) – painted in Testors 1840 Flaming Orange








Screamin Vette (1970) – painted in Testors Boyd 52923 Kandy Purple Pearl










Boss Mustang (1970) – painted Testors Grabber Orange












Hemi Semi (1971) – painted in Tamiya TS18 Metallic red








Super Taxi (1971) – painted in Tamiya TS34 Camel Yellow












Roarin' Rail (1971) – painted in Tamiya TS19 Metallic Blue








Street Cleaner (1971) – painted in Testors 1628 Competition Orange

[DVS]

Great builds, Everyone of them looks awesome

[70spop]

Those look great!! Love the Snap Draggins.

Brian

[donculley]

SWEEEEEET BUILDS ! That Thunder bug has been one of my grails for years. Like most of us, I had one as a kid and would love to have it again

[Tim Nolan]

Awesome set of builds! I love these kits!

[treswright]

Luca, these are beautiful, nice work!! Glad to see you're still at it!!

"they found that Monogram had their own cartoon cars that “looked astonishingly like the first concept drawings for Deal’s Wheels. How had this happened?”.....................I guess we will never know. "

You probably already know this story since you were close to Deal as well, but he told me once when he was visiting here that one of the Revell designers quit and went to work for Monogram and he knew for sure that they took copies of his artwork, including that for the proposed Snoopy and Red Baron kits that Revell was considering at the time. He called it "corporate espionage", but did so with a smile His sketch eventually became the Deal's Wheels Baron kit and he added Snoopy going down in flames to the box art as a tongue-in-cheek jab at Monogram for stealing his idea

[customcruiserroy]

Does anyone know why Revell stopped pumping out these kits? It's not like they didn't sell.

RSS

[Eggzilla1]

Luca, THOSE ARE FANTASTIC! As usual! Gotta love the finish, fit, and suttle details!

[koffinbuilder64]

Those are awesome builds!! Wish I still had mine!!

[Dennis M]

Super job. Dennis

[AL]

Great Stuff Luca, -All of them a Pleasure to see. -Very Nice Work on these. ?My Fave? ... I Like your "Super Taxi" ! .... though "ST" -always been my Fave ! !

-AL

[barten]

Still WOW! ! ! !Luca. . . .if you need someone in your WILL for all your deals wheels kits. . . I would love to get them? ;D

God Bless
Dan