Great video. I don't think anyone buys Jo-Han kits expecting something Moebius-like, but the subject matter is attractive and the bodies are beautifully detailed.
I agree. I think they are just like MPC. But MPC have been repopped so much and the molds have been worn out. Lots of issues and fitting problems. If JoHans were reissued as many times. I believe they would have the same rep as MPC. But since they are remembered and long gone. The reputation is different.
Cool wagon shaved door handles sweet! I still would like to go back to the 60s and look at all the kits. As a kid it was all about picking out a kit. And building your favorite cars.
Great review of your Jo-Han '68 Chrysler 300, Raoul! The older kits which I remember as a kid building were a challenge but that's what made building them fun. Thanks for bringing back fond memories doing so and as usual thanks for posting your video(s)!
JoHan seems to have a few well detailed parts in their kits, that's why I bought two of these for the long ram intakes back in the '80s. I put a first gen hemi in the 1960 DeSoto by JoHan back in the '70s That ghost flash with part of the transmission is interesting.
Thanks! This one surprised me as well. I have many JoHan kits and this one has way more flash than any of them. Love that long ram and have a resin copy of this.
Nice Johan review. I think many Johan are treasured due to their limited availability and memories they bring to many people who built them in the past.
Great video I love jo-Han kits I have about 30 something kits built and unbuilt not to mention all the build ups I bought. I started buying them in the mid 70s until they went out of business. I would buy the kits today and for the flash and mold lines so what I am 59+ that's how kits were back then it's part of modeling. Don't get me wrong the kits today are awesome you work with what you have I also love mpc specialty the annuals. Have a great weekend thanks AL from upstate New York.
Good video I built a lot off johan kit back in the 1970 s my favorite were the 1978 Cadillac coupe Deville I still have my 1970 Cadillac eldorado the 1970 olds Toronado was a great kit 👍
I have a couple of these too, a nice built up from the 70s and a new kit molded in the same tan colour as yours but with less flash!... It really was pick of the draw with Johan and flash, I had a Turbine car once and that thing was literally buried in flash. Great video I'm a big fan of those big old Chryslers,I have an AMT 64 and Johan 65 and 66 hardtops too. I would like to see more vintage unboxings like this.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler Look forward to that. I have 2nd issue flat blue box of the Turbine car, almost too nice too build its that mint even has the sheet of chrome self adhesive stuff
I wish I'd get as lucky as you, so I could find a '66 Chrysler 300 Johan kit. Back in the day I built one and brush-painted it. I'd like another now, and air-brush paint it, to display side-by-side.
I find deals like this on kits I’m not looking for! It’s the ones I want, I can’t find. Once I do find one and buy it.. A better and cheaper one comes along and then I have two!
As always, great content. Always looking forward to my Saturday fill of ' The Muscle Car Modeler 'have your self a great weekend Raoul Your friend Arden
I really wish that they reissued the JO-HAN kits because they are so rare, but so cool, & so worth having, you could have a blast building them, but who knows if anyone dealing with resin couldn't recreate them & price them within reason
I would like to see them as well but since that is not possible. I believe the price is driven by the rarity and the nostalgia of building them. I believe that if they were regularly available. Most modelers today would complain about the lack of detail and simple chassis. The body's are great and they look awesome finished and I love them. But they really don't compare to many modern kits.
I got one of these not too long ago, but I paid a little more than you did. I didn’t get raked over the coals on it, though, because it has a bent A-pillar. Now I’m going to have to dig it out and see if it’s as flashy as yours, which I’m sure it will be. The car on the box top reminds of the Green Hornet’s ride, though that was a 4-door. Just put Kato in the driver’s seat, and off you go.
The custom stuff on this is pretty good looking. Many of these old models with the custom parts just don't hold up to the trends. I find many vintage kits with custom parts but finding stock parts can be difficult!
If they were re-issued, whomever might do it, might clean up the molds, so flash may not be an issue. Personally I don't mind flash, other than the time wasted having to remove it. What bothers me is when they have automatic body tubs and a manual transmission, or wrong year interiors, stuff like that. I started with MPC and did a lot of cursing, at the mismatched parts but now I see them as great opportunities to kit bash, like you do and you have to appreciate that Jo-han and MPC did some pretty neat bodies, which as you say look really nice built up.
That is what I like. When I was younger I never noticed the manual trans and auto interior. I just cared how it looked at the end. They were fun to do and that is all I remember!
i had a 75 duster with torsion front suspension. it was only a slant 6, though. i remember buying this kit because it had that 440 plant. i thought it was a nice looking car, too. wish i still had all my models from over the years. my mom probably threw most of them out; she was always throwing my stuff out; the narcissist.
I would probably have a mixed opinion on this kinda kit. On one end I would be glad to be able to build this kit if it was released under amt/mpc, (because I'll probably never get my hands on any johan kit because of price), but I would also be kinda mad they never bothered to at least try and update some things with the molds. Which is also generally my opinion on old mpc kits. Glad that I can build a model car of this specific car no other model brand is offering but man do I wish they did the same kinda reworks they did with a lot of their 90s kits. I mean just look at amt's '71 charger, that thing was as bad as their 69 charger in its early days and got its molds reworked to be probably the best amt kit for customizing and reworking other kits.
I love the old JoHan kits myself but have the same thoughts. Would love to see many of them redone with better detail. The AMT 71 Charger and also the AMT 71 Duster are great kits. They are however all new tooling and not related tooling wise to the old MPC 71 Charger and 71 Duster that they originally issued. They did not rework the old tool but started brand new from scratch.
Never seen that version of that kit before. I can see people complaining about cleaning the flash. I wonder if anybody ever built a kit with the gaudy custom parts.
I have that kit. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but I don't remember ever seeing as much flash on any of my kits as there is on yours. I have the actual car also. I have to give Johan credit. I don't really see anything at all that is seriously wrong with the kit. That dash is accurate and it is a great dash in the real car. The seat upholstery even has all the seams in the right places. I think the built up kit is rather well done. The chrome moldings around the window have to be hard to do. He must have painted it very carefully. Of course the engine color is wrong. I think early Hemi's were black and silver, and of course the 440 would have been blue or orange. My only criticism of the built up kit is the interior, which looks like a natural leather color in your video. That was not available. Well, the blue paint of the outside looks a little speckely. Oh, the engine bay should be body color. The engine bays and trunk insides are body color on UniBody Chrysler products. Not like a Ford Galaxie of the same era which would have a black engine bay. The long rams were last available in 1964. I have a pair and they would not fit in a 65 to 68 C body since Chrysler no longer made the car with the pockets in the fenders for the ends of the long rams. Much more rare than the long rams themselves are the exhaust manifolds needed to support them. The back panel between the tail lights: That can be either argent ( a buff silver) or semi gloss black. It is rumored that the black was added later in the production run because the argent was reflecting back too much. But it may just depend on what plant the car was built. I'd like to see you rebuild the blue car and maybe build the unbuilt one.
Yea everybody would complain because you can please people. Maybe if they reissued them along with model king in limited numbers, that is if the molds were still around
I remember buying a bunch of these in the 80s just for the 440 because most of the Johan mopars had hemis in them. Johan always had the best bodies in my opinion out of any of the model manufacturers, the chassis were the worst though. Lol mpc was a close second.
Thanks! I know of a handful that are online. In 25 years or so I have only seen 2 other Fury wagons driving on the roads here. I have personally seen at least 10 maybe 15 in junkyards over the years.
If you make up your mind to build this kit, and perhaps you should, I'd paint the body a metallic pink, use the stock grille, but custom valance unit. The interior would be custom, done up in white, and I would go with the custom wire wheels, and black walls.
Short shot is when the model kit didn't get enough plastic and had an air bubble in it. I had one that the front fender was just missing the foward section.
I dont know what the big Who-Ha is about Johan kits the details stinks and what they want for them, Ya right i have a super stock dodge n Rambler only cause i got them cheap like i said the detail stinks , Thanks for sharing
I'm with you but I keep hearing complaints about how MPC should stop making certain kits because they are just worn out old tools. I think it's because they just bought it new and it is hard to tell if it is truly a newly engineered kit or a 50+ year old kit that has been repopped so many times.
As a kid building models Johan was definitely my least favorite cause lack of detail , matter a fact every Johan kit I got as presents and gifts I saved still in the box but after Johan ceased production I knew I had a small gold mine except a few years back my place was robbed and half my models were stolen and among them were all my unopen Johan kits.
Wow, That sucks that you lost them. I bought a few new in the 80"s, Superbird, Sox & Martin Cuda and 64 Super Stock Dodge. I have all three still today and built the Cuda and Superbird in the last 10 years. They sat in the boxes for all these years because they were not as easy to build as the Revell Monogram kits I loved. The 64 Dodge is still in the box!
Great video. I don't think anyone buys Jo-Han kits expecting something Moebius-like, but the subject matter is attractive and the bodies are beautifully detailed.
I agree. I think they are just like MPC. But MPC have been repopped so much and the molds have been worn out. Lots of issues and fitting problems. If JoHans were reissued as many times. I believe they would have the same rep as MPC. But since they are remembered and long gone. The reputation is different.
Great video and history lesson. I always like your in-depth analysis of the older kits.
Glad you like them!
Cool wagon shaved door handles sweet! I still would like to go back to the 60s and look at all the kits. As a kid it was all about picking out a kit. And building your favorite cars.
So would I!
Great review of your Jo-Han '68 Chrysler 300, Raoul! The older kits which I remember as a kid building were a challenge but that's what made building them fun. Thanks for bringing back fond memories doing so and as usual thanks for posting your video(s)!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again!
JoHan seems to have a few well detailed parts in their kits, that's why I bought two of these for the long ram intakes back in the '80s. I put a first gen hemi in the 1960 DeSoto by JoHan back in the '70s That ghost flash with part of the transmission is interesting.
Thanks! This one surprised me as well. I have many JoHan kits and this one has way more flash than any of them. Love that long ram and have a resin copy of this.
You picked up that kit at a great price. Have fun with it.
I couldn't leave it behind at that price. The build up I got for $4 here locally too!
Great video, cool looking old Johan kit. Rick 😎✌️
Thanks 👍
cool kit and the blue car looks nice,can't wait to see the rebuild
Thanks!
Nice Johan review. I think many Johan are treasured due to their limited availability and memories they bring to many people who built them in the past.
I absolutely agree!
Cool model kit, thanks again for the history, always interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great kit review..... I love your big beautiful C body wagon!
Thank you!
I'm glad you did this as I have this very kit and will probably build it now. I do like the built up one you have and I'd probably leave it as is
Thanks! Enjoy it!
Nice kit review. Car looks great. Love your wagon. I had a 73 Plymouth wagon.
Thanks 👍
Great video I love jo-Han kits I have about 30 something kits built and unbuilt not to mention all the build ups I bought. I started buying them in the mid 70s until they went out of business. I would buy the kits today and for the flash and mold lines so what I am 59+ that's how kits were back then it's part of modeling. Don't get me wrong the kits today are awesome you work with what you have I also love mpc specialty the annuals. Have a great weekend thanks AL from upstate New York.
Very cool! Flash is really not a big deal to me either. You just worked with what you have.
Walk down memory lane, enjoy your video.
Thank you!
Good video I built a lot off johan kit back in the 1970 s my favorite were the 1978 Cadillac coupe Deville I still have my 1970 Cadillac eldorado the 1970 olds Toronado was a great kit 👍
Very cool! I have not had any of those but that is because I focus mostly on the Muscle Cars.
I have a couple of these too, a nice built up from the 70s and a new kit molded in the same tan colour as yours but with less flash!... It really was pick of the draw with Johan and flash, I had a Turbine car once and that thing was literally buried in flash.
Great video I'm a big fan of those big old Chryslers,I have an AMT 64 and Johan 65 and 66 hardtops too.
I would like to see more vintage unboxings like this.
I have a few more that I will be doing. I have two of the full detail Turbine kits. One molded in white, another in bronze.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler Look forward to that.
I have 2nd issue flat blue box of the Turbine car, almost too nice too build its that mint even has the sheet of chrome self adhesive stuff
Cool, both of mine are the white flat box.
I wish I'd get as lucky as you, so I could find a '66 Chrysler 300 Johan kit. Back in the day I built one and brush-painted it. I'd like another now, and air-brush paint it, to display side-by-side.
I find deals like this on kits I’m not looking for! It’s the ones I want, I can’t find. Once I do find one and buy it.. A better and cheaper one comes along and then I have two!
As always, great content. Always looking forward to my Saturday fill of ' The Muscle Car Modeler 'have your self a great weekend Raoul
Your friend Arden
Thanks, you too!
Neat looking car. Looks like a decent kit. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I really wish that they reissued the JO-HAN kits because they are so rare, but so cool, & so worth having, you could have a blast building them, but who knows if anyone dealing with resin couldn't recreate them & price them within reason
I would like to see them as well but since that is not possible. I believe the price is driven by the rarity and the nostalgia of building them. I believe that if they were regularly available. Most modelers today would complain about the lack of detail and simple chassis. The body's are great and they look awesome finished and I love them. But they really don't compare to many modern kits.
I got one of these not too long ago, but I paid a little more than you did. I didn’t get raked over the coals on it, though, because it has a bent A-pillar. Now I’m going to have to dig it out and see if it’s as flashy as yours, which I’m sure it will be. The car on the box top reminds of the Green Hornet’s ride, though that was a 4-door. Just put Kato in the driver’s seat, and off you go.
Thanks, I think there is a kit of The Green Hornet. That car was based off a 66 Imperial.
Ralph, I did one of these a long time ago...I did it as a custom, and I thought it looked pretty good..I usually don't do customs.
The custom stuff on this is pretty good looking. Many of these old models with the custom parts just don't hold up to the trends. I find many vintage kits with custom parts but finding stock parts can be difficult!
Very interesting car / kit / video!!
Thank you!
I sure do love the johans!!
So do I!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler I think that I have close to a hundred in my collection now! Lol
Wow! I haven't counted mine but think I have fifty or close to that.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler I try to buy them everytime I get a chance and especially for cheap!! Lol
If they were re-issued, whomever might do it, might clean up the molds, so flash may not be an issue. Personally I don't mind flash, other than the time wasted having to remove it. What bothers me is when they have automatic body tubs and a manual transmission, or wrong year interiors, stuff like that. I started with MPC and did a lot of cursing, at the mismatched parts but now I see them as great opportunities to kit bash, like you do and you have to appreciate that Jo-han and MPC did some pretty neat bodies, which as you say look really nice built up.
That is what I like. When I was younger I never noticed the manual trans and auto interior. I just cared how it looked at the end. They were fun to do and that is all I remember!
I remember being able to buy Jo Han at Wal Mart back in the mid 80s when I was a kid.
That’s very cool. I road my bike to the mall to get a few in the late 80s as well.
i've been looking for a 1966 300 conv for the longest
I haven't seen one of them in a very long time.
I'd love to see a kit of the 70 Chrysler 300 Hurst someday ..
I know of a resin one but have not been able to buy one. A kit would be really cool and I would buy two of them if Revell did them.
i had a 75 duster with torsion front suspension. it was only a slant 6, though. i remember buying this kit because it had that 440 plant. i thought it was a nice looking car, too. wish i still had all my models from over the years. my mom probably threw most of them out; she was always throwing my stuff out; the narcissist.
Cool but sorry it was lost.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler Thanks 🙂
I would probably have a mixed opinion on this kinda kit. On one end I would be glad to be able to build this kit if it was released under amt/mpc, (because I'll probably never get my hands on any johan kit because of price), but I would also be kinda mad they never bothered to at least try and update some things with the molds. Which is also generally my opinion on old mpc kits. Glad that I can build a model car of this specific car no other model brand is offering but man do I wish they did the same kinda reworks they did with a lot of their 90s kits. I mean just look at amt's '71 charger, that thing was as bad as their 69 charger in its early days and got its molds reworked to be probably the best amt kit for customizing and reworking other kits.
I love the old JoHan kits myself but have the same thoughts. Would love to see many of them redone with better detail. The AMT 71 Charger and also the AMT 71 Duster are great kits. They are however all new tooling and not related tooling wise to the old MPC 71 Charger and 71 Duster that they originally issued. They did not rework the old tool but started brand new from scratch.
Never seen that version of that kit before. I can see people complaining about cleaning the flash. I wonder if anybody ever built a kit with the gaudy custom parts.
I have seen some build ups with the custom parts. I tend to stay away from them myself.
The worst is when there is flash on plated parts. Thx for sharing.
I agree. Thank you!
I have that kit. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but I don't remember ever seeing as much flash on any of my kits as there is on yours.
I have the actual car also. I have to give Johan credit. I don't really see anything at all that is seriously wrong with the kit. That dash is accurate and it is a great dash in the real car. The seat upholstery even has all the seams in the right places.
I think the built up kit is rather well done. The chrome moldings around the window have to be hard to do. He must have painted it very carefully. Of course the engine color is wrong. I think early Hemi's were black and silver, and of course the 440 would have been blue or orange. My only criticism of the built up kit is the interior, which looks like a natural leather color in your video. That was not available. Well, the blue paint of the outside looks a little speckely. Oh, the engine bay should be body color. The engine bays and trunk insides are body color on UniBody Chrysler products. Not like a Ford Galaxie of the same era which would have a black engine bay.
The long rams were last available in 1964. I have a pair and they would not fit in a 65 to 68 C body since Chrysler no longer made the car with the pockets in the fenders for the ends of the long rams. Much more rare than the long rams themselves are the exhaust manifolds needed to support them.
The back panel between the tail lights: That can be either argent ( a buff silver) or semi gloss black. It is rumored that the black was added later in the production run because the argent was reflecting back too much. But it may just depend on what plant the car was built.
I'd like to see you rebuild the blue car and maybe build the unbuilt one.
Thank you! Cool another C-Body owner! Enjoy it!
I have the Johan model of the1962 Dart and there are even less parts because there are no custom parts in the kit, it's what you would call box stock.
That one I don't have. I do have a resin variant of it.
Yea everybody would complain because you can please people. Maybe if they reissued them along with model king in limited numbers, that is if the molds were still around
Yes, the expectations today are so much higher.
I remember buying a bunch of these in the 80s just for the 440 because most of the Johan mopars had hemis in them. Johan always had the best bodies in my opinion out of any of the model manufacturers, the chassis were the worst though. Lol mpc was a close second.
I can agree with that. The bodies are very nice! The chassis on many JoHan really are lacking.
I nicknamed that kit "Flash Gordon" many years ago lol
LOL!
Cool Fury Wagon... Not too many left...
Thanks! I know of a handful that are online. In 25 years or so I have only seen 2 other Fury wagons driving on the roads here. I have personally seen at least 10 maybe 15 in junkyards over the years.
If you make up your mind to build this kit, and perhaps you should, I'd paint the body a metallic pink, use the stock grille, but custom valance unit. The interior would be custom, done up in white, and I would go with the custom wire wheels, and black walls.
Interesting way to build it!
Well yea, its a great kit and mpc rocks, it is what it is, if you like the genre its the bomb 💣 😉 👌 👍
I agree.
I personally prefer lots of flash than little bits in the window frames
Makes sense but have not experienced that.
Just ran across this video can we talk
Sure. Send me an email: raoulcoulombe@gmail.com
Alot of flash, but, hey, that's part of the game!
I really don’t mind it myself. It’s a lot better than short shot!
It is and I don’t really mind it but I’m not as picky with what I start with.
I'm really not too familiar with short shots- is that why there's flash in the first place?, maybe putting extra in so it molds it probably?
Short shot is when the model kit didn't get enough plastic and had an air bubble in it. I had one that the front fender was just missing the foward section.
Thanks for the info, do you think the mfr just pushes in extra plastic to ensure that it completely fills the mold and spills out?
I dont know what the big Who-Ha is about Johan kits the details stinks and what they want for them, Ya right i have a super stock dodge n Rambler only cause i got them cheap like i said the detail stinks , Thanks for sharing
Those used to be cheap and plentiful. They were some of the last ones issued.
@@TheMuscleCarModeler I have a S/C rambler started a resto on it good box , I’ll trade u for that Chrysler the finished 1 if your interested ?
Thanks but I have a few of those as well.
I thinks it’s a great kit that looks fantasticwhen finished. A bit of flash - who cares.
I'm with you but I keep hearing complaints about how MPC should stop making certain kits because they are just worn out old tools. I think it's because they just bought it new and it is hard to tell if it is truly a newly engineered kit or a 50+ year old kit that has been repopped so many times.
As a kid building models Johan was definitely my least favorite cause lack of detail , matter a fact every Johan kit I got as presents and gifts I saved still in the box but after Johan ceased production I knew I had a small gold mine except a few years back my place was robbed and half my models were stolen and among them were all my unopen Johan kits.
Wow, That sucks that you lost them. I bought a few new in the 80"s, Superbird, Sox & Martin Cuda and 64 Super Stock Dodge. I have all three still today and built the Cuda and Superbird in the last 10 years. They sat in the boxes for all these years because they were not as easy to build as the Revell Monogram kits I loved. The 64 Dodge is still in the box!
Cry 😢 crying, it's called modeling.
None of them are junk!