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Revell 1971 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 Coupe

As mentioned back in the July Scale Autos, Revell Germany has advertised several new American car kits in 1:25 scale for 2023. One kit that is easy to find is their 1971 Oldsmobile 442 (or 4-4-2 as originally described). Despite being at the tail end of the muscle car era and with performance getting increasingly strangled by higher insurance costs and tighter Federal emission standards, the Olds 442 was still a force to be reckoned with.

First introduced in 1964 as

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