In 1986, Revell merged with its chief rival, Morton Grove-based Monogram, making the Chicago area the center of the model kit universe. Revell’s Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine kit.

Like most Monogram custom car kits of the early 1970s, the Badman was designed by Tom Daniel, one of the team that "put the hot in Hot Wheels" a few years earlier at Mattel. Though mature eyes now ...