Model car...box art!!!!

The assembeled models on the shelf are very nice, especially the little red Bantam and what appears to be Shirl Greer's Tension A/FX.

 

some models from my friend Frank Morawski

 

I guess this should go in thread. I sold a bunch of older models for my friend Frank Morawski. Lyle Willits helped us to assign a dollar figure for the ebay listing. We found one model still in a shipping container that brought about a story from Frank. It seems that in 1959 frank wanted one of the new 1932 roadster kits from AMT. They went to their local Baltimore hobby shop to find they did not have one but they could order on so the order was placed with Auto World Enterprises. Frank found his model at another store before Auto World shipped his order. When the Auto World order arrived, Frank tore the end off the shipping carton to make sure it was his 32 roadster kit. The box got set aside until we photographed the box while going through his models for sale.
This is what we found





The carton around the model is so tight that the model can not be taken out without destroying the shipping container.
NOTE POSTAL DATE :

Still brand new in the box that has never been opened since Jan of 1960

 

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hrm2k, It looks like that carton may have room for two more kits...? Astounding, what folks have stashed away!

Dave

 

Just picked up the re-issue of the wagon...killer art work!

 

bump......

 

Another wonderful part of our car history.

Kind of really takes you back in time when everything just seemed so much more normal.

I love to look at any old signs, advertising, decals, and even old buildings from when sign painters applied their talents to the side of the buildings.

Thanks for sharing the memories and I guess I should have saved those old models I did as a kid.

Jimbo

 

Too cool!!!
Funny story, several years ago when my wife and I were house shopping, we almost bought Auto World! The shop had moved several times, its last incarnation being in a small storefront in southside Scranton with a house attached. The shop had been closed for a while, but when the realtor took us inside, the storefront still had a bunch of old stock in it, which came with the purchase. As much as I would have loved to dig through all that stuff, we found a house we liked better.

 

AMT Sandblaster

 

Another AMT sand machine..

 

Dammm I remember those....awesome.

 

Now that AMT released Carl Casper's YOUNG AMERICAN kit again, I hope this one will soon follow....
My very first model kit that I built back in '71...

 

I like the AMT 1/25 Scale 1937 Chevrolet Coupe from the early 70s--the depiction that shows the guy working on the Chevy. TM. I think I am remembering it right.

 

Here it is. Not great, but it always stuck in my mind.

 

Picked this one up yesterday.
A lot of amazing vintage coolness coming back out!

 

One of my all time favorite model car box art. I sent away to Model World for this one back in 1972. Seemed like it took forever for it to come to my house. I am not a 1957 Chevy fan but this one is the exception; does anybody know what happened to this car?

 

I just bought that 57 Nomad from Revell. The new box is pretty lame .It just has the car on box nothing fancy.

 

I found 2 of these in an antique store.

 

That grille and bumper kit is pretty cool

 

Not sure on the real one.... Think it got featured in HOTROD er Car Craft...
As for the kit, It's out again... I think..
go to: www.revell.com

 

Here you go.... Kit # is 85-0883

 

Rodders Journal #48 had a great story about this ^ Hollingsworth Nomad by Pat Ganahl and he told: "Box art shows chrome reverse wheels, so Revell didn`t have to tool up for the Buick wires".

 

Here's a few from my collection-