This was a "down and dirty" build, get it!?! It was a Jimmy Flintstone body, that came with another swap meet kit. It was quick build with not much detail, I'm not even sure if I put seats in it. It was fun to paint!
I got one for my 9th birthday in 1964. It was molded in light blue. We had snow the next day.. no school. I built most of it in my bed that morning. I used a nail clipper file to clean parts up.
My trio of first run original release (red plastic) AMT 34 Ford pickups. Red one is bare plastic and was an unbuilt kit. Other two are basket cases I redid. Caps on purple one are specific to original releases.
...Yes. Built that when I was a youngster, couldn't afford paint, happy to see that it was molded in color.
I believe the OG run was in light blue. There was black and then red, now the last I saw is white. Lindberg wound up with issuing an iteration for a while. Some of those were yellow.
Im actually part of a FB group called scale survivors. Group actually has some big names from model car world from back in the day. Was there where I was told red was first run. Basically when I got the bare plastic one I built I posted about it before I built it. Was then I got the rundown as I had thought all early amt was black like my collection of model ts and 32 Ford's. I believe I googled and verified it. Though honestly I'm not as devoted to vintage styrene like I was then. Then I was straight obsessed lol. Both of the painted 34s have crazy repairs I did to parts. And I have a 1959 release amt 32 Ford roadster I did quarter panels on lol
Now there was a later sixties run that was a darker shade of red. But they also had red tinted windows
Un-built model. I like the 1/8 models when I was a kid my mother would buy us the smaller 1/25 models because they were semi cheap at a $1.25 where the 1/8 models were like $10 in the 1960s.
Wow, some really cool stuff you guys built! Sadly I gave away most of my builds to a friends son who was getting the bug, late 70's. Many were in the same style/kits as you guys. Somewhere, there's a box of stuff I did keep. I did have the "Big T" also, around '63-4. Traded it for beater Stingray bike a few years later. Great thread guys, keep 'em comin'!
I had a couple of those and a coupe partial kits sitting around my parts bin so decided to build a '39 sedan out of them.
It may have already been mentioned but Steve Magnante has had a series of videos recently on his YouTube channel about model cars. He's been going through some of the rare issues, or variants on the same model like how a particular car was issued molded in different colors. He's quite a collector, I think every room in his house is stacked floor to ceiling with model boxes.
Late 70s... I remember the black issue '32 on the shelf with the '78 orange corvette at the local hobby shop.
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