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[AzTom]

This started as a post on an AMT 1/43 thread and was moved here as a new thread for some reason. I know this is a truck kit but the OP wanted to create a list of all the 1/43 AMT kits. I guess you can't do that if they involve cars and trucks??

 

Anyway, Lets start a list of all the 1/43 Truck kits made by AMT.

 

I have a wrecker and a few more but can't find the photos.

Edited by AzTom, 04 March 2013 - 03:50 AM.

[Edsel-Dan]

I have several of the truck kits too, but they are a completely separate series from the cars

we have been discussing.

The cars were all tooled up until 69 (Notice the Newest are the "Class-of-69"!!).

The Semi trucks did not come out till 72 or 73.

I have a Built Sears issue Pete & Fruehauf 40 Beaded van, a K-Mart with the same pair

and the Pepsi set with KW 123 COE instead of Pete 359 conventional.

Never got the Tow truck!

[AzTom]

The Fruehauf 40ft Reefer trailer kit.

 

 

[gray07]

Edited by gray07, 04 March 2013 - 06:40 PM.

[gray07]

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[Edsel-Dan]

I have both that Pepsi set, and the Sears pair.

Interesting that they were sold as a set, but in taped together separate boxes.

Of course, this was the Very first year of production!!!

 

I also have a built K-Mart set. And another unbuilt.

 

I need to dig those out and take some pic's

 

Oh, I painted my Sears set at School in Shop class!!!!

Yes with a Brush. They had a light green I though was close!!

And Yes, It Is Flat. Not even Semi-glossy!!

 

It was only available through the Christmas/Toys catalog, Not in stores!!!!

Edited by Edsel-Dan, 04 March 2013 - 07:00 PM.

[Jim B]

I wonder if they'll ever reissue these.  They look like they build up nicely, and they sure take up less room than 1/25.  Do you think they were marketed for O-Gage model railroaders?

[Rob Hall]

Another one is the 'Dannon Yogurt' truck and trailer set...same truck and trailer as the 7up set.  I built the Dannon kit as a kid in '78/79...very nicely detailed, and they were my first effort at heavy truck kits.

Edited by Rob Hall, 05 March 2013 - 04:07 AM.

[lapazleo]

Yes these are great little kits would love to see them reissued. I always hoped AMT would have done 1/43 scale versions of all their trucks. They build up nicely hard to believe their 40+ yrs old designs.

[lapazleo]

Did any one notice the tractor in the picture Casey posted the the Pepsi tractor is a GMC astro even though it was a Kenworth in reality.

[Rob Hall]

Interesting..the post w/ atalog illustrations someone had posted has vanished.  So in '77 they had illustrations rather than photos.   I have the AMT '79 catalog--my oldest model kit catalog--and it has photos of the box art for some kits and photos of builtups for other kits.

[Casey]

Here they are again:

 

 

 

 

I found them here: http://public.fotki....77-amt-catalog/

[ZIL 111V]

They came out in 1973, the Pete, KW, Reefer & post trailers, each in own boxes (Pete Wrecker later in '74) some were boxed in combos for retail stores (Sears), later in '77 One box combos (Truck n Trailer)were offered in same big 1/25 AMT truck boxes: Pepsi, 7up, GY, K-mart & others, the combos lasted until the early 80's under Matchbox/AMT, a KW K100 Aerodyne (not on your pics was also made in early 80's).
as well as the seperate kits of the KW, Pete & reefer van & Pete 359 Combo truck & wrecker still available back then.

ERTL kept the seperate kits, not the combos, until the mid 80's then all 1/43 truck n trailer kits
vanished....until french HELLER reboxed them in big double combo box about ten years ago....but no chrome parts

Nice kits for the times...Round2 should get those back on the shelves

[Casey]

[37 caddy]

I thought i seen a KW aerodyne cabover on ebay?was i seeing things,did they make that one in 1 4/3 scale.my eyes could have been playing tricks on me,but the box was really beat up. Harvey

[Casey]

I thought i seen a KW aerodyne cabover on ebay?was i seeing things,did they make that one in 1 4/3 scale.my eyes could have been playing tricks on me,but the box was really beat up. Harvey

 

[Edsel-Dan]

Don't remember them having 'Hollow' tires.

all mine have solid ones!

Of course, I never had the Aerodyne COE, so........

[Casey]

I also have a built K-Mart set. 

 

"K-Mart is your savings store, where your dollar buys you more..."

 

[37 caddy]

Yes Casey,thats the one i saw,i never was a fan of the small ones,had the pete tractor and the reefer trailer when they first came out,just werent enough like the "real" ones.I only had the 2 of them,long gone now. Harvey