British Ford 100E Multi piece kit!

[Bugatti Fan]

I remember a fellow modeller many years ago showing me a multi piece plastic kit of a British built Ford 100E, a small saloon car with 4 cylinder side valve engine. It was of interest because my dad had one and started to teach me to drive in it.

Would be interested to know if anyone else remembers this kit. I believe the kit was American manufactured,  but by who?

[stitchdup]

Made by premier but I cant say I've ever seen one. There are resin bodies of it available though but they need a lot of work

[Plowboy]

Why is this in the Under Glass section? ?

[alan barton]

Noel, I have one but can't lay my hands on it at the moment.  It is what I call "squintable" - yes, it is a 100E but it has some proportion issues. Its not terrible but its not right either.  The most obvious flaw is that the rear quarter panels are obviously longer than they should be. The headlights and taillights are a bit average also. A friend of mine is doing a fantastic job of making one dimensionally correct and but I don't know if he will be resin casting it or not.  With your modelling skills, you could fix it too!

Cheers

[OldNYJim]

Who better to make a kit of an unusual English car* than a company in Brooklyn, New York? ?

Thats a cool looking car though - what scale is the kit?

 

 

 

*unusual in Brooklyn, I’d assume

[Mark]

I've got a couple of built ones.  Haven't measured one, but I'd bet it is very close to 1/25 scale.  Besides the long quarter panels, the shapes of things like window openings and wheel openings are quite crude.  But the overall shape of the body looks close.  With builtups, the hood is usually missing (I think I have one hood between the two cars, might have one each front and rear bumpers, and one too-small headlight).

[OldNYJim]

Interesting!  Thanks Mark!

[ChrisBcritter]

I have a complete kit I got some years ago from a model club auction; as tiny as the thing looks, I was surprised to see it scale out to 1/25 (the wheelbase, at least).

[Mark]

Premier made a few other interesting car kits.  Their Studebaker Lark is a two-door sedan, unfortunately it is just a bit under 1/25 scale.  I've got an unbuilt one, and have been looking for another one, to piece them together into one that measures out to 1/25 scale.

[sjordan2]

I had one many years ago, a very simple kit that was probably around 1/12 scale.

[Tom Geiger]

I knew where I had these pix!   The big issue to my eyes are that the windows are too small. Mine is missing a headlight and grille

[Mark]

Among other things, the section with the window openings should be taller.  The adjoining area of the roof needs to be opened up, and a new, thinner drip rail made up and sandwiched between the roof and (new) window opening section.

[alan barton]

It's as if Premier used Plasticene to make the moulds......