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Hi all, my name is Jens, I live in Germany. I build and collect everything that is named annual, and some more. My interests are muscle cars, American cars in general and a good share of trucks. I like to build them stock, or at least "day two", i.e. wheels changed for ones of the same vintage, for example. Years are mainly late fifties to late seventies. Cheers Jens

I think one thing is worth mentioning: Starting with the 76 year the truck cannot be built as a 4x2 anymore. It just had those 1/20 Can Am Racer tires with the steelies, no stock chrome full wheel covers anymore, no standard front axle. I would love to build a Power Wagon like the one shown. Someone should make decals for it On the topic of "hidden" annuals from MPC: I always thought the 1970 Camaro and Firebird kits didn't get real annual numbers because they came out in midyear 1970. The annual kit run possibly was done by the time?!

Hi, I haven't found any place for introducing me so I will do here: My name is Jens, I live in Germany. I build (well, currently I rather collect) virtually anything that can be built into a stock American car or truck. As long as it is old enough... Concerning this topic: I have the 69 MPC Fleetside annual (red plastic). I found this one as not very accurate. It rather is a 68 MPC annual with the new for 69 hood and a bit of changes around the side markers, IIRC. At least MPC did nothing to update the side trim which changed for 69. My opinion is that the AMT 69 kit is by far the better one. Don't have any 1970 kit, so I don't know if these are better. As someone already said the 69 AMT kit was available in another box (T330) with spectacular box art. It is shown in front of an open garage. The contents of the box are the same as the annual kit, even decals and instructions are the same. Also I have a 72 GMC Jimmy (T428), the orange car with the Honda bike. I have an issue with the box bottom of the 1973 25th anniversary, as someone already told. Decals date from "73". My version differs from another one I found on the net as it has clear windows, the other one's are black tinted. My kit has the deep dish steelies on the chrome tree, the other one doesn't have them. Also one of the stock full wheel covers is in another place on the tree! 71 and 72 GMC Sierra Grande: The last one the original poster showed is the 1971 kit. The orange one with the stock cab. The red one is the 72 annual in two versions of the box. I believe the one without the "72" is made and sold after the 1972 model year was over. Maybe they kind of made an additional run of boxes for leftover parts ?! I have seen a lot of kits from MPC and AMT with either the year shown or "NEW" or even nothing on it, like on this one. Also I have some boxes of 1970 annuals and the Motor City Stockers where the price suffix after the kit number is either not printed at all or it is blacked out. For me this is a hint that they sold these kits still after 1970, maybe at slightly higher prices.