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It looks like the body had a hard landing before it was even assembled into a stunt car!

I have the original '69 promo in a pinkish color with a darker painted and textured vinyl roof. Maybe Buick wanted the promo made with a vinyl top since it started to become a very popular option in the 1966 model year for many cars.

The '68 does not have a vinyl roof.

The original promo was a Beretta GT. My real car had 14" tires, while the Beretta GT had 15", and as Steve indicated, the GTZ had 16".

I ordered the standard '91 Beretta with the optional V6, sport suspension, gauge cluster, cruise, ac, automatic trans. I thought the tires were too small on the car and should have been a bit bigger to better fill up the wheel openings. It was a good car that I kept for 9 years. I sold it to a relative since I started having pain in my left hip and there was not adequate footwell space to stretch your leg out. Note in my photo that the tires are quite small.

Don't give anyone any ideas as the Canadian wildfires are drifting over Detroit ...

As always, it's an interesting and entertaining read. I'd choose the Pyro Imperial roadster as my favorite. The BMW Celica has to be one of the most bizarre kits of an almost-stock car. The first kit I built was a Pyro '37 Chevy coupe molded in green plastic.

There would be much more sales potential with a 1970 GTX or Road Runner kit using Round2's 1969 GTX kit for the powertrain, chassis, glass and interior tub. Newly tooled door panels, dashboard, seats, body, ram air hood, grille, bumpers, and a few other parts would need to be fabricated. You would have a somewhat modern tool that would please most modelers. Having both a GTX and Road Runner would lead to more kit sales.

@Rob Hall oh, my gosh, I spotted a PALMER Cougar in your stash!

I bought High Performance Cars magazine at Jason's on the way home from Dearborn High and before that, kits at Jack's, and Kresge's at Westborn Mall. The ACE hardware also had a good selection as did Harb's on Monroe. By the way, the dental and doctor's office attached to Jack's was torn down last year and the former drug store and party store is for sale.

Believe what you want. 🙄

you are incorrect; I saw one at a Dearborn show (predecessor of the Toledo show) in 1978; the guy wanted $25.00 for it when a mint purple '70 Cuda model sold for $10.00; the Mach 1 was talked about by many of us sellers at the show and sold quickly

Does anyone know if the promo came in any colors other than red and black?

The Ridler award winner at the 2019 Detroit Autorama. It combined a '59 Cadillac with a Nomad wagon.

Disappointing news since they were supposedly going to make some improvements to the tooling.

A '70 or '71 Sport Fury GT would be an interesting kit subject.

here it is:

a 23-foot competition roadster pickup?

My uncle worked at Ford and stored his 1950s promos under the basement stairs. Some actually did not warp. I bought some and sold the rest for him in 1978. You can find a decent '55 with patience.

The only "Aluminum Model Toy" AMT produced before switching to injection-molded plastic for 1949 was the 1946-1948 Ford Fordor sedan, which came out in 1948 and was a diecast 1/25th scale model. For 1949, AMT produced the Ford Custom and Plymouth 4-door sedans.

I'm guessing that those putting on the show don't contact the moderators on this forum.

correct; the '63 Ford truck promo had the front and rear license plates updated for '64 and '65; another weird situation as with the '66 Impala SS and Wildcat using the '65 interior