Any reviews of AMT 1965 Pontiac 2+2?

[drodg]

I took a look  at my 65 AMT kit last night and I have a Sean Carpenter 2+2 convertible body with a chassis also.  The AMT kit is obviously too long but the chrome rear panel does have Pontiac on it and not Bonneville.  The problem is those Bonneville tailights,  I think that has frustrated me over the years  when I think about doing my resin conversion with the convertible body.   The interior from the 2+2 AMT kit is too long also if I remember right with the long wheelbase on the AMT kit.  So I would think the AMT Grand Prix kit would be better for the interior but is the trim level incorrect for a 2+2?   Let me know. 

[Motor City]

Fender skirts were optional on the full-size Pontiacs that didn't have them standard.  Why anyone would put them on a 2+2 is beyond me.  I've seen a '66 2+2 at Greenfield Village in Dearborn with skirts.  Regarding the '65 Bonneville kit being converted into a 2+2, I thought they would have been better off to correct the driver's side roofline than spent all that tooling expense trying to convert it to the shorter wheelbase 2+2.  I don't know why they don't re-issue the '65 Bonneville convertible kit.

[drodg]

Art may want to pipe in here but if you wanted to correct the back panel and rear bumper how would you suggest doing it?  I would obviously need a second rear panel but how would you graft the section on both sides in?  

[unclescott58]

A couple of things. I didn't really mind the long wheelbase on AMT's 2 + 2. In model form I still say that if a person wasn't told about the 2 + 2 being based on AMT's Bonneville, most people would not have known there was anything wrong with the kit, length wise at least. I was more upset with their 2 + 2, thinking they had needlessly wrecked their perfectly good Bonneville tool to offer it. It seems that they did not wreck the old Bonneville dies. I believe the Bonneville has been reissued at least once since the 2 + 2 was last on the market.

As far as fender skirts. Yes, they were optional on any full-size Pontiac in '65 that didn't come with them as standard equipment. Except wagons. And I love the looks of a full-size Pontiac hardtops or convertibles with skirts built from 1965 through 1970. Including the '65 through '67 2 + 2s. They didn't work on the plain sedans for some reason.

 

Scott