Amt - Mpc - Polar Lights: The Official Press Release

[lordairgtar]

Hi Dwayne,

Wow, I feel awful just reading about the warpage problems now! Auto World didn't receive any complaints and neither did I directly at Retro Hobby. Even though we don't have direct control over the production in China, it's no excuse. What I can say is, moving forward, we will not be producing the kits through RC2's facilities, so I will do everything I can to try and eliminate warpage issues as I will have direct contact with the factory.

Thank you,

John Greczula

John, I wish to thank you for taking charge of these tools. Is the new facility still in China? I would sure like to see the production done in the States (like Lindberg), but I do also understand the cost aspect of it, so even if still overseas, I wish the best of luck to you and I will be looking forward to seeing the kits on my LHS shelves.

[Joe Nunes]

"Another thing that bugs me about what I'm seeing raise its ugly head here, and that is the personal bickering--that's not the model car building family I've come to know over the years, guys. Sure, we do disagree, that's human. But to come to blows, at least digitally, isn't what I would expect to see or hear when I sign on to a great message board, nor experience at a model car contest or NNL."

Biscuitbuilder, you are correct here.

Ron L, my apology to you is on public display. I'll be the first to say I was out of line with my comments and I'd like to extend my hand in apology to you. Joe

[tim boyd]

I generally try to stay away from posting on controverisal subjects on model car boards. This time I am going to make an exception. I hope I don't offend anyone too much.

Larry Greenberg's post above pretty much sums up all my experience in dealing with model car industry executives for the last 33 years. It's woth another read.

The news that was revealed officially on Friday has been in the works for months and months. We can only imagine the amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes just to get to this point. I don't know these folks well but I have corresponded with them for quite some time now and from what I can tell they share our goals as model car hobbyists. And just because they have not widely posted on boards does not mean that they have not done lots of communication behind the scenes.

If there was a negative reaction to one of the earlier posts in this string I believe it was in part because many of us put ourselves in the shoes of Tom and John and wondered how they would react, after all this hard work, and after the big moment, and then see this post.

Having a positive attitude is really important in business, in your hobby, and in life in general. There will definitely be some bumps in the road and disappointments along the way, but I believe Tom'd and John's efforts so far hold great promise for the hobby we love, and I hope Friday, March 7 is a day we long remember!

TIM BOYD

[Harry P.]

Well, the bottom line here is simple. Until we actually have some of these "new" kits in our own hands, everything else is speculation.

We really can't comment on the products until we SEE the products.

And as far as the naysayers...you can't blame them for being skeptical, given the quality level of the releases from the previous incarnation of AMT. If the newly released kits are still as bad as the previous crop, then we should start griping. And if they're significantly better, then we can sing the praises of the "new" AMT. But until then, all we can do is wait and see.

[Darin Bastedo]

See what I mean? The defense bandwagon is on full alert without even reading carefully as if my hand reached through their monitor and slapped them in the face, yet I still await answers to my questions.

How do I know not to buy it until after I've already bought it? Based on magazine reviews? Larry can tell you how well that worked out. Yes, and these guys JUST announced their arrangements and intentions mere hours ago, and you already think the hobby is saved. Does ANYONE know what the rest of us don't, which are the questions I asked earlier?

So who does? That was one of my questions. Rather than "Tom, John, your designs are bad" as you are seeing it, it is actually "Tom, John, what can you do to prevent bad designs?"

Although it was your quote I included it wasn't directed at you, but as you can see in this thread alone it applies to many people. I've been to more corporate and school meetings than you can imagine and yes, I have called people whatever I want. If we had a meeting with the head of some company speaking and some guys start talking down to me because I asked questions, you bet I'll call them what they deserved to be called. Dragging someone out to the schoolyard and saying "Now tell it to my face" or telling someone to "just go somewhere else" is just childish and an admittance of defeat. Also, asking me to say it to you in person means you're challenging me to some sort of physical confrontation, which I believe is against board rules. Or did you want to give me flowers and hugs?

Larry, I've got positive hopes, but what does that do? My 9 y.o. daughter had positive hopes with her snap kit, and now she swears she'll "never build another one of these stupid things." Good thing she got her start on planes and Gundam kits beforehand, or she would've given up the hobby for good like many people have. I had questions about the future and what's to be done about mistakes of the past, yet instead of answers I'm blasted for being a whiner.

Let me summarize and sugar coat it for those that get sand in their urethra too easily:

1) How do we, as a group of passionate hobbyists, get in contact with the people that put the final "OK" on the parts, so we end up with kits we can all like? "Hey guys, here's a preliminary draft on the 2010 concept Gremlin engine, what do you think?" How cool would that be?

2) Why aren't model car industry people more involved in forums, and I don't mean just sellers and vendors relaying what they heard from further up?

3) With all the concerns about past inaccuracies, mistakes, etc. why hasn't someone come forward to explain why the decision was made to create such parts?

4) Now that it's headed towards a seemingly better future, will points 1 through 3 be handled differently than in the past, if at all?

So there you have it. If you wish, let's forget everything and pretend that all I wrote were those four questions. Answers from those who are qualified and can prove it are welcome. Now I'm off to prime and paint my AMT '09 Camaro.

Ron, to answer your question "why don't manufacturers get involved in the forums?" you post is a clear example of why. You are asking the new management of AMT how their going to avoid the problems you had with the old management. The answer is simple...They aren't the old management.

Most of the issues you have a problem with stemmed from the fact that when RC2 aquired AMT & Polar Lights they gutted the engineering depts and out sourced the development of new tooled to people who had no feel fotr the subject matter. The Auto World/Retro Hobbies guys are Model guys.

The questions you ask are like asking the new owner of a car that hit your dog while driven by the previous owner, what he's going to do to keep the car from hitting dogs. The main reason they took over AMT is because they believe that they can do it better than before, if they didn't they wouldn't have bothered. The Problems you mention are the reasons RC2 couldn't make a go of it.

It's the negativity that is prevalent on many of the forums that keeps the manufacturers from posting. A while Back I posted a sneak preview of A master I was working on for Reliable Resin. Almost immediately, a few people who had never seen the maste in person started ripping into it, even though it wasn't even finished. That lead to my decision to never again post sneak peeks of the our products.

Imagine if AMT posted ahead of time what they planned to produce, not only would it tip off their competition, but every nut case would come out of the woodwork with suggestions. A good case in point is when Revell annouced their intentions to release a 1957 Chevy Black Widow. The nutcases came out and said it was a waste of tooling dollars because there are already 57 Chevy models, and thay wanted a model of 1973 Grand am or something equally obscure. But what Revell knew, that the nut cases didn't was, That there has never been a model of a 1957 chevy, in any scale by any manufacturer that didn't make money, and this was a variation that has never been kitted.

During the 80's and 90's AMT listened carefully to the modelers. They took us at our word that we would buy tons of 58 edsels and gave us a really nice state of the art kit, and it flopped. Revell gave us a wonderful 1969 Dodge Dart GTS, and it flopped. there have been many more, but my point is one of the worst thing they could do is listen to us when it comes to product planning.

I told someone at Revell a while back that they should run their future product plans past me, and if I respond with, "Oh wow that will be really cool!" they should run, not walk away from it. Almost every new kit that I thought was cool, turned out to be a financial failure. That fact of the matter is their most enthusiastic customers are also the most jaded. We don't want a new kit of a 57 Chevy because we have a shelf in the basement with two of every 57 chevy kit ever made.

The market they need to listen to is the mass market. Let's face it, 32 fords, 57 chevies, Camaros, Corvettes, Mustangs, and muscle cars sell, and sell well.

Compare these two lists and see what makes better sense;

Cars I would like AMT to produce;

1. Mid 80's dodge diplomat police car.

2. 1967 Ford Country Sedan Wagon

3. a Divco Milk truck

4. 1969 - 1974 Ford Econoline van

5. early 60's studebaker lark

Each of these I would buy a case of, but who else would?

Cars I think the should make that would actually sell;

1. A New Tool of a 1969-70 Mustang convertible

2. A new tool of the 1962 Corvette

3. A 1935-36 chevy street rod. An untapped maket, but with the popularity of hot rods I think this would be a winner.

4. A new kit of the 1965 GTO (the old one still sells even though it has been through the ringer.)

5. a new 1968-69 Chevelle kit

6. An accurate 1970 AAR 'Cuda

7. A generic Front engine dragster with many options

Now admittedly I would only buy maybe one or two of these, but that is made up for by the shear number of people who will do the same. Who can doubt that any onf these would be hot sellers?

I fully inderstand that you are concerned about how the New AMT will be run, but perhaps If you phrased your concerns in the form of a suggestion rather than criticism it would have been recieved better. They had no control over how RC2 ran things, but now they are in charge and are starting with a clean sheet of paper. I have high hopes for the new AMT, and have even offered them the use of my vast collection of referance photos in hopes that the will be successful. I'm not kissing their butts, my offer was partially selfish; like you I want better model kits, and anything I can do to help them achieve that I'm willing to do.

[Daniel Peterson]

It's simple, fellas. If we read the press release closely, we can anticipate seeing good things if everything goes to plan. That would also mean new tools potentially, if not definitely.

I have way too much on my plate to worry about too much about the ultimate success or failure of this arrangement. All I see for now is that it's is the equivelent of CPR, breathing some much needed life back into the availability of some desireable AMT and MPC kits.

Would you rather the tools end up lost forever? Abandoned and left in complete disrepair, damaged, or flat out misplaced? We've been down that road before, haven't we? Hmmmmmm?

I'm just pleased somebody who understands the hobby is coming to the rescue.

Edited March 9, 2008 by Daniel Peterson

[Darin Bastedo]

Am I missing something here? How is this any different than what Model King has been doing? The only difference I can see is MK licenses one kit at a time while Autoworld has made an agreement that gives them access to the whole inventory, or am I understanding this wrong? I'm sure I'll be happy to see some of these re-releases but I'm not going to keep paying $20-$25 for kits produced from old, worn out molds. Either the quality has to significantly improve or the price has to be in-line with at least the typical Revell reissue. I have no problem paying good money for a quality kit but I won't pay Tamiya money for poorly molded 40 year old kit designs. Also, I'm not going read too much into that "our own production facilities" line, that could just mean a different factory still in China.

Yes, like Ron I'm a skeptic, I'm not about to go around jumping for joy until I at least see more real details, not just some vague marketing spiel press release. This isn't a criticsm against the people running this show, I'm sure they are competent but this press release doesn't really tell me all that much about their intentions or resources.

David

The main difference between What Dave Burkett (Model King) is doing, and what Tom & John are doing is;

The model king orders a certain number of kits from existing tooling, and when he pays and the Models are delivered the deal is done. He essentially is a licenced reseller.

What Tom and John are doing is essentially Renting the company instead of buying. The reason that RC2 had trouble selling AMT/ERTL is they wanted $xxx.xxx,xxx upfront cash on the barrel head. Unfortunately nobody who has that kind of cas sitting around was willing to take the risk. By "renting" the companie, RC2 technically owns it, but it Gives Retro Hobby/Auto World full power to run it as they see fit, just as if they owned it, but it requires less cash up front. This will allow them to recoupe their investment faster. Who knows down the line they may be able to make enough profit to buy it outright.

For all intents and purposes, there is only a lgal difference between what they are doing, and buying the company outright. They are now incharge of product developent, production, advertising, distribution etc. RC2 just hold the paper.

Hopefully I explained this well.

[bobss396]

I don't care how they do it, just give me a '55-'56 Mercury or '54 Buick on the level of the Revell '49 Merc and I'll be happy.

All kidding aside, give 'em a chance and see what great new things come about. I'm psyched about the ownership change, it's all good!

Bob

[Junkman]

I remember equally enthusiastic reactions when word was out that the remains of Jo-Han were bought up. Back then, I exulted. Since then, Jo-Han is dead as a can of corned beef. After that experience, I wait until I have a box with parts in it on my workbench before I believe anything.

[SteveG]

Let me be the first from the Hawk/Lindberg camp to welcome Tom and John to the community and wish them good luck with their plans for the AMT, MPC and Polar Lights Brands.

As a modeler first, this is great news for our hobby. RC2 - Learning Curve treated those brands and their consumers like a Red-headed step child. The fact that John G. went to the trouble to post this information direct to use shows that we are dealing with a class act and is a good sign there will be someone who cares about what the Adult modelers think. There is no doubt there is a lot of work for them to do, but I believe these folks are very capable of restoring the good name of those brands as well as restoring the actual tooling. To me, this is the best possible outcome (next to my pal Ernie Petit getting a similar deal going of course).

Lets give them some time to get things moving. I expect they will put a system in place where our suggestion and complaints will be heard and considered like they should be. At least that's what I'm betting on ....

-Steve

[Ron L]

The fact that "new tools" was barely mentioned in passing is one thing that baffles me. That could mean anything, from starting from scratch to using an "American Muscle" (AM) tool to create plastic kits, which would technically be "new" once molded and put into an AMT box. How does translating a die-cast tool into plastic work, is that even feasible? Revell's Uptown and AMT's tuner series kits look like plastic versions of die-casts. Are they? Although grossly mis-shapen, I wouldn't mind the AM kits made in plastic as long as they don't try to pass it off as an accurate replica. For example an AM '67 Mustang with a chopped roof and oversized wheels and wheelwells would be fine with me, since they already have a good stock version of a '67 available. Putting stock parts with a body that's obviously beyond stock makes no sense.

The questions you ask are like asking the new owner of a car that hit your dog while driven by the previous owner, what he's going to do to keep the car from hitting dogs. The main reason they took over AMT is because they believe that they can do it better than before, if they didn't they wouldn't have bothered. The Problems you mention are the reasons RC2 couldn't make a go of it.

That analogy doesn't work, Darin, unless you're implying that the car would automatically home in on dogs (meat-seeking radar?). Imagine your kid's school bus breaking down 4 times last year, leaving the kids stranded. In the new school year someone introduces himself as the new head of bus operations. Whether the breakdowns were due to previous management or not is irrelevant, but the concern is still there: "What can you do, or are you in position, to prevent my kid from being stranded this time?" Or do you just wait and see, "and then start griping" when your kid is stranded?

No time to do a quote-fest this time around guys, but thanks to all for sharing. As a side note: unless it is addressed to you directly, do not take anything personally even if you think it's about you. Being instantly defensive suggests guilt.

rhoadapple, no worries man, build on.

[Darin Bastedo]

That analogy doesn't work, Darin, unless you're implying that the car would automatically home in on dogs (meat-seeking radar?). Imagine your kid's school bus breaking down 4 times last year, leaving the kids stranded. In the new school year someone introduces himself as the new head of bus operations. Whether the breakdowns were due to previous management or not is irrelevant, but the concern is still there: "What can you do, or are you in position, to prevent my kid from being stranded this time?" Or do you just wait and see, "and then start griping" when your kid is stranded?

The point of my response to you, is you don't "start griping" at all. In the case of you kid's bus breaking down, you wouldn't start "griping" at the new head guy, but you might politely mention the situation. Your analogy points out perfectly what I was getting at;

The new bus supervisor takes over for the old one (who was probably fired because he didn't make sure the busses were well maintained) he starts his job with the same mechanics, the same busses and the same tools. You call him up and mention that there was a particular problem with the bus you kid rides. He thanks you for letting him know and sets his mechanics to the task of finding the problem. But if you call him up, saying " Ihope you aren't as much of an idiot as the previous guy" he may just write you off as a malcontent.

Same thing with AMT. Tom & John are the new head guys at AMT. I assure you they are quite aware of the problems that existed under RC2's control. It's not like they transfered in from Mars. Sure they have the same Tooling that RC2 had, But they are moving production to their own facility where they have more control over quality. If you have a particular concern that you think they might not know about, politely bring it to their attention, but "griping" just makes you seem like a malcontent.

There are issues I have with the AMT kits that RC2 released, but giving Retro Hobbies past products particularly the trikes, I'm confident there will be a drastic improvement at AMT with them in charge.

I can sum up my point in the immortal words of Patrick Swayse from the movie "Roadhouse" Be nice.

Edited March 9, 2008 by Darin Bastedo

[Joe Handley]

I'm still thrilled that somebody's going to be using the tooling, don't even care what they bring out and which "brand it is/was I will buy it if I've got the money just to give them the green to do other stuff! I'm hoping that they can get enough money to buy the tooling away from RC2 and maybe even bring them all back to the States.

[Aaronw]

Cars I would like AMT to produce;

1. Mid 80's dodge diplomat police car.

2. 1967 Ford Country Sedan Wagon

3. a Divco Milk truck

4. 1969 - 1974 Ford Econoline van

5. early 60's studebaker lark

Each of these I would buy a case of, but who else would?

Hey, I like this list.

we need more police cars

I'm just glad to see somebody stepping up to take over AMT, even if we just get re-issues for awhile that's ok, they make a lot of kits I like and have one of the best line ups of truck kits.

we need more fire engines

As I recall the initial news around Revell and Hawk / Lindberg drew a bit of negativity as well, and 2007 was a great year for kits from them and 2008 looks like it is getting off to a decent start as well.

we need more ambulances

So welcome, and thanks. I expect we won't see a whole lot of activity until the end of '08 but I'm looking forward to '09.

Edited March 10, 2008 by Aaronw

[larrygre]

Larry Greenberg's post above pretty much sums up all my experience in dealing with model car industry executives for the last 33 years. It's woth another read.

Thanks, Tim. Good to hear from you again.

[Guest Davkin]

What Tom and John are doing is essentially Renting the company instead of buying.

I don't understand where you get that idea. The press release only specifically mentions a licensing agreement and something vague about moving production. Nothing in that press release leaves me to beleive this is anything different than what Model King is doing, it's just on a possibly much grander scale, but even that would be speculation really. This may be great news, it may end up being nothing new, only time will tell because that press release certainly doesn't. I'm not trying to be negative here, I just think people are reading more into that press release than there really is. As avid hobbiests we tend to be dreamers, I understand that, but I've lived through too many let downs to not be jaded by stuff like this.

All that said, I do hope we do see some great re-releases of long forgotten kits, (at a reasonable price.) and maybe a good new tooling or two, I beleive those things are possible but again, only time will tell for sure.

David

[Daniel Peterson]

All that said, I do hope we do see some great re-releases of long forgotten kits, (at a reasonable price.) and maybe a good new tooling or two, I beleive those things are possible but again, only time will tell for sure.

David

Geez, David...wouldn't it be great if everybody just adopted your last sentence as a realistic (yet hopeful) summation of the situation and stood back to watch what transpires? Heaven knows I'm in.

I know that a sometimes myopic passion for the hobby is de rigeur for many of us. There's nothing wrong with that, really. It's kind of fun, and goodness knows it's an escape for darn near all of us. It's just how many of us are wired. There's just little need for blood pressure to get all elevated over it.

I might not build much anymore, but that is a direct result of passion for the hobby. Lemme 'splain...instead of sitting at my model bench on Saturday's when I'm not working, I go to club meetings. That eats up half a day easily, and when I get back, single parenting duties take over. Sundays when I'm not working, I burn between 6 and 8 hours publishing our club's newsletter. Other weekends, especially over the next few months, I'll be drawn like a moth to a flame to the East Coast Nats and US30 Reunion, both of which are events where we not only attend as a club, but are invited participants, in large part to the efforts of our club's leadership. Then there's all the preparation for our Super September Showdown, which is entering its 9th year. On top of all that, we're involved (again, as a club) in a couple other contests and shows, and somewhere between all that, I squeeze 50 to 60 hour work weeks.

So, I can comfortably say I'm passionate about the hobby, but worked up over this latest news I cannot be. Let's leave this project to the professionals, have a little bit of faith, a smidge of skepticism, and take full advantage of the fruits of these gents' labor when the boxes hit the shelves...

[Ron L]

The point of my response to you, is you don't "start griping" at all. In the case of you kid's bus breaking down, you wouldn't start "griping" at the new head guy, but you might politely mention the situation. Your analogy points out perfectly what I was getting at;

The new bus supervisor takes over for the old one (who was probably fired because he didn't make sure the busses were well maintained) he starts his job with the same mechanics, the same busses and the same tools. You call him up and mention that there was a particular problem with the bus you kid rides. He thanks you for letting him know and sets his mechanics to the task of finding the problem. But if you call him up, saying " Ihope you aren't as much of an idiot as the previous guy" he may just write you off as a malcontent.

Darin, my "griping" was based on Harry's comment, hence the quotes. Quotes around a word or phrase means I don't necessarily share the view, or I did not say it originally. Harry said:

If the newly released kits are still as bad as the previous crop, then we should start griping.

So I said, in reply to you:

Or do you just wait and see, "and then start griping" when your kid is stranded?

"and then start griping" is in quotes. Get it? How does "What can you do, or are you in position, to prevent my kid from being stranded this time?" sound like I'm calling the bus manager an idiot?

I'm not griping, nor do I suggest griping now. The point was why wait until it's too late which is what Harry is suggesting. I replied to you with Harry's quote because you and I were on the same track, I was merely trying to correct your analogy, that's all.

[RyanSilva]

Id LOVE for the polar lights funny cars to come back! they are great kits...and they fetch respectable $$ amounts on ebay now, which is a bummer, for me!

[Darin Bastedo]

I don't understand where you get that idea. The press release only specifically mentions a licensing agreement and something vague about moving production. Nothing in that press release leaves me to beleive this is anything different than what Model King is doing, it's just on a possibly much grander scale, but even that would be speculation really. This may be great news, it may end up being nothing new, only time will tell because that press release certainly doesn't. I'm not trying to be negative here, I just think people are reading more into that press release than there really is. As avid hobbiests we tend to be dreamers, I understand that, but I've lived through too many let downs to not be jaded by stuff like this.

All that said, I do hope we do see some great re-releases of long forgotten kits, (at a reasonable price.) and maybe a good new tooling or two, I beleive those things are possible but again, only time will tell for sure.

David

Where I get that Idea is;

"South Bend, IN – Auto World (a division of Round 2, LLC) has signed a licensing agreement with RC2/Learning Curve Brands, Inc. of Oak Brook, Illinois. The contract will allow Auto World to produce and market plastic model kits under the well-known brands of AMT, MPC and Polar Lights. Also included are the rights to manufacture 1:18 and 1:24 scale die-cast replicas using the trademarks of American Muscle and Ertl Collectibles. In addition, Auto World will now be handling production of Custom and Premium promotional die-cast vehicles for RC2’s current C&P customer base, with sales continuing through established representatives."

That is what this paragraph means. When it says that they are licensed to market kits using the AMT/MPC/Polar Lights it means that they are essentially "renting the brand name and the tools. Not only that, if they create a new tool they can market it under those trademarks also. What The Model King is doing, is ordering a special run of models from AMT, MPC and Polar Lights. He is a reseller, similar to being a distributer. The biggest difference is he has no control over the company. He could request a private run of a particular kit, and be turned down. Where as Autoworld in control of all of the tooling, and legally while the agreement is in effect is AMT, MPC and Polar Lights. they are the company. Despite what people think, the press release is very specific about what the company is doing, you just have to understand the legal terms in it.

Essentially RC2 still owns the tooling, and the trademarked names, but for a fee is letting Auto World use them. Thus they are, in simpler terms "renting the company"

[Mike Chernecki]

This is great news. Good luck to the new guys in charge. Hopefully we will start to see some faavorite parts donor kits soon ('69 Olds, etc) How about this suggestion, release some parts packs, such as chassis kit from the '69 Olds, '71 Duster, '68 Road runner , etc so we can upgrade some of the old kits ourselves. I hate buying a perfectly good kit to steal the chassis. I just canibalized my last Duster kit to upgrade a '69 cuda.

[Guest Davkin]

Thus they are, in simpler terms "renting the company"

I guess you can interpret however you want but I'll take just take their word at face value which says it's a licensing agreement in the sentence betore the one you boldfaced.

David

Edited March 11, 2008 by Davkin

[lordairgtar]

This is great news. Good luck to the new guys in charge. Hopefully we will start to see some favorite parts donor kits soon ('69 Olds, etc) How about this suggestion, release some parts packs, such as chassis kit from the '69 Olds, '71 Duster, '68 Road runner , etc so we can upgrade some of the old kits ourselves. I hate buying a perfectly good kit to steal the chassis. I just canibalized my last Duster kit to upgrade a '69 Cuda.

I emailed the AutoWorld people about this very idea and got an email back saying they would consider it. My exact request was to redo chassis plates to reflect a more accurate rendition of one without molded on exhausts, suspensions, etcetera. A kind of modular chassis that would say fit a GTO as well as a Chevelle, Olds, Buick, and a series for a lot of the Ford Mustang and Falcon based platforms. This would work for various Mopars as well.

[RyanSilva]

I emailed the AutoWorld people about this very idea and got an email back saying they would consider it. My exact request was to redo chassis plates to reflect a more accurate rendition of one without molded on exhausts, suspensions, etcetera. A kind of modular chassis that would say fit a GTO as well as a Chevelle, Olds, Buick, and a series for a lot of the Ford Mustang and Falcon based platforms. This would work for various Mopars as well.

That is perfect.. i always wished companies did this. I mean i have 5 amt prostreet superbee's without chassis.. the modular chassis would do wonders on those bodies!.

I love the mustang idea to, after all the 60 ranchero needs help in the chassis department, aswell as the early amt mustangs (65-66) Sure you could use the 67 chassis,..but its a good kit to let go to waste.

[Joe Nunes]

Having had the pleasure of numerous emails with John, of Auto World (Round 2), I find him to be a real nice guy with whom to communicate ideas for possible future model kit issues. He is VERY interested and dedicated to putting forth a product worthy of your respect. Having said that I would encourage anyone with good, positive, ideas and suggestion to forward your thoughts directly to John via email. Let him know what you would like to see in future kits. Now is not the time to tear down but rather a time to join in and be a part of this incredible opportunity to offer your suggestions directly to someone in the modeling industry who is willing to listen.