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A blast from the past!  Classic memories... but look at those hood supports!  You could run water through them!  Early 1960s scale complicated by the injection molding limitations of the era.

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Sweeeeet!   I, too, remember that one.  And, yeah.  It was a little above my allowance, too.  By the time my allowance had grown and I had learned how to keep a little of it from week to week to build up my 8 year old "buying power," the AMT 3n1 annuals were setting the world on fire and these were off the shelves. 

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Cool kit, for sure, but not without some serious scaling and proportion issues itself. It was a grail of mine too, like the old Aurora double '34 kit, and just as disappointing when I finally got one.

For one thing, the grille-shell is WAY too large, even for 1/24.

 

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This kit is closer to 1/20 than 1/24, probably to allow for the motorized version.  Monogram produced it just before they started doing the stock Thirties Fords, with which they settled on 1/24 scale.  It wouldn't be too tough to whip one together in 1/25 scale...

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Thanks for posting this Greg! It sure takes me back! I believe at the time it sold for $1.98 (a bunch-o-money for a kid with a weekly allowance of 25 cents).

Or 40 nickel deposit Coke bottles!  However you chose your currency in those days! 

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A blast from the past!  Classic memories... but look at those hood supports!  You could run water through them!  Early 1960s scale complicated by the injection molding limitations of the era.

what "hood supports" and  why would anyone run water thru 'em ?   :rolleyes:

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Or 40 nickel deposit Coke bottles!  However you chose your currency in those days! 

We only got 2 cents for soda bottles in the '60s. Fishing for change through subway gratings using a small padlock with a little Vaseline or Bazooka gum on the bottom was our racket. Best spots were at bus stops and grates near bars. We fished enough money to keep us in models, Spaldeens, candy and tops indefinitely. :) 

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2 cents for 16oz     .5 cents for 32oz     and 15 cents for a gallon milk bottle, and try to be quicker than other kids doing the same .

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2 cents for 16oz     .5 cents for 32oz     and 15 cents for a gallon milk bottle, and try to be quicker than other kids doing the same .

Are you sure? Wasn't the regular size bottle of pop 12 ounces? And I don't remember ever seeing a 32 ounce glass pop bottle. I must have missed that.

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I discovered recently that I still have mine that I must have built, OOB, in the early 1970s. It is (brush) painted in bright blue with blue & white interior but is in bits in its original box. It seems to have just disintegrated but it is complete, with nothing broken. When I can, I will post some pics.

One day, I will rebuild it.

steve

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Are you sure? Wasn't the regular size bottle of pop 12 ounces? And I don't remember ever seeing a 32 ounce glass pop bottle. I must have missed that.

All bottles from the store or vending machine the deposit was 2 cents, then the quart deposit was a nickels-l1600.jpg

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Yeah, I remember 2¢ for a bottle. You needed to collect a lot of bottles to buy a $1.98 model!

We got a nickel for empty pop bottles when I was a kid, but we also got a dime for the milk bottles. And yea, you needed a lot of empties to buy a model.  

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There's an old, rundown candy store near my kid's school and this kit was sitting on a shelf with a few other car and plane models in decrepit, waterlogged boxes. They were all marked with equally ancient $2 price tags. I should have grabbed them when I had the chance. When I stopped by a few days later, they were all gone. The next time I saw this kit, it was in a "vintage" (read hipster-operated junk emporium) shop a couple blocks away for $75. I'll pass.

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Man, that grille shell (or at least a smaller version) would really go good on the new 29 A Roadster.

Maybe an enterprising resin caster will work something up.

That is a whole lot better than "just" a 32 shell!

The odd, slightly bulged look, and added bars really says 1950's Hot Rod to me.

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A blast from the past!  Classic memories... but look at those hood supports!  You could run water through them!  Early 1960s scale complicated by the injection molding limitations of the era.

Radiator support rods.

 

Art

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