SMP '58 Fairlane Convertible

[ranma]

I bought it at a Garage sale , It will soon be taken apart so the body can go in the paint stripper.

[High octane]

Nice score as I like those '58 Fords.

[StevenGuthmiller]

I saw your post in the "What Did You Get Today" thread & as I said there, you completely stole this one!

I'll bet the people at the garage sale would be quite surprised to know that they could have easily gotten $100.00 or more for this model on ebay.

Looks surprisingly similar to one that I bought on ebay a few years ago.

As long as they used a basic enamel paint, it should strip nicely.

I had really good luck getting the skirts off of mine as well.

Hope your luck is the same.

Here is the transition that mine made.

 

Steve

 

[ranma]

Oh those fender skirt's well they just popped off when I was un-screwing the chassis from the Body, And the Paint just after an hour in some L.A. Awsome it was gone!

[John Goschke]

Wow!  I've got four '58 Ford kits and I'm still jealous! How sick is that?

Anyway, I'm also really glad for you, that looks like a good one. Looking forward to the post-stripping pics.

Just a bit of vintage kit trivia... The '58 Fords are AMT kits, not SMP.  SMP did the Chevies and Imperial in '58  AMT did the Edsel, Ford, Buick, and Pontiac.

 

[Ron Hamilton]

Good luck on that fantastic score!!!!

[ranma]

AMT bought SMP in 1961 and for a few years produced both the SMP and AMT, Even adopting SMP"s three in one concept for the amt kit's. so In a way the 58 was a SMP made by AMT!

Edited August 12, 2017 by ranma

[oldcarfan]

Amazing find, also amazing that there are still some of those out there to even be found. The best I ever come across is a few 2000s NASCAR kits.

[Sixties Sam]

Great find - and almost free! Should make a  nice build!

Sam

[ChrisBcritter]

AMT '58 Ford vert for a buck and it's never had louvers glued on the hood, or or a spotlight hole in the A-pillar, or antennas glued on the deck?? I'd tell you to go buy a Powerball ticket if you hadn't used a year's worth of good luck...

Some guys replace the chassis with one from the AMT '59 Ford or Edsel; if you plan to go that route I have a spare if you need it.

[mod3l Lover]

    Yes indeed, what an amazing find that was!!  I am sooo

jealous right now.

   I would give my wife's right hand for a good rebuildable

'58 Fairlane 500 Sedan kit. There is a build thread going

on right now on a different forum.

     David S.