AMT Future Releases Interesting

[mike 51]

interesting choice......

Edited December 10, 2017 by mike 51

[MrObsessive]

On 12/8/2017 at 6:55 AM, SfanGoch said:

Hmmmm......there's only one older than me.

Same here! All the others I was here when they first hit the roads.

My how time flies! To think that once upon a time, the first cars I saw on the road when I first knew what a car was, all had tailfins and TONS of chrome!

[Dave Darby]

On 12/8/2017 at 9:29 PM, Daddyfink said:

A dupe post about new stuff with confusing info.  

right in the

GIF's are like the Bat Signal for Mods, one should be along soon..

OMG right in the k-nudsens!

[Dave Darby]

On 12/8/2017 at 7:35 PM, Rob Hall said:

The 3 61s I have (two convertibles, 1 hardtop) are all curbsides. 

Well there you go. I thought I had a 61 a while back, but foggy memory it most have been a 62.

[Bob Ellis]

Are they going to make the 65 Lincoln a "Beard of Paradise" box?

[Junkman]

Yeah and bring back the Havana Banana while they're at it.

[Rob Hall]

On 12/11/2017 at 4:13 PM, Bob Ellis said:

Are they going to make the 65 Lincoln a "Beard of Paradise" box?

I doubt it.  Probably a variation on the retro style box art they used on the last two reissues. 

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Junkman said:

Yeah and bring back the Havana Banana while they're at it.

I'd rather see the Mexicali Mudlark, but it's just not possible. 

[mr68gts]

On 12/8/2017 at 8:29 PM, Daddyfink said:

A dupe post about new stuff with confusing info.  

GIF's are like the Bat Signal for Mods, one should be along soon..

Should have had someone hold his beer...

[Junkman]

12 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I'd rather see the Mexicali Mudlark, but it's just not possible. 

Not rather, rather as well!

Also the Turista Turismo and most of all the Boondock Bomber.

I wonder whether all those tools are really lost (aside the '66 Skylark, which sadly is),
or whether they hesitate because of some OMGCURBSIDENOWAY nonsense.

 

Edited December 13, 2017 by Junkman

[Reegs]

The Fireball 500 Barracuda was purpose-built by George Barris for the stock car racing movie Fireball 500. There was absolutely no drag racing influence, let alone topless match-race car.

[Bob Ellis]

Che Riviera 1965 Riviera is possible but Havana Banana 1965 Olds 88 is not since it is a modified stocker now

[wku88]

Well, I'd like to see a reissue of Fidel's Flip Top 1959 Skyliner.

[Junkman]

On 14/12/2017 at 4:20 AM, Bob Ellis said:

Che Riviera 1965 Riviera is possible but Havana Banana 1965 Olds 88 is not since it is a modified stocker now

I thought the mod stock is a '66?

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Junkman said:

I thought the mod stock is a '66?

AMT didn't do a '66 Oldsmobile. But the Skylark and Impala mod stockers are '66s. 

[Bob Ellis]

7 hours ago, Snake45 said:

AMT didn't do a '66 Oldsmobile. But the Skylark and Impala mod stockers are '66s. 

The inpala modified is a 1966. The Olds Dynamic 88 is a 1965

[socal76]

Is the Polyglas Gasser going to be done off the new tool '62 Catelina or AMT's kit of the early to mid seventies Polyglas Gasser kit release?

Edited December 16, 2017 by socal76

[niteowl7710]

49 minutes ago, socal76 said:

Is the Polyglas Gasser going to be done off the new tool '62 Catelina or AMT's kit of the early to mid seventies Polyglas Gasser kit release?

"New tool" Catalina.  Albeit that was new some 20 years ago at this point, but it's just another decal variation on that kit.

[Luc Janssens]

3 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

"New tool" Catalina.  Albeit that was new some 20 years ago at this point, but it's just another decal variation on that kit.

 Back in the '90s Amt's Blueprinter magazine, printed a list of possible subjects to release as Blueprinter exclusives, one of these items was the Polyglas Gasser kit.

I'm guessing that while their records at that time, showed that they had the tool, they hadn't, or it was too far gone to salvage.

Maybe Dave Darby has some additional info on what happened back then, cuz he had good contacts with Karen Sands of Ertl.

Edited December 16, 2017 by Luc Janssens

[lordairgtar]

On 12/7/2017 at 7:54 PM, iBorg said:

Oh boy.....more kits I saved that are now nearly worthless!

Maybe you can trade them for Bitcoin...

[Junkman]

8 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

 Back in the '90s Amt's Blueprinter magazine, printed a list of possible subjects to release as Blueprinter exclusives, one of these items was the Polyglas Gasser kit.

I'm guessing that while their records at that time, showed that they had the tool, they hadn't, or it was too far gone to salvage.

Maybe Dave Darby has some additional info on what happened back then, cuz he had good contacts with Karen Sands of Ertl.

 

They might have wanted to base the kit on the old annual back then and deep sixed the project when they found out it's a Bonneville.
However, they then newly tooled a Catalina, but never dug up the Polyglas Gasser idea again.

That Round2 brings it out at this time is somewhat ironical for me, since just a few weeks ago, some petrolheads my age and I had
a lengthy real ale fuelled discussion* about ye goode olde Polyglasse GTse and how much we loved to smoke them up in the Eighties
when we dragged a car out of a field that still had them fitted.

 

 

[blizzy63]

"...Fireball 500 is not a bad kit. They lifted that idea from the short lived trend of 'topless' funny cars..."

I disagree on that second point.

The 'Fireball 500' car was more Batmobile than 'Flying Dutchman'.

George Barris' conversion of a '66 Plymouth Barracuda into a custom roadster muscle car represents the tail end of a trend of sports car roadster conversions of production cars, mostly compacts, by styling studios and customizers in the 1961-66 period.

1961 Corvair Sebring Spyder XP-737

1961 Pontiac Tempest Monte Carlo roadster XP-741

1962 Ford Mustang Concept I

1962 Oldsmobile F-85 X-215 roadster

1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone Sportster by Gene Winfield

Two early inspirations...the 1959 Corvette Stingray XP-87 Roadster and the 1957 Corvette SS XP-64 (Sebring Race).

Edited November 12, 2020 by blizzy63

[Mr. Metallic]

1 hour ago, blizzy63 said:

"...Fireball 500 is not a bad kit. They lifted that idea from the short lived trend of 'topless' funny cars..."

 

"regular guy" is well known around here for spouting some , shall we say dubious "information" on this board. He hasn't been around much anymore. His posts were always good for pure entertainment value, but not much factual information

[mrm]

Let me get this straight! I open the forum and see "New AMT Releases" and get excited. Just to find out that someone wanted to disagree with an opinion someone posted over three years ago?!?!?! LOL That's just funny. And kinda sad in the same time. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

31 minutes ago, mrm said:

Let me get this straight! I open the forum and see "New AMT Releases" and get excited. Just to find out that someone wanted to disagree with an opinion someone posted over three years ago?!?!?! LOL That's just funny. And kinda sad in the same time. 

Yeah, but if you read through the entire thread, it was kind of humorous.

 

 

 

 

Steve