Miss Deal copy right, is it really THAT old ?

[Greg Myers]

Just got to taking a close  look at the Revell Miss Deal Studebaker kit and noticed the copy right date, 1967. 

Is really that old ? 

Edited April 15, 2018 by Greg Myers

[Snake45]

I was thinking more like '68 or '69, but if it says '67, I'd believe it. 

[Greg Myers]

yeah, guess we talked about this before.  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/75003-heres-an-interesting-artical-on-revells-miss-deal-funny-car/ 

Still, thinking about where I was at in '67 I just don't remember the kit back then/

Edited April 15, 2018 by Greg Myers

[Dragline]

I know where I was in 67. At 2 YO is was still wetting myself.

[Greg Myers]

Thank you for sharing that Bob. 

[Rob Hall]

I was minus 3 in 1967.  But my current house was built in 1967.  

[Snake45]

3 hours ago, Greg Myers said:

Still, thinking about where I was at in '67 I just don't remember the kit back then/

I was in 7th grade and had been building model cars about a year. I remember seeing Miss Deal in the hobby shops (I remember hobby shops!) but never owned one back then. I bought one a few years ago just "because." I have little to zero interest in building it as-is but I'm pretty sure I can make SOMETHING cool out of it. 

[Greg Myers]

looks like there's lots of potential. Even with a different body'

I think as we grow older and look back at our modeling experiences we might see where some of these lapses might come from.

1967 I just got a degree in Automotive Technology and was moving on to a university for a degree in secondary Education, so a few other things on my mind other than modeling.

1969 saw me off to the Navy for four years overseas and no real connection with the US model manufactures, but oh what a treasure in the Japanese kits and the Yen favored the US Dollar.

In the process I missed out on all those 1/16th scale Racing Scenes Kits from Aurora.

[Mark]

Just now, Greg Myers said:

In the process I missed out on all those 1/16th scale Racing Scenes Kits from Aurora.

If you blinked, you missed the Aurora series!  Very few places carried them.  Aurora didn't have the greatest reputation when it came to car kits.  Having to buy multiple packs made building a complete car very expensive, especially compared to the Revell 1/16 scale drag cars which came out around the same time.  Revell's kits built well-known cars while Aurora's only had generic decals. 

Aurora did offer complete car kits later on, but too late.  Word is that production numbers on the individual packs were extremely low, well under 10,000 of each.  The complete car kits are even tougher to find.

[Greg Myers]

Have you ever opened one of these kits up ?

They are to die for. More detail than you can shake that proverbial stick at.

[Xingu]

There is a complete set listed on eBay right now for $600.

I would like to have that 392 Hemi kit.

[Mark]

I had two of the 392 engines mint in box a long time ago, sold both of them.  I've got another one that has been started; it's on the 1/16 scale pile, destination undetermined as of now.  The Aurora stuff is better all around than the Revell kits, but in their time they were way too costly for most kids (or parents buying them as gifts).  Revell having the "big name" cars was probably the tipping point back then.  Today, with vintage kits, the "name" cars usually beat the generic/fictional ones value-wise even if they aren't accurate to the 1:1 car (which is often the case).  There are exceptions, but not many.  

[cobraman]

Way back when I bought a new one with the Pinto body. At that time it was the best most detailed kit I had ever built. I only wish they were available again.

[BigTallDad]

5 hours ago, Dragline said:

I know where I was in 67. At 2 YO is was still wetting myself.

I, at the gracious invitation from the Selective Service System (aka "The Draft") was wearing olive drab, getting ready to be shipped to Korea.

[thatz4u]

7 hours ago, Greg Myers said:

 

Still, thinking about where I was at in '67 I just don't remember the kit back then/

I was seeing the world, all expenses paid by my Uncle Sam. I could have done without part of the tour....

[Dragline]

Thank You both for the service you provided. I had two Uncles out in it at that time. They came back "different".

[Don Sikora II]

5 hours ago, Mark said:

If you blinked, you missed the Aurora series!  Very few places carried them.  Aurora didn't have the greatest reputation when it came to car kits.  Having to buy multiple packs made building a complete car very expensive, especially compared to the Revell 1/16 scale drag cars which came out around the same time.  Revell's kits built well-known cars while Aurora's only had generic decals. 

Aurora did offer complete car kits later on, but too late.  Word is that production numbers on the individual packs were extremely low, well under 10,000 of each.  The complete car kits are even tougher to find.

Around 1976/1977 there was a Christmastime liquidator-type place set up in the old WT Grant store near where I grew up. It was called something like "The Ugly Toy Store" and they had all their product displayed in cut-open cases in piles. They had TONS of the Aurora Racing Scenes stuff, and my mom bought me the Speed Shop and a few other packs like the drivers and the mechanic. I remember they had the car stuff like the bodies and engines too, but I didn't get any of those. It was the only store I ever saw any of those kits in. My sister got Barbie and Ken stuff from the 1976 Olympics, so those should fit that '76-'77 timeline too. 

[Mark]

WT Grant was closing out around here in that time frame.  I honestly can't remember ever seeing any of the Nabisco-era Aurora products in any of the stores around here, and even prior to that I never saw very much Aurora stuff.

[MikeRousseau]

67..jeez...I was still baking in the oven. Unless it came out in September..like me

[Sixx]

21 hours ago, MikeRousseau said:

67..jeez...I was still baking in the oven. Unless it came out in September..like me

Bwahahahaha! I wasn't even in the oven yet!