Palmer model kit history?

[alan barton]

Just found these old photos  taken before I built the Pyro and Palmer 32 Fords.  You can see how the grey roadster Palmer body is butchered compared to the red Pyro Coupe/roadster body. If Palmer was using the Pyro tooling, they really hacked it up! The louvres are awful, the door lines are hacked and it has lost its door-handles.  In my photo of the blue coupe above, I have removed the door handles myself from the Pyro body to try to de-emphasise that the doors are all wrong for a 3 Window anyway!

(Note that the Pyro body has the grille shell attached - I had to restore a gentle glue bomb that I bought from Spain of all places!)

Cheers

Alan

Edited November 6, 2024 by alan barton

[ewetwo]

My Palmer Corvair.

[stitchdup]

On 11/3/2024 at 9:45 AM, Bugatti Fan said:

There was a kit of American origin that I can remember a friend of mine owning. It was of a small English Ford 100E saloon car.  Was it a Palmer kit ?    Maybe someone reading this knows ?  Interested to know about it as my Dad owned one way back and started to teach me to drive in it. Very basic car. Side valve engine, three forward gears only, manual clutch operated car.

i think it was premier Noel. Tom Geiger (if i remember correctly) shared a pic of one a few years back when the renault dauphines were being discussed but i cant remember which thread t was. i seem to remember it being black plastic and a multi piece body

[Bugatti Fan]

Thanks for the feed back Les.

My friend's kit was indeed a multi piece body as I remember.

I will have to look up Premier kits. Your mention of that brand from way back vaguely rings a bell !

[stitchdup]

47 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said:

Thanks for the feed back Les.

My friend's kit was indeed a multi piece body as I remember.

I will have to look up Premier kits. Your mention of that brand from way back vaguely rings a bell !

https://www.maronline.org.uk/another-miniature-ford-prefect-100e/

[Bugatti Fan]

Thanks for the Model Auto Review link Les.       Even more so as it is a website I was unaware of.

Funnily enough I looked up Premier Ford 100E on the internet last night and found just a pic of the box art.

The MAR review made interesting reading about that kit. Needless to say I will be trolling the MAR site quite a bit to look at other stuff now that you kindly made me aware of the site.

Edited November 7, 2024 by Bugatti Fan