Question for the AMT historians

[GLMFAA1]

When AMT had a strike and was in the middle of announcing new kits of the Ahrens-Fox pumper, the Garwood trash truck and the LinkBelt power shovel had these proposed kits ever gotten off the drafting board? How close to production were they and if they made it to the die production are they still around and could they be produced today by the remanufactures? The rumor I heard way back when was they were having trouble with the long arms of the power shovel as much as they did with the ALF AeroChief.

greg

[Luc Janssens]

I remember reading or hearing that the Garwood trash truck made it to 1/10th scale wooden pattern stage, but that due to the long strike and humidity, the wood warped so it was abandoned, also due to the fact that "work" trucks didn't sell as much as tractor trailers, which had and maybe still have that adventure/being free cowboy factor....

[tim boyd]

Supposedly we are going to see that original 1/10th scale wood master of the Garwood refuse body at the DAAM contest this Sunday near Detroit.....TIM 

[ZTony8]

And possibly a 1/25th scale wood model of the complete garbage truck (!) will make it to the show, too.

Edited March 30, 2019 by ZTony8

[disabled modeler]

I wanted that Garwood trash truck and Dragline crane so badly....still do.  It would make my year to see them put those out for us.

[GLMFAA1]

17 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

I remember reading or hearing that the Garwood trash truck made it to 1/10th scale wooden pattern stage, but that due to the long strike and humidity, the wood warped so it was abandoned, also due to the fact that "work" trucks didn't sell as much as tractor trailers, which had and maybe still have that adventure/being free cowboy factor....

Interesting Luc is that the re-releases have numerous Ford C cabs and Loiusvilles in different configurations with decals and the construction dozer has had rebirth, maybe back then when there were a plethora of truck movies out the big rigs were popular but not space friendly. Interesting to hear about the Garwood,   

greg

[Luc Janssens]

On 3/30/2019 at 4:09 PM, GLMFAA1 said:

Interesting Luc is that the re-releases have numerous Ford C cabs and Loiusvilles in different configurations with decals and the construction dozer has had rebirth, maybe back then when there were a plethora of truck movies out the big rigs were popular but not space friendly. Interesting to hear about the Garwood,   

greg

A good friend who toured the Amt plant back in the early '70s once told me that little factoid.

I can't comment about the Round-2s current release plan.

Anyway looking forward to seeing what will be shown at the show..

[tim boyd]

On 3/30/2019 at 12:25 AM, ZTony8 said:

And possibly a 1/25th scale wood model of the complete garbage truck (!) will make it to the show, too.

And....voila!  

More on AMT stillborn projects, as revealed earlier today by Tim Rice, who was the model shop manager at AMT during the 1970's....

Edited March 31, 2019 by tim boyd

[GLMFAA1]

Thanks to all who presented this historical achieve. What fascinating  procedure of model production, Thank you for your work in providing me with many hours of joy of building the models, What a surprise to see the Squirt ALF project. What was the projected year for production? They must have really second thoughts when they had to offer the three kits at $5.00 a piece. What interesting facts regarding the management and actual production with the injection (pardon the pun) of Lindsey acquiring AMT.

greg