Kit/parts ID help ..Toronado

[64SS350]

I recently received some kit boxes with some parts. One of which is an original issue '67 Olds Toronado. The parts pictured are also Toronado, but a different year? Different kit?

Some custom parts from something else?

Thanks for any help!!

Karl

[Mark]

Picture?

[64SS350]

Oh yeah, duh..thx.

 

[Mark]

Everything I see there looks like MPC '67 Toronado.  Not the same kit as the Jo-Han one, which for '67 was sold by AMT in AMT packaging.  MPC made the promotional model for '67, so their '67 is the more accurate of the two.

[64SS350]

Are the Olds wheels and axles from a promo?

[Mark]

Looks like they are (again probably Toronado, as well as the extra interior).

[64SS350]

Thanks!!

[espo]

Those "Heavy Duty" axels were what most model companies were using in that era. This meant a gapping hole in the center of the engine when they started offering an opening hood and an engine, and 64SS350 is correct, they're the same axels as the promos of the day. Aren't you glad they have made advancements ?   

[Snake45]

I don't think I've ever seen those axles in a vintage kit, though some of the new Revell snappers have something similar. Have seen a lot of them on promos, though. 

[Mark]

Those wheel/axle units are from a promo.  The kit pieces (both inner and outer wheels) appear to be still on the parts trees.

The very early ('58, maybe '59) annual kits used those thick axles.  '60 AMT and SMP kits started getting engines, so they went to the smaller diameter wire axle.  The wire axles were probably cheaper than those heavy promo/friction axles, which needed several manufacturing processes to get all those serrations on them, which weren't needed for a shelf model.