After 50 years, the "Best Detail" winner at the 1970 MPC "World's Largest Model Contest Ever" Detroit Show returns...!

[tim boyd]

On 9/29/2023 at 9:14 AM, paul alflen said:

I see the decals on the first version of your 70 Cuda f/c have Bethuy Engineering on them. I think that is reference to Don Bethuy a mold engineer with MPC at the time and later he was with Johan when it was owned by Seville Enterprises. The kit designers like to squeeze their names on the decal sheet for their 15 mins of fame!!!LOL

Thanks Paul for that bit of info; did not know about that.  

You are correct about the folks at the model companies dropping hints like that back in the day.  In fact, according to a now retired AMT Executive I interviewed for the "Collecting Drag Racing Model Kits" book, one AMT engineer actually had the entire model (box art theme, imagery and decal livery) named after an event involving him one evening back in the day.  Out of respect (and because the specific person has not confirmed the story to me), I'm not going to reveal the supposed details.  But if true, does yet again confirm something I've (and you've) observed over the years: these model company guys work hard, and yet know how to have fun too!   TB  

[Dan Hay]

Thanks for bringing this back up! I really did enjoy the read.