What was your first model car?

[Classicgas]

The three earliest car kits I remember doing are the AMT Opel GT, Revell 57 Chevy and the mpc grumpys toy 71 Vega, but there may be something I don't quite remember.

[iamsuperdan]

First one I remember was a 1/32 Lindberg Buick snap kit. 

I was maybe 5 or 6, and I remember my parents brought it in when I had a hospital stay and needed something to do.

 

Would have been early 1978.

 

Pic of what I believe is the kit. Random pic from google search.

 

[Chuckyg1]

That's almost 60 years ago! My dad me brought home an AMT annual, this would be the early 60's. I don't recall the specific car, but remember brush painting the entire kit black, I thought it was awesome.

[larman]

The first model I built by myself was this issue of the Lindberg 1932 Ford pickup. It was molded in yellow with no chrome parts. I glued it together with no paint. I believe it was a birthday present, circa 1979.  I will say it had cool box art, though I doubt I appreciated it then ! There are a few bits and pieces from it still in my parts boxes. 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2023 by larman

[Oldriginal86]

Been 50 plus years since my first kit, but I believe it was the MPC Jeepster kit. I looked for a picture on the web of the box as mine is looooong gone.

[ranma]

First Model wasn't a car, nor did I build it. Christmas 1973 . Ertl Transtar 4070 a. Painted red and white by my dad Built by my mother. My mother gave me a photo that was taken when we were gifted our trucks (my older bro and myself). Using that photo I built one of the recently issued AMT Transtar 4070 a's took the same as the one that started my model building history.

Edited June 21, 2023 by ranma

[Reegs]

 

[THarrison351]

 A green Monogram Thunder Bug. It was 1970 and I was 5. My mom has a photo of me waking my dad up to show it finished

[Shark]

In late 1967 or early 68 (I was 6) someone bought me the MPC  '68 Barracuda. Tried to make it look like the box art with the wild pinstriping. I recently accquired another kit of the same, sealed inside (significantly more $). But it will be built at some point. 

[Straightliner59]

I don't recall exactly what it was. I was five or six, and built it in my grandparents' living room, on a folding table. I remember the smell of the old of glue. Best I can guess was that it was the old Monogram Ferrari 275P(?). I remember it being red! It may have been the Aurora Berlinetta. The timeline for either one of those seems about right--'64-'66, somewhere. It would be another several years, before I discovered what a real passion I had for the hobby.

[KMcc]

AMT 1967 Buick Riviera. $2.00 at Woolworth's. I was seven. No paint, just glued it together. My friend and I would build together on a card table in his basement. I remember painting outside while it was snowing one time. His Mother would always warn us that "it will all come to an end" if she smelled paint in the house. Never lost the passion to build, but adulthood got in the way until I finally set up a place to get back into it four years ago. This time with a paint booth. My wife is eerily similar to my friends Mother.

[Ulf]

1975 a JO-HAN Richard Petty Plymouth Belvedere (1/25), it was a bit cheaper than AMT, my mother paid.
JO-HAN is since then my favorite.

[maxwell48098]

My first model car was an AMT 1958 Buick Roadmaster hardtop that my dad bought me in July, 1958!

Wish I still had it.

 

A.J.

[TonyK]

I think it was a 3-pack of 1/32nd scale cars. Have no idea what brand. The first real model was the Revell '57 Chevy and I thought it was great.

[Tom99]

AMT 1958 Buick. It was a birthday gift. I've been hooked ever since.

[Daddyfink]

I used to mess around with my Uncle's model collection a bit, but it was not until they bought me this that I finally built something on my own. I was 6 years old! 

And if I remember correctly, this was my first actual glue kit, and I remember it did not end well. 

Edited June 22, 2023 by Daddyfink

[Kit Karson]

Guys!  This has been a kick!!  Everyone has a story, and it deserves to be heard. Let's keep this up and hope we hear from everybody here on the forum! -KK

[TarheelRick]

A Christmas gift in 1959.  I built it and took it apart several times.  The next one was a 60 Mercury that I paid $1.39 for.  After that one it is all a blur, I started receiving models for birthdays, Christmas and any other gift giving days.  But mostly, I bought them with money I earned mowing my Grandma's yard.

[Vintage AMT]

1968... AMT 40 Ford sedan delivery, molded in yeller.... got a picture somewhere around here with me, brother, sister and the 40 laying on the floor..

[gary jackson]

amt 40 willys coupe   12 years old   painted it green testors with a brush   my buddy who was way advanced looked at it and said why did you paint it with a brush dont you know they have model spray paints   well he was my hero and probably would have grown up to be a millner from american grafitti if he would have lived    he died in viet nam  

[Mattilacken]

I still remember my first car kit. It was a Corvette C1 with the big scoop. I hand painted with brush on the black plastic and I still have it in pieces. And had a thought I’d renovate it but I think I should just glue it together as is as a memory?

built in the ‘90’s

this is the one: 

[Scott8950]

I gotta find this kit again. 

[Tabbysdaddy]

2 hours ago, Scott8950 said:

I gotta find this kit again. 

Ollie's recently had the newest reissue of this.

[Scott8950]

33 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

Ollie's recently had the newest reissue of this.

I'd like to build the turquoise car, i love the car on the box.

[ColonelKrypton]

Maybe not the first model car kit that I built but the first one I remember was the Aurora 1/32 scale Ram Rod from the early 60's

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/aurora-509-ram-rod--1141790

cheers, Graham