Round-2......One of These?

[StevenGuthmiller]

With Round-2 doing all of these resurrections of old kits long missing for decades, do you suppose that there's a possibility of some of these old acetate promos ever seeing the light of day in styrene?

I'd buy a bunch of these!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[TarheelRick]

https://i.imgur.com/LFK6cgX.jpg?1

Sure would be nice to find some of these, especially the 58 Ford Convertible and the 58(?) Pontiac.

[StevenGuthmiller]

26 minutes ago, TarheelRick said:

https://i.imgur.com/LFK6cgX.jpg?1

Sure would be nice to find some of these, especially the 58 Ford Convertible and the 58(?) Pontiac.

Of course, but I could possibly see either of those popping up at some point, as they were both offered in kit form at one point.

The ‘57 Buick never was.

 

 

 

Steve

[atomicholiday]

There are MANY cars from that time period that are MIA.  I’m with you.  I’d buy ‘em.

[Richard Bartrop]

I would definitely buy one of those if it came as a styrene kit.   If the dies can't be found, I imagine the biggest hurdles would finding an original that's still straight enough to do a decent scan, and of course, if the all important numbers work.

[RSchnell]

I'd definitely be interested in any 50s car kit that came out. One of my biggest regrets in the past couple years was passing on a very nicely built-almost contest quality AMT '58 Ford Convertible for $75 at one of the local swaps. 

[Sledsel]

A '58 Ford resurrection or new kit wouldn't be that tough I would think. The '57 Ford shares all the underpinnings as does the much more detailed '58 Edsel. They brought back the '66 Mustang fastback using existing tooling so it wouldn't be to far fetched I would think.

[Ace-Garageguy]

17 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:

I would definitely buy one of those if it came as a styrene kit.   If the dies can't be found, I imagine the biggest hurdles would finding an original that's still straight enough to do a decent scan...

There's a resin '57 Buick, Modelhaus IIRC, the molds for which were pulled from an almost perfect promo many years ago. They come up online occasionally for around $300.

I recently found an acetate promo in pretty decent shape that I've pulled epoxy panel molds from to save the data as well. So it's hardly an impossible or even really difficult task.

Edited March 18, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
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[Mark]

With the '57 Buick, Modelhaus supposedly unearthed a couple of AMT promo bodies molded in styrene.  AMT is said to still have had possession of some early promo tools back in the late Sixties, and (then) in a search for "new" items to produce on the cheap, shot some of them in styrene to evaluate them.  The '57 Ford two-door sedan promo was one of the others.

No word on whether or not the Buick got any consideration, but supposedly the Ford was looked at, only to discover that the 1:1 sedan is on a different wheelbase from the existing hardtop kit.  That would prove an obstacle to combining parts from the hardtop kit with the sedan body.  Somehow the Modelhaus sedan body got cheated a bit in order to make the hardtop chassis fit.  That must have been done along with incorporating the hardtop kit's engine compartment detail into the sedan body.