The Junkman Posted July 15, 2024 Posted July 15, 2024 I've seen this question pop up more than once: What is this company and where do I get the product. Note I have NO connection with the owner, just own a number of pieces and they are of the finest quality. I found a current catalog and price listing on the hated F-Book. Take a very shallow dive and hit the link on this page. Has the current offerings and, just as important, the considerations of ordering. The usual: one man operation, extended wait times for production and shipping. https://www.facebook.com/groups/901280716708640/ 1
fumi Posted July 23, 2024 Posted July 23, 2024 Best to e-mail Norm, he scaled down his operation quite a bit after his surgery.
vamach1 Posted July 23, 2024 Posted July 23, 2024 Norm still attends the monthly MAMA meetings and I saw him last year at the ACME show. Norm founded the Maryland Automotive Modelers Association in 1988 at 38 years old. So at 74 he has slowed down some and his wife Mary also attends every meeting and has for over 35 years. I’m not sure when he started R&M Co of MD but I would guess sometime in the 1980s. He always provides items for the monthly MAMA meeting raffle. Norm is in the orange shirt and Mary is seated at the table.
vamach1 Posted July 23, 2024 Posted July 23, 2024 Posting for those that avoid Facebook and since there’s no website available to order there are only two ways to buy his great products - in person at a meeting or show, or by mailing him a check or money order.
RIXprints Posted March 21 Posted March 21 Norm has been casting beautiful, accurate parts for years and continues to innovate in the casting service.
vamach1 Posted March 22 Posted March 22 9 hours ago, RIXprints said: Norm has been casting beautiful, accurate parts for years and continues to innovate in the casting service. And he still is but I do not think he does complete kits anymore.
RIXprints Posted March 22 Posted March 22 I don't know. It's been several years since I went to my last MAMA meeting.
vamach1 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 14 hours ago, RIXprints said: I don't know. It's been several years since I went to my last MAMA meeting. Norman and Brad are usually there.
tim boyd Posted April 7 Posted April 7 (edited) On 7/23/2024 at 9:27 AM, vamach1 said: Posting for those that avoid Facebook and since there’s no website available to order there are only two ways to buy his great products - in person at a meeting or show, or by mailing him a check or money order. If you are a hot rod builder or pre/post WWII old school dirt track racer builder, be sure to check out item P-96, which I believe is Norm's all-new 1936 "Wide Five" wheels. He cast then from a perfect original part from the earliest of the original Trophy Series kits - not many of those had the parts correctly formed with the deeply inset half-circles around the outer rim, so AMT quickly changed the mode to smooth them over, meaning 98% of those out you out there have the kit with incorrect wheels. UPDATE - Steve PM'ed me that the above order number is out of date; the new one for the original, fully formed Ford Wide Five wheels, he says, is actually P-195 and this is the one with the new wheels as I described above. Should have ventured down to my model cave and double checked first...thanks Steve for the heads-up...TB Norm's are the wheels you need. Tell him I sent you with your order if you wish....Best...TIM Edited April 7 by tim boyd 1 1
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