decal ID

[rattle can man]

I have a set of Sears decals I stumbled on going through my stash. They are from an AMT truck kit, but older than the NASCAR trucks. numbers on the back are 5902701 and DH1026 73 30M. It includes a list of Testors colors used to mix the old sears green. Any ideas what kit it is from? I'm guessing a big-rig and trailer combo, possibly 1/43? 

[rattle can man]

Posting a picture of the decal side is pretty useless, as the white doesn't show up in the picture I took. I've never seen a decal sheet with paint mixing instructions before.

[LennyB]

A google search for AMT and Sears truck and this comes up.

 

[rattle can man]

It is not the NASCAR truck. definitely pre-dates that  It is a small sheet with Sears in white within a white rectangle and a few black stripes. At one end it has vague instructions on how to mix the old Sears green and a small paint chip to judge the color by. I remember similar markings on sears catalogs growing up in the '70. The sheet has no other sponsor logos, no Diehard, no numbers. Judging by how yellowed the paper is, it has to be early '70s or earlier.

[Can-Con]

I found this but it's Ertl and appears to be stamped steel. I don't remember ever seeing a kit that looks like this, Harry.

[rattle can man]

bingo on the style! If you read the text it calls out paint color suggestions for the Sears green, so I would think it was a kit. I don't know of any pressed steel trucks that you painted yourself.  It came in a "junkyard" lot from an online auction at some point is all I can figure.

 

[slusher]

I remember their dilivery vans being that color.  My parents shopped at sears and K-Mart all the time and now their gone..

[rattle can man]

I remember that too. It was the same logo on their catalogs if I remember correctly. Part of why I'm curious about what kit they came from. I don't recall ever seeing a sears truck kit from the late '70s when I started building on up to present day.  All I've come up with for searches are the Die Hard NASCAR truck if I search Sears truck and just random stuff if I try the numbers from the back of the sheet.

[Tabbysdaddy]

 

[rattle can man]

Thank you Sean! I had seen the K-Mart, 7 Up, etc, but not the Sears version.

[Mark]

The Sears version may have been exclusive to their stores.  Sears was hit-and-miss when it came to model kits after the early Seventies, but they probably still had enough stores carrying them to justify a special issue.

[Pete68]

6 hours ago, Mark said:

 

The Sears version may have been exclusive to their stores. 

 

Yes it was you could only get it through the catalog Wish Book. 

Edited February 8 by Pete68

[Pete68]

20 hours ago, rattle can man said:

so I would think it was a kit.

They sold them in their separate boxes  wrapped together with the exclusive Sears stickers on the box.

 

Edited February 8 by Pete68