Well, here’s a weird issue?!

[Joe Handley]

So this is weird, I’m playing around with an old, RC2/ERTL issue of the ‘66 Buick Wildcat and planning on a custom/Lowrider build and went to try and fit the glass to the body and found it’s from something even bigger, a lot bigger!

 

Anybody else run across this or even have a clue what this window is from?

 

Quick edit, found the right glass in the kit too, so I don’t have to figure out where to get the correct one from!

Now it looks  like the bag the other window glass came in had the tail lights with it and a bubble hood scoop that kinda reminds me of the C6 ZR-1, but I’m still curious about what kit that oversized glass piece is for?!

Edited Saturday at 06:37 AM by Joe Handley

[Mark]

That other glass looks like the one from the MPC 1/20 scale AMX kit.  That kit wasn't reissued until the Round 2 era, so it's strange that one wound up in a kit manufactured before they were doing anything with it.

[Don Sikora II]

33 minutes ago, Mark said:

That other glass looks like the one from the MPC 1/20 scale AMX kit.  That kit wasn't reissued until the Round 2 era, so it's strange that one wound up in a kit manufactured before they were doing anything with it.

Wasn't there a Buyer's Choice reissue of the circa-1980 Lightning Bolt AMX kit? Not sure if that would explain this find though.

[Mattblack]

It does say 'AMX' on it... 🤔

[Mark]

I don't remember seeing that AMX kit as a Buyers' Choice item.  If it had been, I'd have bought one or two.

[Daddyfink]

It's for making a Brougham Landau Top!  LOL !

[Joe Handley]

The ‘70 AMX kit would make sense and now that you mention it, that would be the right shape for the roofline too! If I hadn’t donated the AMX kit I had to my club’s auction, I would go and compare this to that. Luckily this on is not from that kit as never had both boxes open at the same time and I purchased this Wildcat off the shelf of the HTU I worked for at the time too!