Round2 to release Mack B-61 semi kit.

[W-409]

I'm not even a truck builder, although I've built one in the past and have a couple more truck kits waiting to be built (actually, would be cool to build either one or both of them soon), but I'm really excited about this kit! When these hit the shelves I'll definitely be buying one.

[niteowl7710]

12 hours ago, tim boyd said:

You guys are causing me to remember the nightmares of my first job at Ford.  At the time E&L Transport was apparently in a state of chaos, as our poor dealers would call me every day asking where this or that car was.  I was supposed to call E&L, find out, and get back to them.  Sparing you the detail but it was a colossal mess.   This was the summer of 1978, the Ford car/truck business was still booming (the second oil embargo was about 12 months in the future), and it was a wonder I didn't lose my job right there.  WheW!   TB 

Fast Forward all these years later and a state of chaos with Ford (and later GM) took out Jack Cooper Transport which was the largest remaining union auto haulers a few months ago.

[tim boyd]

4 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

Fast Forward all these years later and a state of chaos with Ford (and later GM) took out Jack Cooper Transport which was the largest remaining union auto haulers a few months ago.

I'm not sure exactly what happened there; I have not yet heard a truly definitive and believable account of how and why it unraveled.  But as is so often the case in the business world, there are two sides to every story, and I am sure this is one of those cases....TB 

[maxwell48098]

Interesting thought, Monogram introduced their first kit of the 1926 Mack AC in 1973, or 47 years after the model year the kit represents.  The Mack B61 was produced from 1953 to 1966, so if Round 2 produced a 1966 model year B-61, it would be 60 years old by the time the kit hits the market. And the B-61 is one of the top collector trucks today as it represents the iconic short nose, big power of the Mack bulldog imagery.

But I still want some!!!!!

 

 

A.J.

[chuckyr]

This would be an excellent trailer to hitch it to.  Late 1940s to early 1960s vintage.

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by chuckyr