Check this out! Treehugger from 1962!!!

[Modelmartin]

I was perusing an old Car Craft magazine from May 1962 and found this in the AMT Winternationals model contest coverage. Do you still have the model, Dave?

[modelhut]

I was perusing an old Car Craft magazine from May 1962 and found this in the AMT Winternationals model contest coverage. Do you still have the model, Dave?

Very Cool! That was a year before I was born, sorry.

[Guest]

That's cool, hope he stops by and tells us how he did it.

[crazyjim]

I was in 8th grade. Looks like a ton of putty was used.

[george 53]

Just the start of a LIFETIME of huggin trees!!!!! Looks cool Dave!!!

[Eshaver]

Ive been buildin models since 1961 . Never would have ever beleived that was a Pontiac Tempest ..........Ed Shaver

[diymirage]

Very Cool! That was a year before I was born, sorry.

more then a few for me

two decades actually

[Modelmartin]

I was five years old and just beginning Kindergarten! 3 years away from my first model!!!

[Harry P.]

1962?

I was barely out of training pants!!!

[Modelmartin]

Feel old yet, Dave?

[Foxer]

hehe I was just building a stock Double Dragster I expect, though I MUST have swapped a couple parts from the bins.

and I'm sure I had that issue ...

[James Flowers]

It always amazed me the customs they came up with back then. The body work alone was amazing with what they had to work with back then. I wonder how many of those customs are still around today?

[Eric Stone]

Feel old yet, Dave?

If not, then how bout this- My dad was only 12 years old in '62...

[MADD FABRICATOR]

You haven't lived until you had to glue the outer fender panels to the main body section and then do all you customizing work with a laquar based paste called " Plastic Wood", which then tended to melt those outer body panels if applied too thick. But then I digress back to the mid to late 50's. Darn, I'm getting older than I think. Modelers today tend to be just a bit spoiled with all the after market resin cast and photo etched goodies, but hey that's what progress is all about, isn't it ?

Enjoy life and HAPPY modeling,

CHEERZZZZ !!!!!!! MADD FABRICATOR

[LVZ2881]

So this post is just to make Dave feel old!?!?!?

Ok,I'll bite...

my mom was 7 in '62

I'm 32

[MrObsessive]

I was all of 7 months old in May of '62! Models for me would be another 16 years away! The only car I could relate to (and that would take some time) would be my Dad's '55 Plymouth Savoy 2 dr.

I probably got all kinds of toy cars as a toddler then--------all of them long gone.

[weasel]

1862?

I was barely out of training pants!!!

fixt for ya Harry!!! lolo

i was 11 in 1961 AND built my 1st model that year...