What are the releases of the '53 ford truck and what's the diffrences between each.

[Nick Winter]

I'm Curious to this, could anyone please help to answer this, could you also include a year of production/release and box art please.

[Casey]

I'm Curious to this, could anyone please help to answer this, could you also include a year of production/release and box art please.

You can do most of the legwork yourself via an Ebay search in the Automotive models category using "53 ford" as your search. It's a good place to get pics of the boxes, too.

[Nick Winter]

You can do most of the legwork yourself via an Ebay search in the Automotive models category using "53 ford" as your search. It's a good place to get pics of the boxes, too.

I know Casey but sometimes infact most of the time it's the 2000 release with the blue ford on the box

[Nick Winter]

I've noticed that on some boxart it seems to have diffrent parts, what i'm looking to do is sort of a timeline of this kit and the flipnose togther and have box art and parts added or removed for each issue.

[Casey]

Maybe if you copy and post the photos and copyright date of each version in this thread, someone can list the changes.

[Nick Winter]

I know Dave, Still A AMT/MPC '53 Ford truck though

Maybe if you copy and post the photos and copyright date of each version in this thread, someone can list the changes.

good Idea.

[Casey]

I know Dave, Still A AMT/MPC '53 Ford truck though

Are you asking how the AMT '53 Ford kit changed, how the MPC '53 Ford kit changed, or how both kits, compared to one another are different?

[Nick Winter]

Are you asking how the AMT '53 Ford kit changed, how the MPC '53 Ford kit changed, or how both kits, compared to one another are different?

Casey I'm trying to figure out what's happened since the day the 1963 trophy series kit was released, what decals have been in which kits, which parts were added or removed, and what releases there are for both.

[Nick Winter]

ok, these are sort of in order.

1963 Issue

1973 Reissue

1977 Reissue

1978 Reissue

1979 Reissue

1985 Reissue- Stock parts from 1963 Re-appear.

1986 Reissue

1994 Reissue

2000 Reissue

2000 Reissue

Edited March 3, 2010 by Dukefan69'

[Nick Winter]

Box art with out a release Year.

Edited March 3, 2010 by Dukefan69'

[Nick Winter]

I need help putting the box art were it fits and filling in any that are missing.

[Junkman]

I think you are still mixing something up.

The Flipnose is an old MPC kit, which is now sold under the AMT brand. The only thing it has in common with the 'real' AMT 53 Ford is the fact that it is a 53 Ford too. This is the only thing they have in common. They are otherwise neiter related, nor in-laws.

Now, apart from the colour it is molded in, the decals and the box art, the Flipnose has never changed. It never shod any parts, or picked any up.

The AMT one did the same until at least the Cruising USA issue.

For later releases, you will need to ask the younger modellers out there, since this is the latest release I ever owned.

Edited February 27, 2010 by Junkman

[Nick Winter]

I think you are still mixing something up.

The Flipnose is an old MPC kit, which is now sold under the AMT brand. The only thing it has in common with the 'real' AMT 53 Ford is the fact that it is a 53 Ford too. This is the only thing they have in common. They are otherwise neiter related, nor in-laws.

Now, apart from the colour it is molded in, the decals and the box art, the Flipnose has never changed. It never shod any parts, or picked any up.

The AMT one did the same until at least the Cruising USA issue.

For later releases, you will need to ask the younger modellers out there, since this is the latest release I ever owned.

ok yes I know that for the 3rd time, But I think it may have changed around 1973 with that issue because if you look at the first box art it shows part that aren't shown ever again.

[tuffone20]

Nick

Here is one issue I found looking around online.

[Nick Winter]

Nick

Here is one issue I found looking around online.

Did you find a release year Marty?

[Junkman]

ok yes I know that for the 3rd time, But I think it may have changed around 1973 with that issue because if you look at the first box art it shows part that aren't shown ever again.

Only the wheels/wheel covers. Everything else did make it into 1973.

[Nick Winter]

Only the wheels/wheel covers. Everything else did make it into 1973.

yes that's a change though, that's what I'm looking for, trying to sort of organise it.

[tuffone20]

Did you find a release year Marty?

No Nick there was no info about it just the photo

[Nick Winter]

No Nick there was no info about it just the photo

ok I'll add it to the un Identified group.

[Junkman]

No Nick there was no info about it just the photo

The Grant King race team is in my 1977 AMT catalog if that counts for something.

[Nick Winter]

'53 ford without release year Con't

The Grant King race team is in my 1977 AMT catalog if that counts for something.

it does, now we have a release year.

Edited February 27, 2010 by Dukefan69'

[Nick Winter]

so far we have '63, '73, '77, '78, '79, '86

[RJWood]

'53 ford without release year Con't

it does, now we have a release year.

I have 2 of these, one is 1994, the other is 2000. Same exact box.

[James W]

Top kit is 1985, bottom is 1994.

Parts line up is identical in both.

1985 version was first to have all the original parts restored to the kit.

I'm not sure when they were deleted.

[Nick Winter]

thank you fella's, that was perfect.