linberg

[samodeler2008]

anyone know if linberg 34 ford truck have the duely axle like the amt truck

[Chuck Most]

None of the Lindberg issues have the dual rear wheels, as far as I know only certain issues of the AMT kit did.

[s10chevypu]

my 34 lindburg ford pickup did not have dual rear wheels in the kit. but i thought that this was a old amt mold that amt sold to lindburg,am i wrong ???

[scummy]

G,day , i remember reading somewhere that AMT was going to release the 34 and sent it out to get the molds cleaned up and while it was getting cleaned up AMT was brought by matchbox ? and they forgot about the molds . Then someone from lindberg was talking to someone who mentioned that their company still had the molds and hadnt been paid so they kept them , so lindberg brought the molds and then released it , does anybody else remember this story ?

[Draggon]

Yep I remember the story. Theres more to it if I remember correctly, and there may be some other molds that were forgotten. One of our historians would know about it!

[Art Anderson]

Yep I remember the story. Theres more to it if I remember correctly, and there may be some other molds that were forgotten. One of our historians would know about it!

As far as I know, the '34 Pickup tooling was the only tooling "forgotten" in htis manner. As for the dually rear wheel setup--that appeared for, I believe, the first time in a 1976 modified reissue of the kit, which saw the addition of the stake body (I built the box art models for that release in January 1976).

Art

[Art Anderson]

Just to add a bit of history to all this: AMT Corporation, while maintaining a high volume of sales through the 1970's, hit a real wall in terms of profitability by 1979--to the point that in midsummer that year, they had determined that the only course was bankruptcy. Lesney Corporation Ltd (maker of Matchbox Toys) stepped in at the last minute, just hours before AMT's attorneys were to go to US Bankruptcy Court in Detroit, and bought the company.

AMT's Troy Michigan factory was closed, all production moved to their second plant in Baltimore MD, Lesney-AMT setting up their management and product development activities in Warren MI. However, the recession of 1981 proved to be Lesney's undoing--they in turn filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey, Baltimore and in the Detroit area in April 1982(I was privileged to see their sales figures for model car kits for the first quarter of 1981--they were worse than dismal!). The same malaise struck MPC, Revell-Ceji, even the then vaunted Monogram Models--in fact it was extremely hard on the hobby industry all over the US.).

In mid-summer 1982, The Ertl Company (then owned by Union Carbide through their Victor Comptometer subsidiary) bought the AMT product line, with all tooling, rights and licenses. Production of AMT model kits resumed in Dyersville IA in early 1983.

Art

[sjordan2]

Current eBay auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMT-1934-Ford-Pickup-Stake-Truck-Near-Mint-1968-Issue-/230621120842?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b217094a

(Thanks, Art)

Edited May 22, 2011 by sjordan2

[Jantrix]

Working on one of the old AMT '34's now for the Car's of Rock & Roll CBP. It's a very nice looking kit for it's age. And yup, I'm using the dual rear wheels. http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/Jantrix/Shop%20truck/

Edited May 23, 2011 by Jantrix