1912 Packard Touring

[GTMust]

Back in the 1970's, I built this Pyro 1912 Packard Touring in 1/32 scale:

It was built OOB and painted red.

Sometime last year, I came across this picture and was inspired to build the model again, but this time with the top down and in the grey/black color scheme.

So here it is, together with the original top up version from the seventies:

Hope you like these 1/32 scale models of yesteryear.

[Chuck Most]

I do like them, especially when somebody takes the time to build them this well. Never built a 1:32 Pyro kit, I do have the Minicraft '10 Packard kit laying around somewhere though.

[bbowser]

These are very cool. I find as I get older I'm being drawn more and more to earlier cars, such as the 'brass era' instead of the 50's-60's.

[Foxer]

These are very nice! I'd never guess 1/32 without being told!

[charlie8575]

I need to dig mine out and build those. They're such neat little kits.

Great job, Tony.

Charlie Larkin

[sjordan2]

Man, you've really got these little Pyro kits down. You wouldn't know they're 1/32 just by looking. Too bad Pyro had such struggles making larger scale kits. Of course, brass-era cars may be a bit more forgiving in terms of strict accuracy, but these look dead on.

[Harry P.]

Those little guys look spectacular!

[Jim Gibbons]

Beautiful job on both! I really enjoy these Pyro kits.

[GTMust]

Thanks guys.... I really appreciate the comments.

There aren't many of these kits left around and the prices on Ebay are getting ridiculous! Fortunately I have built up a stash over the years when the prices were more reasonable and I have enough (do we ever have enough?) to do some variations on the basic kits. I particularly like the early race cars from the 1900's which make very interesting scratchbuild subjects.