AMT kit help

[Tye Brown]

Hi all

Is the AMT Popcron Wagon & Surf Woody worth getting? Any info would be great

Peace

[Mark]

The Popcorn Wagon is an MPC kit. It's 1/20 scale (the second issue box may say 1/25). It's pretty accurate to the 1/1 show car, but the reissue has some unplated parts that were brass plated in the original issue. The front tires are plastic (apparently the original vinyl tire tooling doesn't exist, or couldn't be located). I'm not sure if the reissue had a decal sheet, if it did then I'm pretty certain it didn't match the original. I picked one up a couple of years ago, but the chassis wasn't usable for my intended purpose so I sold the kit. Not a bad kit if you like it as-is, some of the parts might be good kitbash material. The Chuck Wagon show rod that was reissued a few years ago is a variation on this kit, much of the basic vehicle is the same. The Chuck Wagon did not exist in 1:1, the Popcorn Wagon did.

The Surf Woody kit is pretty accurate to the 1:1 show car, and has some optional parts and versions. The small-block Ford engine is pretty decent considering the kit was created over 45 years ago. It has a neat dual McCullough/Paxton supercharger setup. The 1:1 and original issue kit had dual narrow slicks on the rear. The reissue has single wide slicks. I don't think the wheel pieces were changed; if you picked up one of the new AMT slick parts packs you could probably slip two pairs of those on to replace the wide single slicks. The decals in the reissue replicate those in the original kit.

[Junkman]

Not sure where your question is aiming.

If you are into show rods they are must haves.

Note that the Popcorn Wagon is 1:20 scale (old MPC tool). In the AMT re-issue the rear tyres are too small for my taste, hence I use the ones from the Mummy Machine, which are styrene and the right size.

With rear tyres from the kit:

With rear tyres from the Mummy Machine:

Edited January 19, 2012 by Junkman