Obscure Kits You Never Knew Were Made...Until Now

[peter31a]

1/125th? Boy, you really like your models small, Dave! Sorry, couldn't resist.....

[Dave Van]

Danged macular degeneration! ...had to see my many errors!

[Atmobil]

Here's some pictures of one of those Opels assembled. Mine has a broken front bumper but really isn't warped. I see that yours has an interior, do you have glass? Mine has neither.

I too some new pictures of my kit, it has glass and interior but none of them fit the body anymore.

Here is the contents of the kit, not many parts.

And here is the instructions

One of the montingtabs for the cahssis had broken, I superglued it in place and here you can see the glass in the body. There is supposed to be a monting tab at the front also to fix the glass and interior in place but it is missing. Windows don't fit.

And with the interior in place, that doesn't fit either.

And I tried to see if the chassis would fit....no it does not.

[jbwelda]

I think you have discovered why this is an "obscure" kit!

jb

[Atmobil]

Yeah, I guess that like most of the old promos they have almost all of them warped beyond repair. To bad as the Rekord P1 was a popular car here when they was new. My fathers first car was a Rekord P2 wich was the one that replaced the P1.

Here is a picture of one I took in 2008, also beyond repair I'm afraid.

[Craig Irwin]

I do.

Funny thing is - it was bought over the counter at a (severely disorganized) local hobby shop about three years ago.

The box is pretty much gone, but the content is all there. It will take quite a bit of dedication to make anything out of it though.

Bad kit or not, I want one of these.

[gray07]

Has anyone ever seen a model called- Taking back sunday new again, I think its a rock group, it has a car off there video, it comes with real car air freshener, model air freshners, , a drivers liscense, decals, dice, oh yeh, the car is not American but its from the 50s, I cant get photobucket to cooperate, so if someone to see I can send them pics and they can post. I cant find no info on it, if u put that name on utube a rock group comes up

[disabled modeler]

Has anyone ever seen a model called- Taking back sunday new again, I think its a rock group, it has a car off there video, it comes with real car air freshener, model air freshners, , a drivers liscense, decals, dice, oh yeh, the car is not American but its from the 50s, I cant get photobucket to cooperate, so if someone to see I can send them pics and they can post. I cant find no info on it, if u put that name on utube a rock group comes up

Sounds interesting...

[lordairgtar]

You mean this car...no idea. Thought maybe a Chrysler product but it may be a customized dash.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Has anyone ever seen a model called- Taking back sunday new again, I think its a rock group, it has a car off there video, it comes with real car air freshener, model air freshners, , a drivers liscense, decals, dice, oh yeh, the car is not American but its from the 50s, I cant get photobucket to cooperate, so if someone to see I can send them pics and they can post. I cant find no info on it, if u put that name on utube a rock group comes up

You mean dis?

[lordairgtar]

Wow, someone in the group must be into modelling.

[Russell C]

You mean dis?

Never heard of 'em. But when you click on the thumbnail photo of the car at this promotions web site, it claims the model is a '56 DeSoto. Quite cartoon-proportioned, though.

[Atmobil]

The car in the picture in the lower left looks like the front of a Peugeot 404.

[gray07]

That's the model, thank you.

[Daddyfink]

Found this on another site

http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2014/12/ho-ho-ho-tis-season-to-make-models-of.html#more

[Atmobil]

Now that is a real strange one

[Casey]

Hope this one hasn't been posted yet:

[The70judgeman]

@Casey- I just saw that on Ebay not 10 minutes ago.

[moparfarmer]

You mean this car...no idea. Thought maybe a Chrysler product but it may be a customized dash.

[ChrisBcritter]

Think I posted about this, but it got lost in the forum sinkhole.

'60 Falcon promo from Australia, RHD 4-door sedan which warped almost as well as the American version!

Sure looks like the AMT promo. Anyone have info on this?

[Tom Geiger]

Think I posted about this, but it got lost in the forum sinkhole.

'60 Falcon promo from Australia, RHD 4-door sedan which warped almost as well as the American version!60 Aussie falcon.jpg

Sure looks like the AMT promo. Anyone have info on this?

It probably was produced in the USA by same vendor (AMT?) as the US promo and shipped over.

[unclescott58]

Think I posted about this, but it got lost in the forum sinkhole.

'60 Falcon promo from Australia, RHD 4-door sedan which warped almost as well as the American version!60 Aussie falcon.jpg

Sure looks like the AMT promo. Anyone have info on this?

Now that is cool. A right hand drive Falcon promo. I want one.

Scott

[disabled modeler]

Now that is cool. A right hand drive Falcon promo. I want one.

Scott

Yes it is...very cool!

[Mark]

I'm surprised the Aussie promo has "1960" license plate detail...weren't cars sold there by model designation and not model year?

[unclescott58]

I'm surprised the Aussie promo has "1960" license plate detail...weren't cars sold there by model designation and not model year?

Now that you mention it Mark, the XK Falcon (the first Australian Falcons) was not offered in Australia until September of 1960. Then sold in that form with no major changes through August of 1962. So it does seem odd that the promo would be labeled as a '60. Since I've never heard of Ausie Falcon promo before this, I'm beginning to question this one. A convention of some sort? Or maybe somebody is trying to trick others (and I'm not saying Chris) with a reversed photo. Or accidentally reversed a photo. I can not see the license plate well enough to see if that maybe the case. The more I think about it, the more question it. Can anybody out there confirm that Ford made RHD Falcon promo?

Scott