DTR Models

[JordanFordF1]

I just purchased some new stuff from Southern Motorsports Hobbies and noticed they have a line of race car kits marketed as DTR brand. I think they are actually manufactured by Revell. Anyone ever bought one of these kits? How are they?

[Greg Myers]

I think they are AMT kits http://www.dirttrackracecars.com/

[Brett Barrow]

I just purchased some new stuff from Southern Motorsports Hobbies and noticed they have a line of race car kits marketed as DTR brand. I think they are actually manufactured by Revell. Anyone ever bought one of these kits? How are they?

They're private label reboxings of various existing kits just like Model King and other companies do or have done. They started with AMT kits, but since Round2 has stopped doing private-label reboxings, DTR's recent ones have been Revell or ex-Monogram kits. I think they've done some Lindberg kits as well.

Some of their older AMT reboxes (their 32 Ford jalopies come to mind) were just straight reissues with a DTR decal sheet and a instruction sheet with a list of Evergreen styrene strips and Fred's Resin Workshop parts to buy that would be needed to convert it to an actual jalopy race car. The other kits were actual kits of modifieds or sprint cars.

Edited July 12, 2013 by Brett Barrow

[Greg Myers]

Thank you for sharing that with us Brett Barrow.