I , for one, don't think the Cobra Dayton topic is dead . . .

[Greg Myers]

. . . just because the Original Poster hasn't posted . There are others here that do have an interest in the possibilities of this kit.

New from http://www.islandcollectibles.net/prod022211.htm yeah, sure $185 is steep but the interest is there.

[Harry P.]

The problem is that some of the "information" in that thread was over six years old.

If you want to start a new thread about the Daytona with new information, that's fine. No need to be combing through 8 pages of a 6 year old topic trying to find current info, that's why I locked it.

[LokisTyro]

lol what?

[Harry P.]

There was a thread regarding a new Daytona kit that was supposedly going to be released by Accurate Miniatures.

The problem was, that post was made in 2006. And since it is now 2013 and there still is no Accurate Miniatures Daytona kit, I decided to close the thread. Here is the last comment that was posted, by Dave Van, and it sums things up pretty well:

I do know Accurate Miniatures had many planned kits in the pipeline. They had some fantastic people on staff. If you own a B-25 kit from the Concord era of AM, I packed it. I got to help out time to time because my brother in law was a primary staff member of AM at the time, in fact two of my brother in laws, my kids, my nephew all put in time there. AM had one of the all time best kit designers. Many of you know who I am talking about. He had already designed a 1/18 die cast Cobra Daytona so he had the info on hand and it just needed to be modified to a design for a 1/24 scale plastic kit. All was roiling along well........

Then my brother in law passed very unexpectedly. He was only 49 and in very good health. He got sick and dies 3 days later. This was a huge blow to the AM team. It caused, in my opinion, everyone at AM to look at themselves and their life.

The kit designer left and moved back to his home state, and doing well today BTW. This pretty much caused the remaining AM staff to split up and go separate ways....and all the planned 'stuff' just went away. As you know Revell bought the leftover GS Vette kits, reboxed them and sold out quick. The rest of the kits went to MRC as the guy there was a ex Revell guy and knew the AM guys.

The tooling....not 100% sure but I bet we never see the cars, Vette and NASCAR Taurus again.

[Jeremy Jon]

The kit looks decent, and for $185 is should well be, even with PPE included

Further from the other threads discussion, is that it still is an amalgamation of Daytona, as each were different from the next

I have a project already underway, for release after the new year, with each of five kits will be of a specific VIN car, starting with 2287, but won't be nearly that high in price

It would still be cool to see a kit of the hot rodded version, like the SPF or Factory Five cars for fun & custom builds!

Edited August 21, 2013 by Jeremy Jon

[Dave Van]

Thanks Harry for re-posting my info. I knew it was an old thread....but it kept popping up in the 'My content' and I felt the need to reply for some reason. Again thanks