Story of the week AMT

[tim boyd]

One of the guys at Detroit Resin Automotive Group offer a resin '66 Valiant with a corrected two door hardtop roofline....

Thanks Mark for filling in the gaps on the Valiant Kit history.

TIM

Edited May 13, 2014 by tim boyd

[keyser]

Tom, those mid 60 Valiants are cool. Nice 66 on Bay last year, 7-800 iirc. Blue-grey.

The 66 resin looks nice too.

[Mark]

My theory is that the '66 Valiant was not offered as a Craftsman kit simply due to declining sales. With the Craftsman Valiant kits, the '63 seems to be "easiest" to find, with the '64 "less common" and the '65 being the toughest to find. They weren't performance cars, didn't particularly lend themselves to customizing, and few were drag raced. Were any '66 Craftsman series kits issued at all? I know the '66 Buick Skylark GS was offered as a Craftsman kit, but I always thought that it appeared in '67 along with the '64 Galaxie, '63 Nova wagon, and '59 Continental. A buddy of mine did a few of those fake kit boxes a few years ago; one that I have is a '66 Valiant Craftsman kit. It's fooled a few people who have seen it. His stuff was way better than the ones I've seen on eBay, but he was paranoid about being sued over the copyrights (he's a graphic artist by trade) so he never sold more than a couple of boxes.

[ChrisBcritter]

Were any '66 Craftsman series kits issued at all? I know the '66 Buick Skylark GS was offered as a Craftsman kit, but I always thought that it appeared in '67 along with the '64 Galaxie, '63 Nova wagon, and '59 Continental.

Yes, the '66 Thunderbird Town Coupe - I just got a black one; sanded down a ton of glue splotches and polished it up. Once I detail it out with some foil and paint I'll post it.