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and, some stuff like Cords and Duseys and Lincolns and Imperials. What about all the other manufacturers that were around back then?

The audience for much of that era has passed on! Classic kits were big in the 1950s and 1960s, from the early Highway Pioneers to the work MPC and Johan did on classics in the 1960s. We do build / collect the cars we remember from our lives, and these cars were before our time.

Franklin Mint has done some very nice classic era cars. Not kits, but nice examples for our shelf.

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The audience for much of that era has passed on!

Yes but...there's a pretty good argument against that, or at least for hot-rod versions of pre-war cars, going on over at Dennis Lacy's fine '34 Ford build in under-glass.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92516

His '34 model is getting a higher number of positive comments than most of the later stuff. It can't ALL be decrepit old men liking the thing.

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Well Art, that would be an advantage to basing it on a kit of the standard, stepside truck, might just have to tool up the 2dr wagon quarters for it if the more basic truck cabs used the same chrome trim. Basically like AMT did with their '55 Stepside/Cameo kits. Looks like the cab was the same, just different front sheetmetal for each model year.

I guess I feel as I do given that Dodge was pretty much the "Fourth man (truck if you will) on the match", so-to-speak. While I can certainly remember seeing Dodge pickups of this era (I was 12 or 13 when the Sweptside came out), the Sweptside was a most obscure truck--not NEARLY as visible as the Cameo, where just about every Chevy dealer of any size at all had at least one in the showroom to pull customers in the doors.

Harry P. made an allusion to the experience with the Hudson kits, and that's OK to a point. Where the '52-54 Hudson was concerned, that was first and foremost a pretty serious high-performance car for its day, and racked up a tremendous racing heritage (I've read where it took Ford Motor Company all the way to 1972 just to EQUAL Hudson's victory record in Nascar--which covered the years 1952-54) as well as presenting a ton of customizing possibilities for modelers.

All that said, I'd love, personally, to see not only the Dodge Sweptside, but also an International Harvester KB pickup as well as their 1957 Centennial wide body--and even more, a series of 1950's Studebaker pickups, all to go along with the Sweptside. Would God that I live long enough to see something like that!

Art

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Art, I would give my right one for that Powerwagon kit. Well, maybe... but that has always been on my list of what I'd like to have. Then, on an oddball track, a Plymouth pickup would be cool. Obscure, yes, but cool.

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Art, I would give my right one for that Powerwagon kit. Well, maybe... but that has always been on my list of what I'd like to have. Then, on an oddball track, a Plymouth pickup would be cool. Obscure, yes, but cool.

Easy to do a '41 Plymouth pickup! First, kit the Dodge, then do one with Plymouth scripts! (That's what Chrysler Corporation did).

Art

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Easy to do a '41 Plymouth pickup! First, kit the Dodge, then do one with Plymouth scripts! (That's what Chrysler Corporation did).

Art

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And for those who can't wait for hell to freeze over... Plymouth pickup and Dodge van! I believe Art was project manager on this version...

Art, I would give my right one for that Powerwagon kit. Well, maybe..

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Oh the dreaded D word! :P There is so much nicely done light commercial stuff. Just take it apart and it's a model!

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Yep, I'm aware of the diecast versions of the Power Wagon, having seen the DM wrecker up-close and in-person, but perhaps I exaggerated re: my right one... not that I've looked a lot but from what I've seen, the $$$ for those die-casts are a bit high and I believe it's worth more than that! :D

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but perhaps I exaggerated re: my right one... not that I've looked a lot but from what I've seen, the $$$ for those die-casts are a bit high and I believe it's worth more than that! :D

I dunno, guess it depends on who is buying... I don't need any more so I'd only buy it if the auction was ending without a bid, and it was less than $10 with free shipping. Lance Armstrong maybe?

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