Annual Kits from the 60's and 70's - What the heck are they?
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2023
- Lets explore Annual 3 in 1 and to a lesser extent Promo Kits!
They are such a large part of model history I thought it would be cool to put a little history together.
I ended up using an AI voice since I have a bad cold. Not my favorite thing to do but it works :-)
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Sorry I had to use an AI voice! I've got a bad cold and sound terrible 😮
Felt like I was watching a 1960's Tv show... Lol
LLAP 🖖
Your right! It does sound like that. Hahahahah
Built my first model in 1957 a 32 ford coupe, I’m now 74 and still building
That's awesome, Karl! Do you still have any of the vintage builds / kits?
Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a twen, I've built many cars fm A M T. I would interchange parts fm kit to kit to come up with my own car or truck. 🇺🇸😎
I still do that today but at a lesser extent due to the current prices😮😅
Most of these were around before I was. Sometimes I feel like I came about on the tail end of the Golden Age of Model Kits. However, luckily, some intact or mostly-intact copies survived over the years, making me lucky enough to partake of them. My choice kits were those AMT released under license from Lincoln. When I was very little my grandmother had acquired a friction promo of a '68 model from the dealer; unfortunately, in my hands it did not last very long. Fast-forward about 20 years, and I acquired a re-issue kit of a '65 Continental, which was not really my year of choice but was still a Lincoln from my decade of choice. I learned about AMT marketing annual kits of Continentals from at least '61 thru '65, but the '65 model was the only one AMT saw fit to re-issue. A few years later, I learned that AMT still did annual kits for Lincolns thru '69. Finding any, however, at that time was a major quest, as E-Bay did not exist yet. I found and acquired a few, however, through classified ads in model-building magazines, and subsequently lost all but one. Fast-forward again to the 21st Century, and E-Bay helped me rebuild what I had lost *and* complete my collection. Now I have examples of every year from '58 thru '69.
I do wish, however, that the license agreement between AMT and Lincoln had not ended that year. The Marks and full-size Continentals of the '70s could have made for great models.
That's a very impressive collection and wonderful history! I would love to make a video of your collection to go along with this video. If you want to send me at least 3 pics of each car and any boxes that go with it, I'll put something together. Something like "The history of AMT and Lincoln" we are in the process of moving, so it may be a few weeks before I'm able to jump on it but I would love to put something together. You can email me the pics to: sandfreaks@comcast.net
Thanks!
@@modelrestorations I'd be very happy to share pics of my cars for you! 😀 I can understand the moving process; I'm still not fully settled from my big move, which was completed last September. Most of my models are still boxed up, but I can retrieve all the Lincolns for the photoshoot. I can start that come this Tuesday. ✌
Wow, some of those images really bring back the memories for me. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting history there. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it Mike. Thank you for watching.
Interesting information.
Thanks!
Great info! Thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful!
In some of the '70s MPC annuals they'd update the exterior but not the interior - the Chevy Nova only ever built a correct '77 and in its' final and recently-reissued state has the '79 grille but a '75-77 dash, the Chevy-GMC pickup still has a '73-77 style dash that was never updated with the post-1981 exterior. The Ford Pinto wagon dashboard was updated for 1979 though, I guess Ford's promo people were fussier about that than Chevrolet's.
Thank you for watching and a big thank you for the information!
@@modelrestorations I just remembered one more thing about the MPC Nova, it was originally tooled as a Ventura and still has a Pontiac engine. That being said, most modelers probably have an SBC in the parts box.
@nlpnt so true. I think I have like 3 to 1 sbc compared to every other make.
Interesting, did not know any of this...
LLAP 🖖
Thanks Bruce. I didn't either until recently when I picked up a few.
Here is that video. ua-cam.com/video/zULl5wFJOTk/v-deo.htmlsi=s9ecs1UB4YO4m0I-
Who invented such models... how they been makingn such small engine parts backnthen withoutncomputer ?
Skill.......lots and lots of skill :-)
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this cool info, definitely will be passing it on to my viewers.
And the ai voice was tolerable *replies as robot... 😅
Awesome, thank you! Its so odd. I know I subd your channel some time ago. I really enjoy it so remember subbing. Any way - subd again hahahah.