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![]() Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
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Re: Building models in the "old days"
I built a lot of them when I was a kid. I still have a couple of my favorites in a closet. A 3 n 1 AMT kit 1/24th scale was $1.50 in early 1960s. Monogram was a little less. There were snap together models but I wanted the whole boogie so I painted and glued all mine. I received the "BIG T" model for Christmas one year. It was a large scale red '23 T-bucket. Red body, soft t top, interior and bed cover, with working lights, trans, engine. It had a small electric motor inside the big V8 engine that turned the crank, fan and generator. The trans worked as did the rear gears. It all turned as long as it was on the supplied jack stands. It was all plastic. It was the coolest model ever for this kid and it took both dad and I to assemble it. I don't remember what scale it was but the car was about 8" tall and 16" long maybe. Even as a display model some parts later failed such as steering spindles and other bits. It found it's way to the garbage at some point.
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