What type of car is this?

[426 pack]

I got this model the other day and it has me stumped. I can’t figure out what type of car it is.

[MrObsessive]

Excalibur? Looks like a car based somewhat on the ‘66 Toronado.  

[Bucky]

That is a Renwal '66 Packard

[Snake45]

It's one of the Renwall fantasy "1966" kits released in or about that year. I think there were about a half dozen of them of various long-dead marques--Deusenberg, Stutz, Mercer, and so forth. I'm not sure but this might be the Stutz. Or maybe Mercer. 

If you're not interested in it, I'm sure someone here is looking for it and will swap you something more to your liking for it. 

ETA: There ya go! I see Bucky slipped in with the correct answer while I was typing. 

Edited August 31, 2018 by Snake45

[Bucky]

HAHA...we were prolly typing at the same time!

I have several Renwal kits on hand. The hardest to come by are the Jordan Playboy, and the Pierce Arrow. I don't have either of these two, and they go high on eBay.

[Khils]

IMHO......looks like...."leaberite"

leaberite....there.....ain't worth a $         

 

[Mark]

The designer ignored the fact that Packards were being built eight years before, only those were refried Studebakers...

[Bucky]

These are the kits offered by Renwal for that time period:

Some of the designs are not bad.

[Richard Bartrop]

They have their roots in a series of illustrations Virgil Exner did for Esquire three years previous.

http://www.madle.org/evival.htm

[Bucky]

A couple of these actually made it to full size prototype status.

[Brett Barrow]

Speaking of prototypes, there was a prototype Packard made that would have reintroduced the brand for MY 1999.    They could not secure funding and the project failed. https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/SJ14/Motor-City/lots/r112-1999-packard-twelve-prototype/181083 

[Belugawrx]

a green one

Hehehe

[Mike999]

I found that Packard as a built glue-bomb, cheap at a local flea market. It did still have the original box and the instruction sheet inside. You've probably noticed one of the...interesting things about that kit.  It's a 2-piece body, and that dividing line between the dark and light-green plastic is where the body is glued together.  The glue on mine was so old that it pretty much fell apart. 

Not sure if I'll try to restore it, or just leave it like it is as a fun historical artifact.  The box looks good on display in my workshop.

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Mike999 said:

I found that Packard as a built glue-bomb, cheap at a local flea market. It did still have the original box and the instruction sheet inside. You've probably noticed one of the...interesting things about that kit.  It's a 2-piece body, and that dividing line between the dark and light-green plastic is where the body is glued together.  The glue on mine was so old that it pretty much fell apart. 

Not sure if I'll try to restore it, or just leave it like it is as a fun historical artifact.  The box looks good on display in my workshop.

I noticed that 426Pack's is colored exactly the opposite of Bucky's. Pretty clever: Run the molds in light green, then run them in dark green, then switch half the sprues on every kit going out the door! Genius! 

[Can-Con]

If you don't want it, I might have something to trade. 

Unbuilt JoHan '62 Chrysler maybe??

[Rider]

17 hours ago, Bucky said:

These are the kits offered by Renwal for that time period:

Some of the designs are not bad.

They all look like they could be turned into some real cool looking builds. 

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Rider said:

They all look like they could be turned into some real cool looking builds. 

Some of them look like they'd make believable '70s "pimpmobiles." 

I'm pretty sure I could make SOMETHING cool out the Bugatti, though--and probably the Mercer, too. 

[Bucky]

33 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Some of them look like they'd make believable '70s "pimpmobiles." 

I'm pretty sure I could make SOMETHING cool out the Bugatti, though--and probably the Mercer, too. 

There was a prototype of the Bugatti:

http://www.madle.org/ebug.htm

[Bucky]

Mercer made it to full size, too:

http://www.madle.org/dmercer.htm

[Bucky]

Stutz came along for 1969:

http://www.madle.org/ebh69jdod.htm

[Rider]

These cars are awesome.

I'd love to have one and Superfly Pimp it out. It wouldn't be too much of a strectch to mod up a Lincoln MarkIV, or a MarkV to resemble one of these cars. I think I'd start with a MarkIV over a V only because the IV has softer lines then the V. 

[Bucky]

That black Stutz is based on a '69 Pontiac Grand Prix. The Mercer is a reskinned Cobra. The Bugatti is a ground up on a real Bugatti chassis.

[Casey]

http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/tonhazelaar/wwwhome/kits-renwal.html

[Richard Bartrop]

Virgil Exner Jr., who had a hand in the Revivals, did end up working for Ford, which explains so much about '70s Ford styling.

[ChrisBcritter]

From the December 1963 issue of Esquire, these are Virgil Exner's four original renderings:

The article (note these were first supposed to be 1964 model year versions, plus they were credited to both Virgil Exner Senior and Junior):

 

 

Edited November 21, 2018 by ChrisBcritter