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That Gasser on the front cover looks a lot like the original AMT gasser kit.

What was the first issue of that kit? Was it the double kit with the '32 Sedan ?

Which came first, the Revell S,W& C, or the AMT kit ?

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Revell's kit came first ('63).  I'm pretty certain AMT's double kit was first issued in '64.

There's a photo out there of John Mazmanian's Willys in front of the AMT offices in Michigan.  It's been said that AMT originally planned its Willys as a replica of the Mazmanian car.  The Willys in the AMT double kit is nothing like that car, though.

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The body from the '32 sedan was issued once in the mid-Seventies as a stock/street rod kit.  The interior, chassis, fenders, etc. from the Phaeton kit were used in that kit.

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The AMT Willys/Deuce Sedan Custom double kit was advertised very late in 1963 so from that we could presume it hit the streets around December 1963 or very early in 1964.....TIM 

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