History of Monogram's 1940 Ford Pickup

[Fabrux]

Dating from 1964 and originally designed with input from Darryl Starbird, follow along as I recount the story of this kit family.

https://www.sprue.xyz/articles/monogram40fordpickup

[Ace-Garageguy]

Another of my favorite kits. Sure wish I had a few of the original issue.  

[1972coronet]

Thanks much for that article. Certainly I'm not alone in wishing/hoping that the tooling would be restored to its 1964 origins .

The only error I'd noticed in the article was in reference to the 1985 ad seq. tyres: the fronts were indeed Michelin 390 mm (dating to the 1979 Mustang kits), while the rears were (technically still are, even in absence of name-branding ) Good Year Radial GTs (common in Monogram's Muscle Car kits from c.1981-present).

Last time I built one was in 1985, 1986 (high school). I glued the doors shut after fighting with those hinges -- I'd imagine that original editions' hinges were just fine, but after 20 years of production...

[ EDIT ] 

RE: The Michelin tyres: I was referring to the 390 mm wheels of the 1979-1984 Mustang, not the size of the tyres in 1:1.

Edited April 4, 2023 by 1972coronet
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[Fabrux]

Thanks for the correction! The pictures I've found don't show the different tires well and my '11 reissue is currently packed away off-site and I wasn't able to check the contents.

[Can-Con]

Chris, the Lemon Crate wheels weren't shared with the '55 panel. They were similar but not the same. 

The panel wheels were 8 bolt while the crate wheels were 5 and the spoke shape it different. I think the crate wheels might be unique to that kit.

[ChrisBcritter]

3 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

Thanks much for that article. Certainly I'm not alone in wishing/hoping that the tooling would be restored to its 1964 origins .

I asked Ed Sexton that very question several years ago at NNL Milwaukee - according to him, it's not going to happen. Too bad, those T-bird wire wheels alone were little jewels.

[Fabrux]

Thanks for the update, Steve!

@ChrisBcritterI wonder if Atlantis has this tooling now? ?

 

[68shortfleet]

One of my favorite kits. 

Wish we would see a couple of the original tool parts come back, like the Deluxe dash.

[horsepower]

On 4/3/2023 at 8:46 PM, ChrisBcritter said:

I asked Ed Sexton that very question several years ago at NNL Milwaukee - according to him, it's not going to happen. Too bad, those T-bird wire wheels alone were little jewels.

I wonder why it wouldn't be possible to pop in the tires and wire wheels from the Revellogram 1/24th scale Deuce Roadster that had its origins in the L'il Deuce copy of the 1/8th scale Big Deuce kit.