Obscure Kits You Never Knew Were Made...Until Now

[Maindrian Pace]

-MJS

[oldscool]

  On 11/22/2012 at 8:35 PM, Maindrian Pace said:

-MJS

Everyone sing along now,,, I am Enery the eighth I am, Enery the eighth I am I am.

[Draggon]

I got married to the widow next door, she's been married seven times before.......

[Agent G]

and every one was a Enery, (Enery) not a Willie or a Sam.........................

G

[doggie427]

I'm 'er eighth Old Man ,I'm 'Enery

'Enery the Eighth I am,I am

[cobraman]

Second verse, same as the first.

[Zarana-X]

http://youtu.be/pZxIAN6don4

[cnaind]

For the budget minded builder:

Monogram was into non-plastic kits way back when:

[lordairgtar]

  On 11/1/2012 at 7:41 PM, mr moto said:

The mule team kit is currently available along with a package of actual borax ore to fill it with!

http://www.muleteamkits.com/

I saw one of those built several years ago at a contest and it took "Best of Show". There's also an automotive connection to it. The real mule team wagons were built by Studebaker.

I thought the wagons were built in Mojave, not South Bend.

[Junkman]

  On 11/18/2012 at 11:09 PM, Daddyfink said:

And the really wild one, at least to me!

The Faller "Brücke am Kwai" kit was reissued in the Eighties. There is one on Ebay Germany. Click:

Edited November 24, 2012 by Junkman

[Draggon]

I dont know how obscure this is, but its sure weird. Aoshima 1:1 scale!

[Tom Geiger]

Who wouldn't want scale meat? LOL

Original Ace brand '49 Ford kit. Balsa of course!

And it builds up like this... oh, how you guys would scream if you opened that box today!

[mr moto]

  On 11/24/2012 at 5:57 AM, lordairgtar said:

I thought the wagons were built in Mojave, not South Bend.

That would make some sense but I've seen Studebaker credited with it on a Studebaker site. I'll have to look into through my Studebaker sources.

[crazyrichard]

i bought this kit > pics of the actual kit @ home ..

its from 1977 and in mint condition and sealed (inside)

i do have a questiona nd i hope somebody knows ?

the weird thing is it says 1/25 but it all looks so small ?? anybody knows about this ??

or is it just that the t is really small irl ?

[southpier]

i didn't read this whole thread, but this is pretty interesting:

i mean - "... torque reactive drive" somehow screams "rubber band" to me!

thread here on HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238665&page=4

[oldscool]

  On 12/6/2012 at 8:58 PM, southpier said:

i didn't read this whole thread, but this is pretty interesting:

i mean - "... torque reactive drive" somehow screams "rubber band" to me!

thread here on HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238665&page=4

I bought one of those from a 7-11 when I was a kid and yeah, it was rubber band powered.

[mr moto]

  On 12/6/2012 at 10:33 PM, oldscool said:

I bought one of those from a 7-11 when I was a kid and yeah, it was rubber band powered.

I remember that I had several of those and, yeah, I got 'em from 7-11. The "torque reaction" drive was fun for a while but after a couple of hours the plastic gears would be toothless! Time to buy a new one! Fortunately, they were cheap.

Edited December 6, 2012 by mr moto

[Edsel-Dan]

I had one or 2 old Hawk kits with that drive too. Never had a problem with the gears.

it was always the rubber band popping.

No was to replace it if you glued the holder into the gear!!

[Daddyfink]

  On 12/6/2012 at 6:53 PM, crazyrichard said:

i bought this kit > pics of the actual kit @ home ..

its from 1977 and in mint condition and sealed (inside)

i do have a questiona nd i hope somebody knows ?

the weird thing is it says 1/25 but it all looks so small ?? anybody knows about this ??

or is it just that the t is really small irl ?

From what I know, they originally made the chassis for his Sedan Delivery car and then kept making kits with Buttera's name on them and used the same chassis with different bodies. Thus they managed to make some of the worst street rod kits ever! Yes, everything is odd sized and smaller than scale!

I have them for the sake of nostalgia but I highly doubt I will build them again! But I can not really say that since I never managed to finish one when I was a kid!!

[Mark]

  On 12/7/2012 at 3:15 PM, Daddyfink said:

From what I know, they originally made the chassis for his Sedan Delivery car and then kept making kits with Buttera's name on them and used the same chassis with different bodies. Thus they managed to make some of the worst street rod kits ever! Yes, everything is odd sized and smaller than scale!

I have them for the sake of nostalgia but I highly doubt I will build them again! But I can not really say that since I never managed to finish one when I was a kid!!

The Model T kits in this series ARE accurate, and are correct 1/25 scale. The '33 and '34 Fords that use the same chassis are undersized. The first car issued in the series was the '26 T sedan, the only one that actually exists as a 1:1 car. The kit was scaled right off of the actual car, a sedan built by John Buttera for his wife to drive. The body is pretty close to stock, but the fenders are widened a couple inches (Buttera jokingly called them "the rare Australian fenders").

The first issue of the sedan kit doesn't have any photos of the model, but instead had photos of the actual car. It didn't sell well until Revell changed the box to include photos of the assembled model. After that, modelers realized that the kit wasn't like earlier Revell kits (opening everything, tough to assemble) and sales took off. The '33 and '34 coupe kits are undersized, but the chassis is the same one that was included in the T kits. That makes those worth a look if you only need the chassis.

[cobraman]

I was doing some rearranging some stuff today and came across these. Sorry if I have already posted these elsewhere

[mr moto]

  On 12/11/2012 at 4:31 PM, cobraman said:

I was doing some rearranging some stuff today and came across these. Sorry if I have already posted these elsewhere

I hope the contents of that box look more like a Cobra than the box art does!

[cobraman]

Sadly, they do not. It's what you would expect from a Palmer kit.

[Casey]

Those blister-packaged Palmer Cobras look like the Korris Kars packaging, at least as far as I remember.

I'm guessing only Erik has seen (and owns) this one?

[Erik Smith]

  On 12/18/2012 at 8:11 PM, Casey said:

Those blister-packaged Palmer Cobras look like the Korris Kars packaging, at least as far as I remember.

I'm guessing only Erik has seen (and owns) this one?

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Being somewhat of a Honda nut, I have seen that kit. I do not, however, own one! I hovered my finger above "buy it now" once, but couldn't quite do it.