NEW AMT Announcements, and there are some BIG Surprises

[gasman03]

from information posted on Hobby Heaven

Reissues's

71 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler (last seen in stock format in 1971, I won't hold my breath yet, but AMT Said they checked the tooling and everything was there)

1968 Dodge Coronet Hardtop (Last seen in 1969 IIRC, should be all there, was announced a few years ago but it was missing some parts, since the Model King has reissued some great old kits which needed some minor new tooling, and where fantastic sellers, I guess AMT realized it worth new tooling to help sell kits. should be a 1969 since it was updated to that in 1969, but keeping my fingers crossed that its a 68, always liked the 68 over the 69>

1929 Ford Woody/Pickup, last seen in about 2001, great kit

updated ’69 Camaro (Wonder what that means)

1953 Ford Pickup Flip-Nose (last seen in the Wal-Mart checker board boxes about a year ago, must have been a good seller)

1986 El Camino, this is the SS kit, its been reissued every once in a while

65 Pontiac GTO

1960 Chevrolet Corvette

1982 MPC Ford Bronco "Saddle Tramp (not seen since about 1984-85, IIRC it modified into a Monster truck, it musta been converted back)

1994 GMC Sonoma Monster Truck

snap 1975 Chevrolet Blazer (never heard of this kit before, maybe they Ment 1995 Blazer)

and now the new stuff:

These are all going to be part of a series called “Full Throttle", based of designs by the great Chip Foose, hopefully, like the diecasts, Chip will have some influence with these too. all will include stock parts,

1970 Plymouth Hemi (Hopefully) Cuda

1969 Chevrolet Camaro (Hopefully all new tool)

2007 Ford Mustang

2007 Dodge Challenger

if these kits are anything like the 300C, and the Escallade they will be nice kits. like I said, i'm not gonna hold my breath yet for the 71 Cyclone, but I will for the 68(69) Coronet, I'm sure that one will happen

[blubaja]

Hmm...the Foose inspired cars sound like a winner. Hopefully they won't render the diecast porportions like the FnF cars did. Any word on the toyota nascar yet? lol

[suicidehummer]

2007 Challenger?

Yesssssss! F**K YEAH!

[tajoe]

07 Challenger........HELL YES!!!! But do we really need more Camaros?

[deltableh]

New Challenger sounds good to me!

[brady_381need72c10]

what about a 68' gto cause ive seen a 64,65,66,67.69 but no 68's
because i want to build one just like my fathers 1:1 scale he use to own!

[tigeraid]

So the '07 Challenger, but still not new Charger?

[tonioseven]

Testors is allegedly producing the new Charger....one day....so they say....

[Pippin1974]

2007 Challenger....one for me please!! jajajaj

[gasman03]

Originally Posted by tonioseven

Testors is allegedly producing the new Charger....one day....so they say....

Nobody has any clue whats going on at Testors, THe Box art model was in Model Car Magazine, it looks like a fantastic kit, but for some unknown Reason Testors has disapeared, they also announced reissuing the 71 Cuda, 70 AMX, and the old Maverick, but those havent happened yet

[tigeraid]

Email response from Testor's this morning:

The plastic kits will be arriving late October. The metal kit version will not be available until after the new year. No date as of yet.

Conni Schultz
Sales Assistant

[suicidehummer]

Boy is Testors lazy.

[subcool]

Definitely would like to see that mustang as a kit. I agree about the camaros....enough already. If these kits are well done it will be a big change for AMT. Hopefully they can get the following things right:

-ride height (i want zero fender gap...is that too much to ask for)
-wheel diameter (not too big not too small)
-nice tires
-accurate body proportions

This would be nice because they were way off on the fnf kits.

[Wildrice90]

I hope they all come true. Now if the AMT Mustang is as good as the Revell Stang.I hope Testors follows thru on the kits they say.

[willimo]

Originally Posted by subcool

Hopefully they can get the following things right:

-ride height (i want zero fender gap...is that too much to ask for)
-wheel diameter (not too big not too small)
-nice tires
-accurate body proportions

Why not just get the Revell Camaros?