2 full pages of cool new kits!

Neato!

THIS is actually exciting advertising!

I know....it's never going to be this way again, but I wish it was.

What? No ebonics?

I missed out

A little too late....Photo sent in by Bruce Sadewater

Who woulda thunk?

Yet today Testors and Model Masters paints can be bought with the same base! Dupli Color is also plastic friendly. Wouldn't it be cool to see AMT paints again? I would like to get my hands on some of them colors from back then. Sure you say...you can find them still in different brands...I say you can find a close one, but it's not going to look the same unfortunately. This scan sent in by Bruce Sadewater

Altered Wheel Base will never die!

This is probably my favorite "looking" drag car. I just love them! Cool they re-released all of them accept for the Chevelle and Oldsmobile. The Barracuda I think?..was re-released as it was the Hemi Under Glass? This scan sent in by Bruce Sadewater

Car Craft August 1962

How cool is that? Budd Anderson is a name that comes to mind when you mention the early days of AMT and if ya hear someone say "The Kat"...that was him.
A real car magazine...modeling columns, model kit advertizing from Pactra, Revell & AMT. Not to mention several pages of how to's on slot car building and model car customizing.

Pactra had the lid on it for awhile didn't they?

Well have you?

Oh Boy!

I need to run to the local hobby shop and get the new issues!

Don't ya wish?

What if the companies still put this kind of effort into marketing? It would be oh so neat to go to the local hobby shop and buy parts packs with tires you want or engines and even motorcyles or chassis' like they used to do.

Scallops and Pinstripes....all over!

This is so lovely don't you agree? Unpainted bodies still looked great back then!

Nostalgia is bliss

Ahh wouldn't it be so cool to find an ad like this in a current issue of one of the great 1:1 car magazines? These ads used to run on the back cover of magazines like Car Craft, Rod & Custom and more! THIS my friends is what made modeling COOL! The cars were cool, the parts were cool and the whole idea behind it was COOL....Put the cool back into modeling for the general public.....please! (CLICK IMAGE TO SEE IT LARGE)