AMT model company history
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- The story of the AMT kit model company. This is episode 3 on the AMT, MPC, ERTL history series. Corrections: It was the USS CONSTELLATION in "The Doomsday Machine", not the USS Constitution.. They also gave it the registry number NCC-1017 by rearranging the decals used in the Enterprise kit. Also the Spock molds were actually made by Aurora with AMT's permission for European distribution as AMT did not want to make figures. The molds were sent to Aurora UK for production and distribution in Europe. Once AMT saw the sales numbers they decided to make it after all and the molds (either copies or the originals) were sent to AMT for domestic US production.
Special thanks to boxartden.com and oldmodelkits.com for permission to use their images and a shout out to scalemates.com which is a wonderful resource for information on kit model histories. - Zábava
Once you have made a model you never forget that kit
So true! I retired in 2020 and proceeded to buy several plastic model kits that I remember building in the 60s and early 70s. Some are rare, hard to get. I will begin building them this year, around 30 of them. Fond memories!
My greatest memory of my youth in the 60's was listening to WABC and spending hours in my basement work shop creating models, they were the best
Im 64 years old, originally from Long Island, NY and I have the exact same memories.
My next door neighbor passed away in 1975. His wife gave me over 400 AMT models still in the originaj boxes unopened.I still have everyone of them 45yrs. later.
They have value
@@maxsmodels It's the art work on the boxes that are cool.You know at my age physical items don't mean much to me.
@@scottouellette9411 Of course they're yours to do with as you wish, hopefully they'll end up in someone else's hands that appreciate them as well before you go. Hear too many stories of families being left with pieces like these that end up in the garbage because they don't know, or care, what they're worth or the burden of having to try to get rid of them.
I'm 63 years old and I still build and collect many different scale models from several model companies. My collection of pre-built and self-built car and truck models has become so large, that it fills a room 12' x 20'. Yes, I am very proud to say that I still play with cars. I have been building model cars since I was 4 years old in 1965.
Thanks for this documentary. I got heavy into car models in the early 60s, and AMT was the gold standard. I remember how AMT would come out with an array of cars every fall, just about the same time Detroit did. Those kits kept me busy for years.
Love AMT, Revell, and Monogram kits to this day. Started building them in the mid 80's as a kid, and today I still love the hobby. I spend up to a month or longer building kits, mostly car kits. Great Documentery!
I was a draftsman for AMT in the late 60's. I did a lot of the Star Trek plans.
You are an American treasure. Thank you
@@maxsmodels I don't know about that but it was fun to work there. I could not believe the work that went into making a model.
I had the Enterprise and the phaser, communicator, & tricorder kits. I noticed the Star Trek utility belt toy's accessories were the same scale as the model's and the communicator in both were basically the same thing and at one time I repaired my toy communicator with the same model glue I used to build the model communicator.
@@JohnFourtyTwo There were wood model makers who made the parts out of wood first to make sure the parts fit before they made the dies. When they were done they said I could have them but I was young and did not want them. Was I stupid. It would be worth bucks today.
Was there ever a factory in New Jersey ???
Thanks for information. I would look forward to Friday when the family would go out to dinner and my Dad and I would chose a model car to build. Great memories of 60 years ago.
Spent many hours and $ on these model kits! Great memories. Thanks.
I was the last employee at AMT's James St. injection molding plant in Baltimore. The molding machines had been disassembled and shipped to ERTL when I happened upon some test shots that had been thrown in a dumpster. These were special "glow in the dark" shots of the star ship Enterprise that were an experiment by our industrial engineer, Tom Gooding. These were never available as a finished product from AMT. I still have them around here somewhere.
FIND THEM...they are probably worth a small fortune...
I would like to mention that in a later video if it is OK with you.
@@maxsmodels I don't mind. If you're serious I will look for those Enterprise shots.
Great walk down memory lane! Grew up building so many of these in the ‘50’s and early 60’s…brilliant, thanks!!! 🙏🏼 ❤
thanks... I enjoy this! I built over 350 kits all through my childhood. The 'doing' of it kept me on the right track and encouraged my love of vehicles. Eventually, I got a job with GM, enjoyed my time there and got a family & pension. Sadly, now I don't have the eyesight or steadyness to build kits anymore but I LOVE my diecast. It's still a 'good' life!
Those videos about the histories of model kit manufacturers are fascinating. A real treat. Thank you, good sir.
as many, thanks for the memories. you have a very cool and fine style in the presentation, clear and easy to follow.
I remember AMT and Revell quite well...My Dad would buy me at two a month...Remember the Testors glue that put it all together...
AMT and M.P. C. We're my favorites, makes me feel my age when I remember buying them for $2.00. One time I got a kit with a bad body, I wrote a letter to AMT and within a few weeks the sent me a replacement along with a huge decal and a letter of apology.
I just posted the MPC video.
Your documentaries are so well done and SO needed for our hobby. Thanks for making these, Max.
Thanks. I need to do some more.
Wow, this was a terrific effort. I built so many when I was a kid growing up in the 60s & 70s but had no clue as to all this great history. Man do I miss those simpler days. Much thanks to you Sir!
Brings back fond memories of the late 50's - 60's....thanks for the vid.
A rollercoaster history of a great company.
In the first half of the sixties I was into AMT model cars. I liked the 3 in 1 kits because I could choose the way I wanted the car to look. I seem to recall the AMTs were a bit easier to work with - I've never been good with extreamly small bits and pieces. By the time I left home to go in the service I had a sizable collection that ended up in cardboard storage barrels and then went away in the house fire. In my era the kits averaged about $2.50 or so each - a hefty sum for a kid making $0.35/hour, almost a full day's wages, but a price I gladly paid to feed my car passion. My collection is somewhat smaller today (6) but my models are 1:1 scale - full size collector cars. Thanks for the background of a company that was a big part of my preteen years.
They were $2.50 for me as well. AMT built some good stuff. I remember after watching this video that I had a model of the Star Trek ship and a Klingon Battle Cruiser. I remember those tractor trailer kits were $5 which was a ton of money for a kid. I remember how disappointed my dad was after he found out I spent my hard earned $5 on a truck. I thought about it for a long time after that and realized that purchase was not a good one.
Built many AMT cars in the early 60's, sometimes bought several kits of the same car to make, stock & custom. Also did a slew of Revell ships & planes. Started out collecting Matchbox cars & trucks in the 1950s - 50c apiece!
I remember as a young child we gad an amt slot car set and any 1/25 scale body you could put on the frames, That was soo cool.
I literally walked into Brookhurst Hobbies to buy some German armor kits....then saw these AMT Peterbilt big rig kits up on s high shelf...took home the Freightliner Cab Over kit and haven't looked back. Been buying about 2 a month since.
This happened during the Quarantine 2020.
I didn't know these 1/25 kits existed...wow. Thank you Round2.
I had alot of AMT kits of large semi trucks. Since my family was in the trucking business, I thought this was really cool!
I was 9 years old in 1969 and fell in love with the AMT models of Semis and trailers! My local Hobby Shop in Burien WA (Seattle) was selling these big box models for $5.00! I just recently found their 40' Fruehauf refer trailer online for $42.99!
Now, at 64 years old, I can still remember the pleasant fragrance of Testors Plastic Model Cement and the HUGE color selection of Testors Model Paints displays. I recently retired after 26 years of trucking. My career choice may have been different if Santa had brought me construction equipment from Tonka instead. 😂
Another excellently done video! I built all of the trek kits and have still the original Enterprise with the light bulbs in the upper and lower saucer domes.The AMT kit appeared as the wrecked U.S.S.Constellation and as the wrecked U.S.S. Excalibur as well as the Enterprise herself as seen outside space station K-7 in the tribbles episode.The AMT Enterprise kit was built and modified by Matt Jeffries brother John D.Jeffries. If I recall that kit was a part of the Christies auction that Paramount had in the early or mid 2000's.Thanks for another great video!
Used to love these models with the solid metal axles. As a kid I had the large 56 Chevy with an electric motor and bevel gear drive. A 6v lantern battery with a 3 position switch and about 10 feet of light weight speaker wire did the job. Used to light up posi and then drag race down the hallway.
This was amazing. My grandmother was one of the people who did the chrome plating for AMT.
Well, I must have put together many models with her work inside. Always perfect, I loved opening the boxes & seeing all the chrome parts "Trees" - the best part! Like works of art, sometimes I felt bad separating the pieces -
@@rsstrazz6261 llllllll
Hey how are you
And if she had wheels she'd be a wagon 😀
If she had wheels she'd be a '57 Belair 2-dr hardtop, 283/283 fuelie, 3-speed O/D in Dusk Pearl -"Sweet, Smooth & Sassy"
Here we go, I have had a ton of and still have AMT and MPC kits, including several of those semis and trailers. I was also an Auto World customer and I just saw the catalog page and I remember it.
AMT car kits got me into modeling back in the mid-1960's. I started washing my neighbor's cars so I could fund my model building habit. I still remember the Klingon Battle Cruiser model I built.
That model got me excited too. This i used two shades of PollyS green. Around '81.
My first model was the AMT Double Dragster .You could build 2 out of 3 different models. Got for Christmas in 61 or 62. Built alot of AMT 3 in one kits as they seemed a better value with the extra parts
Most of the cars were $1.65. Some were $2.00 I thought they were an easier build than Revell or Monogram.
Growing up in the 60s and 70s was awesome. Toys were just better , and creativity was the norm. I still build AMT models, when I find them.
Endless hours of building cars as a kid in 60's and 70's .. wish I had all the NASCAR models un-opened ..
Thanks amt you got that young boy through some ruff times at home.
we've talked about the un-opened/assembled kits on here. Sure, they'd be worth a fortune now but as a kid, we wouldn't have had the enjoyment and skill building of the process.
Same as dinky, corgi and matchbox. I have some that would be worth thousands if they were pristine. But I literally spent hundreds of hours playing with them and that in and of itself is worth more than the dollars I'd get today.
Oh yes, AMT has played a role in my life. I was in second grade in 1974 and we played Star Trek at recess using imaginary phasers. I will never forget the total excitement the first time I found the AMT Star Trek Exploration Kit at a local Drug store in Littleton Colorado. It was the greatest thing ever. I now had the actual Phaser, Communicator, and Tricorder. I could now truly go where no kid had gone before!
That is exactly like me! Except I was in 3rd grade! Awesome!
That Exploration kit was one of the hardest to find I don't think the stores had any idea how much we wanted to have copies of the tools they used on the show. Me and my friends and cousins did this same thing.
@@rickycollins4633 Your right! They were very hard to find and there weren't that many on the shelf. In fact if I remember that first time there were only 2-3 kits on the shelf. A year or two later I bought another kit and that was it after that. Always waited for them to re-release it but that is the only kit I think they never did. Don't know why. I have an Art Asylum Phaser I bought years ago somewhere. Always gotta have a Phaser.
I still pretend my finger is a phaser...pew pew!
Ugh
my grandkids got me again!
Which drug store? We probably went to the same one LOL
As is your other feature about Revell, Monogram, and Aurora - all these are features of my youth from the first model that I built myself at age eight - the Lindbergh Spirit of St Louis and the Mayflower. After that it was the AMT 65’ Ford Mustang and the 55’ Ford. I still have my Aurora Nautilus, Robot from Lost in Space, Robbie from Forbidden Planet and the Batplane. On and on those models bring back memories.
Unfortunately, my wife has not been as understanding of my choice of hobby so I’ve sort have had to put away everything so instead of the glorious glass displays you have, I have about 20 odd packing boxes in my brother’s basement as there is “no room” at ours.
Oh well - thanks again for your trip down memory lane!
You need to start a covert cell of underground model builders.
@@maxsmodels - 😂😂😂😂😂
My wife isnt opposed to my modeling per se. She didn't want the chemical smells like those from spray paint, zap-a-gap and such in our first home (an apt) with our baby girls.
What I didn't know (mainly because neither my wife nor mom were much into makeup), is the smell that comes from nail polish/polish remover. Something I got introduced to once my girls got older. LOL
Now 20 years later, I want to get back into building again but it is soooooo expensive now. That comment you made in the AMT video about the auto companies now charging royalities - thus the reason to go from the promotional models to the consumer market - is way too crazy now. $40.00 +/- for a car model that I know is the same mold of a model I had bought even 15 years ago for $10-$15! Inflation hasn't been that bad!
I know models are not sold like they used to be. I've worked in two different hobby stores - once in the 70's and again in the 00's and the market isn't there anymore. Too many other activities like this medium to take kids from the hobby. However, once exposed, I know they get interested in it - I almost got my girls in it but other influences were stronger. ☹😕
@@Wild-Dad My wife and I agreed that I would have a 12 x 12 shed built in the backyard for those reasons. I also use to reload ammo so it was safer to keep the power out there. Still using it today...but I just bulk by ammo.
@@maxsmodels - more power to you Max!
What ever happens, I have enjoyed coming upon and viewing every video you've created.
Take care and keep well!
Loved those days as a kid. Bought every single tractor, fire engine and trailer at least twice. They were great kits back in the day.
Thanks, I turned 60 this year. Ha, I've built many many model cars when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories ✌️. Actually, I have a big box in the attic. Ok, good time to dig them out,and build 😁✌️🙏
Being a Star Trek modeller rather than a car modeller I still found this an excellent short doco on the history of AMT. Thanks for making it.
I still remember the hard white plastic AMT used.
Very interesting. I never knew what AMT stood for, other than a lot of the hours (and fun) of my childhood. Thanks!
I always loved the fact they seemed to lead the pack on semi truck kits for cost, range, and volume
I must say these company histories are really interesting, Thanks for all your hard work Max, and I greatly enjoy your humorous comments in the closing titles.
My dad and I built a lot of Ford Model A 3 in 1 kits in the mid-60's. He had had two real roadsters when he was a young man and they were his favorite kit. He built the stock ones and I built the custom ones. Fond memories of my dad spending time with me.
In the 60s, a bunch of us boy's not only bought a.m.t, but there were no NASCAR models! We made our own, and raced them down driveways! Amt sold extra inner wheels, axles,had soft rubber wider tires and wheels. In one subdivision we had 4 different race tracks. Each one about 60 ft long, and different grades. Some a little steep, and 1 really steep one. We painted our numbers on ,and painted the car's accordingly. 3 or 4 of the Best years of my young life . If you can remember there was even a magazine showing other kids driveway racing their a.m.t. models ! 28 ,Fred Lorenzen was my favorite!
loved building those AMT 3 in one car kits in the 70's, the detail was great.... they we're awesome and still are 👍
One of the best on CZcams!
AMT was another one of my favorite models kits. I built a ton of those star trek kits!
Thanks for the nice walk thru memory lane. Aurora in 1968 also licensed to produce the Enterprise at their Canadian plant for the Canadian market. They created the exact same box and box art (now called the reissue retro box), except the AMT logo was replaces by a red square and the word Aurora in big letters across the box. I remember I had purchased and built both. The AMT kit sold for 2 dollars in the USA. The AMT kit and then the Aurora kit sold for $ 3.20 in Canada, even though the exchange was only about 10 cents. I purchased a lot of AMT kits in those days and always felt we were being ripped off as we paid 60% more for a kit rather than only 10% more. Still we saved, bought them, and built them. And we had to have every TV model AMT came out with.
Nearing 50 and I still build. Great video, Maximum Overdrive!
I switched to real cars in my late teens but as I near retirement, switching back to models! Way easier on my body. I still have more than 20 new kits I bought many years ago.
@@CarsandCats same here. Restored many a car and it is very hard on the body. I had a hard time concentrating as a kid, so my dad would have me build scale cars with him. It improved my concentration and sharpened my eye sight as well as steady my hands. I think that is why I never gave it up. It is a lot of fun and very rewarding because you can put them on display and track your progress over the years by comparing newer finished kits to your previous ones.
Oh boy! I spent a fortune on lots of those kits in the 60s ,enjoyed every one of them,I am sitting her whimpering for the love of the Kenworth rig and the Surf Woody...At 70 I don't have the eyesight to make them ,but love them just the same..don't make too many of these videos,I am crying already...
I have a desktop magnifier that works for my eyes, my shaking is another matter. I do the best I can.
I was a nut on car models in the 60s, and AMT was always my favorite. Many years later, I was on a bus (don't remember where I was going) and the gent next to me turned out to be Bud Anderson, the Kat. There were Revell and Monogram kits I liked, but AMT was always the king, for me.
it was AMTs kits which got me into American cars and then ultimately drag racing over here in the 🇬🇧 it was a great way for a boy to be involved in an adult pursuit and kept me out of trouble throughout my teenage years. I rarely finished a kit as i literally roof chopped everything with varying degrees of success (an the occasional injury), but that being said, i had lots of parts and could build up any style of hot rod or street machine from parts. From painting models i got into airbrushing and full size custom painting. Those little models have a lot to answer for.
Phils Obsession did you keep any of them?
CycolacFan yeah lots of half built stuff, will go back to it one day
I grew up in troy mich in the 60s. I used to build those models all the time. we were either blowing them up with cheery bombs or put them on our slot cars. one of my first summer job was driving a fork lift at the AMT factory here in troy. stacking pallets to the ceiling with model car kits.
Yep fire crackers and the BB gun. Models made great targets.
Great video dude. I grew up in the 90s building old model kits and as an adult I'm determined to help keep hobby stores alive. This history series you're producing makes me appreciate my dad's huge collection even more.
This brings back so many memories. I loved working models when I was a kid.
Thanks Max for the history on AMT. My passion back in the 1970's was 1/24 and 1/25 scale model trucks. I think I built every model truck offered by AMT and ERTL except the fire trucks. Yep, I also built all the trailers to go along with the model truck tractors. Sadly, after joining the USAF in 1979, my parents decided my bedroom was going to become a new den and all my models went into the trash, Oh the humanity. Thank God Round 2 has been re-releasing the truck models, I'll show them 👍 Cheers, Rich S.
I am building their AMT and MPC GTOs right now
Trash???, my parents would never see me again, I have a truck hobby that is a perfect mind set, I can be creative without owning the real thing, sorry for your loss,
I so enjoy your historical look-backs on where our beloved kits came from. Great stuff, sir.
Thanks for this trip back to my childhood model building days! Brought back a lot of memories of kits I built. Also thank you for the video on Revell, Aurora & Monogram history
I built the reissued Spock model kit some years ago... 35 years after buidling it as a kid in the 70s. Wonderful times...
Back in the '50s and early '60s I built model planes, but in my teens it was mostly cars and usually AMT. I haven't been into it since then, but this video reminded me of something. Back in the '90s when Ford restyled the F-150 I really liked them, and a friend at work gave me an AMT kit of the 1997 Ford F-150 Styleside pickup. I got to digging around and found it in a closet, still untouched. I don't think I have the knack for building models anymore so it will probably stay unbuilt. I really enjoyed this video travel back in time.
AMT kits were great. Their 1960 Model T kit was the grestest and is still attainable today! Their 3 in 1 kits were fanatic.
Great video thumbs up stay awesome everyone.
I built a few of the AMT model kits. A Chevy K5 Blazer, GMC Jimmy, Chevy pickup truck, GMC Sierra truck, 1969 Ford XL coupe, 1970 Thunderbird, 1974 AMC Matador, 1972 Chevy Passenger Van, 1970 Ford Torino Cobra, 1975 AMC Gremlin, 1977 AMC Pacer station wagon, 1976 Ford F Series truck.
What a cool presentation! As many model cars as I've built, I didn't realize how complicated AMT history was.
I honestly mean this, that was the best video I've ever seen on CZcams that was really fun thank you. CRJ
Minor correction, it was the USS Constellation in the Doomsday Machine episode and not the Constitution.
Spent The 1970"s building all those Star Trek models and many more. Thanks for the great stories of modeling history.
Wow, that's really neat that you got your first Corvette ride in a Split Window 63. My experience with a 63 was on my way to my elementary school as I walked by the RAMSEY steel company where the president had a private parking spot and always some kind of cool new car. But this morning there was the most outrageous, most beautiful car I ever saw, a brand new red 63 split-window Corvette. I was so blown away by it that I was late for school.
Mine was about 1969. The son of the store owner next to our family store had one with a little Playboy bunny rabbit on the back (even then I knew what that was). I passed it for weeks before I asked about it. My dad was concerned about a teenager in a Corvette taking his 9 year old (because no teenager ever did anything stupid in a sports car to show off in front of kids). So my dad curled up in the area behind the seats to chaperone us. It was still a huge thrill. It might have been a 64 because I seem to recall the bunny was in the back window. Oh the details fade but the memory is bright.
I love the three in one kits. You have leftover parts that you could use to customize other models.
Yep, I am finishing AMT's '53 Studebaker now. Built it as a kid, now I can enjoy it again decades later in retirement.
It provides two complete motors and lots of optional parts. I am building the stock version. AMT still rocks!
@@lancerevell5979 53 stude with twin blowers! I think that engine ended up in three or four different models before I was done
@@davidstoyanoff ..Yep..the big engine with 2 blowers sittin at 45* angle's...in the 1953 Studebaker Hawk " The Salty Dog"...I bought one around 1968 at the Five & Dime store ,cost $ 2.00...and Ive still got it in almost perfect condition, I took it apart and rebuilt it a time or two..LOL...Im sure you remember doin that too..Heck it was just as much fun to redo em it was to build em the first time..those are precious memories brother...Ive still got most all of my old models from 60s..70s..80s...about 200 of em...Im glad you still have that passion and the time now to enjoy it again...I feel your inspiration,.feels good..thank you man..
@@outlaw5094 I had the same Studie!
This is my very favorite model kit company ever! I wish Walmart still had a wall full of AMT models.
I'm an old man and I built many cars in the mid-60's. It seems that most of mine may have been AMT. Good times that young kids today won't know.
I was more a revell guy but I saw a few AMTs I built too.
I think back to the kits I made: glue finger prints on the glass, stuff glued on crooked, paint slapped on. Back then I was more about the finish line than the process. It took me until my 20's when I started in design that I became more process oriented than finish line. I actually had a boss complain to me that I was too fixated on the process lol....
To tell you how bad I got: I was working on a wooden ship model and I didn't like the way the kit made straps to hold the mast stays in place. So I got some 10 gauge copper wire and hammered it flat and shaped it to produce better looking straps haha. Took me about a year to finish that one.
I'm 63, still building kits....I built a ton back in the 60's and believe it, I kept almost all of them, but they have fallen apart. in the storage boxes...creating the largest 3d puzzle ever...but I like to build still, keeps my fine motor skills in tune.
The shops that sell them claim that about roughly 25% of the buyers are people under 20....I thought it would be less, but these kits are really for the boomers, trying to re-capture their youth....kinda cool
Great video. Eric Eriksson is a cousin on my mothers' side of the family. Eric sponsored Mom and Dad to come to the USA back in 1947 from Sweden. Eric also owned Detroit Plastic Products where most of the models were molded. They were located on Groesbeck Hwy and 15 mile Rd. There are still a few Erikssons around the Detroit area. I remember the late 50's and early 60's all the model cars that were available. Plus Lionel Trains.
I still have many AMT and JoHan model kits in unopened boxes from back then.
Thanks for shaking up my memories of a long gone era.
too cool
I owned and built several of the AMT Star Trek kits as a teen, including at least two copies of the USS Enterprise model, the shuttlecraft Galileo, the 3-ship micro-set, the Exploration Kit and the Enterprise Bridge set. Thanks for going to all this trouble to share with us the story behind them!
I could listen to you all day Max. That was superb.
I built a lot of AMT model cars back in the early to mid-seventies. Great memories.
As a modeler in my childhood, amt and mpc were the best kits back then.
agree
Thank you for such a well produced video.
I was born in '56, so yeah, I grew up with AMT.
Of course, I watched every original broadcast of Trek.
I didn't know about the AMT connection to that show.
Thank you for that also.
Dad bought a '63 Falcon...and the model.
Wow, this brings back some memories!I built a shitload of AMT model cars.I did some Monograms as well, but AMT was my favorite.Started in '67 when I was 9 years old, and continued until I was about 16.I liked the stock/custom/drag thing,and I'd sometimes combine the best of several models to make a 'one-off'.Thank you for this vid!
AMT was my favorite company when building models, because of the metal axels. They rolled really great, especially down my driveway, which sloped 1 whole story from the front of the apartment to the back .
MPC was OK, as I remember, Monagram was a different size, and another had plastic pins for axels.
Cool video.
📻🙂
I'm glad someone else liked those metal axel AMT cars. When I was in high school jacked up cars like Nova's, Chevelle's an others it was easy to jack those AMT models I just glued that 3 hole little block where the metal axel would go two hole downs with the 3rd hole to put those axels through, looked real good jacket up, an for Red line tires I used a red ink pen to color the white walls.
When I got tired of looking at them I would stuff firecrackers in them squirt lighter fluid in also, ignite them and roll them down the driveway. 🤣
Thanks for the video, brings me back to 66, the first. And now I enjoy it even more!
Excellent presentation. Thanks.
I really love your videos! I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s. I built every kit manufacturer that you have put videos out about. I wish I still had ANY of the models that I have build way back then...
When I was a kid in the late '60s, my dad would occasionally take semi-loads of boxes to AMT from Consolidated Packaging and bring me home a kit.
Great video. I love AMT kits, are so sweet ! thank you for such a present to all scale model lovers.
Cool choice Jeff. One of my favorite planes too
This was a great watch, if I had a dollar for every AMT model kit I built, well lets just say "I would have a lot of dollars" Thanks for your time and hard work.........
Thanks for this video and thanks for using a page from the Auto World catalog. It brings back great memories.
1 Plastic model kit+1 package of m-80s= hours of fun and entertainment for a young lad. Pity we had no cell phones, we could have made some epic vids.😆💥😆💥💥
I built a great many AMT and revell models as a teenager, a few mpc kits and 1 tamiya kit.
Lots of nascar kits with many hundreds of hours in painting the multi color paint schemes
To this day my favorite model kit that i built was a 66 chevy 2, that i spent over 300 hours on and won many model car contest for 3 years running, the only part of the car that was stock plastic was the body and glass.
Every thing else i made from alluminum in the machine shop i worked in, in my spare time and on weekends when we were not using the machines for work.
That was the last model i built, it was in early 2001.
I lived down the street from the QM Manager. Very nice guy and we got our kits cheap!
I've watched a number of these videos detailing the history of the model makers of my youth. Many have a similar, but sad, arc, a long run of success before slowly petering out and finally failing as companies. It was very refreshing to see one where the company is still going strong and still making great kits. Way to go AMC.
This is amazing most of my collectin is of the late 60s early 70s semi trucks from peterbults along with a mack and auctocar along with a few atm cars as well
Great report. I am glad there is one modeling company in the USA that is still chugging along.
Love the fact that round two is producing never repoped kits like the 60 ford pickup in the exact same way it was originaly released..
I recall buying and building quite a few AMT 3 in 1 car kits in late 50's. But we often extensively modified the kits to our own street rod models. Also using 'candy-apple' paints and such. Our local small town hobby shop was the major hangout after junior high school day was out. I recall the kits cost about $3-4. Did a few as we could afford... maybe one a month.
Tanx for this series Max! Great memories & info. Trek details! Munsters, Akron/Macon - never thought I would see them again. Music versions are all fine by me! Rock & Roll on...
Outstanding video and presentation.
I remember buying these plastic 125 kits for a dollar fifty back in the 60s ,you could build them 3 ways stock,, modified & custom ,they came with a lot of extra parts & tires
Very cool video. I still have a USS Enterprise model kit from 1968 that was given to me by a friend. The kit is still intackt although the outer plastic covering is torn.
growing up in the 60s i built a lot of AMT models. i even worked one summer at the AMT manufacturing facility in Troy, Mich. as a fork lift driver. wow, i just saw the Leva car i had. remember there was like a tube you pump to make the car levitate. good memories. i don't know how many models i blew up in the backyard with cherry bombs.