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13/10/2023 3:14 pm
Actually, I believe Ertl issued a Firebird like this too.
This is a 1/18 "full size" (not a smaller-in-scale ) Pontiac GTO funny car. The body is 100% plastic, like an AMT or MPC model. During my "Pontiac phase," years ago, I picked this up, not knowing it was plastic. HW61's '66 Beswick's Pontiac also opens & comes apart but that's a diecast body (Rich has BETTER pics!! ) This Ertl GTO is a bit special.
13/10/2023 5:30 pm
Interestingly, for funny cars, plastic is more correct as most (not all) of the bodies of the 1:1 cars were fiberglass.
I don't have the Beswick '69 funny car anymore. The Logghe chassis was sacrificed to make my Don Nicholson '66 Mercury Comet.
Here are a few more plastic 1:18 models.
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13/10/2023 6:17 pm
Hmm...... Always a treat to see your Don Nicholson Comet, and there's that Firebird I alluded to, but I was unaware that all those other models, with the exception of Challenger I, were plastic/resin. And yes, a scale plastic funny car body is more accurate than metal. I have other "plastics," but they're not "full size" like this GTO.
14/10/2023 10:16 am
For as old as that model is, the Arnie Beswick GTO has an absolute wealth of detail and build quality. It always gets high visibility in my displays.
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