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29/05/2022 8:42 am
I've had the Matrix Imperial for a couple of years now, it came to me from the Dick Browne Collection. It is a beautiful model. I did not realize that NEO had issued one as well. The biggest difference is the open or closed top, but they are both very nice models.
1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car Limousine
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
29/05/2022 9:06 am
Two very, very nice models John. They both go very well together. It is not often that you can put 2 models from different manufacturers together and find the proportions to be that similar. You would almost think that they came from the same manufacturer.
29/05/2022 11:32 am
I wouldn't want to get into a "political" controversy here but I seem to remember that when the creator of Neo models acrimoniously parted company with Model Car World and set up Matrix, MCW responded by taking some Matrix models (which were perhaps originally planned as Neo models) and re-did them to a cheaper standard of finish and sold them at half the price of a Matrix under the BoS label, just to put Matrix's nose out of joint. So maybe this Matrix model was originally going to be produced as a Neo and MCW still had copies of the prototype moulds, which would mean that these two Imperials are in fact the same basic casting, possibly with very small detail differences incorporated to avoid claims of piracy? (Yes, I know, one has a partly open roof, but these days with CADCAM modelling and 3D printing of revised prototypes that change wouldn't be so hard.)
I could be wrong, Just a thought.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
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