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01/11/2025 8:34 pm
So I picked up this K & R Replicas Ford V8 Pilot from Greg Gunn recently. He knows my fondness for wagons and woodies in particular. But here’s where I need everyone’s help. It features the Minimarque logo on the base. So how did this come to be?
01/11/2025 8:41 pm
It certainly is an attractive woody station wagon. Perhaps it is a combination of a basic Minimarque model extensively modified by K&R into it's good-looking present configuration.
John Kuvakas and Tony Perrone reacted
02/11/2025 1:46 am
Must be a long out of production K&R, it no longer shows on their extensive website under FORD.
John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
02/11/2025 8:11 am
Given the age, it may have been a case of master sharing between companies. Or MM may have built it for K&R. There was a lot of collaboration back then.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
02/11/2025 1:40 pm
Max Kernick did work with Richard Briggs (hobbydb), so John is probably right. Did it come in a Minimarque box?
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Topic starter
02/11/2025 7:02 pm
@karl The box I received it in was a plain white one with a handwritten description. So the original may have been tossed.
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02/11/2025 7:03 pm
@karl And I figured if anyone would know, you would!
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02/11/2025 10:20 pm
In hindsight, I should have included the box end as it might provide further clues. With the fact that it has a foam sleeve and cardboard wrap, I think this may have been the original inner box at least.
04/11/2025 2:37 am
With what hobbydb said about Max Kernick (aka David Wright's book), seems like MM43 BUILT IT OR K & R built it for MM43! A lost box, or very limited production...