The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1994
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
Notifications
Clear all
The Lounge
5
Posts
3
Users
0
Reactions
17
Views
Topic starter
18/09/2014 4:12 pm
(PICS) I have often wondered how Danbury Mint, feel free to jump in here
Rick Hanmore, arrived at the decisions they did , when it came to which cars to do next, in diecast . I mean, we have all, I know I did just about everything I could think of, bugged the hell out of them to do the ones we wanted desparately.
We made lists, had contests, pestered, sent them pics., and brochures, even names of people who had that '58 Continental, or '59 Dodge, or '63 Riviera, or '61 Plymouth, or '57 Olds, or '61 Pontiac,etc.,etc.,
Not, that what we got instead was bad, on the contrary, many were fabulous, just not what we were asking for.
I mean, how did they arrive at the '58 Packard Hawk, '51 Ford, '49 Olds, '37 Stude Dictator, '41 &'48 Chevy, '71 Mustang, '50 & '51 Studebakers, etc., and the list goes on..
Yet, no '57 Imperial, '58 Continental, and others I have mentioned above, along with our contest winners. Yes, they were working on these, but DM had been doing diecast for what?, 30 years, and we never got them
I miss 'em, long for 'em, want 'em......
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
18/09/2014 4:28 pm
Since it is definitely all over and a done deal at DM, at this point I would imagine...
... it shouldn't be a problem for Rick to speak freely about the production selection process. It's always been a deep, dark "skunk works" situation room classified secret that required high levels security clearance to know. Perhaps due to the DM Freedom of Information Act, it's OK to publish the process.
Topic starter
18/09/2014 5:23 pm
I was wondering about that myself Marlowe, and whether it would be okay for me to post the pics
I have of the ones that never were completed.......and maybe Rick has some also that he can reveal....
18/09/2014 7:03 pm
Like the 1953 Ford wagon?
18/09/2014 8:54 pm
DM is out of the business. What harm could it POSSIBLY do at this point.
It isn't like anyone is going to lose their jobs. They already have.