#Amt 59 el camino series#
Check it out for yourself! And of course, inside the Original Art Series reissue, you’ll find a sweet bonus print of the original painting. It’s much different and much more fun than the one which came in the Street Rods series kit all those years ago. I would have loved to have been sitting by the artist’s desk when this gorgeous rendering was created! But, I can tell you it was a total blast to be the one who laid out all the artwork for the Original Art Series reissue!įor the decal sheet, I honored my friend and his brother with some special decals related to the types of work they do today.
#Amt 59 el camino full#
Needless to say, the day I saw it in person for the first time was quite a thrill! Here is a scan of the full painting, for your enjoyment! During my mad collecting years, I had found a very nice factory sealed example of the kit, but when the opportunity arose to acquire the actual original painting, the world stopped spinning for a moment. Now fast forward, oh, about 30 or 35 years. The colorful orange and purple background really set the car off and I wished that kit with its wild flaked body was mine! I just gawked at the beautiful illustration of the white car with the chrome scoop sticking out from the hood. The kit was barely started and was in the box. It inspired me to no end and is probably what started my love of “flaked” paint, whether on model cars or real cars! Despite its aged tooling the kit is remarkably detailed, especially the engine and chassis components. The AMT 1959 El Camino kit (6897) has always been one of my favorite subject matters to build, and this is the third time I’ve built this particular kit. The body was painted with amazing rainbow metal flake and glittered like no model I’d never seen! It didn’t matter that the flake was a wee bit too big for a scale model car body. SnapShot Review by Marty and Stephanie Oberman. He did amazing work and had access to some really cool paints! When we walked into the kitchen at my friend’s place, sitting on the table, there just happened to be an in-progress build of, you guessed it, the Street Rods ’59 El Camino! However, what I saw made my eyes bug out and stuck a memory in my mind that I’ll never forget.
He had an older brother who happened to have a body shop in town. We were going over to his place to build model cars. Gather ’round the workbench for a cool story: I remember walking home after school with a buddy in the late 1970s. But, if you’re like me, specific kits from certain times in your childhood created special memories, and this is one of those kits for me! Now, I can hear some of you commenting about this issue of the kit, having changes and fewer parts than prior issues. Specifically, the 1970s “Street Rods” issue of the 1959 Chevrolet El Camino. I happen to own the original vintage AMT painting for one of my all-time favorite kits. In doing this one, I had a concern about the height of the windshield-slapped my measuring stick on my real '59 Biscayne 4dr-AMT got the roof height correct.I’m a lucky guy. Production resumed for the 19641977 model years based on the Chevelle platform, continuing for the 19781987 model years based on the Malibu. I then used the entire windshield area on a Monogram '59 Impala convertible body, along with a widened JoHan '59 Cadillac "Sixty Special" 4dr door sedan tor the roof, to do a resin-master for the '59 Biscayne 2dr sedan. The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 19591960 model years in response to the success of its rival, Ford Ranchero. It's one of my favorite kits, and makes a great vintage service vehicle for a gas station.Īctually, AMT first issued this kit in the late summer of 1964, using their then-standard 3in1 Customizing box-which was way too tightly packed for this model-many of the kits came into stores with the roof squashed! I built one up way back about 1994, to showcase my then-new Chevy 235cid Blue Flame 6 AAM resin kit , and it went together perfectly. I recently found one of those at a flea market, shrink-wrapped for $7.
I'll probably pass on this one, just because I have several already - one in the long box and others in the circa-1989 box, with the pink El Camino on top. IIRC, the original was first issued in that box around 1966.
Thanks! I really liked the retro "long-box" reissue of this kit, back in the 1990s (shown below).
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