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There was a story in SAE years ago that covered that era at MPC. Forgot his name, but the executive who pushed for the 1/20 scale kits, wound up at Lindberg, and he was responsib le for that company's 1/20 scale kits (the Explorer, Camaro, Firebird, S10/Syclone,...
In Response To: Re the 1/20 scale I think MPC had a thing with 1/20 in 1969 , they did a few kits, this snowmobile, the STP Turbine, McLaren M8D both I've built & they did a few others. *NM* ()

...Grand Cherokee, Nissan and Toyota pickups, and that Mitsubishi 3000GT.

Some people believe that if those Lindberg kits had been done in 1/25 scale in the first place, Revell and AMT could've saved itself a lot of money not doing their kits (AMT Explorer, Revell S10 and Syclone). Forgot who wrote that article, but he implied that Lindberg would've been a lot better off in the long run, financially, if their kits had been 1/25 in the first place.

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