That kit is from the Lesney ownership era. They issued it in a second box alongside (or shortly after) that one; it is green also. Lesney liked molding kits in color...

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That kit is from the Lesney ownership era. They issued it in a second box alongside (or shortly after) that one; it is green also. Lesney liked molding kits in color...

In Response To: I picked up a cheap buy at an IPMS club's annual kit auction last nightt. It's an unbuilt AMT 289 Cobra, the Reggie Jackson reissue, but I have a question-it's molded in bright medium green...isi it rare? ()

...even though AMT seldom did. Buy a company, change the way they do things (mold kits in color, block off optional parts)...what can go wrong?
That was around the time Jackson became known as a car collector. A lot of cars started turning up that "were owned by Reggie Jackson". Turns out, he was buying cars, registering them in his name, and flipping them based on "it was owned by...". True in the strictest sense, but probably not in the way the buyers interpreted it.
--Mark

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I picked up a cheap buy at an IPMS club's annual kit auction last nightt. It's an unbuilt AMT 289 Cobra, the Reggie Jackson reissue, but I have a question-it's molded in bright medium green...isi it rare?
- Don't know if I'd consider it "rare", but I remember building that kit back in the mid-1970s. Mine came molded in white. *NM*
- That kit is from the Lesney ownership era. They issued it in a second box alongside (or shortly after) that one; it is green also. Lesney liked molding kits in color...
  - I have both light- and medium green Cobras from that release - straight repro of the white styrene modern classic *NM*
    - Except the stock wheels-the RJ issue has them modified to fit wider tires *NM*
  - Yep, I built the AMT/Matchbox version, # PK 4174 in a lovely bright green, so it got painted green, still use the box for storage & yeh those wheels stick out too far but c' la' vie......lol.j *NM*
- FWIW, I remember you have to bring the wheels/tires in under the fenders. They stuck out too far. *NM* *PIC*

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