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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*
        • Mark, did the wheels get re-tooled subsequently or just stay wide? I have two of the subsequent AMT/Ertl reissue and those wheels don't look realistic *NM*
          • The outer face of the wheel isn't changed much. It's widened on the back side, it could be narrowed on the back side *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*
    • Read or jeard years ago that the 'molded in color' era came about due to a national retail chain wanting them in color.
      • AMT did just fine with (nearly) everything molded in white. Jo-Han did annuals in color from about '61-'63, then were all in white for the rest of their annual kits *NM*
        • Yep, I restored 4 JoHan 1963 gluebombs that were in light orange, light green & pale blue........used Lindberg & Revell kits more recent kits to update/restore all 4. *NM*
          • AMT caved in later on some of the Trophy and Craftsman kits
            • Trophy Series Fords were molded in black at first...
              • AMT's recent Supernatural 1967 4dr Chev Impala is molded in black.....yummy, not.......lol. *NM*
              • Wondering if the other colors for the '32 custom were from other releases -'silent' box, Willys op-art
                • My guess is, only the first issue was in color. Some of the Gasser series Willys kits (early ones) contained the '32 sedan while the rest had the pickup parts instead. The box showed only the Willys coupe *NM*
  • FWIW, I remember you have to bring the wheels/tires in under the fenders. They stuck out too far. *NM* *PIC*