Were there '61 or '63 Chevy Apache pickups pressed in blue-gray styrene?

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Were there '61 or '63 Chevy Apache pickups pressed in blue-gray styrene?

Found a very unusual item at the DAAM show, untouched SMP Chevy Apache body and bed, looked like promo maybe, but no heat stake pressing, doesn't feel like cycloac and not acetate cos it is pin straight.

TIA for any insights.

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Were there '61 or '63 Chevy Apache pickups pressed in blue-gray styrene?
- Back about 25 or 30 years ago one of the aftermarket companies,, Galaxie,IIRC,, was trying to bring a reissue of the AMT early '60's Chevy to market. Might have something to do with that. *NM*
  - BTW, this was long before the "new tool" AMT '60 pickup was announced. *NM*
    - That one was the '66, which has different A-pillars. IDing a '66 would be easy *NM*
  - Was that "Wheat's Nostalgia"? Seems like they were announcing that Chevy pickup. I don't think it happened. *NM*
    - Joe Wheat sold about 500 pre-assembled '66 promos. They had vacuform windows (by Modelhaus IIRC) and stickers for the whitewalls. American SATCO was going to do the kit...
- '61 has side trim, '63 doesn't. I'd establish which one it is; the '63 would be more likely if in fact there were any blue ones *NM*
  - No side trim, and all the '62 bits drop in, so I'm guessing '63
    - I believe that on the 1:1 pickup, the frame got changed when it went from torsion bar to coil springs...
    - AMT produced more annual kits in blue plastic in '63 than any year to date, so if it is a kit piece '63 would make sense...

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