I believe that on the 1:1 pickup, the frame got changed when it went from torsion bar to coil springs...

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I believe that on the 1:1 pickup, the frame got changed when it went from torsion bar to coil springs...

In Response To: No side trim, and all the '62 bits drop in, so I'm guessing '63 ()

...and the new frame was carried over to the '67-'72 trucks. A while back, I picked up a Revell '66 Suburban kit minus its body, and to my surprise it matches the picture of the chassis in the '67 brochure. The wheelbase even matches that of the short pickup. That one is going under an MPC '72 stepside after I swap out that ugly long bed for a short one from the AMT GMC pickup.
--Mark

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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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