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Post by ericpeterson on Oct 6, 2008 20:27:30 GMT -6
Got a promo 8x10 of the weird Gene Baker showrod a couple years back. Just going through my showrod and concept car doc files and I noticed in the lower right corner: 'Kit By Model Products Corp."
Now, I've been pursuing old styrene kits with a little more gusto than I used to, and I've never seen, nor heard, nor heard rumor of this kit. Does it exist, or was the promo glossy just a little premature?
- EP
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Post by rob1tnt on Oct 7, 2008 10:06:21 GMT -6
I don't know if it does but I would love to have one it they exist. I am familiar with the car. I always wondered what happened to it. From what I gather it was a very complicated car to engineer and construct.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2008 10:53:19 GMT -6
Do not believe it was made. MPC had a habit of sponsoring show and race cars and then NOT making a kit of it. I remember seeing a huge MPC logo on the Woods Bros 1973 Mercury and thought for sure we would get a kit of it....never did........
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Post by sakke on Oct 7, 2008 11:46:04 GMT -6
George Barris book "Famous Custom & Show Cars" said about Stiletto: "The cars development parallels techniques used by the auto industry. Model Products Corporation supervised production of a 1/10th scale clay model from original sketches. A 1/10th scale cast was then made and a fiberglass model produced. Fullsize drawings of the cars exterior were produced prior to actual work on the car." I quess that it was never available as a model kit. The book would have mentioned that. The Corvair engined car was built for Bob Larivee
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Post by todd on Oct 7, 2008 14:53:58 GMT -6
MPC back in the day use to comission cars so that they wouldn't have to pay the royalties, cuz they owned the car. I think they did the engineering work for Promotions Inc., so they could do the kit if there was enough response from the show car circuit, which I think this thing FLOPPED!!! so I'm sure MPC passed on the kit.
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Post by A.J. on Oct 7, 2008 14:57:27 GMT -6
Very interesting Eric, how about a look at the image? I'm sure some of the guys here would like to see it.
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Post by stevehammann on Oct 7, 2008 16:05:33 GMT -6
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Post by ericpeterson on Oct 7, 2008 19:09:40 GMT -6
Here's a photo of the promo sheet. Kind of a Wishbone all grown-up... - EP
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Post by Tim Nolan on Oct 7, 2008 21:07:38 GMT -6
Damn, that's what I was thinkin'! Roth beat em' to the punch once again........... ;D
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Post by Bert on Oct 8, 2008 7:34:23 GMT -6
OK, That is the first time I have ever seen that car. Wow! it is wild.
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Post by Zombie Shay on Oct 8, 2008 9:45:44 GMT -6
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Post by Paul B. Canney on Oct 8, 2008 10:00:22 GMT -6
That is cool. Very vettish
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Post by Paul B. Canney on Oct 8, 2008 10:05:46 GMT -6
Here's a photo of the promo sheet. Kind of a Wishbone all grown-up... - EP I remember this. Pretty sure it was pre-wishbone. I see a predicta bubble, 66 t-bird trunk/tail likes and some evergreen stock in someones bash future kinda makes me think someone ran out of ideas as the form has no function
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Post by johnbisci on Oct 10, 2008 2:26:05 GMT -6
As the showcard says, it was built by Ron Gerstner. Ron is alive and well and living -- and restoring cars -- on Main St. in Williamsville, N.Y. (a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.). His shop number is (716) 632-4778. I understand he is restoring his '34 Ford altered that won a lot of awards and was featured on a cover of Car Craft in '65. He says Monogram's 1/32 "Ford Screamer" is a model of his '34 Ford and that Monogram kinda screwed him out of the royalties by changing the car's number and front wheels! As for the Stiletto model, I've never seen one, although the ICAS hardcover pictorial, "Showtime" (1980) has a half-page color photo of the car (p. 43). If you love show rods but don't have the book, try to get your hands on one. I picked up a bunch of them for $10 each at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas a few years ago and gave them away as Christmas gifts. I think I may have seen the Stiletto at one of the Clutch Artists Autoramas in the '60s but I can't be certain.
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Post by johnbisci on Oct 10, 2008 2:31:34 GMT -6
And while we're on the subject of, "Does It Still Exist?" What about Reisner's "Bathtub?" Eldon made a model of it (it also appears in the "Showtime" book) which later was re-released by a Japanese company. There's some marketing dollars to be made there....The car had tandem bathtubs in the back and you've all seen the male E.D. drug (ask your mom if you don't know what E.D. stands for) that depicts a man and woman lying in bathtubs, side-by-side.... They could use the car in the commercial and send it back out on tour! <wink>
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