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Little Big Rigs
If you can’t find a model of the truck you want you may be able to buy a cab conversion kit from Spaulding Trading and Shipping and mount it on another chassis. For a long time, we here at Hemmings...
View ArticleWhere’s the (small-scale) fire?
Trumpeter, a producer of scale models from China, has jumped into the fray with its 1/25th-scale kit of a 2002 American LaFrance Eagle fire pumper. When was the last time you saw a big, brassy glue...
View ArticleThe strange saga of AMT’s Pups
Is an AMT Pups die-cast by any other name worth as much? It would seem that collectors love these castings no matter what they’re called. photo courtesy Jeff Koch Model kit and 1:25 scale promo makers...
View ArticleGeorge Toteff, revolutionary in 1/25th-scale plastic models, dies
With his passing earlier this month, George Toteff, model car pioneer, has left an enduring legacy on the model car-building hobby. Who was George Toteff? Where to start? He created the AMT 3-in-1...
View ArticleFour-Links – Goldenrod, Tatra driving impressions, alternentals, AMT
* The most amazing thing about the Goldenrod streamliner isn’t that it set the engine-driven land-speed record at more than 409 MPH and held it for a quarter century. It isn’t (necessarily) the...
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