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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

At the top of my list of acknowledgments is Mark Budniewski, who is in my judgment the hobby’s single most knowledgeable kit authority these days. Mark agreed to my request to review the text for possible errors and omissions, and on very tight turnaround timing, too. Thanks to Dennis Doty, Chuck Helppie, and Tom Woodruff, who each stoked my interest in model car kit history and collecting back in my college days. The information in this book would be far less precise if not for the efforts of Bob Shelton and Bill Coulter, who collectively researched, compiled, and published the hobby’s definitive guide of model car kit offerings and their values. Now in its seventh revision, their guide is an indispensable reference for anyone considering the purchase of old, out of production model car kits.

I wanted to include a Scale Showroom section in several chapters of this book, to show readers who are not familiar with the hobby, or built their last kit back in the heyday of model kit building in the mid-1960s, just what is possible when the kits in this book are constructed by adults with care and precision. At the top of this list are Mike Hanson, a full-sized car restorer and contract model car constructor based in Arizona, and Dean Milano, a model car journalist and historian who opened a model car kit museum in the suburbs of Chicago in the early 2000s. Mike photographed many of his model cars and commissions for your viewing enjoyment here. Dean agreed to my request to visit with him and spend a day photographing his many built kit examples. Several fellow model car builders and journalists also contributed their works, including Bill Coulter and Bob Downie. Equal thanks to those who exhibited their built models at major model car events during the last 25 years, as I went through my photo archives and chose some of the best cars they built and I had photographed to show you here.

On the publication side, a big thanks to the team at CarTech Books, especially my editor Bob Wilson who first approached me with the idea for the book and then served as an endless cheerleader and confidante as the project developed. I also want to thank all the magazine editors I have worked with through the years, and especially so four longtime former magazine editors, who each worked with me for many years: Geoff Carter and Tom Vogele of Street Rodder magazine, Gary Schmidt of Scale Auto Enthusiast magazine, and Jim Haught of Scale Auto magazine.

RESOURCES

Books

Coulter, Bill, and Bob Sheldon. The Directory of Model Car Kits 1/24-1/25 Scale, Seventh Edition. For purchase information, contact Bob Sheldon via email at: thedirectory@cinci.rr.com or via mail at 3116 W. Montgomery Road #C, Maineville, Ohio, USA, 45039.

Forums

Spotlight Hobbies at board2.spotlighthobbies.com

Model Cars at modelcarsmag.com/forums/

Vintage Kit Specialists

Spotlight Hobbies at spotlighthobbies.com

Model Roundup at modelroundup.com

Model Empire, Inc. at modelempireusa.com

Collectible Toy Shows

Old Toyland Shows at oldtoylandshows.com

Model Car Events

Scale Auto at scaleautomag.com

Model Cars at modelcarsmag.com/forums/calendar/