Collecting Model Car & Truck Kits Book

Do you remember countless hours spent assembling model car and truck kits? The old childhood pasttime has recently grown in widespread popularity. Collecting Model Car and Truck Kits is the guide to collecting those wonderful memories of assembling the ride of your dreams.

This book describes how to break into the hobby of collecting model car and truck kits, overviews the history of model cars, and covers the most popular model kit themes including the AMT Trophy Series Double Kits, AMT Annual models, 1/25th scale trucks and tractors, 1/16th scale cars, Road-Going Ferrari kits, and rail dragsters, to name a few.

Advice from well-known modelers assists your foray into the modeling hobby. A value guide lists the models shown in the book and gives a high-end price for each model. Author Tim Boyd, who has penned the 'Modeler's Corner' feature in Street Rodder for 17 years, compiled 120 color and 30 b&w photographs of assembled kits and boxed models to accompany an authoritative text that provides a comprehensive look at this nostalgic hobby.

Table of Contents

Dedication | Acnowledgments | Introduction

 - The Hobby of model car and truck kit collecting

 - AMT's Trophy Series Double Kits

 - 1953-1962 Corvettes

 - The rise and fall of the AMT Annual Model Car Kit

 - 1/25th-scale trucks and tractors

 - Mopar B-Bodies

 - 1/16th-scale model kits

 - Road-going Ferrari kits

 - Classics

 - Rail dragster models

 - So you want to become a kit collector?

Value guide | Appendix | Index