Re: [FWDLK] Brooklin Models
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Re: [FWDLK] Brooklin Models



I BEG TO DIFFER.  Brooklin does BRK63 which is a 1956 Fury.  BRK63 must
wheigh at least a pound and is only five inches long.  I keep one on my
monitor.  I looks just like the one out the window.

Richard



At 3:39 PM +1200 8/9/98, glenn barratt wrote:
>Mike Sealey wrote:
>
>>  glenn barratt <FURY@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >And the clerk at Franklin Mint said that there IS a 1/25 scale 57 Fury
>>coming
> out in September of this year!
>
>> I'll probably be first in line locally...
>>
>> >What are those other ones that you refer to. Brooklins? Do they or
>> >anybody else do the 57 or 58 Fury?
>>
>> Brooklin is an English company which does a number of interesting
>> American cars.  No Furies, but nice renditions of the '55 Chrysler
>> C-300, '59 300-E, '60 Polara, and others 'tho I can't think of other
>> MoPars as we speak.  There is another company whose name I can't recall
>>which
> does nice '56 DeSotos including an Adventurer and a Pacesetter convertible...
>>
>> There was a 1/25 promo, friction or both of the '58 Fury, put out by a
>> company called Jo-Han Models.  This was a rarity even when new; I'm told
> Jo-Han made a large multicolored number of '58 Belvederes, and then modified
> the tool for the Fury.  I haven't seen one in years, and originals were made
> with a grade of plastic that proved prone to serious warpage, so a nice
>one is
> even rarer...  ...both versions were produced without interiors, but the
>dealer
> promos had working torsion bars...  I'm not on l-forwardlook at this account,
> but if you think others there would be interested pass it on.
>>
>> Mike Sealey
>> They're NOT Fins, they're STABILIZERS...
>>
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