Revisiting my Corgi Monkeemobile this morning prompted me to dig out my unmade MPC kit version.
Car customizer, Dean Jeffries is credited to converting a Pontiac GTO for the prefab four.
Opening up the box, I'm thinking this could well be my next kit project.
The kit is 1:25 scale (the same early Airfix model and the Imai 'Mooneyes'is labelled as 1:24) is moulded in cream plastic, with chromed parts, rather than the red plastic that came with earlier kits . Mine also came with a 2013 Round 2 Models kit range leaflet.
Once I've built the kit I'll do a better researched article on it, but for now, here's a few box variations on the Monkeemobile theme, including a 'Mooneyes' Imai and a Fonnzie from 'Happy Days' version.
A snippet from TV Tornado:
It is interesting that the early models, both kits and die-casts, have the name Monkeemobile on the packaging, while some of the later kits have The Monkees Mobile, and the later Corgi die-cast has Monkeemania on the box. I assume something to do with the rights to the name. There was also a smaller, Matchbox-sized, Monkeemobile in the Husky Extra and Corgi Juniors lines.
ReplyDeletePossibly Paul. The AMT box has Monkee Mobile on it and calls it a Barris 'Kustom'. As we know, customizer George Barris didn't actually create the Monkeemobile so maybe that's the reason.
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