Re: [FWDLK] Franklin Mint "Christine" Model & '59 Sport Fury Conv.'s For Sale

["MARK J HASH" <mjh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For the '57 Fury, did they just make the 1/43 model, or is there now a 1/24
one as well??

Mark   mjh
'57 Fury



>Thanks to Jim Wilson and Daniel Andersson who pointed a Franklin Mint
>engineer my way,  F.M. will be coming to visit me next week to model the
>"Christine" scale model after MY car!  Hooray!!!  =)
>
>I talked on the phone with the engineer for quite a while.  They'll be
>taking some photos ("around 300 or so") and sitting through my "Plymouth
>Class"... during which they'll learn the differences between the 1957
>Fury, the 1958 Fury, the 1958 Belvedere, and "Christine".  This should
>be fun!
>
>What should be more fun, is the fact that "The Duchess" has neither
>radiator nor battery at present.   They said they're quite accustomed to
>pushing cars around for photos.  Oh well.  Hopefully I'll be able to
>patch things together quickly enough to move her around for the photo
>shoot anyway.  I'm also going to try and gently push them to make a '58
>Fury and/or Belvedere model...
>
>Does anyone know whose car the '57 Fury model was modeled after?
>
>-Dave
>
>PS - There was someone looking for a '59 Sport Fury convertible... there
>are 2 listed in Old Car Trader this month.  If you need the details,
>just drop me a line.
>