Re: [FWDLK] Danbury Fury

["Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

JASON ROGERS wrote:

> I received a solicitation in yesterday's mail for a Danbury Mint '58
> Fury model.  Oh, how lovely.  I don't normally buy these expensive
> models, but this is one I'll "give in" to.
>
> Isn't this Danbury model based on a FWDLK lister's "real life" car?  I
> seem to recall reading a posting a long time ago about someone whose
> car was used as a "template" for a scale model...all the photographs
> taken, technical info exchanged, etc....

Well,

Franklin Mint did come out to measure/photograph my car in January
1999.  Since the Danbury Mint "beat them to the punch", so to speak, I
don't know of the future of the Franklin Mint version.

I have several emails and calls to them that have gone unanswered...

-Dave