Hey Matthew, first off I've really enjoyed your channel, however.. lately it seems like it's more about what you've been given, getting, or have rather than what you're building, witch is why i tuned in to your channel. I'm sure it's because you're a very busy guy. Wife, children, job, salesman for your new line of products and trying to make content for followers, but please try to get back to building when you can. It's what got you started.
I just recently received this "Touch Tone Terror" kit, as repopped by Round 2/AMT. I plan on doing it as the stock work truck. I built the Lindberg "Little Red Wagon" version a few years back. I wish they'd repopped the original clear styrene telephone booth, instead of the printed paper. Payphones, I remember them well. Way back in prehistoric times, "when telephones had tails"! 😅
Suggestion/Tip: When opening a model kit, I cut the 4 sides of the bottom of the celophane, take the bottom panel off and leave the top and sides on. The box is better protected that way. Yeah sometimes it comes off the upper box and when model companies were packing in the 1 piece tip open boxes that strategy didn't work. Those flimsy boxes were never long for this world anyway. In my stash I have kits I bought and opened in the 1980s that still have the celophane on the upper box.
I have two of the original kits. The bicycle seat goes to the “tricycle motor scooter chopper” that came with the original kit. The optional pieces, including the phone booth, were made of plastic in original kit, not cardboard.
Thanks for sharing Matthew. I'm looking forward to your build of it! I saw the real Little Red Wagon back in the 70's at a car show. I even talked to it's driver. At the time, it wasn't competing on the drag strip but it did exhibition runs like the jet cars. He would do wheelies for show but powered down on the actual runs down the quarter mile. He told me it was a real handfull to keep control of but he loved driving it. 👍👍
MCW is great paint for sure! Love that touch tone kit its now on my wish list thanks lol. Mark @hobbynutmodels is a great guy for sure always sending something extra
So if you bought the Little Red Wagon you got the slant 6, TTT gives you the 273. The only paint # that doesn't correspond to the the year of the car is Alpine White starts with #69 but that Challenger is a '70 car.
I almost bought this kit from Riders the other day, gunna have to pull the trigger! You HAVE to make the doors work Matthew ! LOL ! 3 course meal on that! Fun video!
Matt, I built both the IMC Volkwagen and the truck years ago. I have a Lindberg version of the truck built somewhere. As with any Lindberg kit the doors are a challenge. They are having the 2024 S.C.M.A. Upstate Model Contest May 18th at the Simpsonville activity center. 310 West Curtis Street. Simpsonville S.C. 29681 I hope to see you there! Cheers Terry
IMC was big on opening doors, etc., but if you build a wheelie exhibition, they were always welded shut, and the window openings were widened to allow you to just climb in. Of course, no glass, no extra weight or breaking shards. Stock versions actually looked great, and I think that version used to have a small utility trailer, probably using those extra wheels.
To explain the Marlboro color, in the sixties chevrolet named the Corvette colors after road race circuits. Hence Marlboro as in the track in maryland by that name.
I built the Lindberg Little Red Express. The doors are basically impossible to build so they actually open. The front end can be tedious but I'm sure it is much easier than the 48 Ford kits.
I'm ordering that kit! I want to build it as the Little Red Wagon. I'm looking for Little Red Wagon decals. We'll see how that goes! I vaguely remember building the original Little Red Wagon way back in the mid-60s. I'm sure that build was marginal @ best!! lol
The TTT was originally an IMC kit molded in white while the previous issue of the kit was the Little Red Wagon which was molded in metallic red. I bought and built both when they were new issues in the 60s. The tool was acquired by Lindberg in the 90s and reissued as the Little Red Wagon. I've seen those molded in white or in red. Now Round 2 owns AMT, Lindberg, MPC, Polar Lights and probably others I can't think of right now. Round 2 is no longer producing kits under the Lindberg brand near as I can tell and is lumping most all of the model car kits under the AMT brand. Simpler and reduces the amount of staff they need to keep on the payroll. That's why the TTT is branded AMT now. Original IMC tires were solid vinyl. These new semi hollow tires are vinyl too. Any vinyl tires should get put in like snack size zip lock bags to protect other parts from vinyl plastcizer bleed. Those trucks were front engine with the engine under the cover inside the cab. The wheelstander version puts the Hemi on a separate subframe under the bed and poking up through a cutout premolded under the bed floor making it more of a mid engine.
Much like you I have wanted touch tone for ever I've built a Flintstone 66 van on the lil red express and it did OK Disappointed that they went to cardboard parts and missing trike Instructions probably have been updated and lost those assemblies Would like the 273 though Is there a date on the instruction sheet When you are in scale mates. If you can get a good look at that box it don't say cardboard and it does say ding a ling trike
Acapulco is in Mexico, I think. On the pacific coast. And the Gulfstream blue is probably named after the actual gulfstream, and not the airplane manufacturer. Makes sense, since it's a blue color.
I am in possession of the original 1966 pop of the "LIL RED WAGON" along with the lindberg version. I'm very fortunate I know and I'm not bragging, well maybe a little. But it blows my mind I have seen the touch tone kit at 3 separate online retailers, put it in my cart, went directly to checkout and when I hit the magic button, I get out of stock. This has also been with the 60 Ford puck up & the demon. I've have found myself to be very impatient with these 3 kits. Especially when I know people who have gotten multiple of the same kirs. I find this to be completely unfair to the rest of us out here. I'm at the point now where I'm getting discouraged. By the time I end up with one of these, the molds will need touched up. Not literally, but you get it. And I know I've seen several RUclips'rs getting them. I believe there should be limits to quantity sold. The nearest hobby store to me is 113 miles one way. The problem here is they tell me they can't even get them. Round2 knows from the shows these are going to be in great demand. So why wouldn't they, at the very least fill all the pre orders before releasing them. To me, this is just poor management. So yes, to answer your question, I have built the Lil red Lindberg.
Round to Tried to bring the booth back out. If you recall the big Petty one sixteen scharger was also molded in clear Plastic.. They had mold issue problems.That's that's why they won't bring it back out
I feel kinda bad for the guys sitting on rare original kits that usually go for pretty good money and here Round 2 and Atlantis are pumping out the repops. Im hesitant to buy any older kits since they may just show up on the shelf at reasonable price.
Hey Matthew, first off I've really enjoyed your channel, however.. lately it seems like it's more about what you've been given, getting, or have rather than what you're building, witch is why i tuned in to your channel. I'm sure it's because you're a very busy guy. Wife, children, job, salesman for your new line of products and trying to make content for followers, but please try to get back to building when you can. It's what got you started.
I'm trying
Nice selection of paint. The Touch Tone Terror is a new kit I really want. I like it because you can build a stock version. Thanks for sharing.
👍🏻👍🏻 It looks really cool
I just recently received this "Touch Tone Terror" kit, as repopped by Round 2/AMT. I plan on doing it as the stock work truck. I built the Lindberg "Little Red Wagon" version a few years back. I wish they'd repopped the original clear styrene telephone booth, instead of the printed paper.
Payphones, I remember them well. Way back in prehistoric times, "when telephones had tails"! 😅
Lol! 👍🏻
Acapulco is in Mexico, Gulf Stream is in reference to the Gulf Stream current that runs out of the Gulf of Mexico. Very nice paint colors for sure.
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Suggestion/Tip:
When opening a model kit, I cut the 4 sides of the bottom of the celophane, take the bottom panel off and leave the top and sides on. The box is better protected that way. Yeah sometimes it comes off the upper box and when model companies were packing in the 1 piece tip open boxes that strategy didn't work. Those flimsy boxes were never long for this world anyway. In my stash I have kits I bought and opened in the 1980s that still have the celophane on the upper box.
Great idea!
I have two of the original kits. The bicycle seat goes to the “tricycle motor scooter chopper” that came with the original kit. The optional pieces, including the phone booth, were made of plastic in original kit, not cardboard.
I look forward to the sequel.
Awsome episode 👌, thanks Mathew 😊 👍
Thanks for sharing Matthew. I'm looking forward to your build of it! I saw the real Little Red Wagon back in the 70's at a car show. I even talked to it's driver. At the time, it wasn't competing on the drag strip but it did exhibition runs like the jet cars. He would do wheelies for show but powered down on the actual runs down the quarter mile. He told me it was a real handfull to keep control of but he loved driving it. 👍👍
Wow that's so cool!
MCW is great paint for sure! Love that touch tone kit its now on my wish list thanks lol. Mark @hobbynutmodels is a great guy for sure always sending something extra
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So if you bought the Little Red Wagon you got the slant 6, TTT gives you the 273. The only paint # that doesn't correspond to the the year of the car is Alpine White starts with #69 but that Challenger is a '70 car.
Matt, that bike was from the Imc T,T,T truck it was called Ding a ling. Nice Haul of paint and model kit.
Very cool!
I almost bought this kit from Riders the other day, gunna have to pull the trigger! You HAVE to make the doors work Matthew ! LOL ! 3 course meal on that! Fun video!
Very cool
If I got that kit, I would like to get decals made to do the lil' Dead Wagon that graveyard carz built.
Lol!
One more comment Matt. Those small wheels should be part of a hand truck style trolley to manually move the telephone booth.
That's what I'm hearing Chris 👍🏻
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Actually maybe even a trailer for the p/booth.
Matt, I built both the IMC Volkwagen and the truck years ago. I have a Lindberg version of the truck built somewhere. As with any Lindberg kit the doors are a challenge.
They are having the 2024 S.C.M.A. Upstate Model Contest May 18th at the Simpsonville activity center.
310 West Curtis Street.
Simpsonville S.C. 29681
I hope to see you there!
Cheers
Terry
Thanks Terry! I plan to be there.
Thanks Mathew! I gootta pick this up! I think im gonna do the drag version and pair it with the Dodge racing hauler that just came out....
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I have the 90s Lindbergh kit
Still unbuilt ❤
Yeah might finally have to build it now
I think it too comes with the phone truck bits
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The original kit had the phone booth molded in clear plastic. I'm guessing the tooling for that is long gone.
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IMC was big on opening doors, etc., but if you build a wheelie exhibition, they were always welded shut, and the window openings were widened to allow you to just climb in. Of course, no glass, no extra weight or breaking shards. Stock versions actually looked great, and I think that version used to have a small utility trailer, probably using those extra wheels.
Cool!
To explain the Marlboro color, in the sixties chevrolet named the Corvette colors after road race circuits. Hence Marlboro as in the track in maryland by that name.
Cool!
I built the Lindberg Little Red Express. The doors are basically impossible to build so they actually open. The front end can be tedious but I'm sure it is much easier than the 48 Ford kits.
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Definitely used to be a thing in the 60s
Ford and Chevy had a version too
The Ford version was also built into a wheelstander too
Cool!!
I'm ordering that kit! I want to build it as the Little Red Wagon. I'm looking for Little Red Wagon decals. We'll see how that goes! I vaguely remember building the original Little Red Wagon way back in the mid-60s. I'm sure that build was marginal @ best!! lol
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I am looking forward to having this kit, although now I'll be a bit disappointed in the chrome.
Round2, have a talk with that factory.
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The original TTT came with what they called the "Ding-A-Ling" , a "way out tricycle". Yah, I've got an unbuilt original!
Very cool!
The TTT was originally an IMC kit molded in white while the previous issue of the kit was the Little Red Wagon which was molded in metallic red. I bought and built both when they were new issues in the 60s. The tool was acquired by Lindberg in the 90s and reissued as the Little Red Wagon. I've seen those molded in white or in red. Now Round 2 owns AMT, Lindberg, MPC, Polar Lights and probably others I can't think of right now. Round 2 is no longer producing kits under the Lindberg brand near as I can tell and is lumping most all of the model car kits under the AMT brand. Simpler and reduces the amount of staff they need to keep on the payroll. That's why the TTT is branded AMT now.
Original IMC tires were solid vinyl. These new semi hollow tires are vinyl too. Any vinyl tires should get put in like snack size zip lock bags to protect other parts from vinyl plastcizer bleed.
Those trucks were front engine with the engine under the cover inside the cab. The wheelstander version puts the Hemi on a separate subframe under the bed and poking up through a cutout premolded under the bed floor making it more of a mid engine.
Great info! Thanks
Much like you I have wanted touch tone for ever
I've built a Flintstone 66 van on the lil red express and it did OK
Disappointed that they went to cardboard parts and missing trike
Instructions probably have been updated and lost those assemblies
Would like the 273 though
Is there a date on the instruction sheet
When you are in scale mates. If you can get a good look at that box it don't say cardboard and it does say ding a ling trike
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Acapulco is in Mexico, I think. On the pacific coast. And the Gulfstream blue is probably named after the actual gulfstream, and not the airplane manufacturer. Makes sense, since it's a blue color.
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I am in possession of the original 1966 pop of the "LIL RED WAGON" along with the lindberg version. I'm very fortunate I know and I'm not bragging, well maybe a little. But it blows my mind I have seen the touch tone kit at 3 separate online retailers, put it in my cart, went directly to checkout and when I hit the magic button, I get out of stock. This has also been with the 60 Ford puck up & the demon. I've have found myself to be very impatient with these 3 kits. Especially when I know people who have gotten multiple of the same kirs. I find this to be completely unfair to the rest of us out here. I'm at the point now where I'm getting discouraged. By the time I end up with one of these, the molds will need touched up. Not literally, but you get it. And I know I've seen several RUclips'rs getting them. I believe there should be limits to quantity sold. The nearest hobby store to me is 113 miles one way. The problem here is they tell me they can't even get them. Round2 knows from the shows these are going to be in great demand. So why wouldn't they, at the very least fill all the pre orders before releasing them. To me, this is just poor management. So yes, to answer your question, I have built the Lil red Lindberg.
Yeah I've been hearing the same from others.
Acapulco de Juárez commonly called Acapulco, Guerrero is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
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Wheels looks like more like the American Racing Torq Thrust than the cargar SS
Hey Mat are you going to be at the Myrtle Beach show this weekend?????
Unfortunately no
Just sucks the the booth is cardboard but maybe they will bring out a special plastic addition pack.
Round to Tried to bring the booth back out. If you recall the big Petty one sixteen scharger was also molded in clear Plastic.. They had mold issue problems.That's that's why they won't bring it back out
Have you ever tried paint dipping before I thought about trying it
No I've never tried it.
Nice 😅
Alpine white is Kowalskis vanishing point 1970 challenger
Cool
Is that a chrome V drive to do a rear engine mount for wheelies?
Not sure but sounds like it could be.
It's the timing cover and drive for the fuel pump.
The bike came in the original kit
Cool!
I feel kinda bad for the guys sitting on rare original kits that usually go for pretty good money and here Round 2 and Atlantis are pumping out the repops. Im hesitant to buy any older kits since they may just show up on the shelf at reasonable price.
Very true!
You didn’t get “Fire ice metallic blue” lol
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