Though I've built models of plenty of other machinery ... was already well known for dozens of highly realistic plastic model-car kits by 1971 when the very first of many Jungle Jim Funny Car ...

He recalled Ford's Model U concept which premiered ... Polestar, Volvo's electric performance brand, cut plastic from its car interiors by choosing a composite made from flax.

Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit ... would be much more expensive as a hand-built, finished model. The most common scales for kits are ...

For example: A July 28, 1941, article published in the Christian Science Monitor outlined an "experimental motor car" announced by Ford that was "made chiefly of plastic cellulose fibers." ...

It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, and there are kits of everything from military vehicles to sports cars and anime ...