This is an older 1/43rd scale kit from late 1980 or sometime in 1981. I know the date because I have a personal attachment to this kit for a few reasons. Primarily because I cast all the white metal parts in this kit when I was the head caster at Precision Miniatures back then. The parts were mastered and the molds were made by Lloyd Asbury. The box art was drawn by my late friend Dale King.
The decals were drawn by my father, Lloyd S. Jones of Scale-Master Decals. These look a bit rough due to their age of 42 years, but this will be built as an alternate version so I only need a few of the ones on this sheet.
This is the raw body (and chassis) casting straight out of the box. It's pretty clean even compared to more modern kits, but still requiring some clean-up.
Interestingly, to mold the front grille opening as part of the body (instead of a separate piece), they were spin cast in a unique three part mold. (Actually four parts since each mold made two bodies.) A separate plug for each body had to be sandwiched between the main halves and carefully extracted from the metal body after each cast. Lloyd was quite the innovator…
The rest of the parts include PE wire wheels, semi-soft tires, vacuum formed windshield and headlight covers, chrome parts and a good amount individual parts for decent detail of the time.