[CARS] HM Ambassador "Amby" models?

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Hi.Out of utter curiousity, are there any model kits available of the notoriousHindustan Motors Ambassador (better known around the world as the Amby) or thelate-1940s Morris Oxford upon which the Amby was based?  I'd prefer the updatedAmby but I'm not picky.I see the car as fertile ground for conversions.  Imagine these:Neo-Fifties Hot RodMayberry Mountie Police CruiserJacked-up 4X4 versionSince GM is a partner with HM, and the whole US Auto industry is in such a retrodesign fad now, how about this...they buy the body tooling for the Amby and shipit Stateside (maybe the NUMMI factory in California) and combine the body with acurrent engine and modern technology--the new Chevy BelAir!Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922{Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

The Old Timer · Accepted Answer

You, sir, are demented! I went to  to see what youwere talking about and saw their sales pitch: "You will be talked about -mostly behind your back."Reminds me of the old Volkswagen ads from the 1960s..... -- JohnThe history of things that didn't happen has never been written..          -                                   -                                     - Henry Kissinger

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce · Answer

I try. Dementia is tougher than it looks.

I thought about a NASCAR Amby, but the mods involved would be so intense that once all is said and done you'd wind up with a "Taurus" or "Monte Carlo" anyway.

But an Amby-like car would sell in East Tennessee where I am. This is PT Cruiser country.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 {Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

Al Superczynski · Answer

This is a joke, right?  You want to build a Hindustan Motorsstreet machine?  What's next, a Trabant?

Mad-Modeller · Answer

I think I've seen one of those and it may be on my 'Car' disc.  By thetime I found out what a Trabbie looks like all the Revell AG kits weregone.Bill Banaszak, MFE

Nick Pedley · Answer

Is this the car a bloke smashes up in the ads to get a lookalike Peugeot206?Nick

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce · Answer

We don't get ads for Peugeot in the States.

I do however remember the AMC ad in which they drove around in a Ford LTD, then pulled off on the side of the road, took it apart and there was an AMC Pacer underneath. :)

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 {Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

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