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In case you missed it, Danbury Mint released its latest 1:24 scale precision diecast yesterday, and it was a terrific surprise for those of us who love the V8 Packards.

Here's the full review and photos of the new 1956 Packard Caribbean hardtop at www.diecast.org:

diecast.org/diecast98/html/asp/list_reviews/xq/ASP/ID.1536/qx/reviewpix.htm

She's a beauty!

The only thing better would be one in the color scheme of my own Hardtop car.

Brian, perhaps you should buy one and have it professionally repainted in your car's color scheme!

That certainly is a nice model done by the Danbury Mint. I wish that the Danbury and Franklin mints would sell thier models in kit form. I find that the better than $130 prices for thier models is more than I am going to pay.

John F. Shireman

Man, that is one beautiful model. Insane detail, the AC stuff looks absolutely proper. I'm not into 1/24 scale, I got into 1/43 about 20 years ago,and built a modest collection of that scale. A friend bought and gifted to me the inexpensive 1:18 scale Carrebbeans that he bought at Menards--a Home Depot kind of store. Here are pictures of my collection, as it hangs in my basement today. There are close-up shots of my Packards,pay special attention to the Franklin mint '55 Carribbean, which looks like it was in a bad accident. That is just the age deformation of the plastic chassis.

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It looks like one of those low riders with hydraulic shocks and 27 batteries in the trunk to operate them! :p