DREAM MACHINE FROM THE SILVER SCREEN - AMT 1:25 SCALE ELVIS PRESLEY DUNE BUGGY
Round 2 continues to mine its back catalogue to reissue many of the older ‘Cars of the Stars’, while adding some new ones. This is one of the latter - in this form at least - as it originated as a much older AMT kit of the classic Meyers Manx Dune Buggy. Mat Irvine: This time the link is one of Elvis Presley’s many movies (often thought one of his better efforts) Live a Little, Love a Little from 1968. In it, Elvis plays photographer Greg Bolan, who juggles jobs, girlfriends, and bosses. As such, he needs a suitably quirky mode of transport - enter the Meyers Manx, kit box (below) loaded with useful reference photos. This kit first came out around the same time as the film, though at that point there was no movie connection. It was issued as ‘The Original Meyers Manx Dune Buggy’ and came complete with a card diorama, as was common with a number of AMT kits of the period, and which have since been recreated in a number of retro-reissues. So far as the plastic parts are concerned, this...