1958 Edsel Pacer 2 Door Hardtop
Build Date 1997

AMT/Etrl released an all new tooling of the '58 Edsel in the late 1990s. This was one of several excellent kits they released during that time.

One thing strikes me as curious, both with this kit as well as the original '58 Edsel kits and promos. Most of the time models were produced that represented top of the line cars.

But that's not the case with the '58 Edsel. Both the originals and this kit are of the Pacer which was second from the bottom in the '58 Edsel lineup, rather than the Citation series which was top of the line.

The poor Edsel was much maligned for its strange look when it was introduced, and in lasted only three years before being dropped from the FoMoCo lineup.