Check out this Jo-Han Model Kit I found at an antique mall!!

[@rodneynoble452]

I remember building this place car, when I was a kid. The good old days

[@thescalemodelcarguychannel8681]

Johans are my favorite kits of all time ❤

[@egostin-gl5js]

When I was a kid, I bought one of the early issues of this kit. This was about 1972. It was molded in white and had 1/16 inch metal axles. I still have a few pieces of it. When I returned to the hobby in the late 1990's, the newer versions were on the hobby shop shelves. I bought three of them over the next several years. I opened two of them, they look like yours - molded in blue, tinted glass, and plastic axles. On the back of the decal sheet is "CG 1300" and "2/92" written by hand. The first is the kit number, the second could be the month/year. The decal sheet also identifies Jo-Han as a division of Seville Enterprises. One had a label on the box "ENCORE LIMITED PRODUCTION, 1 OF 3000". That kit included a flyer dated 2002 that showed other Jo-han offerings. I used two of mine for parts (67 Fury convert rebuild, 68 Fury wagon resin kit). One is still sealed.

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

I would love that kit! I don't think I'd do it as a police car, but maybe a shine runner, 'cause I love Furys!

[@drppr76]

That's what I'm doing with one of mine

[@outrider7577]

Growing up, my granddaddy had a '68 Fury that I have fond memories of. I used this kit to build a model of it. I just eliminated the police specific parts and put them in my stash box. It was mist green with a black interior and a 383 under the hood. Great kit and a great video! Thanks!👍

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Very cool!

[@chrisstura7002]

I had that kit painted in black and white easy fun build

[@georgetaylor5482]

In my younger days I had a 1967 Fury 3, had a 225 slant 6 incredible car., really nice unboxing Matt.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@francoisgaignaux6474]

This Johan Police Fury is a really nice kit. I built 2 versions of it, fun to build, not extremely detailed, but had a good decal sheet too.

[@drppr76]

I have 3 of these kits I like how you have a choice between different emergency lights One that's partially built will be a sleeper - I left out the backseat so it could be used to run moonshine

[@glmfaa1276]

It's not the 72 version it is a newer re released version. It's a 1968 Plymouth. The original release had clear glass and molded in white styrene The emergency lights were tinted clear plastic which you could remove the tint with Easy-Off oven cleaner. The Los Angeles police lights were called tomato soup cans. Someone swapped the boxes as this release had a banner on it that denoted 'molded in blue' but left off the notion of (UGH) green glass. Reference info for you: Detroit- Double light bar- Federal sign and signal Vis-A-Bar, siren PA20 flat gray LAPD siren- Federal C-5 NYPD siren- Federal P660 'pulsator' NYPD light- Federal Beacon -Ray w/ dome w/high base Chicago light -Federal Beacon-Ray w/flat top Interior control console: Radio- squared off Motorola Motrac beige, red and green lights and black knobs. siren head- For electronic siren: blue face PA 20, brown face PA15. black knobs red light in center top. red button on left side. Microphone: Motrac blue back side and beige front, gray grill have fun building it, lots of bare metal. greg

[@pmb2442]

nice kit.👍

[@ghrobbs]

I'm not a big Johan fan but, I love ALL police car kits. I could see this build as an early version of an Adam 12 car.

[@flitsertheo]

1:11 the M109 is not a "tank" but as mentioned a Self Propelled Gun. In other words a cannon on tracks. It lacks the necessary equipment to be used efficiently as a tank.

[@dapc777]

~that police car looks like the AMT Ford Galaxy police car from Diamonds are Forever movie I just built~

[@oldschoolmodeler]

Really cool Jo-Han kit. I would like to try and build a Jo-Han kit some day, but those are so darn expensive.

[@donstevenson2660]

There was also a variation of that Fury kit with hemi and slicks instead of the cop gear. The box art looked like a Sox&Martin clone, all before they licensed kits with the funny car and pro stock kits.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

🚨Love that kit!!!!!! 🚨

[@paulcasarez404]

Got an antique store 5 miles east of me I go in there every other Saturday lots of model kits hot wheels and diecast along with some old old pedal cars and tons of nick nacks for diorama builds

[@timothyharrison8953]

Thanks for the review. I saw this kit on the shelf so many times and always passed. I did build their 1960 Plymouth station wagon as a cop car. That's when I discovered some of JoHan's red clear parts were clear parts tinted with clear red, although poorly. Johan kits were not bagged inside at all. Someone did all that thankfully. Be very careful, the plastic is very brittle.

[@lancerevell5979]

Bagging is good. The vinyl tires can sometimes soften and leave unsightly marks on the plastic parts.

[@davidchin350]

Great Johan Fury unboxing Matt, I have the same one with the green tinted clear windows. It's going to be a NYPD 😊

[@danielpaulsness6951]

Nice 😅

[@christesta2521]

Great kit Matt. I love Jo-Hans and MPC kits. I have three or four unbuilt and ywo built as unmarked police cars. Id like to build one as a taxi. Yes the pladtic is a bit brittle. This 68 Fury has the proper depth interior. Some Jo- Hans had shallow unrealistic interiors. Thejy possibly were copies of promo interiors. Thanks for sharing

[@3men2sify]

I would just do your own decals, but the kit is beautiful

[@brianlewis6926]

The predator carburetors are from a earlier release that had a custom engine option, some one has a comparison video, I think scale speed works. That cop car has some really nice steel wheels

[@craigfresch575]

my son in law is army, he worked on the howitzers too!

[@MikeJBlues]

Thanks for another great video, if your son wants to build the Howitzer by all means he sure can. Your very welcome. I love that johan police car, had many when I was a young man, have only one built today. 44 is a great deal. 👍

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Thanks again!

[@oldschool6345]

Great deal on the Fury. It's in pretty nice shape too. Other comments propose it's a last run kit (with the USA oldies run) - I'd have to agree. It's very likely. The registry being off on the decals, the color, along with the flash are the biggest clues. Still a heck of a find - I see built ups - as in to restore, not nicely done shelf ready builds - going for what you gave. Thanks for sharing.

[@daviddanglis7135]

Some note about the Police Car kit: 1. Jo-han never wrapped their parts. But we all wished they did! So often you'd pop open a brand new Jo-han kit and find that the were windows scratched by other parts trees in the box. 2. 1300 was a product number, not a price. ($13 for that kit in 1972 would have been pretty astronomical!) If a price was included with the product number, it was usually preceded by a dash; e.g. GC1300-250. 3. The model is of a 1968 Plymouth. 4. Lousy registration on the decal sheet, lots of flash, and plastic axles were typical of Jo-han kits during their later years, when it seemed like the people at the company just didn't care all that much. I've built a couple of these kits, but that was years ago. It's fair to say the any kit that was based on tooling for a promo would look and feel similar. They were tooled for quick assembly so a lot of things would be molded as a unit, like rear seats (and sometimes front seats) in interior buckets, or exhaust and suspension parts on chassis. So yes, a kit like this does remind me of similar promo-based items by AMT and MPC.

[@ianwhite4914]

Nice find Matt

[@maxbrandt6]

You got a nice bunch of kits this review, I'd build that Fury has a custom cruiser for sure!

[@Dirks_NUMA_Files]

I have this kit myself. I was pretty excited to get it too, but now I'm thinking I might just sell it. With all the stuff I have and the 3D projects I got going on, I'm never going to get to this one

[@daviddanglis7135]

Re: those Predator carburetor parts in the Lightning, I have one each of the AMT Ford pickup annual kits from 1992-95, including the original '94 Lightning, and the reissue Lightning shown in your video. (They also did a '93 longbox kit but it's a snap kit with no motor.) I'm no engine buff, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the kits, but here's the story of the parts. The basic chrome tree was shared by each of the AMT Ford pickup kits. The Predator carb parts are on an extension to the chrome tree which does not appear in the '92 or '95 annuals. It first appeared in the 1992 Flareside and '93 Shortbox kits. The Predator carbs, along with the manifold and air cleaner, were intended for a custom version in those kits, and the chrome tree extension continued into '94, but was dropped for '95. Round2 added it back in for the Lightning reissue. I didn't check to see if the rest of the engine parts are different from kit to kit, but here's what the boxes say: for the 1992-'93 kits, and the '95, "5.8 Liter." For the '94 Lightning (original issue and reissue), "351 cu. in."

[@alancyr3100]

I always thought Johann had some interesting subjects. They always had great engine detail but lack in the chassis detail. I have that kit I bought when they were reissued in the 90s. I dont know what ever happened to the company that restarted them then? Thanks for sharing.

[@HGSolberg]

Very interesting old kit. I believe I would have built that black and white Los Angeles version. That color scheme is almost exactly how police cars were painted here in Norway wen I was a kid (1970s). The only difference was the roof and trunk lid were white, so only the wings were black. A pretty cool color scheme for a police car I think. Nowadays police cars are just filled with big bright yellow and orange stickers, and they look like clown cars. Very visible in traffic of course, but not a cool look, like the old ones. And there were no Fury police cars here, as I know of. Most of them were Volvo 140s and 240s and some Opel Rekords. There were a few Valiant and Dart police cars though, but not many.

[@jtsmodelworkbench9968]

Those decals are, as they say in the printing trade, "out of register".

[@lesthiele4921]

I remember seeing the Jo-Han Police cars around in the late 1970's, from memory they modelled about four different Police Cruisers, it would be great of some manufacturer would produce some up-dated Police cars, best regards from Australia 👍👍👍

[@davidparsleyscustomscaleemerge]

Nice review Matt. I have built this kit several times over the years. The last one is on my channel I built as a Florida Highway patrol car . I did a ton of work on it correcting some gaps in the wheel wells, and hinged the hood and truck. It's a great kit for my realm of building. great find! I hope you build it.

[@modelrestorations]

Super cool finds Matt! I go to antique malls regularly, and out of say 20 visits, I've found 2 kits! I can find plane models often but not cars. Love the Police pursuit car. That was a good deal. Thanks for sharing!

[@lancerevell5979]

A lot of car kits have spare parts from other versions of the kit. My latest car kit, MPC's 70 Dodge Super Bee, has a nearly complete spare engine and parts for an earlier edition. I like this as it boosts my "spares box". As a kid I had two Jo-Han kits of the 1974 AMC Javelin AMX. My only current Jo-Han car kit is the 1969 AMC AMX two-seater. These cars are remeniscent of the earlier AMT kits. I am currently building the AMT 66 Mustang, and the chassis with everything molded in is very similar

[@sabledriver]

I took my driving test in a 68 Plymouth Fury, drove like a boat. I've always wanted this kit as a result. Too cheap to buy one now! David Parsley's Custom Scale Emergency Models channel on KZbin did a great build up on this kit, he did a lot of modifying. The series is a great watch. Thanks for sharing this cool kit.

[@taskmaster58]

I don't know why the have 1965 on the decals because that is a 1968 car, you could also just build it as a plain 4 door car.

[@flyingfortressrc1794]

Maybe you could build the police ar in my First Responder group build. Very cool kits.

[@lylebriggs923]

My Dad had an 1968 Fury111 with a 383 intersepter in it for towing a trailer it was a quick car an it was actually kinda light for a car that for a car that size I would love to find a model of one

[@hishamaziz3282]

This type of vehicle is called SP or SPG for Self Propelled Gun... This one is Self Propelled Howitzer. 👋

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻🖐

[@lancerevell5979]

Atlantis now repops this kit. I've built two, both the early short barrel type and later long barrel type.

[@davidhinkson8856]

That old police car is a very interesting model, and I like that they gave a choice of different liveries for that era, which would be good for those who like these kinds of models to show how the color schemes changed over the years. In terms of the F150 Lightning kit, I recall the short box F150 kit, which they modified to make this one, had an optional Holley carb set up as well as the standard EFI unit, so I guess they did the same thing here using a different aftermarket manufacturer.

[@DavidPayne-j5z]

The predator carbs were off the original USA-1 1972 Chevrolet pickup monster truck

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@ericsmodelgarage]

Love the old Jo Han kits. I've always said that if AMT and MPC would have merged, you would have a Jo Han. Actually MPC and Jo Han were quite similar(in my opinion) Awesome find!

[@projecto6305]

Nice. I have the police car, it was started but it's complete. My wheels are two part. Any way great kit. And that is a expensive hard to find. Don't know artillery pieces.

[@MikeJBlues]

Last run kits had horrible flash. Molds were worn out . Being blue it's probable a last year mold. Those are adam 12 lights and 2 plastic axles

[@taskmaster58]

The M-109 is a Self Propelled (artillery piece) Howitzer (We used to have them here in Canada as well). After Jo-han went under somebody bought up some of their molds, they first released the 1959 Rambler Station Wagon kit, then did a 1950's Plymouth Belvedere, and also a curbside kit of the Chrysler Turbine Car (these were small limited runs). The next kit that was going to be released was that Plymouth Fury Police Car. The story goes that he used to farm out the molds to different companies to actually produce the kits and for this particular kit there was some kind of dispute over money or rights with the company that was to produce the kits and in the negotiation process the molds were either lost/stolen/ or destroyed. At any rate the molds for that kit are lost to history never to be repopped again.

[@JoeBarbato]

Matt, Good video. I used to work in a plastic injection plant. The flash on the parts can be caused from two things, 1st over packing the mold witch will cause it to blow open a little this will let more plastic in and will roll the edge on the mold over at the parting line. 2nd putting the mold in a press that is two small ( tonage to small and will not keep the mold closed well injecting the plastic in witch again blows the mold open. Thanks

[@marcuscrookshanks7902]

The Chrome tree for truck has been used in several different kits. The intake fits nicely on that engine that comes with the kit and looks very good Assemble

[@johnlanger7852]

maybe the glass was pretinted since glass on cars was tinted different colors over the years

[@matthewf5891]

Here's some trivia for you; in the 1960's and 1970's, Chrysler products that did not have air conditioning had clear glass, but cars equipped with Chrysler's "AirTemp" air conditioning came with glass that was slightly tinted green!

[@Enigma-Sapiens]

I have no idea why those Predator carbs are in the kit, but I have a real one out in my garage somewhere.

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Cool!

[@alanq64]

A bit of history. Jo-Han was not the original name. They had to rebrand after finding out their original name was already trademarked. Their original name was Jo-Momma.....

[@modelcarvideos5829]

Lol

[@tsfullerton]

Mine is molded in white with no flash.

[@johnlanger7852]

I had an old 85 ford that had predator carbs on it when I bought it no clue if it was on the truck new or not since it was 20 years old when I bought the truck.

[@tonylashmit2613]

Those 2 pieces that you were questioning that look like driveshafts may be torsion bars for the front suspension? Did you look in the instructions to find out? Let us know what they are.

[@dalekoster9955]

NYPD decals totally wrong. They should be green.

[@DanielLopez-tb2fl]

Predator carbs weren't correct for OEM. Dr. Boogie Lee Farnsworth

[@modelcarvideos5829]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@willyct207]

That is a mobile canon.

[@josephcivita1450]

No way that way $13.00 back then. Probably $3.00

[@Brittany_Williams]

Can you find me a 66 Plymouth VIP??