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Thanks for visiting the Predicta Project headquarters.
We're all hard at work here to create this great project. Here are some developments that occurred since this web site was launched in 2002:
May 16, 2005
We've combined the old "Outrageous" section with the revised "Project" section for the sake of clarity. The Project section has been expanded. Certain other changes have also been made to avoid duplicative photos and text.
We're now working on determining how the kit differs –
as it does, significantly – from the 1:1 car. Identifying those differences are essential to the creation of a properly dimensioned and shaped scale body that can be resin cast and used to create the several scale
miniatures for this project. This effort will include comparing profile pictures of the kit to profile shots of the 1:1 car and then determining exactly where those differences are. More on this in the next update,
due in late June 2005. Presently, you can see a few of the first-detected discrepancies between the model and the real car by going here.
May 11, 2005:
Following the announcement of the Predicta Project in the
last of 2004 newsletter of the International Model Car Builders' Museum, a follow up note was published. Read it here...
December 2004:
The Predicta Project has been announced in recent issues of The
Builder, the official publication of the International Model Car Builders' Museum. Go here to read the text of the announcement of The Predicta Project.
Predicta Project headquarters has recently acquired
two previously-unknown Predicta toys and two more Predicta kit test shots. Check out these exceptionally rare items here:
The Project section of this site has been entirely
updated and refocused to better explain The Predicta Project. Please go here to read about recent developments in the model project.
The Lynx Project has been publicly announced in a recent issue of The
Journal, the official publication of IPMS/USA.
Noted car builder Mike Smith is our technical
consultant on this project. Mike has restored dozens of special interest automobiles and will consult with us to unravel the complex mechanical details of the Predicta. Initially, Mike is helping us
decipher the hundreds of technical photographs we have of the car including a fascinating image of the second version of the Chrysler Hemi engine.
September 2003
- Dan Thomas, John Dino and Mike Swan (both research assistants), Dean Milano (www.toymuseum.org), Mike Smith (technical mechanical
consultant), and Roger Yu and Greg Reed (electronics consultants) have joined Predicta Project Team!
- The Predicta Project will reach out to the IPMS/USA membership to build some of the dioramas that will be featured in the Project
display. A future article in Mark S. Gustavson's AutoFile column in the IPMS Journal will introduce the project and ask for IPMS volunteers to build the dioramas;
- Bob Peeples built a model of the first version of the Predicta in the early Sixties, and before the kit was issued! Bob's work
was good enough to merit a trophy in the second Revell-Pactra contest in 1964. Here's a bunch of photos of his early contest winner. Thanks, Bob, for sharing your great work!
- The Predicta Project will be presented at the Twenty-First GSL International Model Car Championship in 2007. This much time will be
necessary to complete all of the aspects of this project (hopefully, we can get the work done in this period of time!);
August 30, 2002:
The Predicta Project continues to grow in scope. The model project section will include building models of the 'customized' versions suggested by Tom Daniels and Darryl Starbird in historic magazines, as well as custom or out-of-the-box versions built by various builders The project will include the construction of a version of the car restyled by Mark S. Gustavson, and features on authentic scale replicas of various versions of the real car.
August 20, 2002:
Please check back here from time to time for developing information on The Predicta Page. If you have any information, photographs, artifacts or anything of interest, please let us know by e-mailing a note to: Gustavson@ThePredictaProject.org
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