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About your 1957 Chevrolet Nomad:  It all started at the 1954 Autorama Show. General Motors was displaying vehicles " From the Future" as well as their current models. The lines that formed around one of these 'Future' vehicles - a deluxe station wagon - convinced them to go into production on the Chevrolet Nomad. The Nomad was the special and sporty Chevrolet 2-door sports station wagon, with 1957 as its last and final build in a three year run. The name Nomad continued but as a 4-door mod …

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We come across so many great files in the Atlantis Models Archive! They are filled with so many rare technical drawings, diagrams, artwork, photos and more. We have hand picked some great stuff to post on the Atlantis Blog to share with Hobby Community. In the future some of these rare drawings and artwork will available for purchase. Please note by Atlantis Posting these blogs from the Archive does not indicate that we have that particular mold. When we purchased the model kit tooling we acquir …

Started playing with my older brothers cast metal classic cars at age 4-5Repainted them with real “house paint” and tried to “bake” the paint on in a tin can in a real fire in the backyard....hmmm!Started building balsa planes and ships. It was the end of WW2 and I saw a lot of newsreels of the war and was fascinated with the ships and planes. One day I remember seeing massive fleets of B29 bombers flying over Salt Lake City to eventually bomb Japan. Their contrails streaked the sky as they flew …

We are so excited to be working with Jim on the exclusive Atlantis Keelers Kustom's line of 1/25 scale car kits. Jim has submitted to us his bio we hope you enjoy!As a teenager I presented model contests at San Diego hobby shops. Winners of the contests would then be brought to the full size custom car show to be judged for winning trophies.At age fifteen I met Ed Roth and followed him around to car shows. It established a friendshipThat lasted until Roth’s death in 2001. When I was hired by Rev …