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 Posted - June 26 2021 : 7:55:43 PM
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Here's a real deal Mantua Great Northern GP20.
(Image courtesy google)
Here's my recent acquisition. Here's my reasoning to think it's a prepod. The basic evidence is worth considering.
•The paint on it looks and feels like a Mantua or Tyco paint job. It is professionally airbrushed, and has the same texture and appearance my Great Northern F9. The color is lighter by a shade than the F9, but that isn't out of the ordinary. It came from texas, so it could have faded.
Here's where this may open some peepers.
• This thing has never had any numbering put on it. You'd think it would have some sort of noticable evidence that the paint or goat sticker existed.
•The fuel tank weight screws do not have any sign of ever having a screw placed in them.
•The underside is reasonably sprayed. It also features two bare spots that look to have been some sort of airbrush jig. THE EXACT SAME bare spots that appear on the inside of my later Mantua Santa Fe GP20.
•Finally, the paint scheme isn't perfect, it has some dings and dents. Most notably though, the paint scheme on it is almost exactly the same as the Factory unit shown above. However. It is skewed slightly towards the front. Prototypes were not known for perfection.
I personally want to say it's a prototype. Not necessarily an employee made example, rather more like Tyco's Rio Grande SD24, or half-finished units. It's part of a very limited sample batch, that likely only used in the research and design department at Mantua, or even late 70s Tyco. Who knows, but let me know what you think...
Aaron Anderson
Edited by - A-A-RON on June 26 2021 7:56:45 PM
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Posted - June 27 2021 : 9:05:09 PM
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Based on the evidence and photos, I am also convinced that this is a prototype or unfinished GP20 shell. What a find!
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