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FEP stands for FIRST ENGINEERED Production. FEP's are models that a manufacture will produce as sort of a tester model to see what the casting will look like and check the fits of the components on the cars. A lot of times the advertising pictures are of FEP's or Proto-type models.

FEP's are produced first prior to the final approved production models and are not usually available for sale to the public or for sale at all.

In the the case of the Muscle Machines FEP's, these models were not supposed to be shipped to the big retail stores but some of the 5 pack versions were available through Full Grid diecast sales (the distributor) on a very limited basis. After that some were shipped to Target Stores by mistake and so they became available to the public still on a limited basis through these sources.

There were also some FEP models (the same cars included in the 5 pack) packaged in individual blisterpacks and  shipped to Canada. According to reliable sources there were 800 cars available in the bp's which is a very limited amount of cars. Thus these bp cars are probably the most rare and sought after Muscle Machines products produced.

Below are some pictures of the FEP's in the 5 packs and also pictures of a set of the blisterpack models.

Compared to the regular production models some of the differences are;

FEP

Production

Wheels-Solid Rims

Wheels-Slotted

Headers-Tucked

Headers-Widened 

Stickers were used on the cars

Tampo's were used

Window Frames-Rounded

Window Frames-Squared

Bumpers-Protruded 

Bumpers-Flush

*There are other differences on all of the cars but these noted are the most apparent and most noticeable.

All 6 Cars are as follows:

'66 GTO-Apple Green--'69 Camaro-Red

'66 Mustang-White--'70 Cuda-Purple

*Alternating 5 packs Set "A" '63 Corvette-Yellow--Set "B" '69 Chevelle-Black

*Thanks to Gabe Terrill for supplying the pictures of the FEP Blisterpack cars.

FEP5PackVETTE copy.jpg (31104 bytes)

Set "A" 5 Pack with the '63 Vette in Yellow.

1FEP Set 2.jpg (78931 bytes)

Individual Canadian blisterpacks, all six.

1FEP Camaro 2 Gabe.jpg (58367 bytes)1FEPCamaroBP.jpg (35767 bytes)

1FEP GTO 2.jpg (53215 bytes)1FEPgreenGTOBP.jpg (47467 bytes)

1FEP Cuda 2.jpg (53741 bytes)1FEPCudaBp.jpg (38154 bytes)

1FEP Mustang 2.jpg (57658 bytes)1FEPMustangBp.jpg (58885 bytes)

1FEP Corvette 2.jpg (65164 bytes)1FEPVetteBp.jpg (38399 bytes)

1FEP Chevelle 2.jpg (56829 bytes)1FEPChevelleBp.jpg (36033 bytes)

MM69Camaro2COMPARE.jpg (34544 bytes)MM69CamaroBaseCOMPARE.jpg (44306 bytes)

1)Front-Production '69 Camaro-Rear-FEP

2) '69 Camaro base comparison-Left-Production-Right-FEP

MM69CamaroCompareFRNT.jpg (26146 bytes)

'69 Camaro front view comparison. Left-Production-Right-FEP

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