The year is 1976. Steve Jobs cofounds a little company called Apple Computers and Star Wars starts filming in Tunisia. Jimmy Carter is elected the 39th American president.
A big mac costs 75 cents and the average car costs around $3500. A 4-year-old me still hasn’t discovered the hobby and Tamiya release the M16 variant of the US M3 halftrack.
There were three versions of these US halftracks and I recall them being highly sort after in my younger years. As time passed their availability became scarce often commanding crazy money online which more or less relegated the range to our memories. The US Tamiya halftracks became just a piece of the puzzle in the evolution of scale modelling and a fond memory for most of us who never got to build one.