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Walt Fife

Walt Fife

Fife vs. Feniello

Not the prettiest scans, but here is an example of an inadvertent switch in the AMG Thousand Model Directory that has led collectors astray. No doubt as part of the layout phase, when strips of type were laid down to identify the images, the left and right photos were swapped: Walt Fife is on the top left, Jerry Feniello on the top right; Dick Findley is on the bottom left, and Glenn Forde on the bottom right. 

As usual, the references to pages in the catalogues themselves will sort it out, but the Directory is so helpful, and so readily available, that it is often the default resource when seeking to identify models. Still, Bob Mizer was winging it a lot of the time, and he often renames models — though not, as here, a complete change of identity.