rmvw guy Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 What to do wih an old junker? Here's my answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 After a night in the dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Enhanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKerry Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Love the ol' Jalopies!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Awesome job Ron on your dirt racer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbowser Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Great work! Kinda how it happens in 1:1 as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecker388 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Very cool! Where are the tires from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Very cool! Where are the tires from? The rear tires are from the AMT Meyers Manx, front not to sure about. They look a little like snow tires, I think the guy I got them from said they may have come from a Jeep kit. Thanks for the positive feed back guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Dirty nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truck parts Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Cool build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 I like this one. It is unique in it's style. Absolutely nothing sophisticated. It reminds me the stone age of stock car racing. It really looks like these old jalopies built home made in a backyard with recycled tubbings, cut at the hand with with an old hacksaw and bent between some big tree branches with more or less correct curves, then welded by grandpa between 2 beer bottles (I feel very poetic). But it was a time when building a race car was a funny adventure and when everybody around was involved and came to look at the progress of the ''monster of the yard'' (baptised of this name by grandma). Monster who was frightening the birds, the cats and the dogs and all the neighbourhood when we'd start the engine ''straight pipe''. By the way I found this post that I just wrote so funny that I copied and pasted it for my own website about scale modeling and old school stock car racing. I don't konw... I guess that I was inspired by your model to write this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 To give another answer to Wrecker388 about the FRONT tires, I see that they are snow grips from old MPC kits like the '69 Pontiac Grand Prix annual kit and several other old MPC kits, but AMT bought MPC back in 1987 I believe and reissued some old MPC kits and you can find these tires on an old jeep kit reissued in 2002 by AMT under #31752. This is the Hogan's Heroes World War II Jeep. It is the old flat fendered jeep model CJ1-2 or 3, not any other Jeep kits on the market. Other jeep kits have bigger tires and wouldn't give this vintage narrow winter tires look used on an old jalopy racer like the one posted here. I thik that Ron made a nice choice of tires on this model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 Thank you very much for your coments Florent. I was very surprised to see this one back again. The old jalopies are some of my favorite builds and memories. You are exactly right about fireing these up in the back yard, brought back some of my memories as a kid, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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