What Are Your Crown Jewels?

[John M.]

In my collection of 50 plus cars, the crown jewels are,

1) 1960 Ford pickup truck AMT

2) 1962 Dodge Dart 4 Dr. Revell

3) 1961 Mercury Monterey AMT

4) 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood 4 Dr. Johan

5) 1966 Dodge Monaco 2 Dr and a convertible MPC

[Snake45]

I'm VERY fond of the '66 Skylark I built around 1969. 

[Khils]

SORRY!      ....no royalty here.....I'll probably always be a "pawn".   LOL 

[bismarck]

47 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

I'm VERY fond of the '66 Skylark I built around 1969. 

VERY sharp. ?

[Tom Geiger]

Here’s mine.. an original 1966 Valiant promo. Probably the rarest Mopar promotional model.

[carl63_99]

My California Street Vette, completed in 2000 and my 1969 Super Bee, first finished in 1997 and now getting interior and engine updates.

[Ramfins59]

My "Crown Jewel" model would have to be a '49 Mercury convertible Custom I built about 10 or so years ago using a resin conversion body from Replicas & Miniatures Co of MD along with the custom chopped coupe kit.  It has placed First Place Custom, Best Interior, and Best In Show at 3 separate shows.

[Snake45]

I'm also proud of these two "survivor" MPC '68 GTOs I restored in 2016. The one in the background I built in 1968, the closer one I bought as a rebuilder from Spotlight Hobbies in the late '80s. Both are still wearing their original paint. 

[larman]

2 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I'm VERY fond of the '66 Skylark I built around 1969. 

That's super cool! So are your GTOs. Long live survivors!

[FordRodnKustom]

May not be jewels but they are Crowns!

[Misha]

My Triple Crown!

 

 

[Grumpa]

I've got one or two, but this '59 Impala was a rebuilder off of "Ebay". Needed a bit of body work, but turned out to my satisfaction when it was finished.

[bisc63]

2 hours ago, Misha said:

My Triple Crown!

Misha, that Vicky and Phaeton are gorgeous cars/models! Don't recall seeing them here before.

Lots of beauties in this most interesting thread; can't wait to see what else shows up.

[Misha]

1 hour ago, bisc63 said:

Misha, that Vicky and Phaeton are gorgeous cars/models! Don't recall seeing them here before.

Lots of beauties in this most interesting thread; can't wait to see what else shows up.

Thanks Rusty, here is the link to the WIP thread on the Phaeton, the Vicky WIP thread has already lost its photos. I haven’t posted Under Glass threads on either, so perhaps I’ll do that soon. Both Deuces were built for two separate Deuce Days in Victoria at which our club hosts a display of scale versions.
Cheers Misha

 

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[Aurora]

My favorite scratch built 1/32 scale slot cars.

 

[Plowboy]

I have several oldies on the shelf that I consider jewels.

 

Edited April 4, 2021 by Plowboy

[Aurora]

Those are jewels Plowboy. Beautiful!

[5.0nut]

these are my jewels

[Grumpa]

6 hours ago, Aurora said:

My favorite scratch built 1/32 scale slot cars.

 

Fantastic!!! Absolutely incredible!!!

[Dentz]

This would be mine. Spent months reworking a Revell kit to open everything up. Sorry, the headlights aren't done in these pics

[Plowboy]

15 hours ago, Grumpa said:

I've got one or two, but this '59 Impala was a rebuilder off of "Ebay". Needed a bit of body work, but turned out to my satisfaction when it was finished.

I love what you did with this one Mark! Colors, wheels and stance!! I'm usually hardcore against Continental kits. But, I like it on this one!

[Tom Geiger]

Seems OP was going for the best / rarest kit in your collection, but it’s gone off into your most significant / favorite builds, which is actually more interesting.. so I’ll play..

I built this pair back in late 1990s. Still my two favorite builds.

 

Where they reside today..

[thatz4u]

Here are a few of mine so far

[bisc63]

4 hours ago, Plowboy said:

I have several oldies on the shelf that I consider jewels.

Plowboy, the color scheme of that '59 Edsel is just beautiful, but there's something about that deep red '60(?) pickup that speaks to me. Very nice collection!

[89AKurt]

I'll pick only one.  The history behind it is more interesting.  After attending a GSL show, I camped near Goblin Valley State Park, hiked through a slot canyon, saw one rock that is the perfect scale version of "slick rock", found some similar ones, packed it home, almost forgot about it.  When I found it, used up a diamond hacksaw blade cutting the rock in half.  The kit is fairly common, not a street rod, sorry.  It has won several first place awards.