mini trucker

Good haul man! A couple of those would be good candidates for reissue I think

Looks sweet man! Wheels really set it off

The fuel tanks on Grumpys cars were painted white in an effort to reflect track heat and keep the fuel cool. Build looks good, keep it up

Hobby hobby in Streetsville had a pretty decent paint rack and a small selection of car and truck models as well. They handle a lot of RC stuff too, nice people to deal with.

Go for the power feed option too, money well spent

You can tint your glass using black fabric dye in hot water, I use RIT brand myself. You can use the different colours to get different looks too

Dont forget the "Powered by ..." stickers either

Looks good man, nice and clean

Another interesting Pacer fact is that they were the first car to be built without the traditional rain gutters that other cars of the era had. They used the weather stripping for the doors to drain water away rather than traditional rain rails. This gave the car a sleeker look and most importantly improved aerodynamics in wind tunnel testing leading to improved fuel mileage. The hidden gutter idea is still used on many cars to this day

Looks good man, kind of a rat rod meets mini truck

I love lamp

Given Chi towns very unfortunate record high murder rate isn't the whole slogan a bit of a moot point anyways?

I'm always excited when I see a new one of your history threads posted, excellent read as always

Dig the build man, I get the concept

Hopefully it returns next year, it was a really good show. It seemed very well attended too

Neat-o! Thanx for the post chuck, very interesting bit of modeling history.

I'm wondering why you felt this change in the 1:1 car world warranted a post on here? This is a forum for scale models of cars, not real ones. If there was a change in the country that any of the model manufacturers molded their scale Camaro kits in I could see perhaps making mention of it but the reason you felt the need to post this is a mystery to me.

Lookin fine

I would like to see a return of the Snapfast Plus line of kits, they had some really good offerings in that line up back in the day. The 72 GMC stepside would be a welcome return as well as some of the pinto variants.

I dig

Bob Grant had a bodied 1:1 LUV he was building a while back too, i believe it is in texas now. Your version looks like its gonna be pretty kool when its done, I think the LUV kit is due for a re issue too!

I know a guy who has had a 1:1 full show street freak 460 powered Pinto hatch mothballed since the late 70s so there are deff some survivors out there. This one was all for show, crazy paneled paint and tons of chrome and a sky high straight axled front end, a really neat-o lookin old show car.

Nice work man, keep it up!

Could you please stop advocating smoking on here please, we have forum members who are young and impressionable along with many older members who have given the habit up for various reasons. Smoking is a terrible habit to have and an even worse one to break! With regards to the real topic Bill is deff a true craftsman when it comes to the kustum kar game, his chopped folding top mechanisms are fabulous pieces of machinery themselves.

I had good luck with the LA's Totally Awesome, stripped 14yo paint off one builtup I had.