Daddyfink

Very cool build of a very unique car! I have the Garage Magazine issue with a feature on this car and you nailed it!

Very Cool!

These decals where made by Skip Samples after we ran across the car at the Hot Rod Reunion a few years back. I am surprised no one has offered them for sale somewhere.

Wow! Love it!

You know I need someone, Help

Good to see you shaking off the rust!

Nice scores, Ray! I need to get me one of those Rainbow Ferrari kits!

It looks great and you nailed the paint! I had lots of fun doing mine!

They need to re-issue some more of these Tom Daniel's kits. Nice score, JT!

That looks pretty cool! Mods, can we get this moved to Obscure kits thread? Definitely belongs in there http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56542

Very nice! Who's paint did you use?

Very nice! For the Jungle Jim Funnies?

It was pretty awesome to see that in person! The place went wild!! /\/\/\

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Talking to Mousie a few years back I asked about the one handed driving style we saw in so many pictures. He told me that Willie had not idea he was even doing it! Photographers where asking about it and he said that he was not doing that at all, until they showed him the pictures of it. He said it was because when the car got out of shape he was getting tossed around in the seat, so he would reach out and just hang on! He was not trying to put on a show, he was hanging on for dear life! Well, it became his trade mark and the legend was born! So much that when he switched to funny cars, which Mousie hated and led to their racing career demise, they brewed up the fake arm to rest on the cars window area. Or so the story goes!

The kit is a pretty accurate representation of the second car. Considering how much both cars evolved, it is up to you to build the version you like, and box stock is fine.

I would have unwrapped it if Robert Urich would have autographed it! fast! LOL! Bummer he went too soon. All the kits I have had autographed are not wrapped or I took the wrap off to have it autographed.

I have quite a few kits that are still sealed, most are in fine shape. I have a MPC 67 Firebird first issue in sealed condition and it is fine. On the other hand, I build a Revell Magnum P.I. Ferrari that had the box crushed by the shrink wrap. Luckily it was fine, but, it is a pretty crappy kit. As for this one, I am going to unwrap it to try and save the box. Like I said, the only cool factor on this was the fact that it was sealed, it's a Vegas kit and the price tag is till on it!

I am sure some of you have some old vintage kits that are still sealed, and am pretty sure that some of them are heading this way. The wrapping is living up to its name and shrinking. In some cases the wrap just gives up and breaks loose, but some of them get so tight you could use them for drums!! Being slowly crushed by their own shrink wrap. I know that this is not exactly a rare kit, but, I do like to have some original seal kits in the stash, but, this is not good for the box. So, do you unwrap and save the box from further damage and sacrifice that "new" kit feel, or just let nature takes it course?

A figure was never offered with the kit

Cool, thanks!

The original car is probably the most documented car of the two. This was the original chassis that was run to its limits until the last crash that knocked it out of action. The second car, the Logghe Chassis car, was put together after they wrecked the first car, is the one the model is based on and is a totally different animal. But, there was only one Willie Borsch

I am assuming you are talking about the Logghe Chassis car and not the first one that ended up in the Bakersfield land fill, right?

This would be a cool addition to the pile.

So what are the accuracy problems with this kit? I built one already and really did not notice anything really off with it.