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I sure do wish funny car teams could make their cars look this cool again! Very nice!

Most of the ones I know of where run as funny cars. There might have been a few in the street categories.

I remember when Playco Toy Store was blowing the Cannonball kits for a $1.50! Wish I still had them in my stash!

Whoa! That looks wild! More pics and welcome to the site!!

Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe Bill Thomas Cheetah '71 Buick Riviera Early 70's Fuel Altered Hard Top '67 Mustang

Weird, nothing weird here. Just a lady taking a bath outside her house while her kid plays and some guys peeks at her from behind a fence. Yup, nothing weird at all!

Very nice! I have those decals in the stash. Thanks for the inspiration!

How is this? Side Canard Wings Photo by Tom West

You can fit three Ramchargers Dragster kits into one box! Just in case you buy a case of them.

He built show rods. He may have used junk yard parts to create them, but, they where true show rods. Just because he came up with Mickey Mouse's dead beat brother, does not mean he built "Rat" cars.

We are not hoarders, we are just very enthusiastic collectors! LOL!

Not a rat rod

Looks like the Ford version of the F-Bomb! Nice!!

I would love to see the rest of his kit re-issued again! To me they where some of the coolest kits out there and you did not have to do any kit bashing to make some really far out cars!! And yes, Tom, it is very surreal to meet your childhood heroes. And having a drink with them is far out!

After being a Tech Official at the local Drag Strip, I did bounce quite a few cars. From Honda Rocket Racers to Rat Rods. Some of these guys will listen and take the advice you give them on what they need to do to be safe. Some, they have this BS bravado about run what you brung! So it is not just about the cars, but also the owners or builders!!! Young guys trying to act like cranky old men, now that is funny! It was like a badge of honor to have a totally unsafe car. Living the desperate life of a pulp magazine! I called them the cartoon kids! I can understand being passionate about something, but there is also common sense. Most of them eventually got it and some threw a fit and huffed off mad. Back to the pits to make a ruckus and drink PBR! And then they would get mad about no Alcohol in the pits!! I don't care what they call these cars anymore, I am just trying to give a bit of background on how it was and where it is now. They are becoming the PT Cruisers of the show car set. There are so many and they begin to loose the uniqueness about them. And some, I will admit, are cool and deserve to be seen, but some, they just do it to do it and make noise! Love them or hate them, they are among us and that's the way it is!

Most Altereds ran the 18" version of the American Racing Spindle Mount Spokes while the door slammer variety and funnies ran the 15" This I would call a "Drag" type and not really a "Gasser" type wheel.

This one looks awesome! There are two of them in the box!! You can get the same kit, basically, from Revell as they reboxed it in their own boxes. Biggest issue with this kit is the chassis. It has the mold reliefs on the wrong side of the tubing and they show when assembled. With some plastic rod and putty, that can be fixed easily.

Scored at our monthly model car club meet.

Tom West told me that one of the reasons the Tony Nancy double kit was not issued sooner was because they cut the chrome tooling in half when they did the Revellion Funny Car Kit. He found the other half of the tooling on a dusty bench at Revell and they restored it back so it could be re-issued. Thanks, Tom!!

Switchers T-Bucket, AMT Part Pack Frame and wheels and misc. parts from the stash.

I have had good experiences trading so far. Sometime I trade for something I really don't need just to help out he person that really wanted what I had. I know it is going to cost to ship and if it seems crazy, I will politely decline the trade. I am blessed to have a nice collection of kits, but, I am not a hobby shop and don't always have what someone maybe looking for, so yes, it helps when you post what you are looking for instead of having us guess what you want.

I'll just leave this right here. Enjoy http://autoculture.org/?page_id=1015

These T/A edition are purely Barris atrocities. He may have started with Macho Trans Ams, but in the end this is all him.

Back in '85 I was building a Robotech Valkyrie and I need white paint. I went to the garage and found a can of it. It was Hi Temp Header Paint! I melted most of the kit to a pulp! Since then, I only use model approved paints!!