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The Wynn's Charger and the Young American do not share any parts at all. The Charger is a Rear Engine car vs. a Front Engine Neither car had a dry sump system. These where the times where most of these cars still ran factory style oil pumps and regular style oil filters. Dual filters came into vogue in the early 70's and the Garlits car just ran one in the stock location. And it was a LEE filter! LOL! Most car ran a remote filter adapter and ran two filters to try and keep the engines debris free. This was before the tear downs after every run and you had to make those engines survive.

Ok, here we go! Blue Chassis - Don Garlits Dragster - Also became the Young American and the Roaring Rail Dragster with Fiat Coupe body - The longest wheebase in the bunch -426 HEMI White Chassis - Tommy Ivo Dragster - Also became the Two Much Twin Engine Dragster and the Digger Cuda - 426 HEMI Black Chassis - Ramchargers Dragster - Also became the Carl Casper's Galloping Ghost, American Graffiti Milner's Dragster and the Jawbreaker Dragster w/Coupe body - 426 HEMI Blue Bodied Dragster - Don Garlits Wynn's Jammer Dragster - Also became the Hippy Hemi - 330 HEMI Not shown, and only because I do not want to open the bag in the box, is the Carl Casper's Cosmic Charger. That chassis is comparable to the Young American but it is a two piece chassis that joins at the firewall. This kit also has the 426 HEMI The almost finished car in the back is a Two Much Dragster with some slight tweaking. The blue bodied car is the Garlits Wynn's Jammer with a Fremont Resins body and decals by Skip Samples If I forgot any, please chime in

Yes, this is cool! Star Wars Geeks will know what this is

I just picked it up today and it is actually pretty nice. I stopped buying these type of non traditional type rod mags because they where just loaded with way too much junk and not enough car stuff. I don't care for the pin ups, wild party pics, someone pin striping something, rock a billy bands pics in a parking lot, etc. etc..... Lots of pics in a mag that feels solid in your hands and you will want to keep in the collection. I have noticed that many mags are moving to this style of printing. Recoil and Geek are two mags that are made in a similar manner.

A home run! That is very nice!

Well, most time it is tooling conditions, current trends and sell factors. Example One. Tooling. Tom West told me about how Revell kept getting request for the Tony Nancy Double Dragster but they could not do it since the molds where literally cut in half! The kit was used to make the Revellion Funny Car and so was the 1962 Dodge tooling. They did no want to pay to make new chrome trees for the kit so it was not re-released, until, Tom found the other part of the tooling laying on dusty bench. The tooling was repaired and now you have the Tony Nancy double kit back. The Dodge was not rescued and I think it was scrapped. Example Two. The General Lee! Tom told me about how MPC had the T.V. contract for Warner Bros. and decided to do a kit for the show. Tom thought the thing would not really go after seeing the pilot for the show and it was shelved. After the show came out and it took off, the scramble was on to get a kit out and thus, the Dodge Charger 500 Stock Car kit was used with some mods to the tool to make the kit. To date, it is the biggest selling kit of all time! So why bother restoring that tool? Example Three. Sometimes they do not sell too good and they get dumped. Take for example the Aurora Racing Scenes. Possibly the line that sank Aurora! Now, they are highly sought collector items! Back then, you could not give them away. Some of the tooling does still exist, but, would it be worth it to do a line of 1/16th scale stuff these days? I would love it! But, no, it would be a very niche market. So there you go! Take its for what its worth!

Why do we buy so many? Why not! This is something I love and will try to build it all until I am no longer able! And then my stuff will go back into the world and someone else, hopefully, will carry on! We are just custodians of the ones we do not build. Yes, they can get valuable, but that is not why I bought them, I bought them to buld them! My friend Skip's collection is now being liquidated and he had well over a thousand kits! Now some lucky modelers get to enjoy the kits that he helped preserve! Your mileage may vary!

This is an older pic that I have handy, will update later

Well, the name came about when I was at the Drags and a friend of mine came up and accidentally combined Ed Big Daddy Roth with Rat Fink! I was wearing a Rat Fink shirt and he was trying to be a smart acre! So he blurted out "Hey, Daddy Fink!" Yeah, I gave him all kinds of grief over that!! The picture if of Legendary Mexican Singer Pedro Infante which was my late fathers favorite singer. And he is one cool looking cat!

Coming along nicely! This car needs to be kitted!

NIce! That looks just right!!

Most of the Fujimi kits are curbside. The Revell ones are reboxed Fujimi. The early IMC ones are full detail but can be quite finicky to build. I know a few that have kitbashed them to make full detail cars using Fujimi bodies and IMC innards. And of course, there are a few aftermarket vendors who make conversion kits for full detail. Have fun!

Got one of these! I wanted one since I was a kid and I finally scored one! Yes, I am going to build it!!

That is cool! Nice job! One of my all time favorites! I guess I should finish the one I started back in '87! LOL!

From what I know, they originally made the chassis for his Sedan Delivery car and then kept making kits with Buttera's name on them and used the same chassis with different bodies. Thus they managed to make some of the worst street rod kits ever! Yes, everything is odd sized and smaller than scale! I have them for the sake of nostalgia but I highly doubt I will build them again! But I can not really say that since I never managed to finish one when I was a kid!!

Just messin' with ya! Congrats!

Corn Dog, Hot Dog, different, yet the same! I get'cha! Didn't the Revell 59 Vette have a top? Or is that too far off? I really want to take a whack at doing the Mazmania Vette out of this one. Square wheel wells and all! Good luck, I look forward to your progress!

Will this be a Street Freak or a Gasser?

Just try to work on something whenever I can. Maybe get to build and use one of Mark Johnson's resin 1/16 Hemi engines!

Very cool! Thanks for being a good Ambassador for our hobby!

Here are a few weird ones in my collection and one my friend Craig found at a kit show recently that blew my away! And the really wild one, at least to me!

It went from guys putting cars together for fun with leftover parts that where considered not "clean enough" for a show quality car or resto to some just cobbling anything together, giving it some "Patina", aka RUST, and calling them Rat Rods. Oh yes, anything in primer and not finished is being called a Rat Rod. When someone purposely goes out of their way to make a "Rat Rod", you know the jig is up.

Who cares! This fad is done!