THarrison351

Looks great! I wish I had kept my kits from the '70s and many from the '80s

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Sounds like a good looking truck! Thanks! It appears you really like Rangers! Any plans to get the latest model? Thanks!

Rockingham American 500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJgH43Io1yY check out 9:15 404 C.I. on hood

I knew this existed somewhere in my storage. I hadn't seen it since moving almost seven years ago. It was still covered in the dust from being on the shelf untouched for so long. It's here with a 1993 Ford Ranger STX 4X4 promo that I had and kept to compare what a stock cab looks like. I posted it a long time ago on the other site, but Photo Bucket ruined that. A little history: This build started soon after I purchased a 1993 Ranger Supercab in 2002. No kit of a Supercab ever existed. I saw the kits available and thought it could be possible to bash one because the way the cab is shaped. Picture from 2004 Well, I finished the cab, and the interior and chassis were a bit overwhelming. So, I put it away for over a year. In that time I acquired a resin model and finished it so it gave me the confidence to try again. Everything went together fairly well and I created an interior similar to the truck I was driving. The kits come with sport bucket seats and I just added some plastic to give the illusion of a bench seat and arm rest. The rear seats fold into the sided so there is nothing there anyways. Eventually, the real truck became my son's to use, he wrecked it twice, and I finally sold it a few years back. This is what I have left to remember it now.

Great build and great looking coking color! This is a kit that needs released again!

Sensational!

This should be interesting. I just found the last of all my models and diecasts on my treasure hunt and one of them was the AMT Proshop 57 Thunderbird (same kit, only later and painted). Looks like all your parts are there except maybe the sun visors. That windshield should be fun to restore.

It's a ZX2

Racing Champions. Yes, that Racing Champions. The one that made tons of cheap NASCAR, Indycar, and NHRA diecast and eventually was a part of the RC2 model empire fiasco. Apparently in 2004 they made this fairy nice and for the time, decently detailed Pro Stock of Scott Geoffrions Nitro Fish Ford. I forgot I even had it. Front end and scoop comes off, and the doors open. It even comes with a cover. It's all tampo graphics, not a wrap decal like the current diecasts.

That is really sweet looking!

I remember this car too. Good looking car!

That's pretty cool, I remember that paint scheme.

I wonder where all the Monogram Classic Car molds are. There's about 13 and if you include the Fords, 15. These are the ones I have: Mercedes Benz 540K Cabriolet (built), Cadillac V-16 Phaeton, Packard Speedster Phaeton, Packard Boattail Speedster, Duesenberg Model SJ Torpedo Phaeton, Rolls-Royce Roadster (Phantom II Henley Convertible), Cord Supercharged Convertible Phaeton Sedan, Lincoln Continental Convertible, and the Bugatti 35B. Also made was the Duesenberg SJ Roadster, Rolls-Royce Phaeton, Duesenberg Town Car, and the Mercedes Benz 540K Coupe. The Fords were in the catalogs with the classics, called special interest series and they were a 30 coupe and cabriolet.

I'm guessing I built this sometime in 1985 or 1986. I used the body from a previously built Bill Elliott Melling #9. I wasn't aware of stripping plastic bodies with easy off, brake fluid or other products. It still has red and white paint on the inside, so I'm sure I just sanded the old paint as best as possible. I don't know why the white paint has yellowed so much. Maybe it was exposed to something in storage. The decals came from the much maligned AMT snap-tite Hardee's Monte Carlo. I eventually built that into a Ken Ragan #17 McCord Gasket car. Also, it has the chassis from a #15 Wrangler Ford I built. I don't know if it was easier to paint the chassis orange or why it was used instead of the original one. So, as I have recently found it the front suspension was damaged, windows were out or loose and it was very dirty. Fortunately, it all went back together and other than the white seems to be stained, turned out OK.

Another one of the cars I found on my treasure hunt. I painted it wrong because to me, it looked like it was more candy apple over gold than a red. I only had the TV as a reference and the model box. As you can see, I discovered the decals were opaque and the darker finish shows through them. The gold was never really gold either, more of a tan color. As I found it, the suspension was loose, spoiler was off, the headers fell out and the windshield too. It was filthy after 36 years of storage and display. At some point I apparently painted the grill to make it look like the 1986 version. Of course nothing else was really correct for 1986. Also, It's always had the dirt short track lean.

That looks really nice!

I found this today on a treasure hunt in my storage area. I knew it was somewhere, I just couldn't find it. The suspension was loose, the windshield too and it was filthy. I remember in the early eighties when Monogram released their NASCAR speedway stock cars and they were leaps ahead of the old MPC stock cars. I bought two, a Dale Earnhardt Wrangler car and Bill Elliott Melling car. I bought them because they were Fords. They also had an UNO Buick, and a Mountain Dew Buick. Somehow, I've managed to hang on to the Wrangler car as it was built, sort of. The next year (1984) Monogram released a new version of the Bill Elliott car in his Coors sponsorship so I built that. Meanwhile, Cale Yarborough switched to Ford from Chevrolet, but kept his Hardee's sponsorship. So I took my Elliott Melling car and using the AMT Snap Together Monte Carlo Hardee's car decals, made my own Hardee's Thunderbird car. Now for some reason I swapped the chassis around on the cars. The Wrangler car has now the Melling car's chassis, hence the red window net and bare white plastic exhaust. Anyways, I glued the suspension back together, the headlight door, and windshield, and gave it a good cleaning and polishing. It's got some patina, but for 37 years old, it's not too bad. [/URL

I've been going through all my boxes of built unbuilt models, models, and diecasts that are stored while I've been furloughed. So, I guess this has been kind of a treasure hunt for me. I knew I was missing several NASCAR models, but they weren't anywhere I expected them to be found. I hadn't seen them since they were packed away around 2004 when I changed office jobs and the new office wouldn't accommodate my models. I've also moved so the box they may have been in was changed in the move. I found them today. They were underneath a bunch of 1/64 diecast in a smaller box. Nothing was on the outside of the box to indicate what was inside. Their condition for the most part is not great. The oldest were in pieces and dirty, but complete. I also had a diecast and two snap together models my son had built. Three are the oldest NASCAR models I have in my collection. I stated in my 1983 Bill Elliott Melling Thunderbird topic I had built it once before and redid it as the Cale Yarborough Hardee's Thunderbird. Well, that's sot of correct. The body was redone. The chassis is under the Wrangler car, hence the red window net which you'll see when I repair and clean it. The Wrangler chassis is under the Hardee's car. I can tell because it has yellow plastic and the chassis under the Wrangler is white. Anyways, I'll give each car it's own topic as I clean and repair them. The picture is showing the cars better than they are. Windows are loose and most of the suspensions are broken free.

New acquisitions from Walmart. M2 Machines Foose 1970 Mustang Gambler 514. Nice wheels and a 1952 VW Beetle with EMPI graphics and wheels. Have not seen them on their website.

Franklin Mint had a nice one with the wire hubcaps. LE of 427. I see one was sold original asking price was $599.95 plus shipping OBO. Seller took best offer. I have seen them bid to ridiculous prices. Other than the wheels being wrong and wrong for rally wheels too, it's not bad looking and I'm sure I'll find them for $20!

Very Very Nice!

Great Ride!

Look's Great!

Looking at those instructions, I'm pretty sure they are JnJ decals.

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