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It's been introduced in the fall of `59... Great looking De Soto, Mike!

C'mon guys, no more 59/60 mopars??? Show us your models!

Great Autocar, Jacobus - looks like an early 50's model with the integral sleeper and set back front axle. What conversion kit is the needlenose KW?

Superb wrecker - also the rear looks better than on the box-art. Did you take tank and battery box from Revell's snapkit?

Fantastic John - is this Eric Carlsson at the Akropolis Rally?

You did it once again, Steve! Your 58 and 59 Bonnevilles are A M A Z I N G ! ! !

Fantastic, John- though I'm not into customs and rods, one this looks like it sprang out of the cover of an old hot rod magazine back in the day (say 1959/60) - from the paint, wheel covers, lake pipes - everything looks period correct - spot on!!!

Here are some Austrian truck oldies from the early 50's to the early '70s: Steyr 586, 380 and 780, ÖAF Tornado and 2 Saurer Diesels.

Me too !

The early yellow Cabover with drom and the green Bullnose are fantastic!!!

My only built Buick:

fantastic, Steve !!! Especially that '59 Invicta, but the 2 others also - incredible!!!

now the pics:

my only police car:

Spray-painted with Revell AG's metallic gold enamel in 1985

That were exactly my thoughts, too...

Steve, another winner from your classics Garage - I would like to see all of your beautiful models !!!

Not sure if I have already posted this old workhorse...

Thanks, guys, for the kind words!

Awesome, Terry! Especially the Brockway with the First Gear International WD-25 Dozer on the dropbed and the red dumper hooked to a Diamond Reo (?)

Dennis, very impressive heavy duty trailers! Here are some more pics: ERTL's Great Dane and dumper, amt's tanker and doubles:

Clayton, you show us some excellent trailers - sparkling like they were presented at a truck show!

Amt's Wilson Livestock trailer:

I built this Pete in the winter of 1985/86. As I didn't like the orange stripe decals, I made my own paint scheme (similar to original Peterbilt pictures from my trucking books back then) with a lot of masking, spray-painting with 4 different dupli-color rattle-cans and drawing the black parting lines by hand. Decals came from various sources, lettering has been made with rub-on-letters on transparent decal sheet, doors have been opened, the cab got some detailing inside (coke cans, cigarettes, chewing gums and magazines) and out: bug deflector, winter-front,mudflaps, radiator mascot, wire antennas, chains and connector cables. A good friend of mine made a battery-powered (hidden in the sleeper) lighting system (head and fog lights, 5 roof markers, cab dome light and 4 rear red lights). When moving, the truck crashed to the ground and therefore cries for a restoration - several small parts went off, the front axle, the mud flaps and some other things broke - oh well! Here is it as it looked like in 1986 (bad pic qualitiy):

From my 1/16 Monogram Peterbilt: a mixture of real motor oil and graphite dust (from a pencil on sandpaper) - took several years until it became dry (more or less)