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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)

My only real snapper is JoHan's '72 Ford Gran Torino: My only real snapper is JoHan's '72 Ford Gran Torino:

Steven, excellent '59 Ford Company products you show us here - the Edsel is my favourite, but it was a tough choice!

The same for me, too - I have kept one of each kit I have built.

Very nice Peterbilt 352 - would make an excellent box art model!

C'mon guys, let's see more Coe's - have they also disappeared not only from the highways but from the modelers' tables and attics also???

Great Transtar, John! I certainly would not have the patience for such an amount of work going into one truck kit. Here is mine (pic from 1983) - will be used as a donor kit (frame, engine, transmission) for a resin cab, because the chrome parts of this one have been warped and heavily distorted (grill surrounds, handlebars, mirrors, wipers etc.) - kit got heat damage from the intense sun shining through the shop window.... As I got this one at a closeout sale, there was no way to get my money back. This was what it looked back then:

Totally amazing - as always - Steve!!! The '60 Dodge is my favourite of your quartet, but each one looks very impressive!

Well, here is another one, not quite a 59 model, but at least introduced in the fall of '59 and in my opinion one of the best looking US cars of the era: 1960 De Soto Adventurer HT from JoHan - my first rattle-can paint job in 1983...

Very nice looking models, Richard - I should have bought the Chrysler also, back then...

Great Oldsmobiles, Cliff - the red and dark grey one - is this a '56 model?

Steve, great models - the Imperial convertible as well as the Dodge HT - simply excellent !!!

Beautiful Helmut! I'm working on the '59 Plymouth as we speak, so I'll get back to you on that one. I do however, have the X-EL '59 Dodge & a Model King reissue of the '59 Imperial. I have the X-EL '59 Desoto hardtop as well that I began converting to a 2 door convertible many years ago, but due to the lack of an interior, I never finished it. Both the '59 Dodge & the Plymouth that I'm working on, have Modelhaus resin interiors. Actually pretty nice ones! Thanks Steve, but my models are actually junk compared with those of you - incredible, your Dodge with those spinner (?) hubcaps, the correct interior, the perfectly applied BMF and that gorgeous paint !!! Your late '50s models are among the most beautiful I have ever seen in the last 30 years, period. The Imperial is also in my stash (2 x), together with about 350 others that are waiting for being built - and I should restore several of my old builds, too (the 3 above, for example) - too many kits, too little time!

and finally the De Soto Fireflite 4 Door HT (# 3) Remark: License plates for all 3 are from an old 1961 auto world self-sticking license plate sheet.

The Dodge Custom Royal Lancer (#2)