Russell C

This could backfire. If folks don't like my post, they'll demand me to pay them two dollars to make up for their anguish of viewing it. =)

Wow!! Meanwhile, you have plenty of time to prepare for your GSL presentation, the final contest is scheduled for May 5-8, 2022.

At the GSL contest, I had my fun spotting a few of the guys wrinkling their nose or forehead & eyebrows trying to figure out what was wrong with it (at first glance, a car guy will just think "a Bug" and then move on, only then to stop and think, "wait, what?). But with the deck lid open, I got to hear one other thing I was hoping for: several of the guys from the Town of Newburgh Model Car Club were looking intently at the engine before one of them said something like, "count the velocity stacks - it's a flat 5!" Whereupon they all burst out laughing. Mission accomplished. Making the world a happier place one strange model at a time!

Great work, fabulous tribute! I know that name, and I probably met him once or twice at the GSL contests. But I'm having a senior moment in trying to remember what some of his other prominent models were. Anybody remember?

I tried a Google search, with some site-specific looks into Shapeways' site, and the RocketFin Resin site, but turned up nothing, too. Who knows, there still might have been a really obscure Japanese market-only hotrod pickup kit made. I'm occasionally surprised when that kind of kit - such as the Nichimo Mitsubishi Colt / Champ - shows up on ebay, but they are inevitably really expensive. You might be looking at a project of turning the Revell stepside Ford Courier into a fleetside like Patric Malir did, and then turning that into a Mazda.

Thanks for the nice words, all! So many model car threads to read, so little time to read them all. Hey! I resemble that remark!

I thought I saw somewhere that this '67 Chevy clear body kit for radio control vehicles is 1/10th scale, but I might be wrong on that: http://www.axialracing.com/products/ax31498 $70 for just the body and related items, though.

Was that his black one with the multi color stripes? Yep, agreed - Andy would be just fine if he wasn't totally nuts.

Ha! The 911 Deora qualifies for the thread that I created over a year ago (which I'd actually forgotten about) about 1/2 backwards cars: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/145178-12-backwards-cars/ There's probably lots of other dizzying rearrangements out there to be found.

Had to look that one up, now that the guys mention it. I thought it meant the rich, folks, too. Substitute "highfalutin" instead, a Mark Twain-style dig at the rich folks, I think.

I'll have to pass on the challenge. I'm still all dizzy from heading an ordinary VW Beetle in the wrong direction.

Thanks! Among all the others in my GSL running gag of entering yellow 3-wheelers in the "Group" category (borrowing "LordModelBuilder's photo of those others), the '32 is still my favorite since it looked like the one that could most likely be a 1:1 custom car.

32 - 5 - 3. Wait, what? Long story short, the model kit for the "Group 93" category at the 1993 GSL contest was the AMT '32 Ford, where we all could build it any way we wanted, except with nothing that was available aftermarket-wise for kit building after 1963. Since I had Morgan 3-wheelers on my mind for the previous year contest when I built the "Group 92" Mercury Cougar as a 3-wheeled joke, I just kept the same idea for this one. Basically a 1963-era buildup street rod with just what came in that kit and its reissues, minus one rear wheel and adding panels to fill in the sides, along with paper handmade dice hanging from the rear view mirror, and a hand painted paper motorcycle license on the spare. I donated it to the Model Car Museum in the late '90s where it now sits on their glass shelves.

Aha, that's the rusty junkyard 1:1 pic I'd saved but later misplaced. Much duller looking than Randy's version.

That might be the one Steve Gilmore posted about here? It appears to be some long ago builder's copy of the Nordberg cabover. Probably other guys back in the day might have been inspired to build variants, too. I found other photos from 1964-era magazines showing the Nordberg contest winner which I showed in my post here on what a modern day tribute might look like.

The famous Revell-Pactra 1964 contest co-winner Bob Nordberg custom Ford pickup cabover? I was able to lend a hand in prompting the man's son to donate that one to the Model Car Museum in SLC - first few pics in my thread here. From my knowledge of that one, I'd saved a pic for several years of a really rusty junkyard 1:1 that looked like your Chevy version, but with a much flatter worse-looking front face. Can't find it on my computer so far, might have deleted it .....

Been thinking of doing this combo myself, but on a Toyota S2000 GT, and a bit more sectioned on the Chevy part and with the truck's taillights on the back ...

Welcome! No doubt you might be glad we're entering the time of year in this area where spray paint doesn't completely evaporate before hitting the model.

If I did more, I don't remember, but here's one I saved from the mid 1980s B.C. (before computers) that was a "cut 'n cinch together & tape" which I intended as a silly form of wall art.

It would be somewhat easy to create a giant dime. I'm lost on how he created really realistic giant 1 foot diameter fingers......

'62 half open wheel sorta split-ish Vette old glue bomb on ebay right now, if you are wondering what one variant of that idea might look like. https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1962-Chevy-Corvette-and-Open-Wheel-Race-Car-Fusion-model-kit-adult-built/353239794569

The "used to pay" might be what's causing it. I and lots of others were only using the free version of Photobucket, and the basic extortion threat (for lack of a better description) was that our photos would either not be seen anymore or would be crippled by the corporate mark if we didn't pay for the service. I only used Photobucket at a different 1:1 vehicle forum, and since that other forum and MCM here allows direct photo uploads which work great, I had no need to keep using Photobucket, so I let it lapse.

Brad Leisure did a nice drawing of that. http://www.horse-powergraphics.com/Lil-Camino-Coffin-s/2023.htm

Thanks! The grocery store I go to that usually stocks that magazine arbitrarily decided to stop stocking it, and in these days of isolation, it's the only place I go out to.

When his employer mandated that he lose the mustache, right? I missed the first day or two of that if he came in on a Thursday, and wasn't paying attention all the way up to the time when I was already on the bus for the trip to the museum and heard this huge roar of laughter including Pryor's own trademark laugh. That's when he showed who he was to that little crowd in front of the hotel. I forget what year that was, though.