ChrisBcritter

I've picked up my share of eBay stuff - got my "holy grail" decently built-up '57 Ford Country Squire there. Only mistake I made was when I bid on two different built '58 Ford convertibles at the same time, thinking I'd win one - ended up with both. Maybe I'll make one stock and the other NASCAR?

Born in Evanston, raised in Glenview and Northbrook, then three decades in Southern California, now back in Northbrook. My main hobby store was Klipper's (which I found out recently was originally a Crosley dealership, so they went from selling little tiny cars to selling little tiny cars). I also went to Hobbymodels in Evanston (back around '73 they dug up a complete 1953 AMT 3-car kit which I bought for $15.00) and Bargain Town in Niles. Just east of there was the Topps discount department store - nothing special except back in 1966, in the toy department, there was a big tray table full of unboxed promotional models from which I picked out a white '65 Falcon convertible; probably paid a buck for it, if that... then when I was older I started going to the Old Town Escorts model swap meets after seeing the Chicago Tribune magazine article that featured Ron Merkel's brown '61 Ford wagon on the cover. I have some old Instamatic shots of the OTE and NeuChamps model displays from the 1970's I'll be posting soon in the main section.

Cone with a depression in the center... Maybe take the full wheel covers from the '53 Studebaker kit and cut them down to dog dish size, then remove the three little ribs, paint them aluminum silver and add the black ring. Good luck with that lettering, though.

Boy, that is big, Tom. Wonder how close the Buddy L station matches up to it (figuring in the extra bay?)

If I could suggest a resin and photoetch transkit, the old Pyro/Lifelike/Lindberg Auburn Speedster would be a good candidate for one - isn't the basic body/fender setup pretty correct?

Several years ago I obtained copies made from exterior blueprints for a three-bay Texaco station.They were dated from January 8, 1959 for a project to be built in Corpus Christi. They have all the dimensions for the building on all four sides, which is just what you'd need to build one in scale. I scanned the copies and made them as readable as possible, but the files are very large (8 files @ 7 to 10 MB each) so I can't post them here, so I made screenshots: Now if these aren't readable enough, let me know and I can email the original large files to anyone who'd like to build one. The original blueprints were sold in an eBay auction; I got outbid but contacted the seller and asked if he would sell me some copies. He made them and sent them to me for free! So this is my way of paying it forward. I wish there were interior measurements as well, but hopefully you can guesstimate those. The building itself looks to me to be nearly identical to the Buddy L kit with one more service bay; I imagine you could tweak the measurements to make a one- or two-bay station. Happy modeling! P.S.: This former station in South Carolina is very similar except for the canopy: http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f169/11487d1181336318-ghostly-gas-stations-442242-texacoonebay.jpg

Nice job! Now I'm hungry...

Just a suggestion: Look at some images of the rain god Tlaloc. The rings around his eyes and protruding fangs/teeth might inspire a front end treatment. I know there many Aztec dancers around where you are - have you checked out their costumes for design motifs?

1. '38 Graham sharknose. 2. '37 Studebaker coupe. 3. '37 Plymouth coupe. 4. '32 senior series Nash.

Oh wow. Not too many girls had their own hot rods back then - the trad rodders on the H.A.M.B. would go nuts over it! Thanks for the closeups of the engine - I need to do some linkage and fuel lines on a set of triple carbs and that helps a lot.

For me it's the AMT Craftsman Series packaging, since I built so many of them: Also the 1/32 scale AMT All Stars and IMC Grand National Champion kits, because I see them so rarely that my memories of them are very old memories indeed!

Noob here (but I've been building since '67). Back in the late 1970s I bought an unbuilt Revell '62 Imperial (paid about nine bucks, IIRC) and started work on it. Then after I moved to CA in '81, I bought the real thing: I had it for almost two years until a hit-and-run driver totaled it; during that time I worked more on the kit to make it look like mine including the dull paint and dents. Then it got packed away for thirty years; now I've pulled it out and mocked it up: Mostly what's left to do is the interior (white with black dash and carpet) and some other little details before final assembly. Great topic - keep 'em coming!

Hi all, Long time Chicago area builder getting back into the hobby. Currently wrestling a Monogram '40 Ford pickup into submission, among many other projects; enough to keep me from buying new kits for a long time (he says...). Have a bunch of kits/builtups I've gathered over the last 30 years that I'm starting to tackle. Mostly into '50s-'60s showroom stock, hot rods, customs, and street machines - although if I ever turn up a cheap beater styrene PMC '59 Opel, I'd like to build a gasser out of it - since I don't think anyone has done it yet!