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Both beautifully done light commercials. Contest quality work for sure!

Very nicely done. The two tone paint works great with that body style. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for saving this classic kit. You did a great job kitbashing in current parts to bring it back. I love those giant old cruisers that could probably hold 2-1/2 smart cars in the trunk. It looks huge as is but imagine all that Detroit iron wearing a continental kit on a three foot long rear bumper extension. I have seen that done. No fun to parallel park !

Ambitious project This was the first 1/25th scale model car I ever built(1958) and those multiple piece bodied kits are unforgiving at best.Thanks for sharing.

We all have a common love for the sound of an ICE( internal combustion engine) at some level I believe.We hear the cackling of a fuel dragster at a Good Guys event and instantly a crowd gathers to experience the ground shaking power of 10,000 horsepower. Maybe the sound boosts testosterone levels! Others are attracted to less violent sounds as well. In the spring when I first fire up my '48 Chevy and back it out of the garage I love to hear that old split manifold six cylinder rumble at idle. Honestly it's like therapy for my soul . I am glad to live in a time when I can experience that joy. We tend to take all this for granted but probably shouldn't. Last summer at a family picnic one of our college age grand daughters asked if she could sit in the '48. Naturally I was pleased and opened the driver's side door for her. One of the questions she asked was what the little chrome handle on the door panel did. I suggested she turn it to find out. She was surprised when the window rolled down! Here was a 20 year old young lady who had never seen anything but power Windows.Untill that moment it had never crossed my mind how much I took that stuff for granted. I grew up in those cars and two generations later it was all new to someone else.

Agreed.That '55 is very realisticly built and could easily pass for real in those crystal clear photos.

Darn it...everyone else whom read this before I got to it already pointed out the obvious but subtle stuff I love about this one ! Thanks for taking the time to share the excellent photographs with us.

Really an outstanding model. I seriously doubt many builders would go the extra mile to combine two bodies to achieve that longer lower profile. Well done indeed!

You know of course that you will be getting letters of protest from all of the owners of the owners of the 1925 Dodge coupe pointing out the very obviously incorrect number of wheel lugs you have chosen to use on this model. I hope you are ready for the shame and ridicule that comes with all of that negative attention

Insanely Originally !!

Wow This is gonna be a "Duesie' !

Yes it is. contact Bob Shelton,PMB 140,3116 West Montgomery rd # C,Mainville,Ohio,45039 or at thedirctory@cinci.rr.com If you've ever been to the Ohio NNL in October and noticed a fellow wearing a little beanie hat with a plastic propeller on top....that would be Bob Shelton.

I have a "Directory of model car kit" book published by Bill Coulter and Bob Shelton that is updated every year. It lists every known kit,it's year,kit number,etc.The very first release of the '32 Ford sport roadster trophy series 3-in-1 kit # 132 was in 1959.The '32 five window coupe # 232 was in 1960. The first release of the 1925 Ford was in the double kit # 200-125 and that was also in 1960.

I bought every one of those kits in the original releases and never saw a card like that in any of them.

I believe that "when I was a kid"thing is a relative term and needs to be explained. When I was a kid it was the 1940's and there were no plastic model car kits. When were YOU a kid ?

Unfortunately all these "I would like to see this kitted" forums end up the same way.....as a bottomless sinkhole of never gonna happen. There is a very talented pool of master modelers and resin casters out there willing to invest the hundreds of hours in creating masters for vehicles we could have never dreamed of having available to us a few years ago. A great example of that is the excellent looking Corvair Rampside pick up kit I see pictured lately. What we have to ask our selves is are we willing to spend the $ 70.00 it costs to buy vehicles like that? If the prices I see at most kit retailers are any indication of what to become of kit prices we are halfway there already. Maybe if we had to spend $ 70.00 a pop for every model kit we REALLY intended to build we would not all have shelves loaded to bursting strength with dozens or hundreds(you know who you are)that in all probability will never be built. Maybe we would all be a little more select in what we invest our disposable hobby income for. This is all of course just my humble opinion.

Looking very interesting my friend. You have all the basic components there for a really cool speedster. I'll be watching closely.

Here we are in 2018 and I am not getting any younger here Robert .Exactly where is this massive undertaking at with any possibility of being available ??

Very cool Howard. Thanks for sharing this link for us all to better appreciate the history of our common hobby.

Great thread. I have scratch built two stations myself and am really enjoying watching your building process. Thanks for sharing and taking the extra time to photograph all the individual steps and post them. These just might help other builders to get started on their own projects.

Any update available? I needs me extra butter and salt fix !!

Thanks for the link.Lots of neat stuff available from them!

Of what you've shared here the '37 Hudson Terraplane pickup project is the most interesting to me personally. What are your plans for that one?

When discussing the use of hex head style fasteners we might want to consider when that style became common. Prior to world war one most headed fasteners where in fact square headed with many being hand made with the head fastened to a length of straight rod. With the onset of mass production machinery in the early 1900's and the world war on the horizon,many fasteners went into mass production and in an effort to produce consistently sized pieces these often adapted the new hex style head. No wonder the railroads had square headed hardware considering the age of their infrastructure in the 1800's.f