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My dad worked on every kind of car back in the 80s and he said Datsuns were always good cars.

The bed's crooked in the last picture, but it's EXACTLY the right size for the cab. Maybe widebody fenders on the front?

Fooling around with a Chevy bed on this Datsun..... V8, possibly?

International Trucks....

If I saw a truck like that in Maine for $1700, I would turn right around and buy it too! Lookin' great so far!

I keep fighting with the stupid bed to get it flat, but I can't manage it.... I'll deal with it when I do the exhaust, Mansfield bar and whatever they call the bars to keep the cargo from going through the cab.

Even for a Ford guy, I fell in love with a GM color: Fathom Green Metallic. I painted a Duster kit way back when with it, using Model Master rattle cans. After being banged around in parts boxes for years, I pulled it out last month and it still looks gorgeous, just like real car paint.

I weathered the whole frame with black wash along with the engine and engine bay. The engine bay is actually white but just super heavily washed over. I think I did at least 20 washes of thin black wash XD Yes, there is an air cleaner, but I lost it in my tabletop cleaning sesh.

I got this truck from my dad. It did have dual rear axles, and I removed one, moved the remaining one up to a point central to the two and set it there. I lengthened the driveshaft and beefed up the frame a bit. I added Evergreen square tube to the rear top part of the frame, after removing the big rig trailer hauling apparatus thing (you might know what I mean). The bed is from some tandem trailer, cut a bit. I added a CB radio with antenna, blacked out the grille to give it a bit of a newer look (plasticky, more like) and weathered the whole thing with rust powder underneath and black wash on EVERYTHING except for the front windshield. Bumper is currently AWOL, but I cut it so it's only as wide as the grill. This was fully unpainted when I got it. All baby blue and black. Now it's all Farmall Red and black! Actually, this is a perfect match for Farmall paint. We got it to repaint our Farmalls, a Cub with a PTO and dually rear wheels, an A (which we sold) and an H which hasn't been repainted yet because it runs terribly and is awaiting restoration.

Decals from Revell Firebird 3n1, the actual Shelby kit, the Revell Camaro Z21, and the 48? Ford. Engine from Firebird. Yes, I am ashamed, but the engine for it went missing and this one had velocity stacks, so that's a plus. Tires are my favorites, Firestone Supremes. I have about 12 sets of em, so I got to like them What d'ya think?

I finally finished something and found a camera! Thanks, JTalmage (ps I still need to find a box for your hotrod parts o__O) Whilst taking these pictures, the removable top took a leaper off the table and the window fell out, hence the last picture. This was also my first time doing plug wires. I used small electrical wire stripped and rebraided, then painted green.

If they were built by someone outside the company, I think they give it to that person. Don't quote me on that, but I think I've heard that before.

Isn't it the non-toxic Testor's glue that smells like lemon?

Saw at least 10 rusty Subaru Legacy wagons. This is Maine.

Only having two TV channels... ABC and FOX. Hey, at least I get "quality" programming... *rolleyes*

CHARLIE DON'T SURF! Just thought of PC boards, especially in my old computers.

Cummins engine? What color did you use for it?

Nice! A license plate up back would be nice, I think. Still, I love the classic style rims on it.

I work a lot in the shop. Whether it be the garage in our house, the workroom for models, downstairs on the train layout, or in the metal or wood shops at school, there are all sorts of great smells in there. Some of the best ones I think are.... - soldering - welding (yes, I know that without proper ventilation they are poisonous, but it smells good) - Tamiya paint, got a weird sweet smell to it - WD-40 - Safety-Kleen degreaser machines Any others?

They say "fortunately, the driver survived." DISAGREE He should've died then and there at that tree.

I need the Aztek so bad. If they made a series of Breaking Bad cars, I would snap 'em up. Incidentally, there is a Revell Monte that is the same era, I believe. It's in the Donks series, but at least it has the option of wire wheels, which do look like Pinkman's, sorta. Get one of those, jack up the rear end, put bullet holes in it and broken glass, and there's your intro scene from s2e1.

I've been looking for these darn things for years, as my parents decided I could have them back, but forgot where they were. On a routine trip down to the cellar I noticed that mighty familiar looking box.... and, boom. My uncle and father made tons of kits. He tells me they used to take their weekly allowance and go to every store that had models and bought whatever they could, and as much as they could. One store had damaged kits or returns, so they could get 'em for about seventy-five cents as opposed to five dollars or so. A few they got were Japanese, and with my uncle deciding last year that he wanted to move on to model military (and more financial problems, I guess) he sent me a huge box with all the cars he had left. Looking through this box, there are parts to build a table full of cars, but parts, bits, and bobs for scores more that are absent. There are trees of chrome that show there are two missing Mazda RX-3s I would dearly love to have. Sorry to hear about your models, Tom. I bet there are a bunch of great ones in there. Nice Bugeye, by the way.

It's sorta hilarious about how bad I was at doing these. Well, I was a kid when I did these.... like eight years ago. The Torino is molded in white, but I painted it in tutone with silver brush paint and made a "carbon fiber" hood for it. I'm pretty sure that involved a heavy coat of grimy black paint and paper towels. It is quite ugly. There was also a White Freightliner big rig in there, thankfully I didn't screw it up. The rigs were all my dad's, actual old Ertl releases. It is in multiple pieces. However, the frame is so short and only has one rear axle. But I'm gonna lengthen it and add a double axle.

I second the Vista Cruiser and the Burn Notice Charger.

Back when I was younger, I refused to clean my room and some of my models were taken away from me. They remained gone until yesterday! I recovered a GTO, a Torino Talladega, an AAR Cuda, a Dodge A100 pickup, a Scout II, and a Bel Air pickup! WHEEEE! So many memories, so many mistakes to fix....