OldTrucker

Built this some time back. Tried to make it a little more like a real vehicle. Used the 6 cylinder out of the Monogram 53 Belair kit Did my best to make the taillights look like the 54's stock lights.

My wife bought this for me because I used to build them and the VW repair shop. the last buggy I built was long ago and I believe was a 1/20 scale kit. This was a quick fun kit to build!

While not my style I can only say that this build is utterly AWESOME!

Lee, just old Testors chrome silver paint over gray primer. I remember being up almost all one night cleaning up the flash on those wheels before finally painting them!

Just good old Testors Gray Enamel that sat and cured for about 8 years before I got around to building the kit!

We had the molds and were making buggy bodys. The flake we used was huge! The shop owner passed away a couple months ago and his brother told me he still had five 30 gallon barrels half full of the different color flake!

Built this a long time back but just love these cars! Still want to build the other 2 if I can find them reasonably priced!

Hey! I think I went steady with her in the 7th grade!!!

This one was at a local gas station back in May!

A small garage I worked at in Southern IL. serviced garbage trucks for a small hauler and two of his trucks were L700 Dodges. We transferred a box from one onto another truck and the old Dodge retired behind the shop. Wish I had pictures of it. It was a fairly long framed truck with a drive and tag axle. I don't know if the frame had been lengthened or came that way from the manufacturer. Another L700 I would see regular was over in Indiana running down US41. It looked like a dual drive (maybe single with a tag) and always was hauling what looked like a 27ft flatbed trailer and a single steel coil. Never got close enough to see if it was an independent owned truck but suspect that it may have been a company truck hauling for themselves. A local lumberyard had one that they hauled their truss trailer with. By the time I saw it, it was retired to the back of the yard.

Even into the 60's it was amazing the custom work that came out of back of the house garages. Guys using dad's or grandpa's retired hand me down cars and making them their own mostly with junkyard parts. Most barely had tools enough to take one apart and few had a welder so for that they would head down to Billy Bob's Welding Shop and the guy would do it up for them sometimes with time payments, traded parts or let them pay with labor! I even remember guys(and have done it myself) working off parts from a junkyard. It wasn't that they were trying to make the old Ford into another more expensive brand but rather they liked the grill or other trim and envisioned how it would look on their own car and then set out to make it work! Whether or not you or I thought it looked good or bad was not even a thought as they were looking to please themselves! As has been said, they are in a form an artist and their ideas are their artistic impression of how they think it maybe should have been!

I bought 25 in one pop about 12 years ago at a car swap meet. The guy just didn't want to take them back home and was just taking anything reasonable for the kits. Nothing rare but most were OOP kits. Ranged anywhere from 2.00 - 10.00. Used most for trade stock after they sat buried in a closed for about 8 years.

I don't know exactly what you are asking but here locally by the late 60's thru the mid to late 70's we had a lot of old drag cars (straight axle cars) that were showing up on the streets. First generation Nova's (Chevy II's) and first and second generation Falcons were the most common other then the Tri-5 Chevy's and Shoebox Fords. Most rescued from behind garages, out of barns and out of salvage yards.

Great looking build! My dad who was lost in Korea a few days before I was born was a B17 pilot in WWII. Two of my uncle's crewed on them one ended up a POW for 2 years after being shot down over Germany. The other was a line mechanic. I met two of them as a kid and both swore by those planes and their durability to sustain great damage and still get her boy's home!

OOPS,

19 of 20 here. I don't remember the news reels. I did use the butch wax for a couple years thoughL

A work of art is the only way I can think of to describe this great build! My wife's first words was "it looks like a boat and she really surprised me when she recognized the Studebaker roof on the boat!

Usually just one as space is limited but have done as many as 3 at a time in the past which can get a bit confusing!

That is awesome! The last time I saw a large scale RC plane was about 5 years ago when there was a small airshow here. That one was a B17. I tried my hand at RC planes in the late 60's as a teenager. The RC equipment was expensive as all get out and not very dependable I believe it came from Auto World too! I could be mistaken as it was a long long time ago. Was flying the plane I designed and built at a field near the old strip pits when the wind caused it to drift to the west and over sone high tension wires and I lost control and it just kept heading north out of sight! Guys searched the area for over two weeks on and off but never saw a sign of it. Most likely went into one of the pits or channels and sank. The wifes brother in law has a hobby shop and sells a ton of RC stuff planes and the cars. They were running a track in the town they live in but since he moved his shop to town here where I amm I don't know if he handed it off to someone else or not. Thanks for posting the video!

This is one of the oldest parks in the area. There were only a few left who had been here since the mid 60's (park opened in early 60's) and they have all since died or moved to assisted living. Our trailer had only two owners prior to us and is a 1968 Holly Park. It was still in great condition (other than needing a pain job) when we bought it from the 91 year old widow lady that owned it since 1972. The original owners who kept a tight reign on things but the last of the kids retired and sold out to some outfit in NY. They two years ago sold it to a company that owns parks in three or four states, 4 in IL. The new management is slowly running off the older tenants by either saying their homes did not meet their standards and need to be moved which they know can't be done so the person is forced to sign it over and they either tear it down or as in some we have seen rehab them (barely) and rent them out to low income individuals on section 8. Yesterday a neighbor on the street behind moved out. She asked to sell her trailer and they rejected everyone that she had that wanted to buy it. She already has rented an apartment and could not afford to pay both rents so she had no choice but to turn her trailer over to the park. They pull that with me and they will get nothing but a shell! I'll gut the place! We have bands of kids roaming the park way after dark (last night after 11:00.) and they don't do anything about it and to talk to the kids parents is worthless if you can even find them home. If we were under city it would probably get better but we are under county and they will not hardly ever come out for any minor issues. The only reason they came about my glasses being stolen was because they were already at the old flea bad motel next door that they are shutting down. We are trying to get into a rent controlled complex (60+) in a small town west of us where one of our son's lives. It is owned by a doctor and rent is income based and he does not take government money so he isn't forced to accept anyone that does not meet his requirements.

Wish I had one. Did go across the street to a neighbor that has one but someone broke it a few weeks ago just like others that had them. Getting a lot of transplants from the Chicago area here with the new owners doing section 8 on their new trailers they have brought in.

Was trying to clean my foggy headlight on the HHR when I sloshed some of the dirty soapy water in my eye. Took off my glasses and layed them on the hood while I tried to wipe it out. Burned so went inside to the kitchen sink to wash it out and when I went back out my glasses were gone. I know it was one of the little hoodlums that steal anything not nailed down (and throw racks at the trailer after dark or pound on the walls) out here that took them. But even when the police came out (the wife called) they all denied even being outside. Some of their parents even lied for them because they were! Now I'm out a 300+ dollar pair of glasses and no way to replace them. Got a real old pair but they dodn't work very well.

and it is rapidly getting smaller in the rear view mirror!

While looking under the work bench for a lost part that bounced away I found a 20 dollar bill!!! The bad part is I never found the part AND now I have to apologize to the wife because she really did put that 20 on the bench when she came back from shopping two months ago!!! Guess the fan blew it off the bench.

At some point you have to call him on it. He's your partner and others will erronously make the assumption that you are the same. I was lucky. My wife made me go with her dad when we were first married. I had never played before and besides missing the ball more than a few times my score was astronomically over par. When we got home he actually floated at how bad he beat me. 4th time out it had rained and he had a tough game but I was exceptionally lucky and beat him by two strokes! He accused me of cheating and left the golf course without me! Plus side, he never asked me to go ever again!