OldTrucker

These are older pictures and many of the cars have been rotated out for newer ones and there are some on a dresser not shown. But have just about as many if not more that are in their boxes in the closet because I have no more cases nor room for them to be displayed.

The only one that had suspension issues was the 1960 and that was corrected for the 61 model. Nader was looking to make a name for himself and the Corvair was his tool to do so even if it meant purposely creating the situation that he wanted which took a lot of underhanded doing. I've owned two. A first generation Spyder and a 68 Monza convertible. The 68 was a fun car to drive but wished it would have been a 4 speed instead of the slush box powerglide! (it was a butt freezer in Wisconsin winters too!) The Spyder I believe was a 64 and was a blast to drive! Used to take it out to the fairground and run on the clay track on a couple week nights when no one was around! I made the mistake of removing the muffler and detonating the engine by it over revving beyond it's mechanical limits with the free flowing exhaust. (wish I had done a little more research)

Thanks to everyone from Jeannie and myself!

That is a beauty!

I now have the other 2! I just received in the mail the Sport Phaeton as a gift from another member here (gramps46) and the wife found the Town Brougham for 28 and change delivered that should be here Friday!

We are celebrating our 48th anniversary today! That means a late lunch at Cracker Barrel!

Nice clean build. Did a great job of making a simple kit look like more! Shame no one did a more details kit of this car.

Like you I try and base off of what I would do on a 1:1 car or truck. I try and remember cars I saw as a kid and growing up that I liked and a lot of what I build is based off of that. For reference to trim, interior and other detail I just google the car and see what I can find as in pictures and specs.

Super clean Maverick! We has went and looked a a couple that were low mileage had good paint little rust sowing and near perfect interiors. Ran like a well oiled singer sewing machine! Everything great, until you crawled underneath for a look. The road salt and years have done a number on them especially the floors and where the sub frame connects.

Sweet looking Stang!

I'm "trying" to build an AMT 72 GTO kit at the moment and it is slow going for a mostly out of box build. The soft gray plastic is a real bear to clean up. Keep getting plastic fuzzys on the edges of everything.

yep, when you pulled the bodies out of the mold it wasn't a pretty sight and as rough as the glass was about the only way of hiding it was to paint it matt black. The last we built we were using a diluted rubberized undercoating pumped out of a 55 gallon barrel.

Unfortunately we actually got some in 1:1 that were that bad.

I did know the right term but couldn't remember how to spews cabriolet and with my 8 year old granddaughter standing behind me saying "are we going yet?" I didn't bother to look it up and put roadster! LOL

When I was driving OTR I had a three day layover in Salk Lake City so went to a car show there to kill some time. That was where I saw one of these in person for the first (and last) time. Things were winding down for the evening and I stopped and talked to the owner who out of the blue said to hop in and lets take her for a spin! I was elated to say the least! Here was this guy who knew me from Adam and asks me to take a ride in a to me priceless car! A few miles out he stopped to run in and get a pack of smokes and when we come out he offers to let me take it for a spin! I declined. As much as I would have loved to have driven that car I did not want to take the chance that something would happen with me behind the wheel! They are beautiful designed cars and just the feel of the engine in front of you is like a dream and I still can only imagine what the feel of the throttle would have been like under my foot! By the way, he didn't baby that car either! He drove it like I believe the creator intended him to!

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.