Cpt Tuttle

Yes, the Ascona fastback was only available with four doors. Owned a 1985 Ascona GT four door fastback 9 years ago, I don't miss it at all. We got the notchback with two and four doors. No two door fastback (probably because the Opel Manta coupé, based on the old, RWD Ascona was still in production), and the wagon was only available in UK, but then as a Vauxhall Cavalier, not an Opel Ascona as the rest of the europe got. Obviously not my car, but same model and color....

You will need to convert it to four doors then, the two door Ascona was only available as a notchback, fastbacks were four door only.

Since I don't build superbikes, I traded a Yamaha RD500 kit I had for an old tool Revell VW Beetle convertible. When I opened the box, I didn't get very much inspiration, boring kit and lots of flash..... Besides, I don't like Beetle convertibles very much... So I thought, why not make something simple, yet fun, out of it? So this one is becoming a roadster pickup. Since I didn't want it to look so much like a simple hacksaw job, an old Chevyvan body donated its roof for the wall in the back, since it had some slight radius.....

Clean and crisp build!

Meanest looking modern Mustang I've seen.

Yeah, I agree since the red one is quite similar to the one that the son of my neighbour is driving, except that his one is white and is the strange rebadged "Volkswagen Taro" version we got in Europe.

Volvos of this era had a dark, almost black, grey shade on the trim but it faded very quickly and is almost white on most 850 and late model 740 cars that's still on the road today, the same goes for the taillamps that usually are horrible looking....

Interesting!

Yeah, authentic looking, something you would expect to see left behind a barn or garage somewhere when newer companions has taken its duty, cool!

Nice! When I grew up, my father had a black 56 F100 for a while, that he was restoring but sold it before he finished it, so this one brings back some memories, like when I was scared for life that i should drop my shoes through the rust hole in the floorboard, lol.

Nice, flat black but not beaten up, absolutely flawless with nice contrasting wheels and a beautiful engine, one of the best F1 builds I've seen.

Cool build! Personally, i don't care much for wheels like this but that's just a matter of taste, i find nothing to complain about when it comes to the build itself, it is nicely executed.

Looks convincing to me, if I should complain about something, then it is that probably some of the brightwork are aluminium or stainless on the real car = won't rust.

In case you're wondering what this is.... In the 40s Sweden got some rules so farmers could cut up an old car or truck, gear it down and register it as a tractor. The rules still exists in a somewhat modified form, but the tractors are nowadays mostly used by 16 year olds to legally drive a "car" since you have to be 18 to get a license for a car in Sweden but only 16 for a tractor.

Never seen something like this before, and it looks great IMO.

Started with an AMT Courier kit. Since the Courier was never sold in Sweden, I removed the Ford specific stuff and pretends it is a Mazda. The frame is shortened. Bed is made from some scrap wood I found at work and the triangle was cut out from an old driving school book. Front wheels from Revell race trailer, rear wheels from some unknown source. Tamiya Volvo 850 seats. Real cloth on the cab floor. Mesh grille, modfied BMW headlamps and bezels. Sunroof and steering wheel from kit. Pipes made from an old radio aerial. Taillamps modified Chevy Titan parking lights.

Nice, very authentic weathering job!

Great! Along with the gullwing 300SL, this is my dream car!

Fantastic interpretion of a classic!

Reminds me a little bit of something that could be a modern interpretion of a Saab 96, at least the rear parts.

No, I won't borrow it to you anyway, buy your own helmet!

Just hope that he will keep the interest alive. If you should have said that it was a model built by an adult, I would have believed you, so considering age and lack of experience the result is great!

Yeah, tried to find a model forum that wasn't dead and this seems to be the place..... Don't like the trend that everything is moving to Facebook, it is a horrible platform for forums! To think that it is better just because it is what's "modern" now is like thinking that a new moped is faster than a superbike from the 80s just because it's new!

This was my entry for a competition on a Swedish forum where we have to finish a model between christmas eve and new year. Fujimi kit, kept it in white primer because I liked the look of that, however it took a lot of painting before the yellow plastic stopped bleeding through. Side markers deleted, cup mirrors from kit, modified AMT Studebaker Avanti rollcage, Ferrari 328 steering wheel since it was the only "modern" racing wheel I had in the parts box, I don't like the stock porsche wheel that looks like something out of Volkswagens garbage container. Harnesses made out of masking tape, seats from some AMT F&F kit IIRC. Tailpipes are a cut down radio aerial.

I have a friend that is crazy about VW Transporters so I built this one as a gift for her 30th birthday. Hasegawa kit reboxed as Revell, box stock except for door cards made out of cardboard.