Joe Handley

I like this! Been wanting to try it with one of the Revell F&F Dom’s Charger kits.

Those are new and they’re building them right here in Illinois at the old Mitsubishi “Diamond-Star” plant in downstate Normal, IL! I’ve yet to see one of the trucks like you saw or any of their delivery vans that Amazon is buying yet, but I did catch a glimpse of one of the SUVs that uses the truck platform for the first time while leaving the gym at 12:30am or so last weekend.

Did a little more work on the tonneau cover, still need to fill the seam lines before attaching the humps to the base piece. What do you guys think of the shape so far?

Thanks, I've thought about doing the same with one of the Futura kits I have too......too bad the size is just far enough off that I'm not sure if I could cast this reuse before permanently attaching it to this model

Been playing around with this, kind of a what could have happened to the Futura if Barris turned it into something other than the Batmobile, but using some of the Bat-Styling Cues, plus a kinda ‘62 T-Bird back seat tonneau cover inspired area behind the seats. Still working out how I want to shape the raised areas though.

Saw one of these coming home from the gym tonight, it’s the first Rivian I’ve seen in the Wild too!

Here’s my last few hauls.

Did the above wheel swaps since I couldn’t sleep.

I need to get some of those wheel sets, both the hot rod and tuner style since I’m all over the board on my interests! Here’s one I stripped the paint off and sanded out so far. I want to polish it out, paint the nose and area around the cockpit black, then get the chromed RA6 wheels off one of the Lucids I bought a few months ago on it (and put chromed Aerodisks on that!). then here’s what it looked like before I took it apart with the van that got the wheels off it.

Did a few more recently! Found a good wheel donor for the Mazda 3 in the Matchbox Jeep Renegade Trailhawk, then a donor for that with the Matchbox Polaris RZR, which fit with some Dremel work and a lift. Then bought another RZR for the Ridgeline that donated it’s wheels to the lifted Subaru Sambar, which required lifting the Ridgeline a bit, plus stripped the tampo graphics off it. I’m debating on rolling stock on the RZRs, thinking about the taller and skinnier wheels off the Big Air ‘56 BelAir since they’re not as big as the other set.

And those are some of the smallest ones I could find too!

How about this tiny, little one It was meant to be a Nash Metropolitan Lead Sled, but it’s looking more like a Sports Custom to me.

I think most of those are burning some sort of waste oil now.

Did a couple more wheels swaps, this time to a couple Matchbox Subaru Sambar Kei Trucks! Here’s the ones I started with, the two little Subis and a couple Hondas for donors. Here’s the one with the Ridgeline’s wheels vs a 100% stocker. I figured it was too low for tires that much taller, so I raised that one and lowered the other one! I think these wheels are about 1mm different in diameter from stock, just in opposite directions, on top of the change in altitude I made to the chassis of these two trucks.

Bought this Matchbox Mazda CX-5 yesterday and decided it needed a change in altitude and attitude. Took it out of the package and shot a couple before shots. Then took it apart, didn’t think to take pics here, but I cut off and sanded down those fingers holding the axles to the chassis so I could mount some 1/16” aluminum tube on top of it to lower the thing, I also clipped and shorted the axles to fit in the tubes too. Using the tubes like this also requires modification to the interior where the risers that push the axle to the chassis plate are molded. All said and done, I think it looks fantastic like this?

Thanks! The 3 is a Matchbox car, as is the Civic CVCC, the blue ‘34 Chevy 5 Window, and red 5 Window Deuce Coupe. They appear to be a bit more model than toy like when compared to the Hot Wheels cars too.

I found a Hot Wheels Lucid Air a couple months ago and it rekindled my interest in 1/64 cars again, and kinda have gone overboard. Got a bunch of the clear cases for them. Then here are the ones I modified! Most are wheel swaps with mild lowering. these I took the Tampo print off of then dropped and swapped the van. Since the engine in the last one is an inline, I chopped the header off the left side of it the drilled the tip out on the right side! I am planning on painting the chassis’ for the black street rod, blue Chevy, and Red Civic CVCC, then doing some chrome stripping on the Deuce, Transit, and maybe the engine and interior on the black street rod. This one and a second will be major custom job, this is more or a lead sled Nash Metropolitan, though the way I had to trim it out to clear the rear tires (the quarters were think and solid metal!) and the chip top that it has to replicate the Nash it models does give it a very “Sport Custom” look…. This other Nash is one I want to build as a gasser, though I want to jack it up, narrow the axle width to fit the wheels within the body like above, May even try to dummy up some leaves and traction bars, will have to hog out the quarters here too, just differently. Since I used one of those Civic CVCC cars for wheels on the Nash, I bought this Mazda 3 Hatch for the wheels on the Civic now, but want to drop and swap and this once I find something of interest, then kinda want to get some carbon fiber decal for the hood and spoiler (which is clear and molded to hatch) then paint the roof black. Right now, it’s sitting on craft sticks that are cut down to 2” In length and glued together like it was left to long in the wrong place.

I think those are the increased prices, plus I think the Mondail are about the only Ferrari that’s stuck in the “nobody wants it” zone.

I think those are going up in value now too, then though just about any late model mid sized FWD sedan with the hotter engine option would likely smoke it in any acceleration run.

By the way this looks, it's kinda being run the way the early NHRA events were in areas that did not have a sanctioned strip of some sort

Depending on the size and or purpose of the car, those large wheels are necessary for larger brakes, especially on larger and/or high horsepower cars and trucks as well as heavy work trucks.

That may be part of the reason black as well as gunmetal or titanium colors, they hide the brake dust better than brighter and or polished/plated finishes.

Been modding a Hot Wheels “The Nash” into something different than the 1/1 rat rod it’s based off of. So here’s the real one in front of a life sized Hot Wheels card, I think this is after it was chosen for miniaturization. and here’s before I cut it up with the Matchbox ‘76 Civic CVCC wheel donor. then after I got it apart with just the MB front wheels on it , as I had to grind at the quarters and create wheel openings since I couldn’t sink them in like on a proper Bathtub Nash. And here it is with openings ground into the quarters with the MB wheels on both ends with another fresh out of package “The Nash” I need to clean up the rear openings once my Dremel is recharged the knock down the Jr Dragster ‘chute where the spare should be, so I need to fab up a spare for it to make it look right then strip it to fill in the front openings and hole in the hood as well as shave the fender exhausts and doors handles before repainting it. Now for the Civic, I’m trying to figure out what I want to do for wheels, but right now…….it almost looks like I left it in the wrong neighborhood………

Low highway bridges?! I’d be concerned about bridges that would clear oversized loads with that thing!

Just imagine the bath you might take on resale when a “regular” person sees that. Weird and boring color combo on the outside, and almost Barris like over the top inside…….no thanks!