Joe Handley

It may be too long and have no center clearance, but atleast over hang won't be a problem Looks good!

hmmmmmm, hot rod Kubelwagen, wouldn't that make it a Kubelrodder then Sweet little build BTW!

Sweet, can't wait!

DOn;t have it any more, but that kit still looks way better than the Testors' second gen F-Body

You know, the more I look at it, the more I'm thinking that there is not a windshield in the car just yet

One of the guys on RC Crawler scratch builds truck cabs out of styrene to work with Tamiya's 1/14 scale big rig r/c's, his work is incredible! http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=182057 http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191676 http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187881

My thoughts exactly, the carbs, headers, and front wheels look too real and the paint is just too "off" to be a decaled model.

No, I think it may have been California, we don't have state vehicle safety inspections like that here. Normally if you take it in to have the "Emissions" tested, we have to take the vehicle to an Airteam facility and have them plug in the computer for testing the OBD2 codes and put the gas cap on a pressure tester to make sure that is sealing properly. Until they stopped testing pre OBD2 cars here, they stuck a probe up the tailpipe and let it idle then when the "treadmills" were instituted the did that and ran them on a chassis dyno type that device that tested the emissions at various engine speeds plus they also tested the gas caps too. In many cases the employees that ran these facilities weren't nearly as qualified as the ones that worked at the shop in the above situatuon. Watching them running these cars on the dyno could get interesting though, my Turbo Lebaron would rattle the glass and aluminum boxes the car owners had to stand in while the cars were getting tested. I remember one J-Body Buick Skyhawk that was at least as old as my Chrysler (and was in far worse shape) that had a healthy pull to the left and nearly drove right off the dyno! IIRC the owner was told to get it fixed before it was brought back to retest otherwise they weren't going to touch it again. I'd imagine that depending on how bad that carnage was, they might as well have dropped it to the ground. If it was going to be a write off and the shops insurance wasn't going to get involved, the owner could theoreticly get it running enough some how get it to a dealer and trade it as a "clunker" and take the hit for what ever the X5 was worth.

I've seen it done on RC bodies with Drywall tape, but it looks much better with the way you did it on that car!

I'm almost positive I've seen that one with the Ilinois plates running around the area I work in several times over the past 10 years, wonder where it's based out of? Also ran across a Disney movie based out of LA about some HS dancing team a few days ago and the lead teen's dropout boyfriend was driving a car that looked alot like this one too.

That looks like it could be usefull, I can think of a few times in the past few years that I'd have beaten the snot outta one of those.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jeep-Turbo-...5#ht_6945wt_941

Found this on NAXJA tonight, let's just say be careful who you let drive your stick shift ride Guess there's a good reason to fix your own junk, huh?

Figured it had to be an Austin model, but didn't expect it to be that big!

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that hadn't been added two years ago, I'd have thought that was done to make fun of the Gixxer owner that tried feeding his bike NOS brand Energy Drink a few months back Needless to say, the bike didn't really want to do much for him after that

I'd have said puked....but that works too

You know, it's funny, of all the new 4dr Jeeps that were released after Daimler took over and after the Cherokee's death warrant was signed, that 4dr JK and the 2dr LJ Wrangler are about the closest thing that have been brought out as a replacement for the good old XJ platform! Me thinks somebody screwed up here Another amazing bit is that the 4dr JK's easily outsells the H3 and have been one of Chrysler's few and much needed shining lights of late Anybody else wondering how that little blower would make a 3.8l V6 powered minivan run.......................

I remember that one! But probably soooooooo true

http://i.ebayimg.com/14/%21B%28rE2dgBWk%7E...3g%7E%7E_12.JPG http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jeep-Wrangl...d=p4506.c0.m245

Yup, that mirror looks like one piece of something and chrome platted, usually the glass is pretty obviously separate from the rest off the mirror assembly. Thw woodgrain and gauges just don't look "right" to me either.

I'm going to say model, probably a Poacher of something along those lines.

Wow, I've wasted money in my day, but that's nearly tops the list of dumb things to pay that much money for!

Was that '59 a cover car at some point? It looks kinda familiar.

X3

Wow, incredible builds Bruno!