Brian Austin

FWIW, the paint was redone once or twice in its show career. At some point the paint got more of a green tint than it originally had.

Many '40s cars have had fake wood in their interiors as well. "Woodgrained" dashes are steel, painted with great skill and care to resemble wood. If I had a customized vintage station wagon, I'd be tempted to paint the sides in faux-marble-grain effect just to be different among the woodies. :-)

StevenGuthmiller, how about simple common courtesy and respect for others without snark? The "It's ugly" and "Yawwwn" (seen elsewhere in this forum) responses aren't particularly productive.

Someone built a replica of the Golden Sahara in 1:25 scale. https://www.customcarchronicle.com/model-cars/the-golden-sahara-model/#.XaecXTd7njo Now are you going to tell the builder it's ugly? Oddly enough I was recently thinking of posting the restoration progress thread on Rik Hoving's wonderful Kustom Car Chronicle site. https://www.customcarchronicle.com/forums/topic/golden-sahara-ii-restoration/#.Xaedpzd7njo To me the point of many '50s wild custom cars was to be "in-your-face" creative. The Golden Sahara was always a show car. They had to outdo their colleagues, and then re-do them for next show season, topping themselves in the process. When you go to model shows, do you complain about how "ugly" the radical customs are?

IMHO nothing about that yellow car is "factory". :-) 'tis a kit car.

The MB roadster was spotted in a shopping center parking lot, slightly rough around the edges. The night shots are of a local classic-car dealer.

That "suspicious" looking Countach sure looks like a kit car. That wacky front bumper looks like it was designed to prevent under-riding in a collision (but was executed with a heavy hand!). https://otobekas.com/detail/1986-Lamborghini-Countach-1986-Lamborghini_283585898727.html I considered the latter Countaches as being cool when I was young, but today I just really love the clean styling of the original version.

There are lots of different model-building forums out there, from around the world. Fantastic work.

Some elaborate miniature neon signs were built for the 1980s film "One From The Heart". Working neon signs were bent from 2mm tubing. https://www.facebook.com/NeonMuseum/posts/throwback-1981-miniature-las-vegas-strip-used-for-francis-ford-coppolas-film-one/10154748364670754/ One such neon sign from the movie is/was on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEON-Miniature-Movie-Prop-One-Heart-1981-Nastassja-Kinski-/192684017407 Some are seen in the title sequence shown below. Other sets were constructed for a scene depicting background scenery seen from a moving car that was later cut.

OK, I just found the record label does in fact spell it as Beetlebaum. Nevermind...

FYI, the name is Feitlebaum .

Electric rods and I.C. cars aren't mutually exclusive. We can enjoy both.

How festive!

There is at least one radio control hobbyist scratchbuilding truck bodies (for 4x4 chassis) using aluminum pan stock, formed over styrene forming dies and fixtures. http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/1-9-scale-rigs/147988-project-true-scale-aluminum-toyota-body-10.html

The Opel Blitz chassis and wheels are very different in design from their US couterparts.

I can't prove it, but I seem to remember seeing a Trabant perched up on the front of a business in Charleston, SC in the early '90s. I didn't get a picture.

I should point out that Chevy sedan deliveries used the wagon roof panel, so the roof rib pattern engraved in the '60 Chevy kit are incorrect (See ref. picture-car not mine). When I set custom project aside I was wondering just how I was going to replicate the roof. I think I'll try an overlay of scribed sheet.

Some time ago I started a conversion using the roof on a Revell '59 Impala. IIRC the AMT kit body is a little narrower than the Revell one.

Anybody remember Photopoint? A paid service that went kaput. I'm in transition from a free Flickr account to a paint Fotki account (eventually) but I seem to remember they had issues themselves some years ago.

For more info see.. http://www.translatoruser-int.com/translate?&to=en&csId=ebb96d3f-7674-4ca0-ba3b-7f4931766838&usId=15dbac7f-5123-422a-8df3-ccd8b34f3da3&dl=en&ac=true&dt=2019%2f9%2f5 3%3a7&h=kldyD5DcXai46MsOgNI37k9aqxMPHZaV&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecodacs2.nerima.tokyo.jp%2frehsi%2fessyasen.html Original Japanese-language page for reference in case the translated page doesn't post properly: http://www.ecodacs2.nerima.tokyo.jp/rehsi/essyasen.html

I saw this as I was returning from a car show. Not bad for a grab shot...

I love these kits. I'm considering building mine as a typical 19th century New England locomotive. They were quite colorful when built, getting more plain later in the decade. The "General" was built by Rogers Locomotive Works in 1855. Note that the kit (and most motorized smaller-scale models) represent the locomotive after restoration, and had been modified numerous times since it ran during the war. As built it ran on 5-foot-gauge track, later rebuilt to standard gauge. Anyway it's a cool build and it's always nice to see these kits built...

Oh I love that! Apparently it's called the Camelot Cruiser, and three were made. I love the use of an extra cab structure for the "bay window" effect at the front. Those Ford cabs sure are versatile. :-)

OK Using Google Street View might be cheating a little, but I saw a Bulldog Mack behind a window at a heavy haulage company's yard garage in Holbrook, MA this afternoon. Their website shows some of their haulage trucks I didn't really get to see as I passed by. https://www.hallamore.com/

This kind of reminds me of the trouble I had cutting and stretching an early issue of Revell's PT Cruiser to make a hearse. I think those bodies of that era were actually ABS, and didn't seem to want to stay glued to regular old polystyene among other issues. That project was a particularly hard-fought battle. The plastic wasn't glass-brittle, but it broke in unexpected ways. IIRC the Revell '56 Chevy 210 bodies were also ABS.