Jack Herndon

Thanks for sharing the original article.We used what we had available in those days,although I personally never built ant body's from card stock.Are/were the body panels solid?I can't imagine trying to do the extensive and complicated body work you did on a flexible hollow body shell.Are you still building?If so believe me THIS is the golden age of model building.Welcome to the forums! Sometimes I used card stock and sometimes it was balsa wood. The underlying material was only an armature to start the build up process. By the time the body was finished, it was a sculpture of body putty and wire and quite stiff and heavy. I have not built any models since about 1967 or so. I moved on to many different types of projects from motorcycle fairings to carved art glass. Now I'm into building stringed musical instruments from found objects such as cigar boxes, hub caps, African masks, tin boxes, dog food bowls, motorcycle parts, etc. I do intend on someday finishing the last model I started back in 1967. The body was finished and painted, but I never got around to doing the under carriage, engine compartment and interior. Jack

Hi, A few years ago, a friend told me that he had seen pictures of one of my old model cars on line so I looked it up and was amazed to see pictures of my "Hybrid Special" from the model mag that had featured it back in 1965 and leaned that it was being recreated by someone for a model car museum. I tried emailing that site to let them know that I still have that model and several others that I built from that time period, but didn't get any response. I just happened to think about that today and googled "Jack Herndon model car builder" and stumbled onto John Teresi's post with the finished pictures of the "clone".......WOW.....I'm kind of blown away that anyone, except me, would have kept that old magazine, and that anyone thought enough of my model to recreate it. John's version of the model is very, very beautiful and probably better crafted than my original. I really like some of the changes like the nose curving more downward and the different dashboard styling. Well done John, I know you have many, many hours in that project and the finished product is stunning! Thanks for making an old man's day! I will try to post some pictures of that model and pictures of the other survivors that I still have. Glad to be a new forum member, Jack Herndon