Oldcarfan27

Thanks Casey, really helped me out with parts I needed. I'll try my best to return the favor soon!

I so remember wanting that when I was a kid, but since I didn't get it, I did the next best thing - pressing heavy duty aluminum foil on Matchbox and Hot Wheels and making the chassis with cardboard and extra wheelsets. Then playing Car Crash with them. Great Fun!!!

You sure have a nose for finding good collections! We'll be looking for your post in "For Trade" soon!

Actually, I've always asked myself. When he ditches the truck and falls asleep, why doesn't he just turn around and go back? Why would a 1 or 2 year old car have bad radiator hoses? Finally, I've always thought that the ultimate irony about the movie is the ending. After all the fear of the truck and the "Flammable" posted on the trailer. Ultimately, the tanker was empty and posed no threat of explosion.

And some more I've collected after I was a kid. All of this stuff was found at thrift stores for only a few bucks each. The AFX set contained multiple cars, making it well worth the $1.99 I paid for it back in the late 80s. The cliff hangers set was more dear at $8.99, but it contained both cars and was complete. Both of these Mattel sports games are a holy grail for me as I had friends back then who had some and I always wanted them. Both are original issues. Giant Sizzlers set was a replacement for a copy I had when I was a kid. Came with 3 cars (one still in the package) and all of the parts. Got it during the stores 1/2 price day. Total cost $1.50!!!

Some fun toys I remember having as a child in the 70s.

Reminds me of the Tot Rod I found at a second hand store near by. I knew it was unusual and for $60, I bought it for my young children. This is a photo from online, ours is buried in the garage. Similar condition.

Does the kit come with a can of Green Giant string beans? ?

Fun video, Alan! My kids and I enjoyed watching it. Reminds us when Orange county fair has the Motorhome Madness Demolition derby every year. What an absolute hoot! Too bad "Corona" ruined it for us this year. Fair was cancelled. ?

Actually, That wasn't really the point of my posting this thread. I wasn't trying to discredit or in any way belittle people who actually enjoy nice, well built miniatures. Whether they built them or not. What I find insulting is uninformed, opportunistic scammers who try to pass off an obviously "slapped together" dog of a model kit that was not believably built by someone with talent in the first place, but was stuck together some time ago, put away for 50 years and just happened to be pulled out of a dusty box from a deceased persons estate sale. Then pawned off as if a professional had dedicated his time to lovingly complete for some cherished collector. Phoooey!!! Just sell it for what it is. A used glue bomb! Face it Scraps, your 10 year old is not a "Pro Builder". Just because you think it's his best work, doesn't mean that the rest of us are gullible enough to fork over $125 clams to buy it!

Excellent comparison!

A companion piece would be Eddie VH's truck. Also done as a Testors kit. IIRC, I think it was called "Van Hauler"

Ahh, Brewster green! Very rare color for 73, but it was available on the SD and Trans Am. Yours captures the look of that color very well. I'd like to have a real one like that.

While I do appreciate the artistic approach to her concept, the one thought that kept coming into my head is "Someone's gonna have a hard time cleaning all that back off later" Sorry, just my OCD!

I just Googled him and saw images of him. He was looking pretty drawn. Reports say he died of natural causes, but I think something was happening that we may never find out about. I enjoyed him on "Raymond". Very funny guy, he will be missed. Does anybody else remember him from the TV show "Real People"?

I'd say, probably - Brother!! ?

A gasser-style Falcon is anything but "subtle"!

Looks like a feasible update on GMs original bubble top from that era. Very believable!

Looks like the real thing to me!

Looks good, Bob. Don't you just love those bargain-builds? Seems to me, the cheaper they are, the more fun they are to build.

That's cool, Michelle. I really like the stance and the wheels. Is that the Lindberg/Palmer kit? I've never seen one built before. But it looks like it has a pretty accurate shape - much better than the box art would have us believe. Thanks to you, I think I'll have to look for one to build myself. Great Job!!!

In my view, whether it's vintage models or 1:1 old cars, I take the doctors creed "Do No Harm". That means, don't do anything so radical and severe that it can't be undone in the future if you change your mind. Decades ago, I found a 66 Fairlane promo, body and chassis w/wheels. No hood, front seats, grille and bumpers or taillights. I loved the shape of the body, so I took the missing parts and substituted them from the new tool 66 GT - modified them to fit the vintage body without damaging it. Later on, I acquired the missing parts from another vintage 66 glue bomb and since the original promo parts were intact, I was able to simply transfer the parts to complete it. Bonus is that I still have the glue bomb 66 that I can use the modified parts on and build another hot rodded Fairlane that would have been junked without them. The opposite scenario happened when I wanted to modify a Tamiya 90s Jeep Grand Cherokee into a regular Cherokee square body. So I voraciously cut up and sanded down all the details of the body trying to fit the shape of the boxy Jeep, all to no avail. I gave up the project and now I have a butchered body on an otherwise complete and intact Grand Cherokee kit. Those Tamiyas are hard to find and I can't restore it to build one now. So it sits in its box until the day comes when I can find another body to complete it again. The point is, Don't destroy history just to make something that's trendy for the moment. I've seen somebody who took an unbuilt 67 Galaxie kit and "pro streeted" it back in the 80s, when that look was de-rigueur for the time. Now we see it as butchered and can't be undone. I say, copy the unique 67 only parts that you have and use them on a common 66 GT. Do with them what you want on that kit, but save the originals for something that won't go out of style. You can make as many copies as you want, but you only have a limited amount of vintage, original parts.

Actually, it hit the million mark back in the early 80s, so multiply that with all the DofH reissues and all of the Charger variations before and since then. And they're still using it! BTW, the Trans Am Blackbird had the distinction BEFORE the Dukes Charger and that one gets reissued almost every few years, too!

Some time ago, I saw more Palmer's with their universal wheelbase and then it dawned on me where they were targeting their market: Slot cars!!! The generic chassis, roughly 1/32 scale, molded in interior and general indifference to accuracy. Slot car racers wanted quick bodies to race. Half the time they'd bash them up and break them anyway, so they would need another replacement, quick and cheap! Notice that Palmer Plastics closed right around the time the slot car fad died out. Just my speculation.

That's a shame! Your's is what I consider "professionally built". You should've gotten a lot more for it. Almost reminds me of the "Jade Idol", except it's not a Ford and it's not green.