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Also, ToyMan did a little feature on the car at the GSL.

Sad to say 2023 will be the final GSL. I gave my presentation that was well received. I decided to enter the car in the contest and it won second place in Replica category. First place Replica winner was Randy Derr's '75 Sebring Corvette. It not only won best in class it won Modeler's Choice, Best Detail, Dave Shuklis Engineering, topped off with Best in Show!

I attended the show and per Mark Gustavson's request, gave a little seminar on building my 1/8 scale ed Roth Mysterion model. They recorded the seminar and here is the link. https://archive.org/details/gsl-xxviii-seminar-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-mysterion Toy Man, Dale Angell, also interviewed me at the show. I decided to enter the car in the contest. Turns out the category I entered was also the one that Randy Derr entered his 1/8 scale Corvette race car, Replica. I won second place. Randy's car won Best in Class, Best Engineered, Dave Shulkis award, Modeler's Choice, and for good measure, Best of Show!!

Don't see photos of the finished model on this thread. I may have posted them on another thread on this site? Don't remember due to my advanced Partsheimer's, Anyway here they are.

Recently found out that Mark pushed the GSL model show into 2023! Better be careful, a lot of us old-timers might not make it that far.

Don't know. Bucket list is pretty much done!!

Great build. Here is the car I learned to drive in circa 1966. My favorite classic Chevy, even over the '57.

This is the 1:1 Mysterion clone I built in 2018. Was a bucket list thingie I dreamed about ever since3 the original Ed Roth masterpiece3 was destroyed in 1967. After building this, I had enough information to finish building the 1/8 scale scratch build of the car I started in the 1990s. Also attached a couple shots of the model.

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Wow Alan, I'll pay you for that endorsement later!!!! You are correct, building these things was an long term process. Finding information was really tough. The Revell model is of course an incredible technical achievement but as you will find out on close inspection, it has many, many dimensional and technical errors. I could only really use it for overall size scaling. As far as the body goes, it is even more free form than a first glance would indicate. See the photo below where I sketched major outlines on one side then overlaid them on the other side. The car is a full 4" 'narrower' on one side than the other. The model is 1/8 scale and I actually started it in 2001 but soon realized I didn't know enough about it to continue. I set it aside while I got on with life. In 2015 I got serious about building the 1:1 version. Finished it in 2017 and sold it @ a Sotheby's auction in late 2018. I decided to attack the model again when Mark Gustavson asked me to give a lecture on it and all things Mysterion at the last ever GSL convention this coming May. I need incentives and that was a good one. As far as kit parts, there weren't many I could use. I used mainly Lindberg Big Rod parts; rear ends (I like that they are split radially, not length-wise like Revell), carbs ( they have the convex air cleaner tops whereas Revell's are concave), engine pulleys, steering wheel. From Revell cars I converted the Big Deuce Pontiac engine to a Ford FE, used their rear mag wheels to make Rader wheels, backing plates and brake drums, and did use their rear tires but even had to modify them from scale 8" to 10" by splitting them and adding 1/4" down the middle. The front wheels were scratch built and the front tires are urethane rubber castings from a Revell motorcycle tire which was made smaller. Wood carved LOTS of parts (body, nose, seat, bellhousings, trannys, valve covers, seat), made many resin cast parts, body and nose of fiberglass. I wrote a book (still listed @ Amazon) all about the Mysterion and details of designing and building the big car. Incidentally, anyone who has the urge to write a tell all book about a similar subject, my publisher Mcfarland likely would take it on. They aren't a vanity press, they are honest to good publishers. They didn't charge me to produce my book, they did real life publishing. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/transportation/automotive/