Junkman

Deliberate picture quote. Is that guy behind the car stealing petrol from the tank to drink it? Very nice build, btw.

A few weeks back, I opened a thread for exactly the same reason as this. Obviously, it was equally ignored as this one will be.

Oh god, that's terrible. I know exactly what it feels like. I had a 2500+ collection, which was taken away by my lovely ex-wife.

You know what we all should do? We should take the first (car?) kit we ever built, and build it exactly how we inteded it to look back then - but with the skills we have today. Now THIS would be a funny community buildoff, nay?

I found an ordinary frame like this in my local skip. I built it into a vintage path racer style:

Me too. No, actually mine is still a real Dyno. Rare now. I think the bike Jody posted is a Switchblade. Jody, I need to see pictures of the bike you have in order to make useful suggestions.

Actually, this is my work of this weekend: From this: to this:

Hmmm... After cars and model cars, bikes are my third passion:

I still have these: They didn't come with plated parts. Hence, I sent all parts which should be plated off to Bob Shebilske years ago. I should really build these now.

I started my foray into the plastic world with an Airfix Ariel Arrow. My first car kit was a Monogram Mercedes 540K.

The simple reason for not doing this is that I don't have a Revell 57 Ranchero.

I was thinking to use the chrome bumpers, wheels and chassis from the Revell flatpack. This way, that kit would at least yield something useful.

I use Humbrol matt white enamel. Not a single problem in 30 years.

This is the 59 Ranchero: It's actually not a bad model and could be built into something very decent.

Remember those fine dinosaur kits they made when we were young?

[anorak mode] The B series engines were the first to be designed by the new corporate engineering department. The RB (“raised B”) arrived just one year after the launch of the B series engines, with the 413; just as all the B-engines had a 3.38-inch stroke, all the RB engines had a 3.75 inch stroke. B Engine: Bore Stroke CID 4.06" 3.375" 350 4.12" 3.375" 361 4.25" 3.375" 383 4.34" 3.375" 400 RB Engine: Bore Stroke CID 4.18" 3.75" 413 4.25" 3.75" 426 4.32" 3.75" 440 4.03" 3.75" 383 See, a B as well as a RB 383. The 383 cubic inch RB engine was only available in 1959-1960 in the US built Chrysler Windsor and Saratoga. [/anorak mode] Gosh, did I tell you guys already that I am NOT a Mopar man?

I happen to own a '75 Cordoba. But why would anybody put a 340 where a 440 fits just as well?

That would be correct, Sir.

Very true. 37 years ago, I was eight, and around this time, I built my first ever plastic kit. It was an Airfix Ariel Arrow. My father, who is an excellent modeller, albeit he is doing railways, guided me, so it turned out halfways decent actually. I just imagine putting the unbuilt Ariel I have in front of my daughter, who is 11 now.

Mine drove Renaults Maybe that's why I never turned into a Mopar enthusiast.

David, I always had the greatest admiration of the 'early' guys who could actually make something out of a heap of building bricks like this. Put this in front of an 11-year-old today. Thanks for showing it to us.

I was five when we got our first TV, a black and white one - and I don't mean the casing - for watching the lunar landing. So now you know what age I am.

One can program an 8-Track? What did I miss all my life?

Or maybe this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgjNq-Y8NGk Or this: Great build, m8!