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Loving your Kubel Funny thing this, When I decided in my young teen years to stop building mainly military vehicles and warplanes, I happened on a Tamiya Kubel. Cant remember the scale but probably 1/35 or 24, so long ago the early 1970s. I decided to customise that Kubel as best I could with whatever came to hand in whatever scale, as long as it looked right to me. It had car parts, tank parts and even 1/72 plane bits n pieces. I don't have any photo's but I do remember painting it a mix of red, white and silver hoping to make some form of metallic pink. It was the nuts as we say. That Christmas I received a Rommel's Rod which in a way was my transition kit from military vehicles etc to Hot Rods and custom cars.

Now this is looking interesting

Nicely built model, always wanted to try one of these but too rare here in the UK to come up cheap enough. Look a bit like something Barris would have built when he ran out of decent ideas by the 70s

I think they make great slot bodies if you want a couple of Hot Rods. The 57 Chevy and 52 Chevy fastback are my faves but the scale is a little off I think. Nice box art on the originals.

Looks quite nice as a straight out of box build I think it's a great kit to have as a parts kit, apart from the engine of course. Love the wheels.

Anyone ever thought about building some of these ideas? Love it at 01:40 https://www.facebook.com/thiseuropeanlife/videos/1154460917903634/

Just a boring old Peugeot 406 Estate diesel. Not really worthy of a picture. Bought second hand, it does what it does. Temporary storage unit and shed, long distance tourer, work hack when the trains are not running and sales van(I do swap meets or auto jumbles as we call them here. I don't really respect cars and have never had a new one, never cleaned it in 4 years apart from a rub down with a stiff broom and soapy water, there is moss on the roof and around window seals, though I do the oil changes and important stuff to keep it running. I trust it to go anywhere, hoping to make a trip to Poland from England in it though my Mrs would rather fly, I say by driving you can really see the diversity in cultures as we travel. I am sure should I ever buy a new car, and I would love Peugeots latest modern take on the 406(I don't even know what its designation numbers are) It would end up the same as this 15 year old banger within months. Drive safe everyone, Johnny Tee

The 'Superfly' headlights may be a challenge

I know this is an old post but I would like to know how this came out. Did you finish it? From my favourite Bond film

I have always liked this model but doubt I will get to build it. Just toooooo many other projects What I would really like to know is how well did this Ford sell in the 1-1 real world? Could that greenhouse be covered over as I would guess it could get rather hot inside even with air-conditioning of those days. I had a modern car with a small slide back sunroof but could never drive it on a hot day with the glass panel unshaded.

A real neat model and I love motorcycle models. At the moment I ride a Hayabusa and Triumph Triple but not today as it is pouring with rain haha (Typical English weather) In the 1:1 world of American cafe racer bikes(pronounce it Kaff to be authentic British ) why put that tape around the exhausts? Is it a legal requirement as I have never seen it on a 1960s-early 70s British built bike such as the Triton, Norvin hybrids etc nor any British bikes for that matter. Is it something invented by that TV program as all it would achieve is rusted out pipes if it gets wet. Lets see more motorcycle models here please

What was the base kit for this? I have the Italieri Coupe Napoleon model. I always wanted to do a replica of the Schlumpf car after seeing it in the museum.

Really great to see more bikes. Are these the Tamiya kits? The silver Ducati is my fave I am working on the Tamiya Hayabusa at the moment converting it to a twin seat 05 version where as the kit is a 99-02

Quite a few years ago I did see a car kitted out like this. Indeed it would have been the Escort Mk IIIs heyday except the chicken coupe car was an Armstrong Siddley Saphire

Thanks for that Mine must have been the Revell kit then. The cloverleaf wheels were quite detailed and looked an interesting model, never had a real Escort though. The Ford cars from this era were just to boxy for my taste and this was all slats and angles. With the flat tires is this a Basildon banger? (You would have had to live there to know ) Neat feature for a Craylands Basildon diorama by the way Cheers, J.

Always thought it a shame they did not include a RHD dash in these for us British modellers as Revell did with the E-Type (XKE to you fellows in the US ) I had one of these on my stall for years due to it being LHD

I posted a pic of this some years back under a different title, something like Caddishmitt. Anyway, I grabbed some photos from an old copy of Motor Trend I believe, or some car publication from the 1950s. Well a few years ago it got resurrected by some South American members on the HAMB pages. Here is a link to the full feature(Topic) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/iii-la-panamericana.482520/

Guess there was a lot of that "lets make Hot Rodders look like good kids really' type of thing. Yes that song is excruciatingly bad, its up there with Teddy Bear, the CB radio weepy. I guess Polio was a big thing in the 50s, an older friend suffered from it but it didn't stop him from being a bad ass type.

I have to say though this was actually the second time I have seen this film, I thought I had not, I am actually more a Godzilla fan (Toho production) when it comes to monsters

Thunderbirds had some neat futuristic stuff in the puppet shows. Cant seem to find any images of what I am after though most were emergency service vehicles, police cars, ambulances, taxi's and limousines. A lot of those got trashed by earthquakes and other calamities. Correct me if I am wrong but Rolls Royce approved the use of their trademarks on Lady Penelope's FAB 1 Rolls Royce. We seem to see models destroyed though probably due to filming budgets in these old B movies, hence the use in the Gila monster film. There must be some more out there, how about Attack of the 50ft Woman(original)? Sorry cant find any screenshots

Looks a bit better than that magazine piece by piece issue 1/8th kit. What scale is that one?

Nice to know there is still some interest. Just love monsters stamping on things. Anyone know if Godzilla wrecked a few promo's ?

Just watched "The Giant Gila Monster" You know the kind of film where teenage Hot Rodders save the world from some horrific menace. What I do like about these films though is the way we see hot rods just as they really were, straight out of the pages of those little page magazines and not a Rat Rod in sight. Just as the Giant lizard is about to munch up everybody he stamps on a few nice models/promo's, sorry I don't know the makers, then the hero drives his nitro glycerine loaded 32 into the monster. What a waste of a decent deuce kit as car and lizard are blown to bits. The world is safe yet again Cheers, J.

Though I said the 'Chrome' was moulded silver, this is probably the same model. Thanks Joe, J.

Lovely model This kit has some of the best spoked wheel mouldings of any I have seen on a kit like this. Finished mine in ivory with red rust coloured interior. Sadly I sold it.