Chuck Most

I haven't built anything ridiculous in a while. For me, that's saying something. So, we'll rectify that little situation like this... Here's my inspiration- a whacked mid '60's Chevy wrecker done up in a decidedly hardcore rat rod style. Doubt mine will be a wrecker- I've done the wrecker rat rod thing before. I'm thinking a fifth wheel or something like that. Then again, maybe I will build it as a wrecker? Not sure, this will simply be another of my 'throw stuff at the workbench' type projects. I stared with a Revell '65 Chevy C-10 that had been raided for parts. I started off with the chassis- I used the lowered kit front suspension and stock rear axle, with wheels robbed from a Monogram F-350. The tires are from two Revell Deuce kits- the littles on the front, two pairs of the 'bigs' in back. I cut out the inner fenders, and body dropped the truck about 6 scale inches. The top was chopped roughly 8 scale inches, and the wing vents were removed. One of the parts stolen from this kit was the hood- I used it on a '60 kit because I don't like the 'pods' on the early '60's GM truck hoods. On this one, I thought this hood would be perfect, so I used the discared '60 piece. I must like using Hemis in '60-'66 GM trucks- of the five I've built, this is the third to use one. It's from the Revell '41 Willys kit, with the Double Dragster 8-carb manifold and a DeSoto valley cover. The belled aluminum carb stacks are from an unknown manufacturer. I'm going full blown kookie on this one, like that '53 Ford wrecker I built a couple of years ago. Should be a fun one!

Despite what's been said, I like it. I know nothing about NASCAR stock cars, neither from the '70's nor the current ones, but I like how this one is shaping up.

Well, one AMT Cobra in the running, rules out mine!

Only the magic of teh internets, Mr. P!

Well, Jacen, ya did it... I'll be buying a couple each of these!

Very cool! I started an asphalt car a few years back (after seeing Drew's Bench Racer column a few years back ), I might have to take it out of mothballs and finish it as a dirt car now!

Those things to the left look like scary shark heads!

Lemme see if I have one nasty enough to be a candidate!

Drew- didn't that Falcon start out as an AWB funny car?

I'd say absolutely on the Farmall nose! If for no other reason I wouldn't have to make the master! Going to have to restock my Terraplane grilles pretty shortly, too, by the looks of it-

And more expensive! (Not by an ungodly amount, but still!)

One will be built as a lead sled. One will be built as a Bonneville racer. One will be built as an abandoned junker. One will be used as a base kit for a Hendrix resin body. One will donate its Twin H I-6, which will sit behind one of Jim Pelosi's resin '37 Terraplane grilles on a rat rod. And those are just the first five uses I've concocted...

Sasquatch Spams every time I post something.

'49's were available with the quarter windows, too, so they'd still be correct for a '49. But to answer your question, you'd just need to fill in the quarter windows with styrene. Replicas and Miniatures Company of Maryland makes a regular cab without the quarter windows, but IIRC, it's chopped.

Wow! I'm not even going to bother trying to build my Allison Matador once this one's done!

Most of the Testors enamels will strip quite quickly, especially if the Purple Stuff is warm. I've had some in the tub for five or ten minutes, and when I took them out, the paint was already dripping off.

Floodlight, or whatever it's called?

There's another Skywal... model car magazine with a forum that doesn't have "Model" or "Car" in the title?

Yes, if you'd believe that! They're hosted by that model car magazine without "Model(s)" or "Car(s)" in the title!

Just Googled 'jeffb', and nothing untoward came up. Maybe they just don't like quality cast resin on the other board!

I've seen it happen in a monster truck (well, I've seen it in a video, anyway), but THAT would be frightening!

Very nice! Now maybe there'll be time to finish that Citroen Trefle?

So... if I crank up "Mr. Blue Sky" or "Strange Magic" the paint will come right off?

That's for sure! When I saw his most recent Caterham model, I kept thinking "Why does this guy even bother starting with a kit at this point?"