Chuck Most

I think I remember seeing the rebuild of this one- or maybe the original finished photos where you mentioned it's slot car origins. They way things are going I wonder if this will ever be reissued, or at the very least if the '69 version will make a comeback.

Love it! Maybe this sounds weird (It's OK, I'm used to it), but it has a kind of "pulled from a shipwreck" feel to it. Maybe it's the rust, shades of green, and the copper items.

Anybody who'd be offended by this masterful Mini is an idiot. I love it.

Well if they're rare, craigslist logic dictates they're also worth at least 500 bucks a pop.

At one point, somebody wanted to build this old luxury yacht as a pro touring car- so the interior was redone with grippy Recaro seats. That guy realized he was in over his head, so it was sold. The next guy had more of a lowrider idea in mind, so he nabbed some gold spoke wheels off of craigslist. Then the old 430 engine gave out, so it was sold. Which brings us to the current owner, a high school auto shop student who swapped in a 460 from a '91 F-250 and has no big plans for now aside from driving the wheels off of it until he can afford a paint job and a few other things.

Those of you who were in high school around 1985 or so, and you remember the beater muscle cars from that time... think of this as the equivalent of a '70 Duster or Maverick Grabber from that time. A little rough and tattered, but still getting the job done. The idea here was an early 2000's tuner show car that was wrecked and neglected, and is in the process of being repaired and put back to stock. A stock rear bumper cover is stuffed into the back seat area, along with a cardboard box we can assume contains the missing exhaust header and other doodads. The car still needs that and a little rear suspension work to be a reliable driver but it's in way better shape than it was when the present owner got ahold of it.

This is an old Lincoln Touring car that was converted into a pickup in the mid '40's. The 1945 plate on the front is there to kind of represent when the conversion was done, while the '57 plate on back denotes the last time it was registered for regular street use. The bed was scratch built while the cab was pirated from a '34 Ford. The Lincoln also got a bit of a power upgrade with a home made manifold housing two Stromberg 97 carbs. This is how it looks today after 60 years of spending most of it's time in a shed and only being used for parades and such. This was the first model where I used a Molotow chrome pen, believe it or not.

Love it.

Didn't Monogram immediately scrap a large percentage of the Aurora molds shortly after purchasing them?

The Revell '70 Torino Cobra has pretty much the best version you'll find in anything.

Mike and Jay are great guys. When I took in my VCR for repair, they stole my credit card and ran me $75,000 in the red. After holding onto my VCR for over a year, it was in worse condition than when I left it. When I finally came in to pick it up, Jay smashed it on the floor and Mike poured beer on it, and they both laughed maniacally. I tried to voice my concerns but Mike kept interrupting me with Star Trek trivia. Every time I go in the lobby smells bad, like there is a dead body in the back or something. When I told Lighting Fast's corporate office about how Mike and Jay treated me, they promoted them to district managers. All I wanted to do was watch my Night Court tapes. Lightning Fast is the best VCR repair shop in the world and I'd recommend them to anyone. http://www.lightningfastvcrrepair.com/

Well... wait a while. Once you've built a couple of those other subjects going back to one you've already built can be a nice project.

Well, I'm guessing the guy who sent it to you wanted you to build it. So... build it.

Took them long enough- they've been planning this for almost a decade.

This project began many years ago, and stalled out for quite some time. It began with a '20's Oldsmobile chassis (Beverly Hillbillies kit) set up on some Radir mags and wide whites. A chopped '41 Chevy cab from Jimmy Flintstone and a '36 Ford truck grille from Drag City casting were also used, along with a homemade bed. I had originally planned for the rod to be powered by a straight eight, but I figured if a straight eight would fit, so would a V16. It wasn't quite as straightforward as I'd have wanted, but the '31 Cadillac mill slid into the frame with a little work. Some Replicas and Miniatures Stromberg carbs were installed.

I love it! That's one way to get around having to stretch the nose for a Honda swap.

They have to start out all clean and non-stinky.

Attaboy.

For me, Lars' bone-stock Land Rover would be a challenging enough build. You nailed this one.

That would do the job just fine.

I might have to get a set of your decals just as an excuse to convert one of the incomplete Force 440 Dodge kits I have.

I do have a "Ted Nelson Plumbing and Heating" van planned to commemorate my favorite MST3K episode.

Left home in the Lincoln, and came back with three more.

This is a model I originally built about ten years ago. It's a never-was SHO variant of the Probe, built using the AMT kit with the engine, transaxle, and wheels from the Taurus SHO. At some point the hood came up missing, so the model got tucked away and spend years getting coated in dust and cobwebs. A few weeks back I cleaned it off, and last night I painted an extra hood, fixed the droopy interior tub, added a license plate, and slapped it all back together. It's not my best work and it still needs a little more dust removal but it looks way better than it did! I have no idea what silver I used on it originally- the Testors Diamond Dust I used for the new hood is a shade or two lighter than the body. Whatever... I'm guessing that now that I've gone through all the trouble, the original hood will turn up any minute now...

This was on of those "getting rid of spares" kind of projects. I had a couple of incomplete AMT/Ertl Taurus SHO kits, and a crusty old All American Models wagon body, so I decided to combine them into a post-apoc model. Sad thing is I did not modify the suspension- that's about how high an early AMT Taurus kit will sit if you build it right out of the box. Other than the armor and screen much of it is out of the box. The Omega symbols on the doors came from Warrior Of The Lost World, a really bad Italian Mad Max ripoff starring Robert Ginty (The Exterminator), Persis Khambatta (Ilea from Star Trek The Motion Picture), Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis from the Halloween movies) and Fred "The Hammer" Williamson of M*A*S*H* and countless other exploitation and B movies.