Chuck Most

Thanks! Solves that little mystery for me.

Maybe I missed this in the conversation, but was this based on a stock Barracuda kit? I ask because there's a slant six intake manifold on one of the parts runners.

Thanks everyone. First post has been edited to show the completed boat. AMC did look into that, but they determined it would not have been worth the effort, as a pickup model would have cut into production of the more profitable wagon models.

Bare Metal foil was used on the scripts- I applied it to the raw plastic then knocked off the primer and paint rather than try to foil each individual letter. It's the old JoHan snap kit. As far as I know it hasn't been reissued since the '80's but they're still out there. Thanks guys!

This started out as the Johan Cross Country wagon. It was reworked just a little bit to represent a period-style custom, the way it may have looked if it had gotten into the hands of a custom shop when it was new or nearly new. The grille, headlight pods, and bezels are from an AMT '57 Ford, while the club plaque and side pipes are from the '59 El Camino. I think the tail lights were the custom ones from a Johan '63 Plymouth- the taillight pods were made from plastic tubing. Paint is Testors Icy Blue and the wheels are Crossbars from Pegasus- they included the small wide whites. The kit includes simulated Ambassador side trim on the decal sheet- these were trimmed down to fit with the deleted rear doors and radiused front wheel openings. The boat and trailer are the AMT '59 Chris Craft kit, with a modified Moebius Hornet engine and decals from Matty Winspur's '54 Hornet drag car.

This was mostly thrown together box stock, other than the addition of big and little tires and Cragar wheels from the Monogram '37 Ford coupe, a parts box side view mirror (Revell '64 Impala, maybe?) and aluminum tube exhaust tips.

Newer style grille, but they were GMC Astros.

Would it have a market outside Brazil, though?

I like it

This was just a quick, box-stock buildup of a Carina as restyled by Autopista. The Carina is basically a four-door version of a Celica. I liked this version because it kind of looks like a grandma car with a body kit. All I did was blend in the ground effects at the wheel openings a little better. I'm still not great at painting rub strips, but I'm getting there.

This is the '53 Teague stock car kit, done as a fictional La Carrera Panamericana racer. I used the whitewall tires on the front and the full exhaust system from the '53 club coupe kit, and removed the fender skirts, but other than that and some parts box decals I pretty much kept it box-stock. It has some scuffs and scrapes in the paint to represent a car driven from the Great Lakes region to Mexico, maybe sometime later I'll weather it to look post-race. I also found out how robust the Moebius kit can be with this one- during assembly, the nearly completed car took a three foot tumble onto the floor.... not a thing on it broke or came loose.

This was one of those fun, one-day projects, based on the curbside Tamiya kit. The car was lowered, and fitted with tires from Revell's Cadillac lowrider. The Caddy's outer wheel rims were also used, but centers from a Revell '57 Ford were turned down and inserted into them, and capped with Tamiya S800 hubcaps. The car was also fitted with a straight pipe and fender mirrors from a Subaru 360. Then it was treated to a coat of rust and dust. Other than some silvering on some of the Rat Fink decals, I'm happy with the way it came out. The "Too fast to live, too young to die- Cream Soda" front plate is from a Fujimi wheel set. I guess the Japanese take cream soda very, very seriously.

Anybody know what those three-piece (outer, inner, knock-off) custom wheels are supposed to be? Are they based on a real aftermarket wheel from that era or are they just flight of fancy by some AMT designer?

I always got a laugh out of that too. Somebody at AMT in the '90's wasn't quite sure what was what. The new reissue has Noah's Arc Welding, but that gets a pass for being punny. Phillip- as far as your weathering goes, I think you're off to a terrific start. It looks like a mostly well maintained but tattered old work truck.

Lately I've been going through my stalled Hornet projects, seeing which ones I can finally get wrapped up. I started this one way back when the convertible kit came out, and it sat at about 95% finished for a few years. Over the course of Wednesday afternoon and evening, I went ahead and chipped away at the remaining 5%. I'm going by memory for a lot of this. There's a bit of mis-match in the paints because, honestly, I forgot what I used originally, so the top boot and padded firewall don't quite match the rest of the interior, and the purple on the bumpers seems a bit lighter than the shade on the body, though I'm not sure if that's due to it being laid over chrome as opposed to primer. The windshield frame was chopped and the body was sectioned, I went with side trim that abruptly sweeps downward to throw off just how much the body has been sectioned. Bumpers and side pipes came from a Revell '49 Mercury, and I think the grille bar is from the Revell '53 Chevy sedan delivery, grafted into the stock Hudson grille frame. The bucket seats were made by cutting down two Hudson front bench seats and those sit behind a '54 dash. The engine is from a Revell '50 Olds- I used one from the custom version which has a Hydramatic transmission. I also used the Olds steering column.

Love it! If I have one complaint it's that it could use some pastel colored squiggly graphics on the doors.

I did pick up that issue, but I'd have rather seen the spread on the 'Cuda first. The GTO wagon was cool but the Camaro did nothing for me. Still baffles me why the "Cuda was on the cover with the other two.

Love it! This car was on the cover of Hot Rod not too long ago, with a 409 bubbletop camaro and a GTO wagon. For some reason they had full features on the other two, but not the four-door 'Cuda,.

I love the 1:25-ish mirrors and grille emblem. The 1:20 Lindberg kits were okay for the most part, just sort of an odd scale for most people. I just wonder why they're being reissued as AMT kits. If they don't want to use the Lindberg name, slap MPC on 'em... George Toeteff (spelling?) started dabbling with the 1:20 scale kits back when he was in charge of MPC, and tried it again with Lindberg in the '90's.

I was expecting a pink paint job, but I really love that shade of green

This is my 20th completed Hornet. But if I'd finished it sooner it may have been the tenth. I bought the Hollywood (hardtop) body from Motor City Resin Casters a week or two after Jeff started casting it. I messed up trimming the vacuum-formed rear window, so the car went back into the box for what, five or six years? Like I said, I ordered the body almost immediately after Jeff put it out and it's just now finished. I re-did the foil on the rocker panels- I originally used that terrible "ultra bright" BMF. This time I used the old reliable "New and Improved" stuff. (Is it really 'new' if it's been out for at least a decade now?) The paint looks awful- I have no idea what shade or brand of yellow it is, but I'm not terribly thrilled with it. I at least like the shade, but it's bumpy in spots. Sort of looks like a backyard respray, so I left it. We'll call this an amateurish restoration. Also my foil work back then wasn't as good as it is now. I will say this kit's greenhouse is MUCH easier to detail with foil than the club coupe. This also has one of the 20 or 30 finned heads I made before I got sick of that and sent one off to Kris Morgan so I (and anyone else) could just buy copies. I'm thinking of getting another Hollywood body and chopping it a bit... wait about six years and maybe you'll see it here.

I'm glad this post got bumped, because it's still one sweet Chrysler.

Lovely! I still need to order a couple of these.

Looks to be from one of the Revell '32 Ford Street rod kits. The '90's era 1:25 kit, not the old Monogram based one.

What if Lincoln had wanted to reach out to a younger, upwardly mobile family man in the mid '60's? This is my take on a what-if factory concept or coach-built Connie wagon. It's the most recent reissue of the kit which comes with two different wood grain motifs, clear or smoked glass parts, and the optional phantom wagon parts the kit has always had. I stuck with the stock front and rear treatments and the factory wheel covers, and coated the whole mess in Ford Toreador Red. One thing that always bothered me about the wagon roof was that the roof and back glass was all one piece- it seemed there'd be no access into the cargo bay from the rear. So I added an upper liftgate frame and some cut lines to suggest a cargo door back there. The model could stand some touch ups here and there, and I'll have to polish out the clear coat once it cures, but overall I'm actually surprised it came out looking this nice. The Toreador Red was a "proximity choice" (the can was visible while I was working on the body, so I just grabbed it and used it) and I wasn't sure if the wood paneling would look gaudy, but so far I'm liking it. As an aside... if any resin caster out there does (or is planning) a sedan body for this kit, I'm good for a couple.