Chuck Most

[quote name='mountaindewd' date='18 July 2010 - 12:48 PM' timestamp='1279489722' post='336611' This may have been his inspiration. http://public.fotki.com/mountaindewd/rat-wrecker/

It's just sportin' a gold tooth, like an old witch doctor!

It always strikes me how cool Volvos look in race trim. Nicely done!

I still stand by what I said about glue bombs earlier, but I still like seeing rare golden oldies actually get built!

Yes! The 'CORD' to Hupp/Graham! How could I have forgotten that one, as a lover of both the Cord 810, and the Huppmobile? (My dad has a '39, last year of the 'non-ex-Cord- Huppsters.)

And Mr. Robinson has added another element... bringing in a non kit, non-scratchbuilt component (resin, PE, or what have you). The plot thickens!!!!

What are you planning for the engine... I'd leave THAT exactly the way it is!

Only if you drive an Austin Marina! Sheesh, even if you buy one that's already had a piano fall on it...

Art is correct... I hereby smite the Jeepster Commando from my original list until I see some actual proof they actually shared body panels!

Wow- you drag racing modelers always blow me away!

You're totally right about the chassis differences. Here's what made me list it as a "1:1 reissue"...I've read and been told by Jeep fanatics (is there any other type of Jeep lover? ) that the Jeepster Commando body tubs were stamped from the same tooling that pumped out the original Jeepster. Of course, there were differences (the rear fender openings being an obvious one), but what I've been told is basically the Commando's body was a hastily 'facelifted' Willys product, to the point that many of the structural panels will interchange between the two.

A satellite dish IS one advantage to living out in the sticks, I suppose. That, and I can stay up until 3 or 4 AM watching TV and working on models! If I were in an apartment, I'd be evicted so fast I'd never know what hit me!

My dad always felt the same way about the seventeen varieties of Cutlass! "I wish they'd just pick one and stick with it!" The LTD name had a pretty good following... 'brand association' I guess they'd call it nowadays. But Ford did kind of run it into the ground! I think that's mostly why they started de-emphasizing it and tacked the Crown Victoria stuff on later. Me, I've pretty much grown to accept all the weird model names and such, and I don't lose too much sleep when a long-standing old nameplate is put out to pasture. Well, okay, it is a pet peeve of mine when Chevy guys call their C/K series trucks Silverados, but I'm even beginning to accept that!

I see a couple of very small early '60's style customs...

I still have yet to build this kit, even though I have one in my stash. Thanks for the inspiration! I really need to build a few buggy kits already!

I'm kind of surprised I even get the channel- I've just got the DirecTV basic package. I'm glad I do get it though! Best part is- I missed Top Gear and James May's Toy Stories that night... BUT... after they play an episode of Star Trek TNG (last night's was 'Deja Q', the one where Q looses all his powers, pretty good episode from 1990 even if I can't believe it's been that long already), they re-run Top Gear and Toy Stories. I usually watch the later airings since I can't even consider falling asleep until 3 AM or so!

Why would I hate you- it's a fact! I don't think they were called "LTD Crown Victorias" until 1983 or therabouts- before that they were 'just' LTD. The LTD prefix went away with the all new '92 model. The weird one with no grille.

Not sure how many of you caught it- or even how many of you actually can get BBC America, but on last night's episode of James May's Toy Stories (starring none other than Top Gear's Captain Slow), he and a team of schoolkids built a 1:1 scale model of a British WWII Spitfire plane! A company who makes 1:1 'dummy' display replicas for military bases recreated an old Airfix kit in full-size, sprues and all, and the kids assembled it in a hangar. Other than its size, it was broken down and arranged just the way an Airfix kit would be. It even needed a little 'careful trimming' during assembly. This was easily one of the coolest things on TV I have ever watched... when they were carefully pulling the plane out of the hangar for its big unveiling, I was on the edge of my seat! Turns out they're still pretty fragile in 1:1. I won't say if it ended in disater or not, but it was very, very cool!

Two things- One- I didn't realize Airfix was still making car kits. Two- Looks like this will be fun!

Yep- I messed up on the "II". At least I didn't call it an "LTD Crown Victoria"! (That sounds like another interesting conversation... using the same name on several different car lines, often at once. Olds was the worst offender, with their endless array of Cutlass-Somethingorothers.) A few years back I saw one which had the drivetrain from a Mustang GT- 5-speed and all- swapped into it. Looked like Granny's old car, but the guy who built it said it scared off quite a few of the other 5.0's in his area.

Exactly! I rarely if ever scratchbuild 100% of a component- I'll usually throw a few "found objects" in there if they'll work. Even if you are just using strips of Plastruct or Evergreen, that's no different from using a kit part along with it! (A "TRUE" scratchbuilder would have made his OWN plastic! )

Best New Challenger I've seen yet.

Another masterpiece, John!

Tom- you are correct. The vehicles did stay in production... just not as what they were the previous season (or several seasons ago when they were last offered). And some cars did live on in other markets with new "identities"- we've all heard of old car tooling (US and foreign manufacturers alike) being sold off to third world and 'Red' nations. (If anybody can shine some light on any of these particular examples, feel free to chime in! ) Mark- I was refering to the more obscure '80's version of the LTD II (the one replaced by the Taurus). The only reason I even remember them is because my great aunt had one! Yes- Mark, you're right about the LTD II. I was refering to the '80's version, (replaced by the Taurus) which nobody but me seems to remember! (My great aunt had one- otherwise I'd have probably never been aware of it. Can't believe I forgot this... In '57, International introduced the "A" series. For '59, they added an optional V8 and a new nose and renamed it the "B" series, and for '63 another new nose and dash came with a new designation... "C" series, even though all three essentially the same truck (even though there were some mechanical updates and improvements through the years). I can't imagine Ford slapping a new grille on the F-150 and calling it a G-150! (Sorry... E-150 was taken! )

Totally NOT what I was expecting, but I love it! I'm not even going to attempt such a thing, but I'm glad you did!