Chuck Most

Since it's in the 'on the workbench' section, I must ask what you plan to do with it? This kit is on my modeling bucket list!

Clean build, and a very nice presentation with the base! Top notch all the way, sir!

A Teresi built Nash SD quarter miler? I'll be waiting...

Nope... this was a totally different Nova kit (the body you now have was the stock version)! I'm the kind of guy who buys a kit just for a few 'key ingredients'...

It's an easy one to convert to RWD! In fact, Mopar performance once offered what they called a RWD Conversion kit. The 'kit' consisted of a modified front subframe... it was up to you to add the drivetrain hump, appropriate RWD suspension, you know, nearly everything!

The horn is from the AMT '53 F-100 kit. The engine is a hodge podge of Johan and downsized Monogram parts. The radiator puke can is a Valvoline can from a Fujimi part pack, and the rest I dredged out of my spares box or made myself!

Very well, then... As for graphics, I'm still up in the air. I mean, you EXPECT to see graphics on a panel, and since when have I ever done the expected? I might weather it, though.

I've only built one Tom Daniel kit (The Paddy Wagon was a Tom Daniel kit, right?), and I keep telling myself I need to build them all! Mine will never be this nice! Killer job as usual, John!

About a year or so ago, I built a '61 Rambler drop top using a snap kit body, '66 Nova pro street chassis, and some choice bits from a Johan Pro Street Rambler. (Read all about it here:http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25375&st=0&p=236289&hl='61%20Rambler&fromsearch=1&entry236289) I was never too happy with the wheels and tires, the side exit exhaust, or the mile-high bucket seats, and a recent accident while takig it to a show allowed me to make a few changes... The new big-inch Torq Thrust Ds and brake rotor/calipers are from the Revell '65 Chevy C-10 kit- the C4 Corvette suspension still supports them up front, but I replaced the rear suspension with a Mustang rear axle supported by a 'truck arm' style suspension. I used a different set of Super Bee pro street mufflers (one of the originals was lost in the accident), moved them to the back, and used solder to create pipes from them to the headers. The low back buckets came from, of all things, a Jeep CJ-7, and not only do they keep the seats from jutting over the beltline way too much like the old Acura seats, they keep the Rambler all American (Motors, that is)! I also lowered the car a bit, but it was offset a little bit by the taller wheels. All in all, I think the car looks way better than it did with the dated old Center Lines. Now, that purple paint doesn't look so good anymore, and I'm really not as big on the '66 Pro Street Nova engine compartment as I was when I first built it. Oh, well... maybe there will be a 'Version 3.0' in a few more years...

A lot of it appears to be subject related, too. You're always going to pay big bucks for a Renwal or Pocher kit, unless you are buying it from someone who's clueless to it's value. Some of the 'rare, but still somewhat common' kits aren't as dear, and I think you'll more likely see those selling for less than what you'd traditionally expect. Hey, we are in a recession, right?

Here's my latest "effort", the Jimmy Flintstone '51 Nash body on a heavily butchered AMT '66 Mustang chassis, with a scratchbuilt interior, and a Jeep V8 made from spare JoHan and Monogram bits. The tires are from an AMT '70 Monte Carlo lowrider- I painted on some whitewalls, painted over the spokes with red, and used '53 F-100 caps. Enjoy!

Mechanical poetry!

I want one. That's all I have to say!

Yeah- I hear ya! The kit manifolds are like misshappen pancakes! I have no idea what the headers I used for this came from- I just dug them out of my spares box. I just fished around and test fit stuff until something worked!

Looks a lot better the second time!

Very cool!

I've built seventy or eighty trucks in a row, seemed like the time was right to build a model CAR again. This is based somewhat on HOT ROD magazines recent 'retrograde' of the Crusher Camaro, which was taken from a modern Slo-Tourer into a retro '80's style street machine. So, I took the AMT kit, some parts from a Revell parts pack 427, and some spares to do this- The only thing missing is the sound of Ratt blasting out the speakers and the big feathery roach clip hanging from the mirror!

Mold line or none, those castings look incredible. Almost like raw metal. Tamiya kits are generally molded well, but this one looks better than any Tamiya kit I've built in the past. The fact the 1:1 car is drop dead gorgeous doesn't hurt, either!

AMT Ertl, it's basically a modified reissue of the '93 STX kit.

Heck, man, I think she looks great without those big, clunky stock bumpers! Really dig the wheels, too!

I'm not so sure, Harry! I had a '75 El Camino in high school. Wasn't much of a car, and was an even worse truck to boot. But, it said "1975 Chevrolet Pickup" on the title, and had a truck licence plate, so it must be more truck-like. I guess. Maybe.

Simple. Can't afford to do it in 1:1.

Every square scale inch a stunner, my man! Very nice job on the weathering!

Other than the wheels and steering wheel (AMT '60 Chevy Street Machine Pickup), and, of course, the engine (Revell Deuce 5-Window), it's alarmingly box stock: I painted over the all red-taillamp lenses (yeah- I let off in the Rants and Raves section about that subject), left the cornering lamps clear to resemble the aftermarket APC units, and hosed it off in Dark Highland Green I had left over from building an '08 Mustang Bullitt. Not my best work, but it kept me from beign totally bored for a couple of days!

My, my, my.... SOMEBODY's done it! Infiniti has actually introduced the first car ever that looks like it's constipated! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to FiatChrysler to pressure them into styling the next PT Cruiser to resemble a '61 Plymouth...