Chuck Most

My drivers... '94 Ford F-250 (More of a backup and 'heavy lifter' than a daily driver nowadays, what with gas being $2.60 where I live currently.)You can also sort of see my brother's '78 Cutlass and '80 Delta 88 to the right of it. The T-Racer, my '98 Mercury Tracer LS (twin to the Ford Escort), which is my primary warhorse with 296,000 miles on the clock to date. I've also got a few projects in various states of disrepair... My '67 Plymouth Fury 4-door, complete with blown-out windsheild, which hasn't seen the road since 2003. My '81 Ford F-250 4x4... I just might end up dropping the body from my 2WD '94 onto this chassis. Just a thought. '46 Chevy 2 1/2 ton dump- this one will donate it's cab (and a few other parts) to a truckster rod, still a way off in the future. I've also got a '78 International Scout II Diesel 4x4 that is in very sad shape, but no pictures of it.

I'm wondering if using the chassis and floor pan from the Riviera (newer-tool '66 version) would be easier than strectching the Bel Air chassis to fit the Buick shell. I'm also wondering if it would even be worth the effort, as you'd still have the "everything's molded in but the dash and steering wheel" interior tub. I don't know if the newer tooled Nailhead 425 is underscale, but it does seem to look quite a bit better that other renditions. If nothing else, it isn't as underscale as the AMT '56 T-Bird's Y-block or the newer Ala Kart kit's Hemi!

I assume the chassis and other bits are from the Monogram kit, right? I've always liked the Continental coupe's shape- sheesh, I wish AAM was still around doing this kind of stuff!

I think I'd go for the '30's Bugatti kit... and leave myself a good decade or two timeline in which to finish it! Yeah, I think I could build a Pocher Bugatti to a somewhat mediocre outcome in ten or twenty years!

I've always wanted to tackle a Pocher kit but, man, I don't know... seems like it would be a whole lot less effort to get my 1:1 '67 Fury back in running shape!

Evil. I like it!

The barely-discernable 'Trenton's Texaco' decals are also a nod to the whole Jersey Devil thing.

You are working on a resin Amphicar! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

What does that kit sell for? I'd love to build a '57 Lincoln!

I've got an action figure of The Bride from Kill Bill- Maybe I can talk her into helping out with a few of my 1/18 scale die casts. I hear she's pretty laid back, unless you shoot her in the face on her wedding day... but I guess that's to be expected.

Off topic, yes, but a cool story nonetheless!

Sure did! Also, that long rectangular chunk of plastic that seems to serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever...

Was there ever a kit of that delightful little German boat-mobile the Amphicar? I think even with my substandard modeling skills I could scratchbuild a halfway decent curbside replica of one, but I'd really like to save the effort, if possible! Thanks!

I built this about a year ago from the Model King 'King's Comet' Reissue... Aside from the wheels, roll bar, and cam covers it's just a quickie, three evening mostly box-stock build. The decals are a combination of dry transfers and spares box items. I glued the body and interior tub to the chassis to convert it back into a 'door slammer', as the kit is meant to have a flip-up body. I used a '66 Mustang firewall. Eventually, I plan to add some better tires and a pair of door handles, but for what it is, I'm pretty satisfied with it as is!

Let a stranger touch my models? Why I think not! You might as well be asking if you can touch my daughter. Well, you know, if I had a daughter. Which I don't. As far as I know...

What? And ruin the magic! Never! Must...burn...next issue of MCM! No wait, sorry! I meant- Must...burn...next issue of Popular Hot Rodding! (What a crappy magazine THAT is!) Okay, now time for the seriousness... UH...Blake? Look no further than your nearest hobby shop- it's a new reissue, available right this very minute from our reasonably good friends o'er at Round 2! It just looks like an old offering- which I guess is what they were shooting for!

Uh... that sounds kind of ominous...omin...uh, not good!

You've also won our hearts and minds! (They'll arrive shortly in a large, unmarked, refrigerated van...)

Evidently, at least one other modeler did as well- while I was building this one, I saw another '41 Chevy pickup rat rod with the same setup in the other magazine! I stole the idea from a mid '20's Dodge roadster featured in Hot Rod a few years back.

Not around my display shelves, anyway!

I think you mean "May the Schwartz be with you".

The Retro Kewel Box art. The decal sheet, plus the bonus Kat sticker. The blinding sprues o' chrome. The factory applied narrow whites, along with the old school wire axles and screws. The raw white styrene stuff. Some observations- The castings seem to be quite a bit better than the last issue of this oldie, the 'Pro Shop' version of about a decade or so. AMT claims to have returned some of the old custom parts to this latest incarnation- I do seem to remember a second set of headlamp bezels (the quads) being here, and not present in the PS issue. Of course, the decals and factory-printed whitewall tires are a marked improvement over that previous release, as is the box art. Gripes- all seats (including the fronts) are molded in, and the way the grille is molded with the headlamps in place may make painting the headlamp surrounds a bit tricky (look at a 1:1- they're part of the body on the real car and, hence, body color). Some may not dig the metal axles and screws- but is there any more secure a way to hold the wheels and body in place? The engine, with it's prominent axle cutout and lackadasial detail is also a gripe of mine. Hey, you can always glue the hood shut, right? All in all? I'm glad to see it back. I'm a Ford guy first and foremost, but I do like the early 'big bodied' GM cruisers, and a 'Deuce and a Quarter' fits that bill nicely. I've already bought two of this latest reissue. Maybe a stretched '62 Bel Air chassis and the Nailhead from a '66 Riv will help it out a bit... ?

I built this thing about two years ago, when the reissued '41 kit with the crappy custom wheels and the 'slingshot' two carb adapter was released. I pretty much took the '41, and chopped away everything that wasn't a hot rod. Though it's a Chevy, it's powered by a 392 Chrysler Hemi (AMT Parts Pack with '25 AMT Model T Lincoln Headers), and painted in Ford colors, and the whole mess is supported by Lincoln tall wide whites. Like I said, I built it a few years back, but juging from comments on the Fotki page, e-mails I've recieved, and what people who see it in person tell me, it's one of my best efforts.

I wouldn't say that about it. More like "ratherbuildsomethingelseable". Does have potential, though!

Good to see somebody coming back and not leaving! And with pictures of a beautifully done Caddy, no less!