Chuck Most

No, E.J. was known for running Chevy engines on his bikes. I grew up in the same town as he did- the stories you hear are legendary! Yeah- he did a rocket bike, and some Allison V-12 machines, but I don't recall a Buick Bike from the house of E.J. Great build!

NOw that sounds like a plan! I'd give that a try before I quit the forum!

Cap'n- This was my last set o' duals- I bought a few sets a while ago, and robbed these from the old Monogram F-350 kit. You can get sets of em, but they run about $20! Me no thinkie so!!!! Foxer- NOT a bad idea... but where do I get a 1/25 scale ox? Bill- "S&G" indeed... hopefully in that order! Al- That's just creepy, dude! Charlie- That's no way to keep the economy afloat!!!! Here we have the finishing touches... The coal in back is a smashed up hunk of Kingsford, and the screen is a sanding screen I sprayed in flat black! Next stop... Under Glass!

Some guys just have all the luck...

Here's what I hate... why the HELL is the tool bar with the fonts, sizes, etc., in the MIDDLE of the damned text box!? Why can't it be up top- where it DOESN'T prevent me from seeing what I'm typing? If I were to write another paragraph or two on this reply, I won't be able to see what I've written until I post it, then if I effed something up, I'd have to go back and edit the post. Or is this a polite way of saying to keep our posts brief? That's my major rant- the rest of the changes aren't so bad once you kind of get used to them.

Christmas day, the saga continued... I added some scratchbuilt mudflaps, and attached the taillamps. I also made up and installed a skid for mounting the roaster body. I scratchbuilt some fenders from diamond plate to keep any errant embers off the tires... what about the gas tank, huh? I finally decided, after considering using everything from the Mack Tanker body to a shampoo bottle for the roaster body, to just scratchbuild the thing from scrap plastic. The chimney is a Bic pen shaft! Here I'm testing out the hinges- I'll need to add a screen and possibly some 'burning material'. Next time...

I think this is an old AMT annual kit dash. Now it's the MPI's dash! I used a '53 steering column, a '28 Lincoln Wheel, and a cassette deck from an old Japanese parts pack. I made up the chassis from plastruct strip. The Batteries are from a Revell lowrider, and the fuel tank is from an IH Paystar. A truck like this NEEDS a fire extinguisher, this one is from an AMT parts pack. I also made up housings for the AMT big rig kit sourced lenses. The S&S framed plate is an old-school 'white on blue' Michigan plate I printed off my computer. For the engine, I settled on a '65 Lincoln 430. It's pretty much box stock, other than the aluminum carb stacks and '66 Galaxie manifolds. It probably wouldn't be the fastest truck ever, but the 439 ought to have more than enough thrust to move the truck down the highway at a pretty respectable clip! And here's where I left off Christmas Eve... the basic truck itself was nearly done!

Looking very nice so far! I never even knew there was a 1/25 Top Kick toy! I just finished an XXL dually pickup of my own- Keep us posted!

I'm still working on the master, I'm trying to get it looking a bit better than my usual scratchbuilt ones. No, I didn't forget this thread!

Thanks guys- hopefully you won't be too disappointed by my progress! I fashioned up a makeshift interior, once again using cast off junk that I beat up and weathered... Hopefully I'm not screwing the pooch by showing the body at this stage, but oh well- here goes! I sprayed the whole mess in orange paint, then weathered it using sandpaper, scratch removing polish, a wire brush, and some rust colored wash and brown weathering powder. The second and third photos show a few of the doodads I slapped on- the megaphone (with the mic hanging out the driver window), the orange flasher, the air horns, the visor, and the mirrors (Jeepster heads with sewing pin arms). The 'Scary Jerry's International House of Pork' placards are just printed out on printer paper and superglued to teh doors. The front bumper is balsa, broken and soaked in superglue, so it will remain 'broken' yet intact. And yeah, that alarm clock says 2:33... as in AM! My garage is always open late! The fourth photo is a ride height/stance/wheelbase mockup. I'll be running the wheels and tires from a Monogram F-350 (same kit that donated it's chassis to my '26 Mack, and it's bed to my Paystar CXT), dirtied and dulled up a bit. This is about the stance I'm shooting for- wheelbase is still up in the air at this point, and will depend on the kind of Pig Pyre I plan to procure for the project. Still haven't settled on an engine... but I've got a few ideas!

I've got two of these kits stashed, and yeah, I think the tires are easily the weakest parts of the whole thing- snap kit or no! Otherwise it's very nice!

Ever see the episode where the Top Gear boys hung out with Gordon Ramsey? Captain Slow's "Piece of sh*t" (in Ramsey's words) potato pie beat Ramsey's, and after eating something really gross (I want to say it was sheep testicles, or something,) James May held it down while Ramsey projectile vomited into a bucket! Sounds to me like it should be Captain Slow's Kitchen Nightmares!

Not sure what kind of pipes I'll run yet, but I will tell ya this- no Chevy chassis or engine, for sure!

A 'Vette limo? It's such a sick and twisted idea it just HAS to work!

Allow me to chime "Nice paint!" as well! Looks like it's root beer flavored! I always thought the hinges on this kit sucked, glad to see there's a way to fix that!

When you're talking about, say, a VW Bluemotion or something like that, yes. But not on a truck! Still, this IH V8 is almost 800 c.i.- if it were a gas engine, you'd be talking 'galllons per mile', not 'miles per gallon'!

Well, I guess I'll start off by showing you the inspiration.... I saw this '55 IH pig roaster truck in a copy of Michigan Auto & RV a few months back, and it gave me an idea for a model build. Sadly, there is no '55 International in small scale (that I'm aware of), but I figured a Ford of similar vintage would work just as well! Fortunately- I've got more spare bits from the classic old AMT '53 than Tiger Woods has bad press these days. These parts were leftovers from a '53 that had donated many of its parts to several projects, including the Retro Ranger. Looks like it's time for this ex parts donor kit to shine! Here's the work so far. I plan on making it quite a bit rougher and crustier than the 1:1 IH that inspired it. My basic aim is for something that violates not only every DMV code, but many food safety and health code protocols as well! Here I have whacked the top, and performed a quasi-sectioning job by raising the fenders. Those 'patch panels' are strips of 3M metal repair tape, with holes poked into them with a sewing needle to simulate pop rivets. The BMF over the 'welds' will be exposed after paint, so the areas resemble recently-welded metal. Once the bodywork was roughed in (read:finalized), I misted the entire cab with Dupli Color textured paint, and covered over that with good ol' Krylon Rust Tough Flat Black. I also added '3M patch panels' to the roof. I have a feeling this was the easy part... stay tuned and find out how epically and unbelievably wrong I'll be!

They did fix the vent window shape, but we get some pretty lame-o scallop decals instead of the cool flames from the original issue. Win some, lose some, I guess!

I sure hope the Transtar COE gets reissued in one form or another one of these days!

A guy I spoke with once who had a Paystar said it got a (somewhat creepy) 6.66 MPG. That figure would seem very appropriate on a 1:1 version of my model!

And I read somewhere it was a '93, but most accounts agree that it's a '94- http://www.bobaugust.com/bronco.htm . Oh, well. I know it got sold at auction, ostensibly to cover The Juice's legal fees. Nicely built Bronc- sure wish I had a 1:1 Bronco!

I'll second that! I'd love to have a '64 Sprint and a '65 'Chero- I don't see Revell or AMT planning anything like this! If they're about equal to (or better than) the Bonneville hardtop in terms of quality, and nowhere near as ######-o-rific as the Monte Carlo, I'll gladly buy several of each!

Very nice!

Thanks guys- now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that supposed Lonestar kit!

Even my mom, who knows absolutely nothing about Mack trucks, thinks the old AC looked like 'a bulldog or a pug' in her words! How many other trucks have such a rock-solid, built in marketing tag like that?