Chuck Most

The TL;DR version- it's the Fuzz Duster with the Deora slant six, MPC Dodge van wheel covers, blackwall tires, and a hearing-aid beige paint job.

Nice! That Honda green wouldn't happen to be called Hampstead, would it? I ask because I have some of that I'm using on a Pete 359 dump.

I think it would look pretty good hooked up to an Escitaleri Ford Transit with an Austin Mini autocross racer parked on it. But maybe that's just me.

Going the straight six route with mine as well- I used the engine from the MPC Deora. Yes, I know the alternator is on the wrong side for this application, but this is a junkyard beater, and I've seen stranger things done to old cars than having the alternator flip-flopped! And this is just a personal thing, but having the alternator on the opposite side of the battery and starter never made much sense to me anyway.

I like it- kinda looks angry.

Nice! Love how the Diamond Green looks with the flat clear and white scallops.

Plugged a Deora Slant Six into the '80 Plymouth Volare- still some work to do, but it's mostly roughed in. And yes, I know the alternator is on the wrong side for this year/car, but it's a cobbled up junkyard beater, so I'm letting myself have a little wiggle room.

Yep, that'll work alright.

Aw yeah....

From what I'm told I think the few 360s that made it to Michigan had all rusted away by 1975 or therabouts.

Very cool! Is that the old Ron Cash body?

Lovely- this is my favorite buildup of this kit so far.

Right- Not what I thought at all, but honestly, it IS kind of what I was hoping for.

Depends. If you want to keep the stock IFS, I'd basically add shims to the existing front suspension- basically how they'd to a 1:1 lift kit. Or you could do what I did and go with a solid axle swap like I did- this one has coils but I've actually seen a few Tenth-Gen F-150 conversions done with leaf springs, though those tend to be more for mud trucks.

Wasn't 18" big and goofy for a wheel in '99? At least the 24" spinner had yet to be invented at that time...

Nissan L24 in a '39 Chevy.

This is a (mostly) box-stock buildup of the Hasegawa kit. I did deviate from box stock by converting the model to LHD, converting the muffler to an aftermarket-type left-side dual outlet (yes- you could actually get a dual-outlet muffler for one of these), and making up some filler panels for the front inner fenders so you can't see straight through the car when looking at it dead on from the side. I also added some junk to the interior. I tried something I'd always thought about on this one- laying on a thick coat of paint (Tamiya flat red in this case) to try and replicate rust that is bubbling up under the paint but hasn't quite broken through yet. It didn't quite come out the way I wanted, but I kept it. Glimpses of the original white paint poke out in random spots from the later "Resale Red" respray. I have to say that for all the praise Tamiya kits get, I tend to favor Hasegawa kits. If Hasegawa has ever produced an auto kit that's NOT pleasant to build, I have yet to encounter it.

Thanks guys. I'm glad people are picking up on the LeMons element- I was trying for that kind of "vibe".

Not a 'Vette fan at all, but as a huge Prince fan I just had to take a peek... even though I was pretty certain that at least one of the two would be a little red something or other. Glad I checked 'em out now. It's almost as if they both were purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

The Pacer was originally designed around a Wankel rotary engine in development by General Motors. Man, imagine how awful that would have been... a rotary engine developed by Generic Motors... Anyway, GM pulled the plug, and AMC was left holding the flaming bag of dog poo... basically, the car they'd been designing as a home for the engine, the car that became the Pacer. One day I got to thinking, why not put a rotary in one? One MPC '78 reissue, one incomplete Tamiya RX-7 roadster with it's nice intercooled turbo 13b, and a little mumbling and cursing under my breath at the work bench got me to this...

As of last weekend, here's her new look. The grille is a modified '99 Lighting piece. I added a skid plate from a Revell Wrangler Rubicon and built a new front bumper with recessed lights and an exposed winch fairlead. I used some tube steps from the Harley edition, and tinted the side and rear windows.

T-tops were supposed to be a way around rollover standards- you could have the open air feel of a ragtop with (at least some of) the protection of a full roof. They were a bit of a Band-Aid solution to structural rigidity problems- the T-bar was a structural component. Nowadays, there are better ways to stiffen the body structure so a full convertible or even a targa roof is a better idea. That and the less tangible thing, being that when you say "t-top", things like "mullets" and "jean shorts" also come to mind.

Michigan... that's the one that's shaped like a glove or something, right? And it was named after a loader? Yeah, that's it, right? On a serious note, welcome aboard.

I haven't built the MPC GMC Deserter yet, but... ... it sure comes with some nice decals.

There are some out there, but not an awful lot. The only readily-available tractor I can think of right off the top of my head is a Bobcat backhoe.