Chuck Most

Looks like I've got some more hunting to do....

That's both the AMT Autocars, right... the tractor and the dump? If so, I can say I have a "complete set of AMT Autocar kits".

Wild indeed!

Basically, this is an old Frank Gortsema transkit, combined with an incomplete '90's AMT Diamond Reo reissue, and several dips into the parts box. It is loosely based on a real one owned by a local salvage yard. It might stand a little touch up in spots, and I'd like to locate (or make) some grease caps for the front wheel centers, but it looks halfway decent on the shelf as-is, all the same.

Mixed feelings about this. Navistar could use the additional volume, but on the other hand, I'm trying to think of any instance where a partnership with GM didn't end up eventually screwing the other party, and I'm coming up with nothing...

Scratch another one off the list...

Is somebody building a Dajiban? It does include the stock full wheel covers.

This is the old Academy kit of the Hyundai Stellar. I lowered it a bit, because if built box-stock the thing sits like a 4x4, left out the electric motor and all its assorted witchcraft, and used Revell Dunlop tires wrapped around AMT Parts Pack wheels.

So very cool!

Hipsters the world over. "He changed the world!" No... he was a marketing genius, not a tech genius. The guys who actually busted their humps developing all that trendy starts-with-a-lowercase-i stuff live in relative obscurity. Thomas Edison did pretty much the same thing... the one invention he could actually call his own was a flop. But damned if Mr. Edison isn't a legend and a full-blown American Hero, despite all the dirt that's been dug up on him. As far as taking credit for other's work? It's common in the auto industry. Harley Earl had a whole team of designers, but he always got credit for the design, even if all he did was tell one of his peons to change the mirrors. It did get a little tenuous at times with Barris, admittedly. But I'm willing to let much of that slide, as I honestly do not believe any one person did more to promote custom (or Kustom as the case may be) cars to the world than George Barris. Argue over his scruples all you like, but nobody had more passion about custom cars than he did.

George Barris claimed other people's work as his own, and he's a "sleazeball". Steve Jobs did the same thing and he's some kind of hero. Yeah, makes perfect sense....

x3 on Toreador Red.

It's cool- looks like there's been a wave of thread necromancy going on lately. Maybe it's because Halloween is in the air.

Know what? I don't even care about how old a thread is anymore. But since you asked, OP, I will tell you, despite the fact you haven't logged on in almost two years.... Reliant Robin.

I'm buying a couple, just because I know it will annoy the clenched-sphincter "serious adult scale model hobbyist" types. I'll save the scaled line-drawings, digital calipers, and rivet counting apparatus for a more involved project.

I'm seeing the beginning of a really nice W900 day cab, and a nice little wrecker body that would look great on the back of a Diamond Reo. But that's just me.

It is a 4x4- take a look at the front hubs.

Also hit the junkyard today...

Local FD had some of their stuff out today.

I guess dredging up eight-year-old threads is the cool thing to do these days.

If dogs are man's best friend, and diamonds are a woman's best friend, then David Bowie is everyone's best friend.

You do realize the post you quoted was from 2008, right?

Yes, but keep in mind that's a Dodge engine, and this is a DeSoto. The three Mopar first-gen Hemi engines were all sized differently. Many parts would not interchange between the three first-gen Hemi engines.