Chuck Most

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.

I'll cut right to the chase- that's a full-blown masterpiece.

Wow.... I'm beginning to think I should just have you build my Autocar dumper for me. I love how you did the butterfly hinge- I had an idea of trying something similar to hinge the doors on the "Big 4" cabs. Good to see the idea is workable. The thought of using a photoetched piano hinge makes my head throb. Your solution not only looks like it's easier to deal with, but looks quite a bit more realistic on the model as well.

All I'm going to say is snap these up before they're gone, like the recent run of the 510 BRE. I'm still kicking myself for only buying one of those.

I have an incomplete Aeromax 120... but again, I'm going to make my own Ford chassis for it. I'll save the chassis for something a lot more Freightliner-y. I believe the KFS instructions show how to modify the 'Shaker chassis to work with the CL cab, though.

Send me the the Mustang II front suspension. You could always built it as a stripped old junker and load it up on a flat bed, though I suppose that might leave you with only slightly fewer components you'd have no use for.

A II? And here I were thinking you were some Luddite with an original Selectric. Please don't tell me yours is the Correcting Selectric II...

Oh, it hit the wallet plenty hard enough. But if you want it badly enough you pay, right? I think I might do my own frame with some C-section strip and spare Louisville crossmembers. Might be a while before I get around to this one, so I've got plenty of time to map things out.

Walking on sunshine...

Just to clarify, Tim built these, not me. And the concrete company was Andersen, not Anderson like I spelled it in the post...

I'll order this one no trunion, then. (Ba-dum-tsssssssssss)

Well, I can finally scratch this one off the list...