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Eric….very wonderful build of one of my all time favorite kits. I tried to build it when I was 18 and I sprayed it Candy Transparent Red but…….I painted the flip front separately from the body. No problem until you consider that I paid no attention to counting coats or moving the pieces close together to check progress. Just painted merrily away through the afternoon only to discover I put way more coats on one piece than the other so when I mocked it up the next day it looked like it was shot with 2 different types of red!! What a dummy I was. So, knowing nothing about stripping paint and starting again I just turned the kit into a parts donor for other projects. At least I got to utilize most of the parts but the body got furecrackered! Anyhow your build took me down a funny memory lane and I thought you and our friends on this site might get a laugh. Again Eric yours is a super build-Mark

Thank you Michael—-will buy!

Superb work Michael. A monster replica of a monster 1:1 car. Forgive me if I missed this in your description, but is your top flow K&N air cleaner 3-D printed? Im sorry about the loss of your friends too. I hate to hear of the passing of great model builders who were also great folks. They’re still building…just in a better place.

Very nice Dave Love the MRC wheel/tire choice… a definite improvement over the kit provided ones.

This is outta sight John! Very cool idea.

Unreal workmanship Daniel. Thank you for the inspiration!

Wow what a build. Cool trick with the Bare Metal. Rock on Brother!

Sorry for the paint setback Bob. Fantastic build and can’t wait to see it done!

Lee your chop is outstanding!

Beautiful Brian!

It looks really sharp Mike. Good perseverance!

Very well executed Gerald!

Ridiculously beautiful build my friend…. What more can I say?

Also let’s hear it for that award! That thing is gorgeous as well as deserved.

Marcos Amazing work as always Brother. I love the way you kept the car stockish but kind of on roids! And of course the rake….it is of course Your rake but being that we both know Irv I have to call it the Arter rake! Lol-Mark

Louis you have outdone yourself! My goodness what a sweetheart.

You nailed it TJ! As I told Mr. Hay I wish Kirk of Metallica could see these as he has a 1:1 ‘36 sled.

Dan this is a very nice traditional custom. As our friends have stated amazing paint! I have a feeling Metallica’s Kirk Hammett would love it. He has a similar 1:1

Epic build Antonio!

IMO you certainly don’t need to….that is already looking fantastic and mean!

Very involved and well executed build Marcos! You should be proud Brother!- Mark

This is a very nice build. I could be entirely wrong and I apologize if somebody has already mentioned this but , I believe the television show car was built by Jerry Pennington , a very popular car customizer from the 70s. He built the Devilfish and the Scorpion rear engine Corvette

There is some fantastic eye candy in this thread, my friends. You all did an excellent job. Due to time constraints I only “liked” a few this afternoon but I wanted to tell all builders who shared your work that it is all awesome. Gotta dig out some of my Chargers now!

I texted pictures to my friend right before I created this post, and I think he found the answer. Dragon Wagon with the bar cage and monster is what he thinks was used to create it. Happy Day!!!

Hello friends, I know there is no shortage of knowledgeable folks on this forum and I have never posted a question on this website yet, so it’s high time I think! Lol. I picked us up at a swap meet on Saturday. I have since removed a couple of pieces from it, such as the tires and wheels, but it came to be in a Ziploc bag with no instruction sheet or writing on the bag identifying the kit. I neglected to take one good picture for you guys. That shows some of the unpainted plastic underneath the car appears to be yellow. Which makes me think it was a Monogram. The tires and wheels would tend to support this because they are the ones from the Tom Daniel, Hangman and some of his other designs came with these tires and wheels . However, the two guys who designed show rod kits for AMT were I believe John , Bogosian and I forget the other fellows name. A lot of their designs looks similar to TomDaniel designs. Can you see why it reminds me of Red Baron? I have been to TomDaniel webpage where he shows his designs. It’s not impossible that they did not put this design (if it’s one of his) on the webpage or that I missed it but I went through it rather thoroughly and I saw no such creature. The way the front spring mounts the tube dropped axle reminds me of AMT show rod chassis such as the Lil Stogie and Lil Gasser etc. so I am thinking it’s not impossible that somebody put Tom Daniel wheels and tires on an AMT show rod. However, there is the issue of that yellow plastic again making me think that it’s a Monogram since they were proponents of using plastic other than white. I am assuming the ice cream shop barstools or whatever you wanna call the seats came with stock in this kit but again I am only guessing. So if anyone can help, I appreciate it. I’m going to build it either way. I’m going to kick up the rear frame rails and slam it way low on the table. I don’t have enough of it to totally restore it so I’m gonna do my own little Rod. Somebody already made that easy for me as they cut the rear frame rails off as near as I can tell! Lastly, there is no guarantee this is the engine which came with the kit. At least I cannot prove that. Unfortunately, I only have one zoomie and that’s a drag because they’re kind of cool being square in shape. I don’t know if you could tell from the photo, but they’re not round tubes. They are actually square. Pretty wild little critter here and I will give it a purple bath starting tonight.If you want, I can post more pictures after it is stripped. Thank you friends!