Tom Geiger

The twilight zone

That’s a cool kit. I got this and the Double Dragster kit at the same time. Stayed up all night just looking at the mix and match possibilities!

That CV reminds me of a story. Back when I still lived in NJ I passed a place every day.. an old body shop that no longer had signs and was doing private duty... a bunch of beat up black and whites in one lot, and a bunch of shiny yellow cabs on the other side! I always thought that would have been a good diorama

Shhhh! Hunting wabbits!

Agreed! Believe they would’ve sold a lot of Rancheros if they did a really nice version of the proper Ford six!

Dust bunnies everywhere

Has anyone built one of these with the multi piece body? Comments?

Don’t even think...

Afraid of vacuums!

Kwap! I might have a new project here! ?

Congratulations! Super car! It may have turned the piggy bank inside out, but a good investment.

Engine in this kit was the big block from 1966 Chevy annual kit.

In China that’s only two workers!

Leave roof off, add chopped windshield. Replace interior with pickup bed in back..

That’s nothing more than wood round toothpicks, whittled and sanded to shape. Super glued to bare metal, then puttied in with Squadron Green. Then primed with Duplicolor primer, followed with their gloss white.

Kewl! Glad you are using the tape!

Cool! I always liked the Maverick. I was 11 when they debuted at the 1969 NY Auto Show. The all new 1970 Maverick debuted very early! My aunt got a new red one. When she saw I liked it she went into a drawer and pulled out a promo that the dealer had given her! That put me over the top! But for the life of me, I cannot remember what ever happened to it!

Thought I’d add this one to my pile.. I did a build thread on it:

He’s a rescue dog! I saved him from a vending machine! ? The Branch County and Covington decals on the Ranchero came from the Johan 59 Rambler wagon kit. Okey really outdid himself on the decals, two full sheets! I knew Okey lived in Covington, KY so I checked to see if it was in Branch County. There isn’t a Branch County in the state but one in Michigan. I’ll have to add a license plate.

I found this image on Facebook, but it’s a stack of classics we were supposed to read in school. Back then I was upset that they actually assigned us reading over the summer! My father never tossed anything thing, so when I cleared out his house I found a shelf in the garage with all those books! I took them home as an adult and finally read them. Man, the classics were wasted on the young.

Completed final details in this one, which has been in my display case a long time. It had no hood badge or cherry top. A short time later it has both! Took some pix, posted a build thread and it’s back in the showcase. I have been working on the Jeepster pickup. I thought it was painted, but saw a few things I didn’t like so it was back to bodywork. And now it’s painted again! Another interior mockup with blue tape. I’m a bit further along with shifters and tach on the console. While the kit is designed for all of this to be glued together and then set into the body, then that assembly mounts to the chassis, we had to make it a bit more difficult. You may notice the bed is no longer attached, I cut it off and made it part of the body so the pickup box would be a solid unit. The rest will be a ship in the bottle assembly. I will need to glue the sides and rear wall into the body. The firewall will glue to the cowl. And the floor will glue to the chassis. Then we cross our fingers that we’ve engineered correctly so this whole puzzle snuggles together! And the dash.. labels printed for gauge panel and radio.

Very nice work! I love the flat finish. I agree this is a very nice kit to build. Best kept secret that a lot of the MPC kits of this era are very nicely engineered.

Ha! Back in the day I ran the CAD group in my company’s engineering department. One of the engineers who was a bit of a renegade got ahold of a bootleg copy of Autocad and sent me his amateur drawing like a silent threat. I didn’t react. I graded his drawing and sent it back to him.

and scaring folks

And here we are today. As this one sat in the case, every time I looked at it all I saw was the missing red light and hood ornament. So I spent a little time completing those details. Finished! A quick photo session and she’s back in the display case.