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I really love the paint, the hemi cuda' has always been my dream car

That is one detailed show car

Wow this car is detailed, it looks like the real thing

Very cool

Overall my luck with ebay has been good, however I am with ebay on of those people that when things go wrong they normally do in a very bad way. The worst two were situations were I never recieved a product after paying and was unable to resolve it with paypal.

Here's some pics of a couple of odd projects I'm working on, the amt li'l gypsy wagon and the hemi howler, I painted them with weathering pastels and chalks. So far I have the main componets together on the gypsy wagon, however the howler has been going much slower. I bought the gypsy wagon in mint condition and built it a few months ago, however after falling off of a shelf along with a couple of other models, I am restoring it and will later may be included with a diorama. The hemi howler unlike the gypsy wagon was bought as a wreck of a gluebomb that took months of restoring and multiple rebuilds to get to were it is now. I brushed the wagon's body with a mixture of a weathered wood and the body a custom mixed red. The howler was brushed with a custom mixed burlap color and purple to some parts of the body. I mixed some weathering pastels together to gain the effect of grains The Hemi Howler

I just like to think whenever I question if it right ot open a kit. Hay if I ever do get to selling anything if I build it well enough it may sell for more than the boxed kit, I have found many people out there willing to pay prices more than the value of a sealed kit for a pro built work of another builder with the skills rather than build themselves, and that makes me feel better. Anyway I like to start with a gluebomb, especially one that requires lots of work, (helps me lengthen build time).

Wow that sucks... wait now that I remember it, they chose to go on comercial last year and when I looked at the next car page at the bottom of the screen they had a superbird and a daytona that went while they were on comercial, and later on they went to commercial with barracuda that matches mine exactly, I never learned what it was worth and have lost interest since due to the fact they arn't like the way the they used to be, they have started to bring cars in that no longer can peak my interest, "mopar or no car" style. I didn't even catch the las vegas show, as for the hemicuda I may watch as I'm obsessed with e body mopars.

What kind of car is that, looks pretty cool? Any pics of the whole car?

I see you to enjoy the rusted muscle over at cars in barns.com To all those who say it isn't worth $2500 dollars, have you seen the prices people are getting for these things online?

very cool

Why didn't he want you to have that car, did he have a reason, or was he just one of those people who likes to make life harder for everyone else, I had a brother like that too, exept he was my little brother and always complained when we would go to the car dealerships or look at a possible used car

Most of the kits I have are nothing to be desired, I only have three or four rare models and those are kits that you eather love them or hate them, most of the kits in my collection are show rods, but I also have a few 1/8th scale kits and a few Japanese kits in my collection

the beer wagon was designed by Tom Daniel in 1967, some of his other kits were the red baron, the groovy grader, and he designed the munsters koach ( George Barris only built the full sized car Tom designed it)

li'l mixer 1970 li'l gasser 1969 li'l yeller 1970 the fourth one you are thinking of is the li'l cashbox 1969, all of these cars were designed by John Bogosain who also designed the koo koo kar 1972, the flameout 1972, and the depth charger 1972, he also designed the royal rail 1972, the li'l gypsy wagon 1972, and the hemi howler 1972, and the der beetle bus 1971, the lug bug 1971, and the der volks van 1971, and the li'l stogie 1971, the li'l romin chariot 1971, and the li'l hot dogger 1971

I love buying vintage kits, however I must say that it all depends on the kit that you are buying, if you are buying as vintake Japanise kit with tons of small parts. than you are more likely to encounter problems, people buy vintage kits because the are eather not available throught the manufacturer or because they are more desirable, however the problems vintage kits are I still find myself going back to vintage kits even when the kit has been reissued

after one of my long projects I try to work on some weird projects for a few months before I go on to another massive project, I try to fit in fun simple projects too during my long builds, in fact I sometimes have so much fun during my small builds they turn into big builds

I own an origional baja humbug, the rear wheels are so big there is little body left, just a little strip between the rear tires and the front fenders, I've had the kit since I was a kid and all I have left is the airbrushed body and the weathered engine, I sold most of the kit a few years ago, but I kept the parts I couldn't replace

The li'l gypsy wagon, one of the odd show rod kits that came from amt during the seventies.

When it comes to eBay I have found that most of the kits I want are auctions so I try to bid at the last second, also I use two computers I use my pad to bid and my laptop for watching the auction. I really hate it when people bid on an item with most of the time left, they make themselves look like a joke when they bid like ten times in a row with five days left. I think they are trying to intimidate other bidders and make them not bid.

Who ever said these kits can't be serious, I love to wire and detail these kits, I have seen these kits made into peices of art and if anyone doubts me than go to dave's showrod rally and look through the guest gallery.

A few months ago if someone had looked at my bench they would have seen a pile of half finished projects that ranged from one week to several months old. However after looking over my bench I found that I really didn't want most of the stuff I had, so I cleared everything out, one could say that there was a mass exodus of model kits. I had to sell most of the kits I had and the rest of them went to the trash, the only kits I kept were my complete collection of John Bogosain and Tom Daniels show rods and my Jimmy Flintstone resin mad monster kits. My parts box origionally spanned a closet full of boxes and parts, however after realizing that I could sell them on eBay I got rid of them, they sold for over two hundred dollars. My collection of boxes (most of which had cars still in them, I placed those on craigs list and let them go for over a hundred and fifty dollars. The most obvious problem is my dicast collection that has been building up for over fifteen years in my back room. I still havn't sold any of those, but I plan on selling them on craigs list due to the fact that it would cost over five hundred dollars to ship.

Cool rod it looks like it is coming along nicely

Thanks, how long does it take to get the kits from him (I am talking about older kits).

I was thinking about buying some bodys from his site and some of the monster kits like the nitro bum, are his kits any good?