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I finished my version of Ed Roth's Mysterion car last October. I wrote a book about the car talking about its creation in the first half then describing my build in the second half. It's available on Amazon. Definitely a bucket list item! Now I am building a 1/8th scale version of the car. Mark Gustavson asked me to give a short seminar at next year's GSL.

Hello Everybody! This is the Mummy Machine by AMT-ERTL and MPC at least according to the logo cast on the bottom of the body tub. Originally released in (I think) 1972, I first encountered this kit around 1975. So yeah, this is another nostalgia build in which I try to recapture my youth. I don't believe that I ever completed building it as I can remember having the mummy head and other various bits around for years afterward. Believe it or not, there was an actual Mummy Machine show car created by Jack Kampney in the early Seventies. I'm still not entirely certain whether the show car or the model kit came first as the earliest print references to the actual car I can find are from 1975 and the model kit was first released in 1972. Here's my rendition of the kit. This kit is quite good at capturing the whimsical over-the-top style of the Show Rods popular during the Sixties and Seventies. I came to think of it as "Delightfully Ridiculous." Golden sphynxes or "fender puppies" as I came to think of them, adorn the running boards. A close up shot of the death mask radiator with cartouche covered scarab "headlights". I can't imagine that the radiator would allow much air flow for cooling. This image also some of the detail painting on the mummy hands. That's all for now. For those who may be interested, I made a build thread in the WIP section. Here is a link As always, thanks for taking the time to look. Comments and critiques are always welcome. David G.