Post your junkers and beaters here!

[Casey429]

If you have a junker or beater you'd like to share with us, this is the place to do it. I have a few, but am only going to share this one for now.

This '67 Cyclone is taking its last ride. It was wrecked way back in the late 70's, hence the smashed lights and bent bumper. After it's owner stripped it and left it for dead, it sat and rotted away. The quarterpanels, rear frame rails and shock towes are rotten, making tis once fine ride junk. Off to the crusher (theres an idea!) it goes, carried by a Caterpillar IT18F.

However, this car did not die in vain. I bought it for parts anyway. I used the engine and tranny in my '67 Mustang, and the rear end and leaf springs in my WIP '53 F100. I had intended on tubbing it and dropping in some sort of big block to make it a racecar after robbing the needed parts, but that never happened. I even went as far as opening the trunk, my first ever!

[VW Dave]

OK, I'll play. I really need a few better pics of this one, but this is my '64 Impala at a very famous NJ landmark.

And my model A truck might be a step beyond 'beater.'

And here's a peek at my in-progress '55 Chevy stakebed truck.

All three of the above models are slated to live on my friend's G-gauge railroad layout.

[KT EASTMAN]

I'm game!!!! Heres one of them. I built this '71 Duster a few years back. Its kinda a restoration in progress...well kinda??

[KT EASTMAN]

Heres my "Rough" '66 Chevelle street pounder. Its rude but fast!!!!!

[KT EASTMAN]

This is my one and only Demo-Derby car. It has not seen any action as of yet!!!!

[KT EASTMAN]

Last but not least is my most recent "Junker". My '70 Bonneville w/boat. A bit rough and tumble around the edges, but I think it can be restored!!!

[Billy Kingsley]

I doubt this is the actual intention of the thread, but something like that has never stopped me from showing off my old ###### before, so why start now

Coming to you Straight from the Hall of Shame (seriously, that's an album on my Fotki...)

This one sat undusted on my shelf for 3 years. When I tried to dust it, it took a fall off my book case, then it sat some more. Then took approximatly 2 more falls before I tried to put it back toghter. By that point parts were missing and it had been too damaged to fix. I have another in the stash that should be started by this time next year (it's too late in the year to say this year, LOL)

This one fell apart because I was trying to be "healty" and use that Testors Lemon glue, AKA, non toxic.

Came apart less then a month after completion. Switched back to the "toxic" glue by then!

This one could be saved if I could find all the pieces.

This one died when I dropped a Diecast 57 Nomad on top of it. Looking back on it, that was probably a good thing.

This was my 8th model, and my first attempt at opening something (the trunk). I wouldn't succeed until my 4th try

I never was able to finish this Studebaker. The dang thing drove me nutty. So I boxed it up and it's now in my storage unit. It's a shame as I really love Studebakers too. Someday I will buy another and do it right. Hopefully with my current skills I will be able to at least finish it.

My second attempt at opening panels. (don't fear, the chassis and interior will go to finish a 69 that I was given as body-only!)

What's left of my second model. Sorry for the poor picture, it was taken with my cell phone camera.

I don't know what happened here. After this photo was taken I found more parts, though, and I think it MIGHT be saveable!

This poor Lindberg Cord was in better shape until I was holding it and a spider crawled out of it. Both went flying and the Cord did not survive the landing. I REALLY hate spiders.

This was once a Firebird.

My worst two builds of all time. These are so horrible. I knew where they were for more then a year before I photographed them. Both of them were so bad, they "Drove off a Cliff". If a model comes out badly enough, I push it off my workbench repeatedly until parts no longer fly off. The 99 Silverado took 6 times, the 50 pickup 7.

The only good thing I can say about this Silverado is that it was the first thing I ever decaled (nessicary for NASCAR modeling!) although, the decals aren't where they are supposed to be, at least they are on there! (note the tailagate)

I have nothing good to say about this truck. Nothing nothing nothing. After failing boxstock, it became a drag racer...sort of.

I had absolutly NO talent for building when I started...

You will never see me build a junker on purpose. My family has owned too many in 1:1 for them to be interesting to me, LOL. (my dad would never spend more then $400 for a car)

[Clay]

If you have a junker or beater you'd like to share with us, this is the place to do it. I have a few, but am only going to share this one for now.

This '67 Cyclone is taking its last ride. It was wrecked way back in the late 70's, hence the smashed lights and bent bumper. After it's owner stripped it and left it for dead, it sat and rotted away. The quarterpanels, rear frame rails and shock towes are rotten, making tis once fine ride junk. Off to the crusher (theres an idea!) it goes, carried by a Caterpillar IT18F.

However, this car did not die in vain. I bought it for parts anyway. I used the engine and tranny in my '67 Mustang, and the rear end and leaf springs in my WIP '53 F100. I had intended on tubbing it and dropping in some sort of big block to make it a racecar after robbing the needed parts, but that never happened. I even went as far as opening the trunk, my first ever!

Just wondering where you got that forklift.

[Jeff Johnston]

here is one

and another I am slowly working on.

[Mike]

What the heck. This is my only junk ride -

[93Z34]

This is one that was part of a diorama I built many moons ago. Somehow, the car managed to "survive" the moves and countless packings and unpackings. I think this car is a bit beyone "beater" or even "junker" status at this point but it still pretty much looks the same today as it does in these pics. This car took a heck of a last ride, that's for sure...

[novadose71]

I got one that I built for a club Diorama. It's the Dick Tracy 36 Ford made into a farm car and my first attempt at Rust-all. It was supposed to get chicken in a cage in the rumble seat but I ran out of time before we took the pics. I did add a few dents and scrapes along the way though.

[coopdad]

I will throw my latest into the mix...a work truck that will be going into a diorama I am working on. It will be hidden under blackberry brambles and tree leaves:

John

[george 53]

WOW Rob, that's good enough for Harry's RoM! It even LOOKS like there's people inside! Other than the"Giant" takin pics in the 2nd pic, It looks like a swap meet or somethin! It's COOL!!!

[Eshaver]

Casey, what an outstanding job you did with the photography! The pictures are way better than the models which are nice but those Pic's , wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You rock sir !!!

Ed Shaver

[Farmer Wilding]

First up is this weathered Lindberg '53 Ford. Basically a standard build, but grimy and mud-spattered .

A beaten-up '34 Ford pickup.

And a '37 flatbed out in the field.

An old El Camino that's seen a hard life.

Cleaned up the engine for the photos.

This ol' Chevy just got left by the dam.

Thanks for looking,

[Modellpularn]

I'll add some too. The '64 Chevy was built a long time ago, to replicate the swedish car hoodlums, or as they are called in swedish: "raggare" They cruise around and raise hell. In the old days, they were looked upon as some type of rebels. Now it's become sort of a lifestyle for some people, to have a clunker and really rat it out....

Note the case of beer on the package shelf..... the figures are Ulrich Mini-Men.

Ready for some cruisin'.....

Next up is a Kyosho MiniZ Cobra. It got dunked - by mistake, in the brake fluid bath. It got totally screwed up, and sat for a few years until I came up with the idea of making a junker out of it. It got the Rust-All treatment.

Edited January 15, 2009 by Modellpularn