Bob Reisner’s The Bathtub show car

[tuffone20]

 I picked up this old Eldon kit and decided I wanted to build it right out of the box with no painting or detailing. 
I can remember my older brother building it when I was a very young kid. 
I had fun building it for the most part, but at times it was a real pain! 
 

[Nazz]

Nice work Marty! I like it!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[peteski]

Nice!

Some years ago one of my model club members built that kit. I liked it so much that I found and bought it on eBay.  But i still haven't gotten to the building stage.

[DonW]

Oh this brings back memories. I built one of these kits back in the early seventies! Around the time I learned to scrape the chrome off the mating surfaces so the polystyrene cement would hold.

Plenty of practice on this one! 

[Fantom]

Very nice...I love those Eldon kits

[doorsovdoon]

They don't get wilder than that! Looks awesome, very nice job.

[VanSpence]

On 2/7/2021 at 2:04 PM, tuffone20 said:

 

I had no idea this even existed. What a very cool piece. 

Question: what is that orange car in the background here? Very interesting. 

[tuffone20]

5 hours ago, VanSpence said:

I had no idea this even existed. What a very cool piece. 

Question: what is that orange car in the background here? Very interesting. 

That’s the monogram Vega mini van. 

[Koellefornia Kid]

Didn't know about this kit, looks really cool!

[Scott Colmer]

That looks great, Marty. Super clean!

I am hoping you got to see the GAS resurrection of the real thing. Good show. My favorite line: "I don't think they used a straight edge on one piece." Early showrods - so by the seat of your pants.

[ChrisR]

COOL!!

[1959scudetto]

Up to now, I didn't even  know this kit existed - it is a really weird creation; I saw the real custom 50 years ago in the book "the craziest cars of the world" from 1971

[Belugawrx]

Cool?

[slusher]

Very unique and you did a great job on it..

[unclescott58]

It looks great. I like it. 

[Street Rod]

That’s a neat kit! Never knew there was such a thing. Great job building it!

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi Marty!

Very well done. It seems there were no limits, back then, as to who would come up with the most outrageous idea. This show car certainly raised the bar...

CT

[showrods]

There's absolutely on need to paint the car whatsoever.  The plastic colour matches the photo almost perfectly.  There are not too many kits where that's possible.

Great build of a great kit.

[mrm]

OMG! Where do you guys find these? I love these cars and I tried several times to get any of them with zero success. Once in a blue moon one would pop up on "the bay" and usually would come with some ridiculously unreasonable price and in some cases equally ridiculous shipping cost from Japan. 

   I would love to build them all and if anyone has one willing to part with for reasonable price, I will do it justice. 

[Dann Tier]

These kits are so cool!, and yours looks sweet!!  I am almost done building the Invader kit...i havent been able to build anything since last year, but hopefully i will soon.