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[jasonbo]

Hi i seem to be a new member but a long time lurker here. I have been out of modeling since joining the army in 1999.

But now as I become wiser and now have a permanent place for the hobby im taking it back up.

I do have one question the one thing that always drove me to building these fasinating cars. And what drove me to start using kens fuzzy fur an making spark plug wires back in the early 90's. There was an article in the model magazines really in all of a person that built somthing that looked like a ford econoline with a rear engine. it was pink or purple an the fasinating thing is it was completley scratch built down to the chassis. Ive been looking all over for pictures of this model since my magazine are long but gone. I know he one alot of awards it was in the 90's for the life of me i cant find it. can anyone help on this?>

Thanks

Jason Bo

[jasonbo]

Jason, welcome to the forum! The closest I can think of to what you mention is a Pro Street Dodge A100, built by the late Ricky Couch IIRC. It was purple & Hemi powered, with the engine in the bed. It was featured along with another of his models in an article in Scale Auto Enthusiast. I'll go through my collection later & post more info.

No that one is http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29462...013565797wbTnKc

and this one was more of a pink i belive the engine was still in the bed

[jasonbo]

i belive i may have seen it in one of the annuals from 1998 1997 i remeber the magazine was just contest cars

[Gregg]

i belive i may have seen it in one of the annuals from 1998 1997 i remeber the magazine was just contest cars

I think that was Chuck Larson's build.

[Jairus]

Yup!

Chuck Larson entered a cut down a pink van at GSL in 1988! The body lifted off to view the Scratchbuilt V16 engine, tube chassis and working suspension. It was called "Lil Pink Truck" I believe. I was there that year and was completely blown away by the quality. It also had working doors with latches!!!!

I recall that he entered that beast in just about every contest he could, sometimes mailing it. Took a lot of awards... and more than a few "Best of Show's". Rumors of "a forced retirement" of successful models began to circulate about that time reguarding "Lil Pink Truck" and Dave McGowans '37 Woody (equally campaigned) the following year.

As an aside, I talked to Chuck at GSL this year about joining the forum. He could be here lurking.......

[jasonbo]

Yup!

Chuck Larson entered a cut down a pink van at GSL in 1988! The body lifted off to view the Scratchbuilt V16 engine, tube chassis and working suspension. It was called "Lil Pink Truck" I believe. I was there that year and was completely blown away by the quality. It also had working doors with latches!!!!

I recall that he entered that beast in just about every contest he could, sometimes mailing it. Took a lot of awards... and more than a few "Best of Show's". Rumors of "a forced retirement" of successful models began to circulate about that time reguarding "Lil Pink Truck" and Dave McGowans '37 Woody (equally campaigned) the following year.

As an aside, I talked to Chuck at GSL this year about joining the forum. He could be here lurking.......

Yes that is the one that inspired me to go frther with modeling i was fasinated with it. I wish i could find the pcitures unfortunatly not much back then made it to the web today.

[jasonbo]

Hey Jason, I looked thru my collection of Scale Auto magazines and found what your looking for although the only pic I found was just of this one.

on page 40.

This is the cover:June of 1992----#79

Hopes this helps you out.

Yup thats the truck looking at the back issue i went ahead and ordered

It would be nice if chuck saw this an knows he has a fan to post some pictures of the dusty bucket he has sitting on his shelf

I think that is one model that needs to be in the museum, I think it set standards of how future models would be built.

[Jairus]

Do you have Chuck's phone number Gregg? I'll look...