Hawk 1/32 rubberband-powered car models from 1961 & 1962.

[CSMO]

These rubber-powered car kits came out in '61 and '62. They are four (futuristic for the time period) "sports cars and four Bonneville speed record cars. They are all recent e-bay purchases. The paint on the car bodies is hand-brushed and Futured hobby and military paints from Testors, Humbrol, Xtracolor, and Pactra(45 year-old bottle of Turquoise). The tires are Pactra Hot Rod Primer, ant the interiors of the sports models are a mixture of Floquil, Model Master, and Vallejo. Adios, Larry.arry.

Edited June 12, 2013 by CSMO

[Ace-Garageguy]

Pretty cool. I've got a few of these oldies too. They actually make good starts on smaller 1/25 scale streamliners.

[realgone58]

Pretty wild! Love the old turquoise. Each of them had a name too, can't remember off hand however.

[cobraman]

Brush painted ? They look great !

[Draggon]

All fantastic, I love the "Apache" and "Cherokee". Great job with the brush. I sure wish those old Pactra paints were still available.

[Eshaver]

Glen, I wish several of the old Pactra colors were still around too. As for the old hawk kits , thanks for sharing them! I even had a couple myself in their day ............

[surfjunke]

WOW, do these bring back some memories. They all look great. Your brush work is amazing.

[Greg Myers]

Nice collection. Now, be honest, have you cranked up the rubber bands ?

[Mike 1017]

Thanks for the memories

[Tom Geiger]

Hawk also did some larger generic cars... seems like they weren't big on paying royalties!

These are more in the realm of 1/24 scale. I have all of these and had thought about doing a detailed version on a Continental chassis.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

I just love those. Looka at the box art they had. That could be called art.

[charlie8575]

Those are cool. And very nice, appropriate colors, too.

Charlie Larkin

[CSMO]

Here is the box-art for all eight kits. Adios, Larry.

[Lunajammer]

Yup, I still have my Apache. As a kid I was completely unaware of salt flat racing so the Apache was the only one (available) that made sense to me.

[Tom Geiger]

and the good part was there was no 1:1 to compare it to. No roof that was 1/2 an inch off!

[unclescott58]

Kool stuff! I wonder if Round 2 has the dies for these still? The Apache, Bobcat, Cherokee, and Sebring all look pretty good to me. It would be fun to have them in a collection.

[89AKurt]

Friend linked me to this thread...... I never knew about this brand or subject.  Nice job on your collection.

[doorsovdoon]

Sweet looking kits, I love the artwork on the boxes, looks very similar to the artwork on the old Airfix kits.