'34 Ford Dirt Tracker

[rmvw guy]

What to do wih an old junker? Here's my answer.

[rmvw guy]

After a night in the dirt.

[rmvw guy]

Enhanced.

[DrKerry]

Love the ol' Jalopies!!!!!!!!

[slusher]

Awesome job Ron on your dirt racer...

[bbowser]

Great work! Kinda how it happens in 1:1 as well

[wrecker388]

Very cool! Where are the tires from?

[rmvw guy]

Very cool! Where are the tires from?

The rear tires are from the AMT Meyers Manx, front not to sure about. They look a little like snow tires, I think the guy I got them from said they may have come from a Jeep kit.

Thanks for the positive feed back guys.

[Danno]

Dirty nice.

[Truck parts]

Cool build

[Florent]

I like this one. It is unique in it's style. Absolutely nothing sophisticated.

It reminds me the stone age of stock car racing.

It really looks like these old jalopies built home made in a backyard with recycled tubbings, cut at the hand with with an old hacksaw and bent between some big tree branches with more or less correct curves, then welded by grandpa between 2 beer bottles (I feel very poetic). But it was a time when building a race car was a funny adventure and when everybody around was involved and came to look at the progress of the ''monster of the yard'' (baptised of this name by grandma). Monster who was frightening the birds, the cats and the dogs and all the neighbourhood when we'd start the engine ''straight pipe''.

By the way I found this post that I just wrote so funny that I copied and pasted it for my own website about scale modeling and old school stock car racing. I don't konw... I guess that I was inspired by your model to write this.

[Florent]

To give another answer to Wrecker388 about the FRONT tires, I see that they are snow grips from old MPC kits like the '69 Pontiac Grand Prix annual kit and several other old MPC kits, but AMT bought MPC back in 1987 I believe and reissued some old MPC kits and you can find these tires on an old jeep kit reissued in 2002 by AMT under #31752. This is the Hogan's Heroes World War II Jeep. It is the old flat fendered jeep model CJ1-2 or 3, not any other Jeep kits on the market. Other jeep kits have bigger tires and wouldn't give this vintage narrow winter tires look used on an old jalopy racer like the one posted here. I thik that Ron made a nice choice of tires on this model.

[rmvw guy]

Thank you very much for your coments Florent. I was very surprised to see this one back again. The old jalopies are some of my favorite builds and memories. You are exactly right about fireing these up in the back yard, brought back some of my memories as a kid, thanks.