Remember building any of these as a kid?

Any memories?




http://www.showrods.com/

 

No, but I had the Paddy Wagon and a James Bond Aston Martin. Both would probably be worth some money if I hadn't ruined them putting them together.

 

I liked to buy show rod and dragster kits for the drivetrains.

 

Lil Coffin was the first model I ever built! Loved that thing, with it's leaning skeleton guy...

I bought it at M.E. Moses down the street. I know all this makes me sound old, but this happened waaaaaay back in 1986.

 

I didn't like the then and I still don't. I could never get into the Show Rod deal.

 

Oops, sorry, I thought you were talking about the full sized deal. I read your post again and realized you were talking about the models.

 

Those, and many many more................

 

I had both. I remember the Great whitewalls on the lil' coffin. I think they were plastic and snapped in the tire.

How many of you have the giant box of old model parts like I do? Man, If I had all the pieces still. I remember the "Big Duece" I got when I was like 8 and screwed up all to hell. Still have parts of that too.

 

The first models I built were the show cars. The Paddy Wagon, The Pie Wagon and yes the Boot Hill Express plus many more. Hey I was only 8/10 years old.

 

I gutted a few models to drop over 1:24 scale slot cars

my GT40 on an Aurora ch***is was so heavy it was the slowest on the track,
but it sure looked cool

I looked for but never found the Monkey Mobile model
man, I liked the Monkeys better than the Beatles

and Batman,
I had the Batmobile, the Batboat and the Batbike models

and another that sticks in my mind was The Tarantula slingshot dragster
that was cool..

I would spend hours building them,
then smash them into a wall,
or burn them
or crash them into each other
or put firecrackers in them and blow them up

pretty much what I do with real cars now..

 

An interesting side note; the Zep chemical salesman that came around to the parts store/machine shop I worked at in the late '80s warmed up to me when he saw my mildly customized '53 Chevy, and told me that when he graduated from high school in '65, he managed to get a job as a "roadie", setting up and tearing down for the then popular indoor car show circut. Low pay, but a free way to see the entire country, and lots of fun for an 18-19 year old motorhead with no responsibilities. He and a few of his fellow roadies got a private audience with some of Philadelphia's finest when they were caught driving the unlicensed Munster Coach down a few side streets in the city!

 

No but... I remember playn with my evel kinevel stunt cycle till i broke both handlebars !!! its not as much fun without evel on the bike!!! Viva Kinevel!!

 

Built the Boothill when I was about 10(about 20 years ago). I remember it was hard to get the paint color just right. I still have it and I have my dad's original built model with the original box!
I Bought both the Boothill and Coffin re-issues with the intent of putting them together......they are now collecting dust in my garage waiting to be built.
Also built Ed Roth's Mysterion and Outlaw around that same time. Man they came out like ****!!

 

Hey fat50, those are some nice built kits!!

 

can you still buy kits like that? new ones i mean, i cant afford the originals. I like stuff that gets your imagination going.

trey

 

Man o man are you guys young!

I started building models when the AMT Corporation first started with their model cars (3 in 1???)...put Revell to shame! I still have a few of those models...stored somewhere...worth something, eh?

R-

 

Lost of them have or are being re-issued, I just saw the paddy wagon on the shelf at hobby lobby, the others shouldn't be hard to find or expensive.

 

I was interested in cars when I was a kid, so I built models of cars, not art. And I did a lot of engine swaps, and several top chops too....it's so easy in 1/25 scale with plastic.

here are some remnants

 

First thing ya do is throw away the instructions...then get a bottle of Acetone and soak the plastic in it so ya can mold it anyway ya want...used up lots of hours when I was a kid...

Mench

 

I think I was doing it all wrong as a kid. I used a soldering iron to chop tops. It stunk, and the results ****ed.

Ill have to go to hobby lobby sometime soon and check things out. Id have to buy paint and everything, shesh.

and im starting to wonder how old 40StudeDude really is...

trey

 

Trey, I claim to be older than most around these parts...and yet, still think like a youngster...and still build cars...and still go rod running...and can afford it...and I don't look as old as I am (and that's vanity rearing it's ugly head)!

And if you read my book, you'll know exactly how old I am...and now that I think back on it, I think I intro'ed myself as "older than dirt."

R-

 

Anybody remember Rommel's Rod? I doubt it was ever a real show car. I thought that one was so kool when I built it long, long ago. If I remember correctly, it had a skeleton driver and skeleton Rommel with his desert cap and goggles. Kool machine gun sticking out the back too.

 

In my intro I mentioned an experience with the Lil Coffin, a rainy day in Mulvane, Kansas and getting to sit behind the wheel while Larry Farber and a few of my friends and my older brother pushed it a few blocks to a friend of Larrys house and put it in a trailer. That was the start of my obsession. I loved that car, built several models (all gone now damn it) but I've got one new in a box just for grins. Maybe someday I'll build it......or not.

p.s. It didn't have a windshield then, just that cantilevered roof. Amazing car for the time.