Motion Pictures Hey Santa: Get Me Monogram's Big T!

I got mine including 2 big drags that are n.o.s.

 

In the 60s, I took the engine out of my Big T and put it in my 1/8" scale XKE Coupe.

 

Wow, Dan; that deuce took me back to finding the first "big" issue of R&C at the drugstore. Funny what memories a picture can trigger. Thank You.

 

Yep, the Lindbergs had a Y-block instead of a belly ****on.
Just poking some fun boys.

 

Had to take inventory and forgot how many 1/8 models I have.
Not counting the built ones which are 4 more.

 

Wow lotsa cool ones!!

 

Few more I missed.
32 is also un-built.

 

The Revell '57 chevy kit is 1/12 scale... I have a couple of those including the '67 427 Vette kits and a few of the '69 "F" body cars...

 

Often untold is that Roger Harney, an entry level Monogram employee from 1958 until he p***ed away unexpectedly in January of 2013 as VP of Manufacturing, played a key role in the original design and content of the Big T kit. That not only includes the kit itself, but the selection of 1/1 scale components to be replicated in scale, sand the overall layout of this model, which was intended to be, and largely was, a scale replica of what could have been (and later on, eventually was) a 1/1 scale T-Bucket. Until the day he p***ed, Roger was a stickler for authenticity in the hot rod and custom kits Monogram (and later on, Revell) brought to the market for over six decades..... Tim Boyd

 

Dang @HOTRODPRIMER ! The creature from the black lagoon on the magazine cover on the first shelf, man o man did that thing give me nightmares for awhile !!

I will still every once and a great while dig it up on a streaming service and watch it again.

I even went out as a pup and bought the glow in the dark model of him, then I had to get the rest of the glow in the dark monster models to build to go with all my ***embled model cars. Always thought it would have been cool and never figured out why they never built any car models with glow in the dark pieces. I thought it'd be cool if they just did the headlights if nothing else.

I guess it'd been real cool if they did a golden Sahara model with glow in the dark tires...

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I have a built big T. I was a teenager and a local model shop acquired one. He thought "I wonder who would buy this?" and offered it to me. It wasn't expensive. He normally dealt with RC aeroplanes.

 

Here's one that a good friend of mine built 20 years ago using parts from other BiG T kits.... The Corvette valve covers are from the Revell-Monogram 1/8 scale '65 Corvette kit...

 

The only Big T parts I used on my Mysterion model was the rear tires, brake drums and backing plates. I widened the tires to simulate 10" tread (1 1/4") since the model is scale 8" (1") by splitting the tread, inserting some lengths of vinyl tubing and filling the gap with black urethane.

Most of the kit parts I used are Lindberg Big Rod parts. Carbs, air cleaners, distributors, rear axles, steering wheel are more like what Ed used.

 

A great big thank you to @hrm2k
Santa came!!

 

enjoy….of course we will need pictures

 

Had to mow 5 friggin' lawns to buy mine in '62!
Thx for the memories.......

 

Here's mine, it's pretty much mint in the box. The built version alongside crossed the Atlantic to me many years ago.



A couple of '32 kits got p***engers and drivers added using Revell and Hawk Weird Oh and Roth kits.

 

Very cool builds...

 

I gave one away last year. @ModelAPunk ended up with it. Got tired of tripping over the box, and I'm not a model kit guy (building or storing).