Red Baron Whereabouts ??

Anyone out there know where the "Red Baron" custom is? I caught a music video with a car that was either the original or a very good clone. I showed it to a buddy and now he keeps asking if it was the real deal in the video...

Flatman

 

It is stashed here in Colorado....that's all I can say.

 

The Red Baron willies g***er from the sixtys is in eastern Panow owned by Ken Kull

 

the ww1 helmet thing is in CO?

 

ooo...ooo I know too Eric, tried to get it from sr then jr ten years ago, zingers are there to?

 

Sounds like there was more than one Red Baron. The one I first thought of was the T-Bucket with a helmet.

 

Didn't everyone on here build that model as a kid?

 

I was under the impression that the car the model was built from burnt up in a garage fire shortly after it was built. I have seen a few nice clones, one with a sbc in it, and that ratty one that was at viva but i think the O.G one is no more.

 

this is the red baron i know of!!!

 

yes...yes I did......

 

Me too-had the Hot Wheels too.

 

That model kit was *everywhere* in the 70's !

 

The original design was another Tom Daniels cl***ic.
The full scale car was built after the success of the model kit and the Hot Wheels versions. I think Chuck Miller built it for Bob Larrive's (spelling??) car show company.
It did the rounds of the show circuit again a couple of years ago.
There are a few imitators doing the rounds as well. I've got pix of a V8 version here somewhere. The Chuck Miller version is powered by a Pontiac OHC 6. The helmet on this version was painted silver because it was too large for any chromers to dip at the time. (Aaah...useless trivia!!)

The Monogram kit has just been re-issued with some fresh TD artwork.
The Hot Wheels was re-released last year (with black paint) as part of their "Since '68" series.

Cheers,PJ

 

One of the clones was at Midnight M*** a few weeks ago...

 

Guido in San Mateo has one (a clone) some sort of straight 8 I think? He's in Gearhead magazine with it a few months back...

 

Snoopy shot him down way back in 1969

 

Here's the clone that was at Midnight M***

 

I've got a copy of that mag at home, but I can't remember if it said anything about where the original is now. I do have new repro Hot Wheels of it on my shelf here at work though.

 

Neat

 

That not a clone of the Red Baron but Guido's interpretation of it.. Been around for years

 

Speedy Bill from Speedway magazine has one in his museum or collection or whatever you want to call it.

 

that's what I thought Moriarity but I was starting to second guess myself. I read it in one of my emails from him when it first happened.

 

All this stuff and only one picture. Likes its a no no to take a picture of the baron.

 

exactly. it is very similar, but not a clone. he just had fun with it. after all, it IS a hot rod! i think he was on the cover of issue #17. he is dressed as a hot dog and is eating a hot dog; get it?

 

cc..

 

And I thought it was a german pilot in one of those new fange dangled areoplanes

 

I know wher it is but its a secret

 

yes saw it at the speedwat museam while stopping through there on the power tour