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Check this out mates I found it in an upstairs cupboard that's not been opened for years, forgot I even had it
I had this when I was 10 or something and its got all the bits there, gonna whizz em along the wood floor in the hall later..........if I can stop herms and lil from attack

Do yo have any other treasures lurking around in your cup boards? looks like you will be busy for a while

Yeah I got a Pink Panther rev-up-n-go car and an Evel Knievel stunt cycle somewhere, may have to go in the loft and look .........when I last see in there I spotted an unmade Monogram 1/8th scale 65 Stingray

Adrian Worman wrote:Yeah I got a Pink Panther rev-up-n-go car and an Evel Knievel stunt cycle somewhere, may have to go in the loft and look .........when I last see in there I spotted an unmade Monogram 1/8th scale 65 Stingray

Yea you could be busy oh and I have the exact model of that 1/8 vette I never built it either

I built that 65 Corvette.

But tubbed the rear end and shortened the axle to take the slicks from a 1/8 scale funny car. Lined the interior with orange velvet and fitted the 500 inch supercharged hemi from the same funny car.

Can't remember if I fitted a straight front axle or used the stock suspension? This was around 1980??

dave-r wrote:I built that 65 Corvette.

But tubbed the rear end and shortened the axle to take the slicks from a 1/8 scale funny car. Lined the interior with orange velvet and fitted the 500 inch supercharged hemi from the same funny car.

Can't remember if I fitted a straight front axle or used the stock suspension? This was around 1980??

ORANGE VELVET! FFS super charged disco doll house

I think it was a popular model cos no end of people I know had em! The one I had when I was about 12-13 was a solid red car but the one in the loft still in its box and plastic bags is a weird blue flake.
I got a 1/8 scale 79 Trans Am in a brown metallic finish somewhere.
I had a Lindberg 1/8 scale T bucket in proper flake with pie crust whitewall slicks and a 283 chubby in it, as cool as anything it was, went together beautifully too
When me and fat Ian were lil kids we had grandparents that lived at Hastings sea front.
Our old man took us there most weekends in the school hols and we always used to frequent a model shop on the promenade that had the most incredible stock of Monogram 1/24 scale cars, all American and most customs or track cars. They were about 2 or 3 quid each then and if we'd earnt good money scrubbing the old mans copper plumbing fittings in Gunk (we got 8 quid a hundred weight, lot of money for lil kids then) we would blow the lot on models and scarper back to Nans flat and get busy. We learnt all our knowledge of US cars and race car drivers from them, bloody brilliant memories

drewcrane wrote:

dave-r wrote:I built that 65 Corvette.

But tubbed the rear end and shortened the axle to take the slicks from a 1/8 scale funny car. Lined the interior with orange velvet and fitted the 500 inch supercharged hemi from the same funny car.

Can't remember if I fitted a straight front axle or used the stock suspension? This was around 1980??

ORANGE VELVET! FFS super charged disco doll house

Yeah and i painted the body a metallic purple (A '70s UK Ford colour I think) very like "Plumb Crazy".

"Plumb Crazy".
Nuff said...........

Adrian Worman wrote:I think it was a popular model cos no end of people I know had em! The one I had when I was about 12-13 was a solid red car but the one in the loft still in its box and plastic bags is a weird blue flake.
I got a 1/8 scale 79 Trans Am in a brown metallic finish somewhere.
I had a Lindberg 1/8 scale T bucket in proper flake with pie crust whitewall slicks and a 283 chubby in it, as cool as anything it was, went together beautifully too
When me and fat Ian were lil kids we had grandparents that lived at Hastings sea front.
Our old man took us there most weekends in the school hols and we always used to frequent a model shop on the promenade that had the most incredible stock of Monogram 1/24 scale cars, all American and most customs or track cars. They were about 2 or 3 quid each then and if we'd earnt good money scrubbing the old mans copper plumbing fittings in Gunk (we got 8 quid a hundred weight, lot of money for lil kids then) we would blow the lot on models and scarper back to Nans flat and get busy. We learnt all our knowledge of US cars and race car drivers from them, bloody brilliant memories

Yea a trip down to Colpar hobbies was a regular saturday routine My Dad looked at N scale trains I still have , and we looked at the latest models ,got in to em big time and still do lookey here

Hey thats not easy Drew thats only little!
I'm just starting a 72 Chally in 1/24 that ginge got me a year or so back.
It's some cheap ish continental effort but its worth a go.
What else you built Drew? Pix mate, pix

drewcrane wrote:"Plumb Crazy".
Nuff said...........

Or even Plum Crazy. I shouldn't type when tired and hung over.

Adrian Worman wrote:Hey thats not easy Drew thats only little!
I'm just starting a 72 Chally in 1/24 that ginge got me a year or so back.
It's some cheap ish continental effort but its worth a go.
What else you built Drew? Pix mate, pix

Well like you I have it all packed away , but after I get this cuda done I can unpack it all and have a look, I did this car as a bit of a joke, my bro bought it for 1.99 so I decided to strip it and paint it alog with some other parts for the car just for fun

I found a still boxed Evel Kneivel stunt cycle reissue from about late '80's, I had the original when I was about 10 but I coated it I lighter fuel and fired it off and straight into the street where it got a proper mashing under some big boys bike wheels
I had the Canyon Rocket cycle too, hope I can find another of that on the 'bay
Get a pic up

Hah!

Man you have a little time capsule in the cup board