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In the early 1960s my late and older brother Ted and I built quite a few custom cars, hot rods and truck models. Ted was the creative genius behind the design and execution of these models. He gleaned many ideas and concepts from the emerging hot rod and custom car magazines that were being...

History of the Half Rat Half Rod The three parts shown below constitute what remains of the initial implementation of various customizing ideas for a street rod my late brother and I had toward the end of our modeling experiences as teenagers in 1959. He was off to college and I pursued high...

Here is what is left in the box of parts that contained old rat rod Potato Head truck parts, so these are "relatives" of his, so to speak. All the mods which were done and the parts too are from the early 60s. Not much to start with but the parts are still cool after all these years. Problems...

Someone appropriately described the cab as looking like a potato. So this collection of few 1960s parts became the Potato Head Ford Model A pickup truck, also known now as "Yukon Gold". The project took quite a long time to complete as the builder is a rat rodder by "trade", that is...

Mustang1989. I haven't seen that version yet. I do have an older AMT 3in1 kit that was started years ago and I recently stripped it of a really bad paint job. I am very thankful you mentioned this Revell kit as it has jogged my memory and spurred my imagination to focus attention on the AMT...

The third, and probably the final car, in the Matte White Convertible Series undertaken by Crash Dummies Garage is a 1965 Lincoln Continental Convertible. The basics of the car were acquired from Looney Tuners Garage in the early 1960s. At that time the body had been poorly painted an uneven...

Too many years ago -help wanted In my very depleted vintage parts stash from 65 years ago are some random parts to a Model A Ford it seems. My brother and I built a number of the Revell 3in1 '32 Ford kits. However, some of the parts below do not seem to be from Revell kits at all. I cannot...

Crash Dummies Garage has done it again. This time a 1961 Mercury Monterey convertible named "Wonder Woman" continuing their Matte White Convertible Series. This is their second convertible following the successful completion of the "Great White", a customized 1961 Imperial Convertible. The...

Looney Tuners Garage was started way back in the late 50s by two teenage brothers. They cranked out some rather far-out cars and trucks, having gained inspiration from the customizers of the time- George Barris, Gene Winfield, Ed Roth, etc., etc.. One car the brothers began working on back then...

From an Ultra-Detail 1:24 scale Metal Model Testor's kit, this Dodge Charger Police Cruiser model was a fun build. Of the one hundred parts count, what I personally like is the window glass in all the windows as well as the interior details, like the computer monitor. The exterior body is quite...

This is one of two AMT 1/25 scale 1959 Cadillac Ambulance kits that was scored a number of months ago at Ollies. Wanted to tint the windows after the interior had been detailed and it seemed a waste to do that. On the next and different version, perhaps, tinted windows will happen. The...

Mercury Police Car #54 is from a MPC "Super Snap" 1/25 scale kit. Was a little leery about this kit being too simple and maybe not in scale, but after getting started on it and using up the custom parts included in the kit, I kinda like it, especially the tall antenna! It's a Mercury, man.*...

Built in the early 1960s, the result of a collaboration between my older brother and me, this plastic AMT 3in1 kit of a 1932 Ford was a real joy to construct. Both of us thought the "futuristic" rear end of a 1959 Chevrolet would look pretty darn cool molded to the hot rod's rear end. The fins...

This vintage SMP model of a 1961 Corvette convertible was in my "junk" model collection of very, very old parts from the late 50s and early 60s kits. Some of this material was from friends who gave them up to me as glue bombs. This Corvette was a disassembled glue bomb from that era. Its badly...

Three Tridents Of all the 1:18 scale models that are in my collection, these three older made-in-Italy Bburagos are among my all-time favorites. Maybe it is because they are older models and are quite well executed models of an automobile that was not allowed into the US at the time, 1998...

All three models are roughly 1/24 scale or thereabout. The 1961 Ford Thunderbird is an old AMT plastic promo kit car that needed much work. The busted windshield and partially missing passenger-side support post nearly caused me to forget the project and leave the parts in the parts bin...

All three models are roughly 1/24 scale or thereabout. The 1961 Ford Thunderbird is an old AMT plastic promo kit car that needed much work. The busted windshield and partially missing passenger-side support post nearly caused me to forget the project and leave the parts in the parts bin...

It actually doesn't look that gross in hand. Perhaps I will try and hide it with a black trim line. I originally thought of not having a windshield at all.