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This 1962 Chrysler Imperial Crown Coupe model was acquired as a glue bomb in the early 1960s and was missing all its wheels, back bumper and other parts. It was quite rough due to the fact that the builder had heavily "welded" long, wide fender skirts to the rear side panels and had used a...

Tommergun, you got it right on both counts. The grille IS from a 1960 Ford car and those "teeth" were added to the grille by us as an adornment. Thanks for showing . I should have remembered those "teeth" as I have two Ford F-100 trucks in my collection and one has the "teeth" in the grille. LOL

Edbert, thanks for the compliments. I basically collaborated with my late older brother Ted in these builds, but he was the real artist behind their creations. Especially this '32 Ford Coupe and the radical Ford pickup truck.

Two 1958 Buick Roadmasters with completely different personalities with a common bond, but no Bondo. Back in the day, that is, the early 1960s, the body filler of choice, at least for us on a very limited budget, was Liquid Aluminum. It was cheap, in a tube, and it worked fairly easily. And...

My brother Ted created this '32 Ford Coupe in 1961. He wanted an aggressive look with a chopped top, leaded in wide rear fenders, narrow tires up front and big slicks in the back. The front end features a molded in contemporary grille with quad headlights and a custom horizontal bar piece with...

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...