This car is the most “Special” to me. Flash back to Christmas 1990 -just married for 6 months, relocated to a job 3 states from where we were from, and all that other scary stuff of new responsibilities. My lovely wife presented me with a Monogram '69 Rampage Camaro for the holiday . Little did she know what she was getting into by refueling the hobby…By all means this was not built very well - Rattle can paint and good old Tube Glue. The car has a pearl overspray which you can not tell very well due to lack of natural light. (I live in the Pacific Northwest I wont see Sunshine again until May ) Here we are almost 19 yrs and 22 moves later and still on display.
And she still tolerates my modeling and surprises me with new kits all the time, even though the stash takes up one whole room in the house. (hint -when you receive model as a gift, always build it as more will always follow [;)] )Thanks for taking a look at a very amature but favorite build.
This is a great thread. I am SURE that I have some of my earliest models packed in a box in my folks basement. I may have to go over there and dig them out for an embarassing photo session!
my oldest models died a long long time ago [xx(] but I still remember them, my very first one was a 57 Bel Air snap tite kit (I was like… 9~10 at the time) with stickers instead of waterslide decals [(-D] Completely molded in sky blue except the few chrome peices. It did look good though. My dad bought it for me though tryin to get me into cars, and since I enjoyed doing that one he bought me another for my bday shortly after that, the “Paddy Wagon Show Rod” and lets just say it was a failure. Majorly. I didn’t know what i was doing, he didn’t know anything about skill levels… there was glue streaks everywhere, the decals looked horrible and it soon enough fell apart. I still have part of the engine sitting in my parts box though [(-D] I tried several kits back then, and most were failures so I gave up for a long time… kbut somehow it stuck with me and now I have a closet full of models… and more coming to me in the mail so I dunno where I"m gonna put them all [(-D]
Wow John, That is one Fine Looking Challenger. [tup] I had a 71 metallic green 1/1 briefly - yrs ago. I bought it from the garage I worked at , Found a junkyard shaker hood dropped a 383 in it - headers never got bolted up and the carb was in the box when I sold it to buy a 77 shovelhead.
Great thread. This is my oldest surviving build. I was about 17 (40 now) and had just discovered SAE and was inspired by what I saw. This is the MPC 67 Charger modified gasser style like one I had seen in the magazine.
Not telling my age but I still have my orginal Issues that I built (old Black plastic AMT) Double T ,32, 36 and 40 Ford Coupes, 40 ford Sedan and 49 Ford. One of the two 32 coupes finally fell apart a couple months ago. I repainted it and decaled it into a 60s dirt track racer. Entered it with the new paint and took 1st place in regional contest in the open wheel racer class
PS Almost forgot i also have an 32 Ford roadster without the opening trunk and a 32 Vicky gluing back together now
Rob, - That is a Nice [tup] Charger. I remember very well when the model companys had the “straight axle” trend. Who can forget about those “Sky Scraper” front ends. Your wiring does have a little bit of a “Tarantula look” [;)] but it still looks fanstastic ! I stumbled upon the first engine I wired in a junk box not long ago, it was done with sewing thread and then brush painted to get that Accel yellow . I have had pocket fuzzies that looked better.
Wayne, - Post some pictures of those oldies if you got them… Those old coupes are rarely seen anymore. I wish they would bring out some remakes. I found a few yrs back a re-issue of the Monogram Green Hornet ? Remember that one ? I still have the chassis and tub from the original in the parts box. Now I’m aging myself…[:-^]
The Green Hornet reissue along with Long John and Sportsman are still avalible along with many other new reissues. The new AMT is back out with a 32 Ford coupe box looks like orginal 60s issue. Also the Coupe and Vicky are back out as a limited run, the box shows as a Jalopy but the kit inside is basicly a reissue Jack at Model Roundup seems to have almost all of the reissues and new kits
And she still tolerates my modeling and surprises me with new kits all the time, even though the stash takes up one whole room in the house. (hint -when you receive model as a gift, always build it as more will always follow [;)] )Thanks for taking a look at a very amature but favorite build.
