They weren't all Black Widows.

Modeling Subjects Autos
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My brother came to see me yesteray and he couldn’t wait until Christmas to bring this one over. I love it! And it was built just like the real cars back in the day, before you could just buy the pieces and stick’em together.

He was browsing the model “junk yard” up at Earl’s Speed & Custom in Gaffney, just like we used to do the real ones, when a new tool '57 Be Air caught his eye. Just like the old school racers, he loaded up the body and hauled it back home, stripped and gutted it and started on a cage.

One of the much maligned ERTL Winston Cup kits, some paint, a little imagination along with some serious “back yard engineering” and this masterpiece was ready for the lettering brush.

Just like the real one, it even carries an “orphan” front bumpver from a '57 Ford. I like to think it made it run faster. LOL

To paraphrase the credit card commercial-
Salvage yard body-$4…ERTL stock car kit-$4…Fantastic $8 one of a kind late model sportsman car-PRICELESS!

Everybody should have a kid brother as wonderful as I do. Here he is with his latest creation.

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There you are, Mitch. I’ve been waiting for you to show up with another of your fabulous builds.

Does this kind of talent run thru your entire family, or is it limited to you and your brother? The '57 is absolutely fandamtastic. Keep 'em coming.

Carl

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There’s only the two of us. I was an only child and I guess they figured they got it right the first time. But I decided I wanted a brother for my seventh birthday and they did an even better job that time. And he was only three days late. I didn’t really appreciate the logistics of that until I was much older. LOL

We both paint and letter the real cars and the models and build the big ones and the little ones. I might be a little better with the still camera but he’s got it all over me with the video camera. I play a couple of instruments but he can weld so I guess it all evens out.

But when our cars go head to head it’s Katy bar the door. LOL