Hemi Under Glass

[sharp]

 Built OOB with added plug wires.  Airbrushed with decanted Tamiya and cleared with Testors.


 

[rickyc]

Very nice build, really like the way you did the paint fade.

[RodBurNeR]

nice clean looker! that paint job looks exceptional too!

[skip]

OK, Mike, I'd pat you on the back, but I just can't reach that far!! LoL!

That's one of the Swellest Hemi-Under-Glass that I've seen in a rather long time! Too Exciting!

Didn't this start as one of the first AMT AWB Funny Cars in the Series or was the Rat Packer the
first of them to come out. My, brain seems to think the order was something like:
1. Barracuda - Whatever, its name was.
2. Rat Packer '64/'65 Chevy II Nova - AWB Funny Car.
3. '65 Mustang Fastback AWB - Mustang Funny Car.
4. '64 Pontiac Tempest AWB - Funny Farmer - Funny Car.

I just wish they would have completed the series and done The Doug's Headers AWB Chevy II
Mr. Chevrolet Dickie Harrel's AWB '66 Chevy II Nova SS, Dandy Dick Landy's Dodge/Plymouth A990 based AWB,
Dyno Don Nicholson '64 - '65 Mercury Cyclone AWB cars, Arnie the Farmer Beswick '65 Mercury Cyclone AWB...
That list could go on and on for days with some of the coolest rides in the Out-of-Control mid-sixties AWB
"Factory Sponsored" or not "Funny Cars", maybe not and once they got too outa control for NHRA to try to
keep them in rules they were almost all Match Racers of one kind or another!

1964 thru 1967 +/- might be some of the most volatile rules-wise, I can't even begin to imagine the would-be
barristers in action every week at the strip arguing their case because something about their car might be seen
as legal. These guys probably made Smokey Yonic look like a fine upstanding Sunday school teacher with all their
alternate reality versions of truth! LoL!!

Man, it would have been the greatest thing to have been privy to what had to have been the most heated time
(arguing the rules wise) in Drag Racing history. I can't really remember any other class other than when the
Super Stocks became AFX then finally fuel burning flaming Funny Cars or what we would begin to recognize as
crudely constructed (by today's standards) Funny Cars. First with their gutted "factory" steel bodies dropped
over a tube chassis even dragster chassis until the fiberglass replica could be had... They had a whole lot
of (gallons of) testosterone, imagination and a whole bunch of pure craziness going on in those days it might
have showed too. LoL!!

Man, that look at your Hurst Hemi Under Glass was a trip down the crazy years of memory lane, but it was FUN!!

[Mr. Metallic]

Great job on the fade. Probably the best build I've ever seen of this kit.

[sharp]

Feb 4, 2024 1:43:43 GMT -5 skip said:

OK, Mike, I'd pat you on the back, but I just can't reach that far!! LoL!

That's one of the Swellest Hemi-Under-Glass that I've seen in a rather long time! Too Exciting!

Didn't this start as one of the first AMT AWB Funny Cars in the Series or was the Rat Packer the
first of them to come out. My, brain seems to think the order was something like:
1. Barracuda - Whatever, its name was.
2. Rat Packer '64/'65 Chevy II Nova - AWB Funny Car.
3. '65 Mustang Fastback AWB - Mustang Funny Car.
4. '64 Pontiac Tempest AWB - Funny Farmer - Funny Car.

I just wish they would have completed the series and done The Doug's Headers AWB Chevy II
Mr. Chevrolet Dickie Harrel's AWB '66 Chevy II Nova SS, Dandy Dick Landy's Dodge/Plymouth A990 based AWB,
Dyno Don Nicholson '64 - '65 Mercury Cyclone AWB cars, Arnie the Farmer Beswick '65 Mercury Cyclone AWB...
That list could go on and on for days with some of the coolest rides in the Out-of-Control mid-sixties AWB
"Factory Sponsored" or not "Funny Cars", maybe not and once they got too outa control for NHRA to try to
keep them in rules they were almost all Match Racers of one kind or another!

1964 thru 1967 +/- might be some of the most volatile rules-wise, I can't even begin to imagine the would-be
barristers in action every week at the strip arguing their case because something about their car might be seen
as legal. These guys probably made Smokey Yonic look like a fine upstanding Sunday school teacher with all their
alternate reality versions of truth! LoL!!

Man, it would have been the greatest thing to have been privy to what had to have been the most heated time
(arguing the rules wise) in Drag Racing history. I can't really remember any other class other than when the
Super Stocks became AFX then finally fuel burning flaming Funny Cars or what we would begin to recognize as
crudely constructed (by today's standards) Funny Cars. First with their gutted "factory" steel bodies dropped
over a tube chassis even dragster chassis until the fiberglass replica could be had... They had a whole lot
of (gallons of) testosterone, imagination and a whole bunch of pure craziness going on in those days it might
have showed too. LoL!!

Man, that look at your Hurst Hemi Under Glass was a trip down the crazy years of memory lane, but it was FUN!!

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Thanks Skip. I don't think the Barracuda was part of the AMT AWB line up.
This model that I built has the stock wheelbase. I'm pretty sure the Rat
Packer was the first AWB model car for AMT.

[Mr. Metallic]

Here's some great info on the AMT "drag car series". Not all are AWB, but they all came out around the same time as evidenced by the same box art style. Many of them were all new tooling. The Vette was a rebox of the 63-65, the stude was the trophy series body partnered with the Piranha chassis, and the Edsel was the 58 body paired with the AWB chassis and a bunch of gimmick parts.

AMT drag kits

[skip]

Feb 6, 2024 7:01:41 GMT -5 Mr. Metallic said:

Here's some great info on the AMT "drag car series". Not all are AWB, but they all came out around the same time as evidenced by the same box art style. Many of them were all new tooling. The Vette was a rebox of the 63-65, the stude was the trophy series body partnered with the Piranha chassis, and the Edsel was the 58 body paired with the AWB chassis and a bunch of gimmick parts.

Thanks Craig, for some reason I though the Cuda came out first, probably because it was the first of the series that I built. Along with - A Bunch of Rat Packers, a couple of the Chevelles, a few Funny Farmer Tempest and a Mustang.  At like $1.50 to $2.00 a pop they were reasonable with lawn mowing money and a weekly allowance for this kid.  I also built a "Back-Up-Cuda in yellow just like the one I saw on the front of Hot Rod Cartoons sans markings. Wishing I could find a Pappy driver to go with it! LoL!! Even though those were a kind of simple (make that kind of crude frame and front suspensions), they all were a hoot to build. 

After all these years my only complaint on the series would be the front axles where the batwings for the radius rods mounted. Every one of them that had that type of front end broke right at that point, where the axle was about half its thickness to mount the bat wings.  OH well, they were fun while they lasted!

[Mr. Metallic]

Feb 6, 2024 9:58:11 GMT -5 skip said:

Feb 6, 2024 7:01:41 GMT -5 Mr. Metallic said:

Even though those were a kind of simple (make that kind of crude frame and front suspensions), they all were a hoot to build. 

Not to derail Sharp's thread to much. but I have recently developed an interest in these kits, about a year too late. why I say that is I had a couple of the Mustangs, the Falcon and a couple others in my stash (all modern reissues) and sold them off, mostly because when i went to build the Funny Farmer reissue I was disappointed with how "simple" the kit was. That was back when i was still "serious" about building. But in the last few years I've been focusing more on the fun stuff (like my polished plastic Monogram builds). Over the last few months I've seen some absolute stunning builds of these popping up and now I'm on a casual quest to gather them again for building. I do still have the Pontiac, and recently bought the Chevelle. I gathered parts to do the Stude, and the Olds is rumored to be released eventually. If I do the Edsel I'll probably leave off the kitschy items. But these look like a blast to build

[superflekmoonbird]

Nice work...a classic!