Tag: hot rods

• Good Morning Walter – Part 13 – Mellow Yellow

  

  Good Morning, Walter, and welcome to the wonderful world of crazy old Australians with yellow cars. This might not seem to be unusual, but the cars you’ll see here in this report are from the Western Australian Hot Rod Show that we have every year. They are real, but how real and how old can…

  Dick Stein

  September 19, 2019

  Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Lacquer, Walter

  hot rods, Western Australia, yellow paint

• The Courage Of The 1:64th Customiser

  

  The great days of the hot rod and custom car were…ummm…well, actually they were yesterdayand went all the way back to the 1940’s. They’ve been held over for the present and will be still continuing for the future. No-one manages to tell the customisers that they can’t do anything so they just go ahead and…

  Dick Stein

  July 21, 2019

  Collecting, Colour Schemes, die cast, finances, Model cars, Modelling exhibitions, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  custom cars, diecast cars, Greenlight, hot rods, Mattel

• 1931 Ford Model A – Part Two – When Art Becomes Burlesque

  

  Relax – no sex here. And surprisingly, not a lot of sex at the burlesque shows either…but that is another tale. The business of making a jalopy or rat rod is quite fashionable today. I see them at hot rod shows all the time and like to look at the details. For vehicles made by…

  Dick Stein

  November 20, 2018

  Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model cars, Painting, research, Uncategorized

  1:16 scale, Ford Model A, History, hot rods