| This 1948 Ford Woody, made from a Revel kit, is one of my favorites. I was very happy with the paint. The kit is detailed and fits together beautifully. Mostly, however, I'm just crazy about the car. Ford made these wooden body wagons through about 1948, went to wood trim on a steel wagon in 1949, I believe, and moved to a fake stuff that looked like wood in the middle 1950s. The reasons were quite practical -- steel left out in the weather eventually rusts -- and takes a bit of time doing so. Wood, however, loses its finish rapidly. Those wood bodies needed to be refinished or varnished often or they would rust into oblivion. I never had the task of caring for one, so I don't know exactly how much work was involved -- I can assume, without difficulty, that it was more than I would care to undertake. |
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| The convertible here is also from Revel, so the frames and unseen parts are pretty much the same on the two kits. This is, I understand, a year or two newer than the car Biff drove in "Back to the Future." The bodies were identical. And no, I have no intention of assembling a DeLorean time machine from the silly movie -- nor am I much interested in any sort of DeLorean. However, I would love to see a Tucker kit. |
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