In the '40s and '50s, American Hot-rod builders built speed record cars to race at the Bonneville Salt Flats using airplane drop-tanks for body shells.
One slow afternoon, I got the idea to build one in 1/72 using the junk parts in my scrap-box. In one hour and twenty minutes I came up with this. It is an Airfix F-80 tank, wheels from two FROG DH.88 Comets, and Revell SPAD exhausts combined with scraps from the bottom of the box(windscreen, scoops, seat, and steering wheel). Paperclip wire is used for the axles and the moon hubcaps are punched from .010 card with an office punch. I painted it freehand with Testors Silver and Gloss Red.
It is not pretty but some of the real ones were pretty crudely built. The U.S. penny gives the size of the little bugger.
Adios, Larry.
