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Mini Phantom: Watch As This Scaled Bumpside Ford Becomes A Quad Cab!


Mini Phantom: Watch As This Scaled Bumpside Ford Becomes A Quad Cab!

If you were anything like me growing up, you had a group of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars that qualified as “the junkyard”. These were the cars that didn’t last long, the ones that got damaged for whatever reason, the old cars with the chipped paint and missing decals, the ones with bent axles and chipped tires, the ones that maybe spent a little too much time in a mud puddle somewhere as you tried to emulate a scene from “The Dukes of Hazzard” or something like that. So long as they didn’t end up in my brother’s C-clamp “car crusher”, though, they were always savable. When I switched over to model cars, I learned how to kitbash…the fine art of raiding one kit for something for another. It explained why I had a Buick Grand National with Super Trick wheels and a blown big-block Chevrolet engine at one point.

Seeing the work that some of these YouTube restorers do to these machines makes me want to try my hand at it. As I’m typing this out, I’ve pulled down my 1980 Dodge Mirada Stock Car and I’m judging if it would be a worthy project, since the poor thing is so battered. A quick teardown, paint strip, repaint and reassembly doesn’t seem so bad. What this guy does to this bumpside Ford setup, on the other hand, is as in-depth as it gets. He has one truck that’s certainly seen better days and another still in the blister pack. His plan: phantom crew-cab Ford build. Check it out!


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2 thoughts on “Mini Phantom: Watch As This Scaled Bumpside Ford Becomes A Quad Cab!

  1. Vincent Nemanic

    Non Builders are often surprised by what we do to plastic kits. You can check out some wild models on bulletin boards and Facebook sites from Scale Auto, Model Cars, and Model Car Builder magazines and the Spotlight Hobbies Message Board, not to mention numerous sites on Facebook.

  2. HotRodPop

    SUBSCRIBE TO THIS GUY’S FEED! He’s awesome! As someone who built plastic kits for years and can’t do it anymore due to health issues (I’m 61), this dude has mad skills on a tiny scale. Very satisfying to watch!

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