The seller of this 1957 Chevrolet fire truck picked a rather ideal time to advertise it in Hemmings.com: A large part of our readership is probably this morning waking up with dreams of the row of perfectly shined up fire trucks on the Hershey show field still dancing in their heads and thinking it’d be […]
Gene Herman, inspired by the recent post about Herb Miska’s great scratchbuilt models, recently sent us this story on another amazing scratchbuilder who chose to replicate a Pierce-Arrow dump truck. Gene writes: I feel very lucky to count amongst my friends a GENIUS scratchbuilder named Charlie Rowley. The quality of his work is good as […]
The universe of radio-controlled hobbies generally takes two forms: skateboard-aged kids whee-whizzing their monster trucks around the parking lot, or older pseudo-engineers playing with their boats and airplanes. Finally, radio control has come in a big way to the boot-and-air horn set. We introduce you to VCS Hobbies of Brooklyn, New York, which bills itself […]