Two Interesting New 'Streets Projects

Cool work as always......BUT....the panel van is a Dodge unit......spent way too much time in one doing delivery work in college!!!! same body...different grille. Ford has a nose on it compared to Dodge...

Nice Lee!

Your "Streets" just keep getting better, Lee.

Excellent. You need a police car right on his tail.

Excellent. By the way, is that a '56 ford coming down the street at the end?

Do you know what year it would be? I call ed it a Ford because it seems to have more Ford characteristics than anything else.  I've actually spent a lot of time trying to find out exactly what year and model.  If you look at the WBB can in detail, the shape of the front windows and the door handles are pure 1992 Ford: a Dodge has a slight angle to the back edge of the window frame, the Ford is straight as on this model.  On the other hand, the grill looks more Dodge.  The back bumper and rear lights don't match anything i can find.  Since a majority of these made in the Lionel era were labled as Fords (most noteably the Ford Quicklane Truck) , I just called it a Ford.  The grill does loos very Dodge like, around 1992.

Very cool Lee. Now all you need is the sound of the Ferrari revving up.

Amazing conversions.

That basic Dodge van body was first used in 1970 and remained without major modification until 2013.  It had grille, trim and even different hood sheet metal but the basic body was the same.  I can't really see the grille on the model....but even if I could it more than likely a somewhat generic version. Chrysler licensing is not real easy....so this may have been generic on purpose. 

Dodge 1978

 

Dodge 1993

 

You can see they did not change much over the years.

The Ford from the same era has a much more noticeable 'nose'!

 

The Ferrari is going too slow.

AMCDave - now that you have pointed it out, I think the van is a deliberate hodgepodge of all makes.  The van body profile looks like a Dodge, the grill actually catches some Chevy ones best when you look at it in detail, and the doors, door handles, and driver/s passenger window shapes are right from a '92 ford van. and the rear lights bumper look like nothing i can find.  

 

By mixing it all up K-Line (the body dates back that far) didn't have to pay anyone any licensing fees.  Pretty smart, actually.  

Agreed......the licensing thing can be costly in time and money.....

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what does wbb stand for?

Williams by Bachmann

More great conversions Lee! Be sure and include these in your book.

 

I also like the way the wheels turned out on the Ferrari. Very nice.  Terry

 

 

Yes, I hand-painted them.  Painting the wheels on a car helps a lot; for instance if you paint a yellow ring on the wheels of the WBB Taxi's wheels, around the silver "hubcap" you make it look a lot more like a taxi, etc.  I have a whole page on that in the book.

I will always have a soft spot for big vans. The first "car" I drove was my dads 1983 Chevy Beauville. It had the longest wheelbase of any non commercial vehicle chevy made. It was not an add on body with a seam but fully designed like that. The third row seat could fold down into a full size bed without taking anything out. More than once delivery guys offered to buy it at the gas station to convert to a box truck.

Next job Lee should be a van with a big Wizard mural on the side.

I have a couple of vans listed on the OGR Buy/ Sell F/S.

Go back a couple of pages and you will see 1:43 cars & trucks F/S.

Bob

Oh man, now a Ferrari F430 has been converted!!! Lee you are the man! 

Lee has a speed limit in his town and there are way too many cops around to speed!

Exactly! Look at the still photo!  That is police lieutenant Frank Bullitt  that the Ferrari is about to pass.  Now, he is a cool guy and no doubt would forgive a few miles per hour bit he has an obligation to uphold the law.  And no doubt the Ferrari can probably outrun his 390 Mustang if it comes down to it.  But you know what happened to the guys the last time he chased someone, right?  Would you want to take the chance?

Cool stuff Lee, I love all the detail you've put into the Streets part of the layout.  The conversions are amazing and they run really well.

Great stuff.  Lee's work is always creative and extremely well executed.  The Ferrari and van are exceptional.

Hello Lee,

 

Beautiful work!.   The Pie in the Sky structure front,  where did you get the furniture;

the table cloth and the 2 women figures?  It is an excellent action production!!!

 

Thank you kindly, 1/4 Gauger 

Lee, I'm surprised you didn't convert Magnum PI's Ferrari! Regardless, it still looks great.

Quater Gauger: the furniture is all scratch made.  Chairs are cardstock cut with X-Acto.

 

MilwRdPaul: I have Magnum's 308 on the layout but it will never run on 'Streets.  It's too narrow to fit an O-guage axle inside it.  Just can't do it.  

Wow,  I have made tabels, but never chairs.  That is outstanding....I love the tabel cloth!  The details make it realistic........Excellent layout.  I love your cars.....

You can always tell, a true engineer by his details!!!!!!!