Scale Auto – October 2019

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MEET JOHN

Growing up in

southwest Ohio,

which at one

time was a hub

of automobile

racing, I started

building models at age 6. My

dad was a champion stock car

driver, so I was constantly

around the building and

racing of full-size stock cars.

Today, I’m known for building

stock cars and late models,

or, as I call them, “Saturday

night stockers.” In my past

life, I worked in architecture

and have a lot of time for

building models now that I’m

retired. This took me about a

year to build.

The driver’s door has a Vickers machine

gun, probably salvaged from the

wreckage of a British ace

Huge sprint-car
tires were
blended with
the 1933
Caddy’s wheels More than 220 wire stitches

(440 hand-drilled holes)

Streaks made

with an ultra-thin

liner brush