Heaven knows what this really is. It was sold as an "Off Road Adventure Set" and it amounts to a pickup truck, two motorcycles and a motorcycle trailer. The truck is an odd hybrid of what looks like a Datsun cab coupled with an American shortbed stepside pickup. There's a V8 under the hood and it came with gaudy exhausts that resembled Funny Car exhaust, but they found their discrete way into the trash can.The instructions call for painting the generic motorcycles "yellow". But the discerning eye quickly notes that they aren't Japanese motorcycles at all; they're highly passable replicas of old-school Husqvarna motocrossers, probably CR-250s or CR-360s.
The kit is worthwhile just for the motorcycles, I think.
(You may be curious. I said it came with two motorcycles, but there's only one in the pictures. The other was more than likely carried away by a bird or pack rat.)
3 comments:
A Bird? What were you doing playing with them out in the sand box? ;o)
Some of my models are stuck with, shall we say, less than three-star accommodations. They have to stay out in the garage. Which is fine, except that now and then wildlife invades the garage. The pack rats mostly steal chrome-plated parts off my workbench, while the bigger birds tend to make off with things like, say, 1/24th scale motorcycles. They probably dip them in the horse watering trough to soften them up, and I suppose I could go find them there, but there's only so hard I'll try to save a little model!
From my point of view that's hilarious.LOL. I can picture a crow flying off with a motorcycle in its claws squawking all the way to the trough. However I imagine that it must set you off from time to time.
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