I've always wanted a couple of station wagon bodies for Tjets, and not long ago I found a diecast that was a perfect fit--the old Playart police/fire chief Mercury. I showed it to Claus as a potential resin master, and, well, if you've been following this board, you've seen the outstanding wood-paneled version he did recently. Well, I got a couple of them, and here's the first one I mounted on a chassis. It appears to be perfectly in scale with the Aurora XL500 in the pics...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rwurtz/images/mercwag0103a.jpg

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rwurtz/images/mercwag0405a.jpg

It's kind of eerie driving it around the track, almost as if the green Matchbox Mercury Commuter wagon I had as a kid magically came to life...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rwurtz/images/mercwag0912a.jpg

Cool, huh? Thanks Claus!!!

--rick

Very nice. :thumbsup:

Hey can we panel that and sing the brady Bunch Song?


Coach....!

nice......
It is great that people do resin casts of cars besides "race" cars...
Scott

"Are we there yet? NO Are we there yet? NO Are we there yet? NO"

Man I can still hear my dad saying "Don't make me stop this car and come back there..."

Claus has another winner in my eyes. Keep up the great craft. :thumbsup:

Jeff

Hi Rick,

I´m glad you seem to enjoy the stuff I sent you! :-) The lime one looks cool, especially in addition to the old Matchbox diecast! Err, didn´t you say you were busy over the weekend with your daughter´s first Communion? Looks llike you managed to escape the crowd for an hour or two...? :-)))

In the meantime my first cast (the blue wooden paneled one I already posted here a couple of weeks ago) mutated from a family wagon to a funky surf-o-mobile (retractable rear windows are a feature I miss on today´s station wagons!):

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_mercury_station_35.jpg

And that´s how another one that I did for a friend of mine turned out:

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_mercury_station_hm_01.jpg

I usually don´t like that kind of color, but salmon isn´t too bad for a 60´s car, eh?

@ Sott and Jeff: Thanks for the nice comments!

Greetings from Germany,

Claus

www.c-jet500.de.vu

Claus, how can I go about acquiring some of those bodies, say...10? Different colors?

dlw,

I juts sent you an eMail as well as a PM (don´t know if eMail via this board is working...).

Claus

www.c-jet500.de.vu

They sure look great! :thumbsup: rr

claus,

great job!

i would also like to find out about how to pourchase a body.

jason

Jason,

I just sent you a PM!

Claus

www.c-jet500.de.vu

unbelievable work, I gotta have a few Claus, ugly 70's colors too. I had a 1960 Dodge Phoenix when I was about 18 (I'm 37 now) the color was "fawn beige" EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW. push button transmission got alot of looks.