Vintage Homemade Slingshot

[Gramps46]

It was either late 1961 or early 1962 and I was a sophomore in high school when I was inspired by the pictures in Hot Rod.  I don't remember exactly where the plastic parts came from but the frame is from a coat hanger and the small rails are from my grandmother's hat pins.  The body was a sheet of copper that I beat into shape.  Those were fun times and I am lucky to still have it.

 

[cobraman]

Pretty cool !

[Snake45]

Wow, pretty impressive! Better than about 90% of the "Readers' Models" in the old model car mags of the day. 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Impressive work. Cool that its survived all these years.

[johnny rocket]

Very neat

 

[Flynlo]

What a cool piece of modeling history!

[alan barton]

That is a great piece of history to still own after all these years.  You obviously did a great job back then.

The rear wheels and tyres plus the engine and headers look like they came from the AMT Double Dragster kit, with ram tubes added.

Cheers

Alan

 

 

 

 

 

[TonyK]

Nice work!

[Gramps46]

Thank you to all who responded and yes I am very lucky to still have the dragster.

[Straightliner59]

That is cool as hell! Nice work, Gary. Very, very interesting piece of history.

[Belugawrx]

58 yrs old looks alot better on your rail than on me ..I gotta tell ya...lol

Nice work on that Gary

[slusher]

Very nice!

[PappyD340]

Awesome work, well done!

[MeatMan]

I love it! Well done!

[Deuces ll]

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