Antique & Classic Cars Blog

kris palmer says:

February 18th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

Yeah, that was cool to see. Maybe a kid built an old kit of Dad’s that had been sitting on a shelf. Granted I haven’t shopped for a model in over 30 years, so I have no idea what’s on the shelf in stores. I did see some cool ones once at Scale Model Supply in St. Paul, though I wasn’t looking for one and didn’t buy anything.

When my brother and I cleared out the family home I found a couple of models on a shelf in my closet that I had never built, as well as a few I had built, or had partially built, that were cool designs. Of all the things I could have kept from my childhood, I grabbed those models.

One in particular always had my imagination. It’s an AMT kit called Koo-Koo Kar, with a body like an old clock. It reminded me of this clock on a hokey TV show called Hatterville, with Charles Nelson Reilly, that I watched in elementary school. The Reilly character had this office, of sorts, with a cuckoo clock that had a chicken on a motorcycle. When the cuckoo would go off, a door would open and the chicken on the motorcycle would ride out on this wire. Crazy, juvenile stuff, but when you’re 9 years old it can make an impression. The Koo-Koo Car reminded me of that so I bought it as a kid, and kept it as an adult.

Funny how car impressions can be so strong.