Boot Hill Express

This one is straight out of my child hood- we used to look at the original car through the window of George Barris' showroom / custom shop down in The Valley of L.A. Somewhere I have snapshots we made at the time. I was crazy about anything with a skull or skeleton: Lil' Coffin, Rommel's Rod, Jolly Roger and this one. I fumbled through the assembly of my own personal Boot Hill Express, fogging up the clear parts with too much Testors and messing up the most delicate parts. It was thrilling to find a mint eighties version of the thing in impeccable shape, special thanks goes to Emil. The thing is molded in yellow and chrome, with great tires: in fact the pie crust slicks on the rear rims have white wall inserts that are played down in the cover photos of this re-press, but must have been super hot back in '61 or whenever they built the first version of this creepy rod. I remember being freaked out in a cool way when my folks told me the car was a cowboy hearse, and what a hearse was.... It would be a special challenge to carefully build this thing, done up in gold enamel with wide white wall slicks and a diorama behind it. Boot Hill Express will set next to the Lil' Stogey Death Valley Dragger Wagon quite nicely......... Mr. Red Primer AUTUMN SHEDULE 2012