So continuing on with this Unexpected Road Trip Adventure, I thought we might take a stroll through my brother, Bus_Plunge’s, miniature barn he has resting comfortably in his backyard. It is crammed full of all sorts of cool stuff with tools and the odd diecast or tin type on the first floor while the upstairs is devoted almost exclusively to diecasts and models. Now please note my fellow Hoons, these are the part of his collection he keeps in the barn. The uber cool 1:24 scale diecasts are reserved for that special room his Prvt RN actually lets him have inside the house. Of course, this olelongrooffan thought this Kingswood was one of the coolest vehicles in this collection. But there are more, many more, after the jump.


While NotSoLilJim, Bus_Plunge’s son, likes to build models almost completely straight up stock, Bus_Plunge is all about kit bashing. When we toured his inside the house collection, he showed this olelongrooffan a bunch of diecast Franklin Mint car haulers he stole off ebay and bashed them into some kick ass replicas of car carriers from back in the 50’s. They are super cool and will grace these pages in the near future.

But today, we Hoons aren’t in the house, we are in the barn checking out all of the cool stuff he parks there. A lot of the stuff he hoards possesses is still in the original package. Yeah, entire collections of replica Tonka miniatures are surrounded by other, equally as cool, stuff.

And check out this collection my fellow Hoons. I can’t even begin to describe all of the trucks Bus_Plunge has on this table but believe you me, he has a story for every single one of them. “Now this truck? I got this truck….”

And it is not just some generic Tonka replicas he has. I mean, when was the last time any of my fellow Hoons spotted a diecast Gremlin? And he doesn’t have just one like this.

This diecast was of a pretty cool 1:1 truck from back in the day. It is a mid fifties Mercury inside a glass trailer that FOMOCO toted around the country for a buying public to see, lust after but not touch. And Richard Petty.

This old King Size sand truck could have been in the possession of this olelongrooffan was I was a mere whippersnapper. Although I would suspect mine died a slow death at the hands of a rock and a staged “accident.”

This collection of partially kit bashed trucks started off in the garage of this olelongrooffan in Slocala, Florida many moons ago, made its way to a garage in the Birthplace of Speed and then ended up in the attic of Bus_Plunge’s barn smack dab in the middle of the Ozark Mountains. This olelongrooffan had completely forgotten about them.

And of course, Bus_Plunge would have an assortment of VDubs of the same era he owned back in the day, just subsequent to his military collection and prior to his collection of Advanced Design trucks.

A Jeep Wagoneer, an A100 pickup and a Citroen longroof? Only in this collection would that combination be seen. Also, is that an out of focus TopKick to the left in the background?

And similar to that Mercury, this is an anniversary edition Chevrolet under the glass of that vintage old trailer. And another in the box car carrier to boot. Cheerios..good for you Mmmm.

I always thought these old European carnival trucks are cool as all get out. I might even take a tractor toting a camper one of these in place of a GMC Motorhome. Maybe.

Bus_Plunge’s daughter’s name is Sara Lee and Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee?

This is the one that got away. This olelongrooffan paid way to much money for this old Westie on the bay that is E and given my mediocre model building talents, I asked thejeepjunkie to assemble it for me. Well it turns out he wasn’t all that interested in finalizing its construction and it has been relegated to Bus_Plunge’s attic, at least for the time being.

And while this olelongrooffan was unable to escape from that barn with the Kingswood in tow, Bus_Plunge did provide me with a few souvenirs to display on the dash of my longerroof.
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