Cherry Bomb - Tom Daniel - 1970
Cherry Bomb
Turbine -Powered Show Rod, Chopper and Trailer
Original year: 1970
Company: Monogram
Scale: 1/24
Designer: Tom Daniel
Tom Daniel--Guru of all designers--has come up with what has to be the most mind-blowing rod of all time...the show-smashing CHERRY BOMB! A tinted bubble top covers the plush interior, and to show off the gleaming chrome turbine engine another tinted bubble is set into the long lean hood. To make it totally out-of-sight, Tom added a wild custom trailer to haul his own unreal show chopper...a mod bike with high-rise seat and raked-out wheel.
The way-out styling of this show rod is super from the special combination torsion bar-axle in the front end to the flush-mounted sequential tail lights in the rear deck. Riding on spring-air rear suspension, the CHERRY BOMB gets its go from a boss turbine powerplant. Headlights are housed in tapered chrome pods, and tinted transparent bubble top opens to show interior detail including uni-control. Tagging behind in its own custom trailer is the mod chopper with bored and stroked mill, cherry-bomb gas tank and highrise backrest and sissy bar.
[Text taken from www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/cherry_bomb.html]
This Lego miniland-scale model of Tom Daniel's 'Cherry Bomb' of 1970 has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 84th Build Challenge, our 7th birthday, to the theme, - "LUGNuts Turns 7…or 49 in Dog Years", - where all the previous challenge themes are available to build to. In this case, perhaps the most challenging and terrifying theme, number 38, - "By Random Appointment", - where the model is chosen for you, and you have to build that model. For this anniversary challenge, LUGNuts' admin Lino chose this famous historic concept rod, bike and trailer for me to recreate.
Cheers Lino. I hope you like my recreation.
Cherry Bomb - Tom Daniel - 1970
Cherry Bomb
Turbine -Powered Show Rod, Chopper and Trailer
Original year: 1970
Company: Monogram
Scale: 1/24
Designer: Tom Daniel
Tom Daniel--Guru of all designers--has come up with what has to be the most mind-blowing rod of all time...the show-smashing CHERRY BOMB! A tinted bubble top covers the plush interior, and to show off the gleaming chrome turbine engine another tinted bubble is set into the long lean hood. To make it totally out-of-sight, Tom added a wild custom trailer to haul his own unreal show chopper...a mod bike with high-rise seat and raked-out wheel.
The way-out styling of this show rod is super from the special combination torsion bar-axle in the front end to the flush-mounted sequential tail lights in the rear deck. Riding on spring-air rear suspension, the CHERRY BOMB gets its go from a boss turbine powerplant. Headlights are housed in tapered chrome pods, and tinted transparent bubble top opens to show interior detail including uni-control. Tagging behind in its own custom trailer is the mod chopper with bored and stroked mill, cherry-bomb gas tank and highrise backrest and sissy bar.
[Text taken from www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/cherry_bomb.html]
This Lego miniland-scale model of Tom Daniel's 'Cherry Bomb' of 1970 has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 84th Build Challenge, our 7th birthday, to the theme, - "LUGNuts Turns 7…or 49 in Dog Years", - where all the previous challenge themes are available to build to. In this case, perhaps the most challenging and terrifying theme, number 38, - "By Random Appointment", - where the model is chosen for you, and you have to build that model. For this anniversary challenge, LUGNuts' admin Lino chose this famous historic concept rod, bike and trailer for me to recreate.
Cheers Lino. I hope you like my recreation.