Looks like not only is it still around, it’s in great shape too!

But Wait, something ain’t right here!

I can remember having to look hard to find the plastic model of that thing to put together when I was a kid.

It was an off brand model and I had to go to an Honest To God Hobby/Model shop to find it.

I was pretty determined though and I finally had the little box in my grubby little hands.

For nostalgia sake I just looked it up and something caught my eye right away.

A detail that I didn’t remember from so long ago.

In the video above, this version quite obviously has great big, Fire Breathing V-8 engine in it.

All the pictures of the original model I just looked up show it having a Straight 6!

Doing some quick internet searching, I re-discovered that the original full size cae car did feature a Straigt 6 and was built by the Monogram Model Car company, based off of a model car in 1969!

The Red Baron was a custom t-bucket hot rod built in 1969.

The project was designed by Tom Daniel and built by Chuck Miller at Styline Customs.^[1]

The car was inspired by a Monogram model kit that Daniel had designed which was on display at the 1967 Chicago Toy Fair.^[2] Seeing the popularity of the kit, Monogram arranged to have a full-size version built. It is currently at the Smith Collection Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.^[3]

It later inspired a Hot Wheels car.^[

So the picture of the model I found was made by the Atlantis model car company but the original was made by Monogram!

It also featured a Straight 6 engine.

So if the original is sitting in a museum in Nebraska, then someone has built another one, with the fire Breathing V-8, and it’s currently running around.

So I had to do some more digging and I came up with this,

1923 Red Baron Replica Roadster

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Vehicle History

A timeline of events that we’ve detected for this vehicle.

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Oct 4, 2018

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Dallas, TX, USA

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Pretty interesting and quite the Rabbit Hole to fall down just from looking at one video that brought back old memories.

After driving almost 1600 miles to arrive at my destination in South Dakota and no it is not Wakanda which Bear Claw insists. I have been here since Saturday afternoon and checked into an RV park while my apartment was finishing with some repairs and I was slowly taking loads over during the day. I suffer from venous reflux in my legs but not my feet. About three weeks ago a small blister pop it’s head up and the nursing and medical staff and of course me was thinking “Tailor’s bunion or or a bone spur on the distal 5th metatarsal” by the joint on the which skilled podiatry appropriate care would suffice. Naay, during the trip my right foot was buried to the floor, due to me hauling two trailers up and over 8 passes going East from 6000 to 8000 feet and roller coaster I 80 through Eastern Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and of Course South Dakota as my older cruise control would not hold the speed when it dropped below 10 mph below set point.

So, the wound had opened up considerably about 2 inches long and at least a quarter inch wide with bone showing quite proudly with the added parting gift, Osteomyelitis… and it was present in goobous amounts. The doc wanted me to admitted today and while I agreed with him I had to get my trailers over to the parking lot at the apartment, arrange for the manager to feed my cat, Nora and get my bed put together and my recliner put back in one piece as I will not be dancing much with my small toe gone and a surgical wounds. I go in on Monday and will be there until Friday with no computer

I was wondering if when I am cremated I will get a lower cost as I have no tonsils, no gall bladder, no right kidney and now, no right small toe… Something to ask a an funeral director…