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Grandpa’s old Fords – 1925, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937

February 1, 2012
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Our grandpa was a great Ford T fan. The Ford T was by far one of his favorite cars, together with the ’39 Chevrolet. He used to tell us lots of funny stories about the first motorized days. I wish I could travel back in time to have fun with those cars with him. He […]

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Grandpa’s 1924 Fordson tractor – junker

January 25, 2012
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As I already told you, our grandpa used to own a junkyard. This 1924 Fordson tractor was one of the most special vehicles he had. Every time I see this pictures I must thing about the great times we had as children playing on this thing. Now it also serves as a great inspiration for […]

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American Restoration, American Pickers, Pawn Stars – 3 great TV shows for antique freaks on History Channel

January 18, 2012
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We tell you lots of stories about our grandpa. Well, here you have more. Our grandpa used to do almost all the things you see on this TV-shows. Now you understand why we were (and still are) so fascinated with antiques, classic cars and all things somehow related to history. Here you have a few […]

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Visiting Madurodam – The Netherlands – A miniature city in 1:25 scale

January 14, 2012
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A while ago we visited Madurodam in The Netherlands. Madurodam is one of the greatest dioramas we have ever seen in 1:25 scale. It’s not only a diorama. It’s a miniature city or, actually, a miniature country, representing the most important attractions of The Netherlands at one place. There you’ll find small areas of Amsterdam, […]

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1937 Ford Pickup – Rat Rod

January 10, 2012
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A few months ago I went to Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Germany with a group of friends of Trashers Club (The Netherlands). On the way to the show I made a few videos. Here you have Skip’s 1937 Ford Pickup Rat rod. A damn cool thing! Enjoy it!

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Modeljunkyard on ScaleAuto Magazine

January 2, 2012
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I got the latest issue of ScaleAuto Magazine the other day! Three of our books have been presented in their “New Products Section”. Thank you very much for this kind of support!! We really appreciate it. This issue comes with some interesting projects, by the way. The one I liked the most is a kitbash, […]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2012
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We wish you all a happy new year. We hope you had a good 2011 and most all, that 2012 turns out great for all of you!   We would also like to thank you all for the support you have given us so far, and by all, I mean everybody: our customers, those following […]

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Merry Christmas – Awesome Diorama with tricks

December 25, 2011
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Merry Christmas, specially for those of you celebrating these days! Besides merry wishes, I would like to show you this awesome “Christas Diorama” I found some weeks ago and share with you some of the tricks this smart builder made (this is not our work)   How about this tree? Check it out and have […]

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2012 Calendars – Featuring Gas Station, Old Barn and Junk Model Cars

December 9, 2011
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Las year, we made one calendar featuring our coolest junk model cars. This year was full of projects and new scale models. So this time, we made two calendars more! Besides the Junk Car Road Trip Calendar, we made one featuring the Texaco Gas Station with Tokheim 39 Gas Pumps and the other one, featuring […]

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ModelJunkyard with the Texaco diorama on MotorManiacs Magazine #12

November 21, 2011
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  [English] As you already know, Motor-Maniacs is our favorite german Magazine. The cool thing about this magazine is that they are really open minded and that they respect all kinds of car related passions. From the hardcore traditional Hot-Rod Scene to the low budget guy driving a european classic car including the perfectionist restorer. This […]

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Easy Rider – 1969 – Lot’s of diorama inspiration [the full movie]

October 15, 2011
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The other day I was looking for a few cool scenes of classic movies such as “Bullit”, “60 Seconds”, “Dirty Harry” and many others and casually I found Easy Rider on YouTube, not only a few scenes, but the full length movie. The movie is a road trip classic and is full of inspiring scenes […]

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Junk car pics from ModelJunkyard’s friends

October 9, 2011
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Having a blog is great! You start having contact with people you would never have the opportunity to meet other way. I’m surfing here and there and that’s how I sometimes find cool stuff from like minded people. Other times it’s the other way around. Other people find us. Well, here are 2 guys I met […]

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Jerry’s Resin Realm – Find almost any car you can imagine

October 1, 2011
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One day, surfing the net, I found a forum discussion about resin bodies from somewhere called Resin Realm by Jerry. As I visited the site, I was stunned! Jerry has a variety of bodies that could make any junkyard diorama look like out of this world! Let me show you a few examples:   This is a […]

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Malte’s VW Karmann Ghia type 34 1965 – Rat Rod

September 18, 2011
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This summer I met Malte at the Bottrop Kustom Kulture event in Germany and his ’65 VW Karmann Ghia rat rod. The show was full of cool cars, customs, rat rods, hot rods, gassers… everything you can imagine. You know guys, I preffer american cars. But I must admit this Karmann Ghia is one of […]

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Our latest projects are taking shape – Gas Station diorama

August 1, 2011
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Hey guys! Last week my brother and I met to finish some of our latest projects. On the one hand, I was working on the triplet Mustang project and on the other hand my brother was working on the TEXACO gas station diorama. We also took some time to build a “one day rat rod” […]

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Classic cars, customs, hotrods, ratrods & beaters for GTA San Andreas and Vice City

July 5, 2011
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I must admit I’m not a big fan of computer games. I rarely play games and I have no idea what’s new today (please feel free to share with us new cool games in the comments). Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is in the meanwhile a quite old game but it’s one of my favorites, […]

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Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 – A few pics

June 20, 2011
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Last Saturday I was at Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 (Germany) together with Trashers C.C. (from The Netherlands). I found lots of great cars and cool people from everywhere around Europe, even from Spain… there might be a deep crisis there, but there are always a few Euro’s left to fill up the V8 tank and […]

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Bottrop Kustom Kulture – See you there tomorrow

June 17, 2011
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We’ll be tomorrow at Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Bottrop, Germany. One of the coolest custom culture events in Europe. You better watch their official teaser to get the feeling… See you there! Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 – Teaser from The Pixeleye on Vimeo.

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Coolest reality show ever! Desert Car Kings on Discovery Channel

June 5, 2011
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On our ModelJunkyard blog we want to share with you not only model car related stuff, but our complete passion and lifestyle, what we do every day, things that we find here and there that we enjoy and know you, our readers, will like, like this new Discovery Channel reality show: “Desert Car Kings” Today on […]

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1963 Ford F100 Pick up – junked

May 15, 2011
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This time I want to share with you this pictures of this ’63 Ford F100 Pickup I found one in the middle of nowhere. This one is a good example where we get our inspiration from…  ..enjoy the pics!      

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One of my favorite books ever: Diamonds In The Rust

May 7, 2011
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In order to understand this story you have to travel back in time and space. Do you remember the 80s? Without internet the world was huge. Finding like minded people or hobby related items was not that easy. Specially if your hobby is that strange as junkyard art. I’ll never forget the day I found […]

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Patagonian desert flower – 1976 Ford Falcon – Junk car

March 31, 2011
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A few years ago I was traveling through Argentina, crossing the patagonian desert on my way to Bariloche just when I came across this great desert flower and I had to hit the brakes for a photo session. What you see here was once a 1976 Ford Falcon more or less like the one in the […]

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Hot Rod Poetry – When car had fins

March 11, 2011
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If you don’t know this guy, then you have been missing something! Richard Peek (rpeek on youtube) has been posting some great videos on youtube about his music, his projects and his love for good old cars. This video is a slide show of some cool rides with a poem written by him and recited […]

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Modeljunkyard on Motor Maniacs / Modeljunkyard auf Motor Maniacs

February 16, 2011
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ENGLISH Last Friday I went to the news stand and got the latest issue of one my favorites magazines: Motor Maniacs. It is a German publication about Oldtimers, Youngtimers, Custom Cars and all styles related to that. Every two months a new issue comes out packed with awesome pics and stories about cool cars and […]

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