Bounty Hunter

In 1967, Ben Millspaugh published an article in Car Model on "The Bounty Hunter", a car guaranteed to beat all those nasty "outlaws" (Thingies), while still looking semi-scale. I have yet to build my own version, but I've found a good half-dozen variants of this design over the years. Here's the latest, in many ways closest to the original design, because it's got a Champion 507 motor and the front end and drop arm are as shown in the article. Most of the cars I've found use a cheaper 26D motor and workarounds for the front end and drop arm. However, both front and rear wheels are kind of complicated, and none of the ones I've found go to those lengths: two Cox Lotus 40 wheels on each side for the rear, to keep scale appearance, while allowing the more effective wide tires, and a ball bearing inserted into drilled out Cox Lotus front wheels - not really within the capacity of most desktop modelers, if you want it to be round!

Anyway, here's the latest, and a few others found over the years. The original was built with a Ferrari V12 F1 body and some use that, some not.

Don