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About Author: Peter Wilding
Posts by Peter Wilding
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Tiny Titans: Scale Models Of 1960s Full-Size Power Cars
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 23 CommentsWe’ve looked at Muscle cars, in the sense of big block intermediates. But today I thought we’d take a look at where those powerful big blocks came from, the cars […] -
CC In Scale: Blossom Time! – Miniature Classics In Timeless White
Posted on September 29, 2025 | 31 CommentsAh, springtime! (Here in Australia) Warmer temperatures, more sunshine, longer days, occasional showers, and lots of new growth. Not so much flowers yet, but plenty of weeds – so that […] -
CC In Scale: Japanese Hardtops – JDM Elegance In Scale
Posted on September 9, 2025 | 21 CommentsSince we’ve been rerunning some of Prof. Tatra’s early JDM posts of some four door hardtops he’s found in and around Tokyo, I thought we’d have a look at the […] -
CC In Scale: Miniature Luxury – Scale Models Of Personal Luxury Coupes
Posted on August 20, 2025 | 25 CommentsThis was something of a bothersome theme for me. Just what is a personal luxury coupe? Some are obvious candidates to include, like this Grand Prix; others less so. Where […] -
CC In Scale: Groovy Greens – 1970s Model Cars In Every Shade
Posted on August 15, 2025 | 45 CommentsIt’s winter in Australia. Frosty mornings, fog, chilly days, with maxima around 8-12C (Quit laughing, Canadians!). I miss seeing the leaves on the fruit trees in the orchard. The citrus […] -
CC In Scale: The Camaro Tribe!
Posted on August 7, 2025 | 24 CommentsDeep in the human heart is a need for belonging. Historians or sociologists might link this back to prehistoric times, when belonging to the tribe in a hunter/gatherer society meant […] -
CC In Scale: A Collection Of Muscle Cars – Part 3
Posted on July 31, 2025 | 21 CommentsLast time we looked at muscle cars, we finished up in 1970. Good year, that. Intermediate coupes seemed to be changing focus; the highlight of the range was increasingly becoming […] -
CC In Scale: The Early Fifties
Posted on July 11, 2025 | 42 CommentsIt turns out I’ve written over fifty pieces for Curbside Classic now. That pales alongside the efforts of many of you, I know, but I felt it was worth a […] -
CC In Scale: Muscle Cars, Part 2 — 1968-70
Posted on June 26, 2025 | 20 CommentsWe’ll carry on from where we left off last time. All change for 1968! GM, Ford and Mopar all brought out new bodies for their intermediates, based on the previous […] -
CC In Scale: Muscle Cars, Part 1
Posted on June 12, 2025 | 16 CommentsIt helps to remember that the classes or groups we tend to think of cars fitting into are often rather arbitrary distinctions. This may be more apparent to us folk […] -
CC In Scale: The Cars Of 1968
Posted on May 29, 2025 | 21 CommentsThe writer in me doesn’t like just saying. “Here is this group of models”. There needs to be something of an introduction, a link to something, a hook to hang […] -
CC In Scale: Old American Pickups
Posted on May 23, 2025 | 37 CommentsIt seems to me that these days the Great American Car is in fact the pickup. A bit contradictory, but such is the nature of life. The only American vehicles […] -
CC In Scale: Checking Out The Back Rows
Posted on May 8, 2025 | 40 CommentsI’m sure we’ve all done it at some time or other: Gone to the back row of the used car lot to see what sorts of oddities need a new […] -
CC In Scale: A Collection Of Convertibles
Posted on April 30, 2025 | 30 CommentsThe world is a funny place. The older I get, the more I realize how limited our thinking can be. Unless we have travelled or read widely, we can tend […] -
CC In Scale: The Cars Of 1967
Posted on April 17, 2025 | 26 CommentsSometimes inspiration comes from strange places. Often these days I’m finding a model I build is inspired by a car I saw online; ever more frequently that’s in a CC […]