ne of the easiest ways for truck enthusiasts to channel their passions while growing up was to visit their local hobby shop while digging into the endless stacks of plastic kit models to spend a Saturday at the kitchen table building their favorite haulers. Regardless of whether you leaned toward bone-stockers or hot hop-ups laced with custom parts there was something for everyone, showcased by kits from Monogram, AMT, Revell, and Aurora, to name but a few. For a young Joe Smith, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, there were plenty of models built, fueling a fire lasting for decades, leading him to the decadent ’53 Ford F-100
