What You May Not Know is the Gold Standard of Show Cars

Despite today’s media saturation it’s difficult to appreciate the kerfuffle Boothill Express created in 1967. Though built as a static display, as most show rods were at the time, crowds went wild at its mere presence. Boothill toured nationally, filling promoters’ coffers at every venue. A fiberglass-bodied wheel-standing exhibition version that followed toured the drag circuit as well. Then Monogram rendered it in 1:24th scale and sold it as a kit that any kid could build. .