Posted on 05/13/2018 9:02:04 AM PDT by ETL
I also found out about the model industry trick of putting a subtle but deliberate flaw in a part to detect if someone else ever ripped off their work through duplication.
We visited the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville the day before yesterday and saw some beauties. A couple of your pics are from there.
Modern cars are so boring. They all look alike!
I’m a gearhead, and I don’t really any of them.
Ahh. George Barris
(I think I’m mistaken about some of these cars being from Lane.)
I made the baron car (pic #2) as a model back in the day. The babe wasn’t included. I would’ve remembered that.
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“I’m a gearhead, and I don’t really LIKE any of them
remember almost all of them, built a lot of them, but never saw the Raider Wagon before...
Topps used to have a trading card set of a lot of those cars. Plastic kits for some of them were made as well. I distinctly remember a buddy and I assembling the “The Paddy Wagon.”
Those are some amazing cars! The work and detail that went into them without the benefit of the advanced technologies we now enjoy is astounding! Thanks for posting them!
Amazing! Model kit creators don’t get a fraction of the credit they deserve in putting cars, trucks, planes, tanks, helicopters, spaceships, sailing ships... into the hands of young and old alike to enjoy assembling and painting and having!
Did the rat fink drive any of these?
We were posting on the tennessee window here the other day about the failed transit bill and I thought of you and couldn’t remember your nick
And her you are and my memory returned.
I drive by Lane sometime and mean to take time to stop and maybe take my boys
I remember some of these from my youth tv shows and hot rod mags from back when California was beaches and blondes and Muncie was a name that conjured fast manual four speeds
Jokermobile...
As a kid I was always building model cars in my bedroom. I was probably one of the original glue sniffers.....LOL!
I’m a generation removed from the guys who built these odd gems. As a kid I remember lovingly constructing the models and imagining driving them - as improbable as that notion seemed.
Then we had some gearheads move into the neighborhood. One was the son of a wealthy beer distributor who had the winning combination of good looks, incredible luck and a seemingly endless flow of dollars. His buddy Gary was a Tom Jones look-alike (at Jones’s pinnacle of popularity). Both were into “fast cars, faster women and wild times”.
They had drag boats and motorcycles, and cars that were to die for. My brother and I were constantly at their place drooling over them and instead of shooing us away they allowed us to see and touch and eventually help work on them.
When I was 14 and my brother 12 we got to enter our own car into the annual Seattle Hot Boat and Speed Show. It was a ‘23 T roadster that really belonged to Gary but he allowed us to assume “ownership” for the show. It wasn’t as exotic as the ones in the pictures but you couldn’t tell us that - we were floating on air that year!
George Barris, RIP. Died a few years back at a ripe old age.
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