[niteowl77]

I used to have a contact through work that was part of R&D and tooling teams at a couple of plastic model manufacturers, and once you got him going, he had some great stories about the real cars and pitfalls involved with making models thereof. A lot of them were too delicate to really do much more than be gently driven short distances at an event, and some of them that could actually go out on the street were miserably cumbersome.

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.

[BradyLS]

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!

[Waverunner]

I built a lot of model kits of cars, planes and spaceships in the 60’s. Also magazines like CarToons and Surftoons with rat fink and wonder wart hog had lots of crazy car designs. Great times, and great cars.

[PeterPrinciple]

A lot of them were too delicate to really do much more than be gently driven short distances at an event, and some of them that could actually go out on the street were miserably cumbersome.

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The monkee mobile had a solid rear axle, no springs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeemobile