Posted on 10/14/2018 11:32:19 AM PDT by ETL
If you, like me, grew up building plastic model cars, and think that it's now a forgotten hobby, you might be happily surprised that it's not only still around, the skill and ingenuity, IMO, has never been better.
Following is a compilation of car and truck model photos from various model car shows, all or most from within the past few years.
I'm sure you'll agree, there is some serious talent out there today.
I’ve only seen some of these on the periphery of the Garage Kit hobby I am/was involved in. A bit more organic stuff, but the techniques are the same. Some insanely great skills out there.
For some reason, I recall Jungle Pam more than Jim :)
AMT model car kits were the bomb back then. I quickly got bored putting together straight stock model and discovered model car articles in the custom hot rod mags. People were chopping and channeling, making working doors, detailing the engines much as you could with what was available. Shopping for the next custom project was time consuming, looking over the new releases, decisions, decisions... How best to spend my hard earned few dollars. Got to where the hobby shop owner steered me to the new stuff soon as I got through the door, knowing he had a sale once I made my mind up.
Some of the kit parts were kind of crude and needed X-Acto knife and needle file work to sharpen the details. Like beveling the inside edges of fender wheel openings to look more to scale instead of 2x6s.
All of these are awesome. But while it’s one thing to show a car at its best. It’s quite another to make ‘em look like they’ve got some real miles behind ‘em.
...and neighbors that are more than a few yards away.
Nice! Thanks for posting! Gorgi cars and Hot Wheels where the toys I had. Wish parents hadn’t tossed them.
And don't think she didn't know anything about cars!
Here she is checking out a suspected oil leak...
This what I’m talking about! Can’t wait to see a train set with tagged cars, dilapidated buildings, and dead-end sidings.
Well, she stuck around for one thing. Jim was sending his ride down the strip.
Used to tape a black cat under old plastic models, light the front on fire and push them of the walkway down a garden hill where they would crash and burn for a few seconds before blowing up. :-)
Was that Green Valley Raceway in Ft Worth?
There’s a movie waiting to be made to tell _that_ story!
They had a whole area dedicated to this genre @ the Detroit AutoRama Show, pretty neat.....
That’s incredibly realistic, EXCEPT - the guy who did that one didn’t realize that the wing wasn’t made out of steel, so wouldn’t rust. :-D
You know, you're right!...........
Posted on 9/29/2018, 9:57:49 AM by ETL
Sometimes a bird in the hand will get you two in the bush. And by “bush” I mean garage.
An Ebay seller is currently auctioning a pair of 1970 Plymouth Superbirds that were stored for over 30 years until he purchased them after a chance meeting last month.
He’d just paid $187,000 for another one of the iconic muscle cars at a car auction in Maine when someone sidled up to him and told him about his secret stash.
Within days, he’d bought the pair for an undisclosed amount and dug them out of the cluttered, dusty garage they’d been sitting in.
The man who sold them was only the second owner, having picked them up in 1978. But he let their registrations expire in the mid-1980s and they’ve been parked ever since.
Aside from getting resprays, both are nearly all original and have numbers-matching 440 cubic-inch V8s with four-barrel carburetors. One is equipped with a manual transmission, the other an automatic, and they have just 27,000 and 42,000 miles on their odometers.
They haven’t run in all these years, but their mechanic owner filled them with pure anti-freeze and Marvel Mystery Oil before he put them away.
Their bodies remain straight, but the interior of one is in much better condition than the other. Apparently, that’s not much of an issue to collectors.
As of this writing, the bidding on each car has surpassed $125,000, and may go much higher before the auctions end in a week. According to the Hagerty Price Guide, the cars are worth over $250,000 if fully restored.
And don’t think the seller doesn’t know that. He’s set reserves on the cars that have not yet been met.
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I think I see something leaking in that pic, but it ain’t oil.....
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