[ETL]

"plastic model kit i set on fire watch it burn toy car"

Lol! I once blew up a model car that I worked hard on (with firecrackers) when it didn't win anything at a local hobby store contest back in the 70s.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I am looking around at what I can burn...

It’s not easy to burn stuff unless you have a backyard.

[Covenantor]

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.

[Hatteras]

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. :-)