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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 20, 2013 13:59:10 GMT -7
For this weekends cruise, I want us to reflect !! Like most of you I have built 100s maybe 1000s of models over my life. Some were shot with bb guns or lost in a game of demo derby. Some were thrown out by a parent that couldn't see the value in a box of parts. Some were sent to the closet or basement as I grew older. Some were just lost. Well this week end I want you to look back find the oldest build that you have or a picture of your oldest build and post it for this weekends cruise. Take the time to tell us about it....we want the history ! Have a fun cruise !! Here is mine. its not the oldest, but it is the oldest that I have a picture of. I called it the great one! It marked my return to modeling after school, army, marriage, kids, i decided to get back into modeling. After two or three so-so builds. I was asked by Peck Ross, owner of Ross Medical Supplies to take a 53 Sedan Delivery ( which was his first company truck ) and build him a truck today ( this was about 25 years ago ). It took me three months to build it is hand lettered, with crushed velvet interior. I pro street-ed it and built a wild motor, fully wired and detailed. I dont remember how much I had invested, but when I could not come up with a price Peck promptly dished out 300.00 and I was blown away! I asked if we could enter it in a up coming contest in Cedar Rapids Iowa, he said yes and offered to drive, these four pictures are all i have left of that build , that contest and that car. She won first place Adult division pro street and she got judges choice. The fire was lit and I have been glue-in plastic ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 14:11:52 GMT -7
That looks great!! Oh velvet. I remember those on older models. I remember seeing red velvet everywhere for a few years. I still run into some of those in some collections I've purchased. Anyways, I want to get mine in before flying out this week. I dont have pictures of my older builds. never even thought of taking pictures actually. They al used to si on a shelf in my room at my parents house. Once I moved out I thought I would never be interested in them again and I, myself!, I actually told my mom to just throw the stuff away. She asked many times if I was sure about it. I at that time said, "IU have a firlfriend now, of course!" When I got back into the model a few years ago I got what any mother would say, "I told you so." So here instead is a pic of one of the first ones we put together when I came back into the hobby a few years ago. I say we because in an attempt to spend extra time with my son we thought it would be a good idea to build a kit or two. Since then he is now almost 16 years old and he has moved from the hobby although once in a while he'll stop by to see what I'm working on. Its the snap kit. We first put it together without paint to see if Iwe wanted more and sure enough the bug bit me! We did took it apart and added some color and changed the wheels and stance. It's still in my collection and sits pretty at the bottom of one of the piles. The Camaro Concept car. Man its good to remember....
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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 20, 2013 14:29:06 GMT -7
Sweet car and a great memory !! Enjoy your trip Buddy email me if you have any questions while your out there !!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2013 5:49:52 GMT -7
Well my story goes back to 1957, I went with my Best friend, Buzzy Miller to the Fairfax Hobby Shop in Fairfax County, VA to get a model, he gave me my first model kit for my 10th birthday. We had ridden our bikes up there and got this kit and brought it home and built it in one day. He had a 39/40 Ford Tudor and I had a 40 Ford Coupe like this (this isn't it, my gosh that thing is long gone), anyway we took them out and rolled them down his driveway to see which one was faster, what a blast, I will never forget that, he had a really steep driveway and I think mine beat his. Hosted on FotkiAnyway the story was that when we had walked into that hobby shop, I told him that 'someday I am going to have a shop like this", well believe it or not, right now I am negotiating to have that come true, I am applying to get a small business administration loan to start my own business, I am also going for a grant. I will keep you informed on this. I have several people in my church who say they will bankroll me, so I do believe my lifelong dream is about to become a reality. I do own this model though, or did, it is also gone, I think I sold it. I wish I had that one back, I'd like to have that one back.
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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 21, 2013 9:59:02 GMT -7
Great story and I have my fingers crossed for ya
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2013 13:19:28 GMT -7
Thanks david, I will let you know when I have my grand opening and maybe you can come to it...
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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 21, 2013 13:23:39 GMT -7
that would be cool.. I dont mind traveling
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2013 13:27:00 GMT -7
Thanks david, I will let you know when I have my grand opening and maybe you can come to it...it is going to be modeled after that store I got my first model at, with a big picture window, so that at Christmas time I can have a big train layout set up. What I plan to do is have an area at the back of the store where modelers of all ages and kinds of models can gather to talk models. That's the way Fairfax Hobbies was, very homey and comfortable. I am looking into a spot in a place called the Galleria, a place where the rich and famous go to shop. Williie Nelson does his shopping there. I am going to see about getting him for the grand opening. We are also going to have a slot car track in the back of the store and behind the store I will have a place for kids to race their r/c cars and the area I am looking at has a huge field behind it so I am thinking of fixing a place people who play with r/c planes can come and fly their planes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2013 13:33:09 GMT -7
If everything goes according to plan, I will have you flown here by private plane and you can bring some of your prize creations and we will have a kind of NNL contest, maybe I can get shipwreck to come from Florida, we have been trying to hookup ever since I met him online at a yahoogroup. And ice and jp and who knows who else, it will be a huge kind of first meeting of forum pals. We'll see, I should know something in about two months, just keep me in your prayers, the name of the shop is going to be quite simply, Hill Country Hobbies @ the galleria.
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Post by CustomMuscle on Jun 22, 2013 13:37:19 GMT -7
well this is my oldest i have pics of. Did it back in 2007 a guy in England bought it for 270.00. I have a video of it on my you-tube account.
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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 22, 2013 14:18:35 GMT -7
very nice !!
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Post by spacecowboy on Jun 22, 2013 19:40:50 GMT -7
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Post by Skip-O-Matic on Jun 22, 2013 22:56:48 GMT -7
aahhhh, reflecting. Sadly I only have one old build around anymore, errr, I think it is, packed away somewhere. I did dig out a couple unfinished ones the other day, to put with some new aquisitions,getting organized and putting my work area back into order. carcrafter, best wishes on your hobby shop venture. I really hope it works out for you. One of my fondest memories is a hobby shop back in Michigan, in a small town I lived in before moving to Florida when I was 11 years old. It was on a side street, in the front rooms of an old house and run by an older woman, (well she seemed pretty old, I was 9-11 years old, so most people seemed at deaths door). We would ride our bikes there, dropping them on the front lawn, go in to the room with models stacked on shelves floor to ceiling on all four walls and shorter shelves in the middle of the room. Holy crap, that would be like discovering King Tuts tomb today. Kits of stuff I've never seen again. I remember there were alot of Jo-han kits. I remember one of the ones I bought there, that would be nice to find again, was Herbie the Love Bug. Had to have it too as that was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It was really detailed and quite a challenge for me at the time. Can't remember who manufactured it though. I also remember she sold these suckers in grape or cherry, that were thick, flat, and kind of oval shaped(Charms?)she would randomly rewrap some and put a dollar in them, so when you bought one you never knew if you might strike it rich.
OK, I've blah blah blahed long enough.
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Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 23, 2013 11:06:33 GMT -7
Great cars guys and great stories....thats what I want this site to be about the good, the happy , the models !!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 16:54:15 GMT -7
SC I remember that kit, it was a great one too, still is. skip I am hoping to make my shop like that kind of shop, a kind of mom and pop shop, (I just gotta find a mom to help me run it, LOL). It's like the first hobby shop I went to in Fairfax County, VA in 57 it was a small hole-in-the-wall place that had a lot of what were then called AMT 3-n-1 kits and Annuals, what a great time to be alive. sort of like now as I begin to prepare to have it here. I am going to try to bring back the past, the plan is to have the ceilings lined all around the top of the store with old original boxes from back then and I hope to have a model to go with each box, it is going to be like a museum of mainly model car history since that is what I build, but I will carry all the mainline models too. I am also going to have a mail order service and finders service to find rare and unusual kits for people.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 17:55:54 GMT -7
1957?? 3 in 1 kits weren't available until the early 60s.....
Oh I've loved the Herbie models. All of them. I've had almost each one. Some I built and sold. the rest i sold unbuilt. come to think of it, i should've kept at least one. thanks everyone for sharing your stories. Great looking builds here and great stories.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 23:54:17 GMT -7
Certainly not my oldest...Just oldest existing and more my re-emergence into modeling. I got away from the hobby for many years and bought this one on a whim. Now prolly 100+ kits later and building like crazy. This one was a quick build, but is the oldest I still have. Got me back into a hobby I love and enjoy so much.
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