Randytheroadrunner Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 For me it was THUNDER ROAD with Robert Mitchum. That '57 Ford hauling "Shine" and ripping through that roadblock got me going when I was in grade school back in the '60s. I lost count of how many '57 Fords I've built since then. For TV shows it was "HIGHWAY PATROL" with Broderick Crawford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ju Ju Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Ever since I first saw that huge rack of ribs tip over Fred Flintstones car, I've loved the Flintstone mobile and spare ribs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnwildpunk Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 No I've always been a car guy but I love old shows.like twilight zone I love all the old iron you see in those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC Norton Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 .......seeing BULLIT the first day it was at the theatre in '68 certainly may have helped.....lol...the ace......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalhead Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the show, but it was about building models. Showing how to build them and what not. Back then, my older brother was building all of the models and I would just watch him work on them and watch his modeling show. I think it came on right after or before Bob Ross and the Joy of Painting. Anyway, that was what got me started into modeling. In the show, they were working on a semi truck. The next day, my dad and I went to Wal-Mart and got a snap together Ford Aeromax. Been building ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the show, but it was about building models. Showing how to build them and what not. Was it Adventures In Scale Modeling? It was shown on our local PBS channel here in Boston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxer Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 No. Not sure there WERE TV shows when I started modeling ... well, had to be, but there were no Wild Bill Hickok models back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webestang Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 A movie helped me get back to building model kits. I quit building models as a kid after I bought my first real car. Then, after watching the 1990 movie "Mr Destiny" with James Belushi I wanted to build kits again because in a few scenes in that movie Belushi was shown working on a kit, had a built one at work and he got one from his buddy for X-Mas. I remember mentioning it to my sister and she got me a kit for my 30th B-Day in 1994. Building again ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 I don't think it was a TV show or movie... I think I was born with cars on the brain. My grandmother gave me this little drawing I did when I was 2 or 3. She saved it for me all those years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Nope, but I do enjoy building Tv/Movie cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 It wasn't either a movie, nor a T.V. show. Going to Orange County International Raceway as a kid and watching the funny cars, top fuel, fuel altereds, street cars, and the like got me interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 (edited) No TV had any effect on me. I was born loving cars. Here's what my mother wrote in my "baby" book under favorite toys. "Toy: a little red car. Age Presented: 16 month old. Reaction: "Have to have it with all over but you lost it in August at Pat's cabin" Toy: a little red car. Age Presented: 22 months old. Reaction: "Of all the nice things you got for xmas 59 you like that that red 19 car cent you found in our backyard best. Can't be parted with it at all" "For xmas 1959 you got a Buick Hardtop car from your father. That was your favorite Toy until it broke 2 (can't read her handwriting here on length of time) after. I was glad it broke because you had to have it with you 24 hours a day" "For xmas 1960 you got everything a boy could wish for, but you liked a service station from your mother + father and a long haul truck with 4 small blocks from Aunt Dana best of all." Cars. Cars. Cars. I've always loved cars. Didn't need a TV show to turn me on to cars. Though I liked TV shows with cars. Two favorites are the '66 Batmobile and the TV Green Hornet's Black Beauty. And I dont know if this really qualifies as a true car, but I also loved Supercar. I also find it interesting the good taste I had in cars at the age of 22 months. The only toy car mentioned by make above is a Buick. Growing up my folks first drove Oldsmobiles, then Mercury Comets. Yet some how, I became a Buick guy. I owned several Buick over the years. And presently have a 2000 Buick LeSabre as a daily driver. Love those Buicks. Even when I was less than 2 year old. I guess some of us are just born with good taste. Scott Edited November 18, 2014 by unclescott58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 That is cool Scott. But wouldn't it be "... little red covered wagon. Age presented..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLMFAA1 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Lets see- there was Todd and Buzz, Roy and Johnny, Kookie, Bruce Wayne, THE Cat, and Clark Gable greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 No. (Though for a large part of my very early life I did want to be a train.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randytheroadrunner Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Well....I'm a model railroader also. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 That is cool Scott. But wouldn't it be "... little red covered wagon. Age presented..." "Little red covered wagon?" Are you trying say I'm old? I'm old. But not that old. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGlueblob Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Dragnet.. Loved the big cop cars... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This is the show that got me into models. The ship was my first model. Great show. In fact the greatest. And a great photo. I think I too have built one or two Star Trek models over the years. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjordan2 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) I wouldn't say I was overly influenced, but my interest was supported by the 1958 Thunderbird and Kookie's hot rod in "77 Sunset Strip." Edited November 22, 2014 by sjordan2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 The cars that were around when I was a little kid, on TV or on the streets, we're so cool. Being born in '58 during the height of chrome, pastel colors, spaceship looking dashboards, and fins. Every car looked different and exciting to me. Then through the 60's. More new ideas. New sizes of cars. New concepts. More to keep me interested and excited. The 70's were the start of the end for me. I was still excited by the new cars of that era. But the government, insurance companies, and OPEC started forcing changes onto cars I didn't like. Then CAFE standards, front wheel drive, and plastic bumpers came along. Quality did improved, forced to keep up with the Japanese. Even though all of these things have resulted in the best quality, longest lasting, best operating vehicles in history, my passion for the new has faded. There is still some interest in the newest and latest. And I love a lot of the gadgets they put in cars nowadays. But, it's not the same. One of the reasons I like watching old TV shows and movies today, is to see the old cars. I've never been a big fan of CHiPs. But I now watch it on MeTV mainly to see the cars. I love the stupid Frankie and Annette beach movies partially for the same reasons. To me, the Golden Age of automobiles will always be from about 1955 to 1970. Though, I could go back to 1930. And forward to 1980. It may not make any sense. But that's the way it is for me. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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