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This is one of the discussions I have come back to several times here. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=95616 I really like the detail of the car and an 87 Mustang LX T-top hatchback was the only new car I ever bought, so I'm a bit biased. I always wanted to put a Cobra SOHC motor in my old car. Now it would be a Coyote. I keep returning to this thread because it inspires me, I want to build my old car but with that Coyote motor in it. Every detail down to the strut mounts my dad and I fabricated together and the subwoofer box I built into the quarter panel. So do you fellas have stories for your builds? Every picture tells a story, so how much of a build is concept and how much is inspiration as you go along? I want to build my dad's old pickup with the smashed in side where the lightning blew a tree limb into it. I want to build the '73 Electra I lost my virginity in as I had it hurling one day through someone's fence. Thanks to G scale railroading it's relatively painless even to model myself and my ex, although getting the panicked look on both our faces just right might be a challenge for an amateur as myself. I want to build the '76 Civic my dad and I put the Japanese imported EH motor in when the old 40hp motor threw a rod on i-94. The one we painted blue in the garage right over the old white paintjob. So, is this sort of like the modeler equivalent of buck fever? When you return to the hobby, this is just one of the 12 steps?

Welcome, Robert Smith! I'm new here as well. "The Love Cats" was always one of my favorite songs! I bet you're tired of that...

Well Russell C, perhaps in a bit of poetic justice, I woke this morning to the sound of water dripping from the roof. As I drive a convertible and usually do not put the top up, this was of some concern to me. Then I open the door and discover the issue is, again, the water line to the swamp cooler has burst. It's not even December (most days are above 70 degrees) and I already get to buy a new water line in the spring

Thanks Chip. I'm down in Tucson, I may make it up there soon. I once read there was also a slot car track up there in Phoenix, do you happen to know if it's still there? I loved racing grp15 when I was in my early 20s and would love to hire a car for a few hours. I happen to live right around the corner from the GPD toy train museum. Craziest thing, I live here a year or two and look up model railroading and find out I'm less than a mile from a huge resource.

Hello everyone. I'm finding this community at a time of great change in my life. I find, as I look around, and I mean this in the most positive way, a community of people who, for the most part, look and sound like me. By that, I mean, I've watched a lot of yt videos and eavesdropped on a few forums, and I don't see many people stressing over what joe down the street did yesterday. I find watching an unboxing video, or one of dr cranky's... well, just about anything dr cranky has to say. Or Hunter Selby with his amazing trucks, or Mr Minidreams with those mad hoppers... is a far better way to spend my time than ministrating over... anything. So, big shout out to you three, because it's you who brought me to this hobby again after decades of not having this fun. I have not yet finished a model, but I do have a wip. I bought the Revell Magnum kits, both the SRT8 and the slab with the lambo doors. The kit with the lambo doors is a curbside kit and I didn't like those even when I was 8, but the body is pretty nice and I thought I could use the interior, which is also pretty nice in that kit. The SRT8 kit has an engine that has left me with new respect for modern engines, because I usually find them way too plain. The little hemi in that kit is really something. Right now it's all subassemblies, I need to obtain an airbrush and do some relearning. I'm not retired, I have a great career as a DBA and so cannot spend the hours some of you obviously have to devote to this craft. The "Challenger with aluminum engine" thread in this forum is astounding. I send the link to my friends who don't model, it doesn't matter, everyone is amazed at that level of work. I am really enjoying doing what I am doing in the hobby and joined the forum because this seems to be the place where just about everyone is.

I just joined and this is about the second or third discussion I dropped in on, and oh my. This entire thread made me laugh on every page. I can't even comprehend how a human can make something like this with a manual milling machine. You must be a beast with an etch-a-sketch.