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I will buy a few that I am interested in, but other than that, no. The fact that we are writing about it means the speculators are already buying them up if they see an opportunity to make a buck.

I enjoy racing games a lot, but do not have the time to devote to them. I play F1 2010 when I have the chance. I bought F1 2013 earlier this year. I goofed around with it a bit, but the learning curve is going to be rather high. Both are for the PS3. I would like to move to the PS4, but the cost of a good driving wheel is more than the system. My driving wheel for the PS3 is not compatible. I cannot justify that expense.

Great job! I don't know much about the subject, but it looks great.

Looks great! Very realistic looking weathering.

Very nice looking! Interesting camo scheme.

Beautiful job Ray. The boat looks great!

Very sharp! You did a great job.

Looks really, really nice!

Thanks for pointing that out. I also noticed that the track I cited as the ghost town (Hochenheim) is no longer on the schedule.

Very sad. I didn't know about this either. I remember watching Rusty play when I was young.

Very nice! You did a great job.

Very nice! Your friend did a great job!

Very cool! You did a great job.

Great work. Your craftsmanship is top drawer!

Great job! I like the well worn look of the car.

Very nice! I bought this model and turned it into a regular passenger car. I have a second that will likely be built as a police car.

Great job! I love it.

Very nice Johnny! Great job.

I don't want to come across as being argumentative, but there are several F1 races where the grandstands look like ghost towns as well. Hockenheim comes to my mind immediately. I don't watch F1 all of that much, but if my memory serves me correctly, the tracks that have problems selling tickets are in Europe. Most of the European countries have advanced economies like ours. I wonder if there is something going on along this angle. The car is under attack here in this country as we all know. Car people view their cars as a prized possession and the many critics of the car are trying to make it a commodity item, like a can of soup. Other than Silicon Valley making money by the boatload, I am rather certain this is why self driving cars are being forced on the American public. This is another way to divorce people from their love of cars by making them a commodity. Europe is well ahead of us in this regard.

Very cool Matt. Thanks for sharing.

According to Jayski, one of the parties interested in purchasing NASCAR is Marcus Smith. Marcus Smith is one of Bruton Smith's sons. Bruton Smith is the majority share holder of SMI. SMI owns a large number of the tracks NASCAR holds its races. It is easy to place all of the blame for the current lack of popularity of NASCAR on the France family, but let's look at Bruton Smith's contributions. Reconfiguration of Atlanta. Atlanta was a 1 1/2 mile true oval. A very unique track, and for many years the last race on the schedule. Bruton Smith for reasons unknown decides that Atlanta must be reconfigured to look like Charlotte. A double dog leg 1 1/2 mile track. Then when the countrywide expansion of NASCAR begins, Bruton volunteers to build a track in Fort Worth, TX. It will be configured like Charlotte. So those who complain of cookie cutter tracks we now have the Atlanta, Charlotte, Texas triplets. These tracks comprise 5 of the 36 on the schedule. Bruton Smith and Bob Bahre (then owner of New Hampshire Speedway) raped North Wilkesboro of its dates. They each bought a 50% stake in the track and then moved those two dates to their own tracks. New Hampshire got a second date and the other went to one of Bruton's tracks. The only item of poetic justice is that Bruton Smith bought New Hampshire and then took this track's second date and moved it to Las Vegas. If what happened to North Wilksboros was bad enough, Bruton decides to repave Bristol in only what can be described as a criminal act. Bristol at one time had over 120,000 in the stands and a waiting list for tickets. Bruton should have torn up the concrete and merely put down another layer of concrete and left the track alone. But Bruton puts progressive banking in the track and destroys everything that people loved about Bristol. That track now has 60,000 in it at the most for each of the two Cup dates. Lastly, Bruton Smith showed the world how to force NASCAR to give a track a race. Bruton owns Kentucky Speedway and wanted a Cup date. NASCAR did not want to give Kentucky a race date. Bruton talks one of the SMI shareholders into suing NASCAR under anti trust grounds. NASCAR caves and Kentucky gets a race date. Now fans want the schedule to be redone as one race looks just like another. It will never happen. As soon as one track gets threatened about losing a race date, the lawyers will crawl out of the wood work to pursue anti trust law suits. So while it is fashionable to bash NASCAR for the problems with its brand of racing, they had a lot of help from Bruton Smith. Now one of his sons may want to own NASCAR. The France family may not have been the best stewards of the sport for the past decade and a half, but I shudder to think what could happen if the Smith family gains control of the sport.

Really outstanding work! Very creative - I like it.

Great job! The weathering looks very convincing.

Great job on both!

These cars were designed and built to race in NASCAR. NASCAR rules at the time required that manufacturers produce a certain number of cars for the street. Chrysler produced that number of cars and no more. If they were wind tunnel tested, which I am sure you are correct, it was purely for the track.