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Wow, this is wonderful work. If I weren't new around here I would probably know "Excellence was expected"-ha! I just finished reading "The unfair advantage" and the development work Donohue did with the 917-10 and 917-30 versions-it was very interesting. I love the Can-Am, but prefer the vision of the coupe blasting down the Mulsanne in the rain. Thanks, I'll enjoy watching your work.

Hey Rich, this is gonna look cool. Love the forward look years!

I saw it later with the Riviera wagon body at OCIR and probably elsewhere. I have this kit, so I'll have to follow your build for when I take a crack at it.

The Israeli Rocket! The Ramchargers did so much for Chrysler and drag racing. Very nice!

Man, these were some wild machines. Billy Stepp's cars were always nice looking.

Lots of great work and patience-impressive!

Welcome, Pat.

Welcome from another new guy and drag fan.

Sox and Martin ruled! I

Thanks alot everybody! Sorry about your Mayor, Chris -you just hired him for the wrong job-court jester or town comedian would be perfect!

Clean and tasteful-nice work.

Was such a beautiful car-one of my fave F/Cs. Cool.

Beautiful-love the early floppers.

Ha-not usually so long-winded. Thanks!

Hi Josh. The Down Under and The Up Over are the best!

Hi Erik. Another new guy here-just thinking about the Tamiya Lotus 78 F-1or was it 79? I had. I wish I hadn't given it to my nephew-doubt he ever built it.

Hi Jeff, just signed up myself! Hoping to get back into it.

Hi from another new guy. Hope it feels like coming home for ya!

Hi folks, Just kidding, of course. About returning that is-I mean the part about the glue. I like to kid around-I hope I'm not kidding myself about starting some work on my models and doing some cool builds. I'm 52, and chatting with you from So. OR. But I grew up in So. Cal in the '60s and 70's. It was drag racing's golden era and dad liked going to the races. Man, that was my world-I felt truly in my element there. I know now how lucky I was to see all those great races at OCIR, Irwindale, Lions, Bakersfield, Pomona, OMS, Riverside, LACR-etc. Man, it was a beautiful thing. We saw Indy and NASCAR races sometimes-but mostly the drags. My kit collection is weighted about the same way along with lots of musclecars and some cool road-racing stuff. I kept most of my kits, though work on them had basically slowed to a halt by the early 80's. I was wrenching on my 68 Charger, working, hanging with friends and chasing girls-the usual stuff. But the models-I figured I'd keep 'em and share them with my kids. Then they were kept as retirement projects. The first kit I remember was a little yellow 1/32 1st gen. Camaro I dropped while holding it out of the car window in the air stream-oops. But the first serious kit I remember was the rare Dyno Don Cougar F/C from '68, and Carl Casper's "The Galloping Ghost" AA/FD and so on. Man, i just about melted that poor Dyno Don kit with all the extra glue. I was sick alot as a kid and so I had time for these kind of solitary pursuits like models, drawing, reading and so on. I remember the folks bringing me the Hurst Hemi Under Glass and other cool kits while I was in the hospital. The models and Hot Wheels did a lot to keep my spirits up in those days. I kept building and got better-about avg. decent for my age, I s'pose. My buddy Mark's stuff was usually a little nicer than mine and we both started to benefit from sharing our cool hobby. My specialty was rails, funnys and Pro Stock, and Mark's was street rods and customs. Just about every rod he built had a blown hemi and the MPC funny car slicks hanging out of radiused wheel openings. I'll share some pics when I dig 'em up and get 'em scanned. I'll try and cut to the chase. The last model I had built was about '83 when I did kind of a simple Pro-Street build using the General Lee kit. Kind of a GL fan, but can't think of it w/o thoughts of all those beautiful Chargers they wrecked. After that it wasn't till 2002 when Mark talked me into building something new to take to the Portland NNL where he was showing a bunch of his stuff. He had gotten back into models in a big way a few yrs before, and he helped me along by driving up from Cali to hang out and doing the paintwork on the '33 Ford based on the ZZ Top Eliminator kit with his air-brush in kind of a Plum Crazy hue. Didn't want to do the ZZ thing, so did my own style-in the weeds with American TQs. That was a fun meet, and he came home and got divorced as he picked the NNL over the wife's B-day! Joker-told him I better turn around and take him home when he told me-but... Well, I messed with some kits after-but nothing finished to this day. My office/model/car mag room is a mess and I need to fix that first. I'm single now and trying to take care of a house and 5 vehicles, 4 of which need plenty of work. So I can't promise any kind of prolific output to share, but I'm hoping that getting to know some of you and checking out your stuff, that maybe it will help inspire me to get some work done. I might even consider a little heckling as beneficial as long as ya don't lay it on TOO thick. The Flying Dutchman you've got up top right now is gorgeous. Thanks for hanging in there if you read this whole deal-ha! Just looking to share in a bit of the cool here. Alright man, see you around here-L8R