So I figured I should put some newer pix up. The first group were from about 6 months ago. For those that joked I needed more shelf space - I added a whole extra shelf above the previous ones and made the back wall shelves deeper. I've made a lot of progress on the cars. Still, nothing is finished.
Doing this many cars at once, you can imagine the inventory control problems I have. So I try to get the engines at least sitting in a chassis, tires a least next to the car, rear wings placed behind the engine and so on. So If you notice a wrong engine on a car, or the wrong wheels for a car, it is likely I haven't finalized which car those parts go to. I just have them placed there to make sure I have the right count.
I added shelves above and made the back shelves deeper
I'm using the space as efficiently as possible - I'm hanging my painting stands from the rafters
There are fewer all white cars now, but still plenty. It will keep me busy for a while.
Each shelf on the back wall fits 2 rows of funny cars and 1 row of dragsters. This looks like a used race car lot!
What I like to do most is unique cars. Here's Garlits' shortie and the one time he ever ran with wheel pants.
Behind Garlits you might have noticed the Peterson & Fritz streamliner from the 1970's, The body was easy, making my own decals is going to be a bear!
I made the wedges for Goodall's and Prudhomme's cars above. The after market wedges and wedges from the kits were not right.
This is the mustang wall. Everything from Tasca to The Blue Max to John Force is over here.
The top shelf has Vega FC's, a bunch of extra FC & TF chassis and various tins. And the shelf above that has a ton of extra bodies.
Yes, I actually do finish some. Here's the awful display stand in my office. It holds about 200 cars.
Once I get everything cleaned up (you can see dust on everything) I will post better pix of the cars I've completed and those I'm working on.
I've been doing this for about 43 years, so I've collected all this stuff over time. I'm lucky my wife wants me to do this. She says it helps
me relax, I think it keeps me out of her way!
JR