OldTrucker

I've had friends and co-workers over the years from those areas of NY. The stories are all the same just different names just like yours! No one had a real name just nicknames it seems! I grew up in a small town next to a small city. But we all had our neighborhoods which tended to be about an 8 square block area. We had our share of troubles there too but were severely curtailed in our endeavors by the parent alliance! That was all the parents told the other parents to treat us like we were their own kids if they saw us doing something we weren't supposed to be doing! So we shifted to the east to the Illinois Central tracks and hung out under the trestles over the creeks and the tunnel under an old trolley barn/warehouse building the creek ran under! That was the place the "tough guys" hung out! (ie the ones not afraid to go under it!LOL) One of our "beasts" was an old lady that sat on her back porch in the evening with a box of rocks which she would throw at us when we came to steal a stalk of rhubarb from her huge rhubarb patch which she let go to seed every year. There were several more that just did not like kids and would call the cops almost daily! BTW kick the can was one of our favorite games that was brought to us by a kid that moved into the neighborhood from the Bronx! We all gave his a hard time about his accent but we were not much better with our "Chicago" accent even though we were about 45 minutes south of the city!!

Looks just right! That color looks like a near perfect match for the orange used on later bugs!

I had this but gave it to my son!

That would make mine a 71 then!

I do the same thing. Seems it always comes full circle back to me in the end when I need a part! Just had a a member here send me a whole kit and even refused to let me pay the freight! That is a big part of what keeps me in this hobby!

Mine is te 71-74 body style.

A Johan Mark Donahue Javelin AMX kit. and yes I built it. Wish someone made replacement decals for it. The kit ones were bad but managed to make them work.

I can remember having a new sand filter system installed for 1,250.00 back in 1990! That included pulling the old septic system out too! Then early the next year the city put sewer lines through the neighborhood and condemned all the septic systems forcing everyone onto the city system!

No, not "anyone" but some and maybe on ebay a big percentage but not all. The only times I have sold kits was either to pay medical bills but often because I wanted to buy something of more interest. I very rarely made a profit on what I sold in fact most times I lost money! I have even had a few sought after kits that were going for big money and I put mine up for what I thought was reasonable which was 50% or less than what others were looking to get and were getting! I love this hobby and raping other modelers on price does nothing to help keep this hobby going! I know that many on here that sell on ebay do so not to "make money" but to buy something else they like better. Most will try and trade for what they are looking to get first before going the ebay route!

Too, once he stops cheating he will find his game will actually improve! He will have incentive to try and improve his game rather than coasting along on the lie. A golf pro that worked at one of the courses here would tell that to his students that were fudging the scores.

These are older pictures and many of the cars have been rotated out for newer ones and there are some on a dresser not shown. But have just about as many if not more that are in their boxes in the closet because I have no more cases nor room for them to be displayed.

The only one that had suspension issues was the 1960 and that was corrected for the 61 model. Nader was looking to make a name for himself and the Corvair was his tool to do so even if it meant purposely creating the situation that he wanted which took a lot of underhanded doing. I've owned two. A first generation Spyder and a 68 Monza convertible. The 68 was a fun car to drive but wished it would have been a 4 speed instead of the slush box powerglide! (it was a butt freezer in Wisconsin winters too!) The Spyder I believe was a 64 and was a blast to drive! Used to take it out to the fairground and run on the clay track on a couple week nights when no one was around! I made the mistake of removing the muffler and detonating the engine by it over revving beyond it's mechanical limits with the free flowing exhaust. (wish I had done a little more research)

Thanks to everyone from Jeannie and myself!

That is a beauty!

I now have the other 2! I just received in the mail the Sport Phaeton as a gift from another member here (gramps46) and the wife found the Town Brougham for 28 and change delivered that should be here Friday!

We are celebrating our 48th anniversary today! That means a late lunch at Cracker Barrel!

Nice clean build. Did a great job of making a simple kit look like more! Shame no one did a more details kit of this car.

Like you I try and base off of what I would do on a 1:1 car or truck. I try and remember cars I saw as a kid and growing up that I liked and a lot of what I build is based off of that. For reference to trim, interior and other detail I just google the car and see what I can find as in pictures and specs.

Super clean Maverick! We has went and looked a a couple that were low mileage had good paint little rust sowing and near perfect interiors. Ran like a well oiled singer sewing machine! Everything great, until you crawled underneath for a look. The road salt and years have done a number on them especially the floors and where the sub frame connects.

Sweet looking Stang!

I'm "trying" to build an AMT 72 GTO kit at the moment and it is slow going for a mostly out of box build. The soft gray plastic is a real bear to clean up. Keep getting plastic fuzzys on the edges of everything.

yep, when you pulled the bodies out of the mold it wasn't a pretty sight and as rough as the glass was about the only way of hiding it was to paint it matt black. The last we built we were using a diluted rubberized undercoating pumped out of a 55 gallon barrel.

Unfortunately we actually got some in 1:1 that were that bad.

I did know the right term but couldn't remember how to spews cabriolet and with my 8 year old granddaughter standing behind me saying "are we going yet?" I didn't bother to look it up and put roadster! LOL

When I was driving OTR I had a three day layover in Salk Lake City so went to a car show there to kill some time. That was where I saw one of these in person for the first (and last) time. Things were winding down for the evening and I stopped and talked to the owner who out of the blue said to hop in and lets take her for a spin! I was elated to say the least! Here was this guy who knew me from Adam and asks me to take a ride in a to me priceless car! A few miles out he stopped to run in and get a pack of smokes and when we come out he offers to let me take it for a spin! I declined. As much as I would have loved to have driven that car I did not want to take the chance that something would happen with me behind the wheel! They are beautiful designed cars and just the feel of the engine in front of you is like a dream and I still can only imagine what the feel of the throttle would have been like under my foot! By the way, he didn't baby that car either! He drove it like I believe the creator intended him to!