RSchnell

One of the more unique shows I attend. The show is held at a park where they placed various historic structures from all over the county. Years ago this show was limited to pre 1959 stock vehicles only, but that rule has been relaxed for several reasons. Here's a small portion of the photos I took.

Hit up a couple record shops in a faraway town and found quite a few CD's to help fill the gaps in my Grateful Dead collection.

Quite possible. I'm pretty sure passenger Fords built for Europe got rubber running boards. I have a couple original Model A Part price lists from Germany & the UK, if I can find them easily I will look them up. Russian Model A's aka GAZ A's use quite a few truck parts in passenger car production. AA Truck radiator shell, painted headlight buckets, running boards etc. This could be where ICM got the idea for the pressed steel running boards! I consider this a bonus as there are no GAZ A Ford kits in this scale and it'd be real easy to convert this kit into a GAZ.

Twofer at Lowe's earlier today. Sodbuster pickup and a clean VW about 4 parking spots away from each other.

I only see a couple things of note. The radiator shell is a '31(the catalog art shows a '30 shell) and the running boards are the pressed steel style used on trucks as opposed to rubber covered ones used on passenger cars. If those are the actual style tires that are going to be in the kit, that's great! They're nicely done copies of Firestone tires-the same tire which you can still buy to this day for 1:1 Model A's & other cars that use a 4.75x19 tire. The instrument panel shown in the CAD drawings is the style used until Oct of 1930 when it was changed to a round instead of oval speedometer. The Radiator shell would be easy enough to backdate to a 1930 piece to match the instrument panel. Chances are 98% of the people building this kit could care less! LOL I'm definitely in for a few of these. Hoping this leads to other body styles, stock Model A kits are sorely needed!

Nice set of pics! Thanks for posting!

I didn't have the gas station, but I did get an old Marx Cape Canaveral Missile Base set as a gift from a family friend. I spent many hours messing around with it, launching the missiles etc. Hadn't thought about that set in years until I saw this thread. No clue what happened to it but would love to find another one! It's ironic as I work in the spaceflight industry at Cape Canaveral now. Not my set, but a photo I found.

I'd definitely be interested in any 50s car kit that came out. One of my biggest regrets in the past couple years was passing on a very nicely built-almost contest quality AMT '58 Ford Convertible for $75 at one of the local swaps.

The Merritt Island. FL Ollie's kit selection is frozen in time. Compare the pics I took today with the ones I posted on March 2. LOL I figured the scalpers would've cleaned this out. Even HL had a bunch of untouched clearance kits the other day. Weird!

On my way to get a cheesesteak saw this Valiant Wagon at an apartment in Cocoa Beach, FL. Also saw a nice '32 Ford 3W Coupe street rod, but was unable to get a pic.

Stopped by Ollie's for some household stuff. A couple more kits somehow fell in the buggy & I didn't realize it until I got to the register.

Trying to fill the gaps in my VW kit collection! Still need a couple more.

Publix has gotten excessively expensive post pandemic. I'm shocked that they lowered the price on anything! I worked in the maint. shops there for 9 years. They used to give us freebies, they even cut all that out. I used to joke with my boss "y'all don't pay me enough to be able to afford shopping there." Unless it's changed, they used to make all their publix branded lunchmeats right there in the deli plant. Occasionally I'd have to go over there and recover a broken down piece of equipment.

This show was held at the museum that I posted yesterday. My first visit to this event, I was floored at not only the quantity but variety of cars at the show. Being a yearly event, if you're anywhere near the Space Coast of Florida I highly recommend visiting. This is a small sampling of the 200+ shots I took using my Nikon D7500. Seeing the Mercury Ute on this side of the world was a nice treat as well.