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    Name That Car!

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

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    I'm really likin' "Freak Show". So much cooler than the list of cannibalized victims would lead you to expect. I'd like to see it in different colors, anything but pink and green.

    If you think zeb is spazzin' now, don't even mention southern cooking. Yes, it was the beach pic and rocket car reference that clued me in, after a bunch of the worst hints ever! I think the last beach run for that car ended in a crash, didn't it?

    We still need to have bisquitbuilders streamliner from post 813 IDed.

    Name That Car!

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by samdiego

    And the usual gang of idiots here at TCIFTUTBA sends their love.

    But, boy that zeb sure is taking us to school, isn't he? I guess he knows more about the automobile than the rest of us put together. And the records that are falling, geez.

    I seem to have lost my tally list. Refresh my failing memory, would you?

    How many of these has zeb identified correctly so far, not counting his own?

    Name That Car!

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by samdiego

    It looks like a '64 Chevy Pick-Up rear ended one of Chrysler's '61-'63 letter cars that was carrying cases of Pepto-Bismol in its trunk. Oh and then re-animated by Dr. Frankenrod and then Virgil Exner rose up from the dead and set it ablaze with zombie fire

    That takes care of Zeb's.

    Jaffa, I don't know what yours is

    What and when was your very first model?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by samdiego

    Are you kidding me?! I've run across a few references to the wooden kits over the years, but that is the first one I've seen. Especially in the raw form. My Dad used to say that they were "a block of wood with a picture of a car". I thought he was kidding or at least exaggerating. I musta heard that a hundered times. I'm kinda glad I missed that point in the hobby's history. Thanks for bringing that out again. Is the unbuilt one something that you've had forever or a more recent find? I can't say that I could have done as well at that age. Well styled.

    What and when was your very first model?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by samdiego

    One of the Palmer kits with the separate body sides. I think it was a Ford. Just before my 5th birthday, my dad stashed it on top of the fridge, presumably to test my climbing skills. My dad built models, the neighbors built models, it was 1965 and the hobby was booming. From my point of view, it was everywhere. The comic book and Boy's Life ads, the coverage in the 1:1 car mags and the amount of space they commanded in nearly every department store or five and dime or whatever they were called. It was great and I was able to barter about two kits a month from the parents. An average pace that I maintain to this day. An idyllic childhood in the countrysides of central Ohio that in retrospect seems hugely centered around the car.

    I still have thousands of HotWheels, another addiction that I haven't given up.

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