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My list would include 58 ford convertible or hardtop 34 LaSalle convertible coupe or coupe 36 LaSalle, Buick or Olds 3 window coupes w/rumble seat ;

I'ii say real. If it's a model, it's a beautiful rendition.

This is my first posting to this forum. I'm like the 4 year old boy who never spoke. His family thought he was mute. One day at the dinner table he spoke up-please pass the potatoes. His father, in utter estonisment remarked - he speaks, why haven't you spoken before. The boy simply replied-I didn't have anything to say. I remember all these things about this time period and more. Art is possibly 6 months older than I. At 7 years old in 1952, I had already built wood ships and bulsa/paper airplanes. I grew up in the northwest burbs of Detroit. Woodward ave area to be specific. In 1952, my Dad took me to the hobby shop in Royol Oak and I saw the Gowland & Gowland models. I had to have them. My allowence purchased about 10 of them over time. They sat on a curio shelf I my bedroom until I left home at 21. I had an uncle who would buy me models or promos for my birthday or Christmas. Mostly Revelle models. When AMT came out with their models in 1958, I built some. The last one I remember doing was a 1960 Edsel. Wish I still had it. Being in the Detroit area, the automobile was a great part of our life. Someone's father was always taking us to a car showroom for the new models. My parents bought our first tv in 1952. Before that, we went across the street to a neighbors to watch the test patern until Howdy Doody came on at 5 PM. It was a great time to be alive. I am lucky to have lived in that time period and be in the heart of the area that was the Woodward cruise, Motown, Royal Pontiac and the auto industry. By the way, root beer was .05 cents at the A&W stand.

My first post on this board guy's. Hope everything goes right. The fifties and early sixties. Where do I begin. First off, I was born in 1945 just north of Flint Michigan. From 1949 on, I lived and grew up in northwestern Detroit burbs. Cars were in our blood. In the early to mid fifties, many times our dads would take us to see the new models as they came out to the dealers. Car models and promos? You bet. I got all I could handle at Christmas. Gowland and Gowland to Revell to AMT as the years progressed. A & W root beer, right accross the street from our local hobby shop and a mile from home by bike. As the early sixties and high school set in, it was all that anyone could ask for. Motown, cruisin Woodward Ave from the Totom Pole in Royal Oak to Ted's in Bloomfield Hills and back to the Big Boy in Birmingham. One night a week was reserved for your steady and the passion pit. Center concel? What was that? Bucket seats were refered to as birth-control seats. Those summers were filled with visits to thw Wald Lake Casino, a place were teens from all over the northwest burbs of the Detroit area could come and dance and see the popular rock groups of the time. I feel blessed to have grown up in such a time. It was truley wonderful. Doug