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I used to race up there I lived in Ann Arbor and raced at Professor motor and a few other tracks. If you go to T.S.S hobbies in Belleville Michigan their is a guy there that has a car that does 225 scale MPH on the big track. And in Cincinnati Ohio a guy did a 600+ scale MPH run on a world record length track. Last time I looked into it the record scale speed for a 1/32 scale slot car was 700+ set in Europe. I have been getting parts and pieces from a slot car racer friend for a while now once I told him I was building models he just started dropping off the stuff. In fact he has given me 31 kits worth of body missing kits. It's a great way to get parts.

Picked up the MPC Chevy Caprice w/trailer at Hobby Lobby with the 30% off. I had not seen the kit there before (I was in the store the Saturday before the sale) so I asked the department manager about it and he said they get odds and ends stuff for the sale and that our store should be seeing more different models come in in the next few months. Apparently a new manager (different from the guy I talked to) is a military modeler so what just back in august was only 20ft of models (including paint and accessories) has boomed into 48 ft of model kits, paint and tools. The manager said if sales keep up they will continue to get more and will rotate kits on a faster basis. Perhaps Hobby Lobby in some locations is realizing the hobby market is there we just don't have a place to buy stuff. The store just last week got the entire line of Model Master spray Lacquers to go with the one coat stuff they had been carrying.

Here is the article about the Hummer that started this post. Apparently some artist across the pond considers it art. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/16/hummer-with-wooden-wheels-called-art/

Most have good engineering. They follow a similar style of lifting as lifted trucks do. The badly engineered ones don't last very long so if you go out to a show or even see them on the street you will be surprised at how well they are built.

Cool, Thanks. One of my favorite part about seeing the older cars is the sponsors. I like to look them up to see if they are still around etc. It's cool to me to see all the sponsors back in the day that were smaller companies that couldn't even afford to be a contingency sponsor now-a-days. I forgot to say it in my first post but the "Manhiem Auctions" and the "Yellow" car are my favorites.

That's going to be interesting.

I'm the same way.

You are assuming they care about how fast your car is. I can tell you from experience they don't. Mutual respect goes a long way in the car culture. I have been rescued from some seriously scary situations by some of those type of people. Do I think Donks are a gift to car culture or anything special NOPE but I do think they are cool for what they are. I also don't think rat rods are special neither do I think $15,000 dollar paint jobs on otherwise stock cars are very cool nor do I like seeing factory stock brand new cars sitting in the line at car shows. Everyone has their likes and dislikes no reason to be high and mighty just because you like something different. IMO guys who smoke their tires like that at intersections are no better than those Donks you see. More dangerous too.

All of those look great. I hope at some point I will get as good with the decals. Do you know if the Dinner Bell sponsor on Dale Jarrett's '90 Regal is the Dinner Bell restaurant in McComb Mississippi?

I have seen all three to be honest. My mom actually followed a church van to a rummage sale because she saw model kits through the window. My stepdad bought me 10 kits while visiting his brother in Oregon at a garage sale across the street from his brothers house. And most of the time family members will just call an estate company to handle your stuff over some random person none of them know.

At what point do you guys consider the change over point from builder to collector? I mean some of you guys build less than 1% of your collection a year. Wouldn't that classify you as a collector and not a builder? I would think if your not building on a reasonably consistent basis and buying 20x what you build your a collector. I have 29 kits in my build stash and another 54 in a trade pile and I still think that is to many. It's going to take me a couple years just to build the 29 I want to right now. Yes I add to my trade stash all the time but I also trade much of it away consistently. This weekend I am even getting more kits from a dealer at a local flea market who found a bunch of kits just for me.

If I could build like that in just a week. That's a awesome build.

It's sad that because I left out ONE word three different posters bashed me and YES i perceived it as bashing and felt as though it was. One of which has bashed me on several other topics also. All I am saying is that their are I'm better than you people involved in EVERYTHING where competition is involved. I never said ALL modelers were that way and I never said it was modelings fault. As for my comment about not seeing the "I'm better than you" and the cliquish people anymore that Bluesman Mark wrote about. I wasn't saying anything against him I wrote that because from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE I have become that way where those types of people are involved. You want to see a "I'm better than you" and Cliquish group of people try umpiring little league. It's horrible probably worse their than with anything else I have ever seen including short track racing which I also officiate. After 11 years of umpiring though I don't see it as much NOT because it isn't their but because I am used to it. It's not a normal baseball season if someone doesn't throw a soda at me to cuss at me or tell me they will meet me in the parking lot after the game. Heck last year I was punched in the face (broke my orbital bone) in a grocery store by a sore loser dad that had a beef with me from a game that was played two weeks prior. Now granted those are the extreme of the bad attitude that competition brings out but bad attitudes don't have to be that bad to make a huge difference as to how others perceive a large group. Just like the squeaky wheel gets the grease the bad apple is remembered far longer than the rest of the bunch. That is fact no matter what facet of life you look at. I have been to several model competitions and clubs and for the most part they have been great experiences and I have never really seen any bad attitude besides old people being set in their ways which I find funny but I have seen some people who were a bit to wrapped up in competition and really needed to chill.

I really want to but I don't like curbside models and won't pay the high prices for import kits. I have however built several (and have a couple more planned) of the Revell BMW 320i which is the closest thing (an American model company has produced) to my first car.

Congrats. The car looks great sitting in front of that plaque. Of course it probably looks great sitting anywhere.

I've judged many contests in many different arenas and they ALL have people like this. I was not using a broad brush about everyone I was saying SOME people just get very bad attitude about whatever they are doing. It tends to come with the territory of competition. I have also seen the "Cliquish mentality" too. If you can't see it or have never seen it it's probably because you have been around it for long enough that you don't see it. Heck you can find the "I'm better mentality" and the "Cliquish mentality" all over the boards here. Their are bad apples in every bunch. You just have to hope the bad apples don't spoil it for new people. Who did I describe that was vile? all I said was some people get a "I'm better than you attitude" and I NEVER said it modelings fault.

It seems like contest builders are a bit more crass than everyone else. I think it's the "I'm better than you" attitude that they tend to get after a while. You can see it all over at contests and shows for anything. Car contests, racing, sports, etc. They all have people like that. I tend to just stay away from them but they really do bring things down for everyone.

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. Seriously AMAZING.

Uh oh, Got to put magnifiers up there with homemade paint booths now.

Bosozoku cars are the Japanese equivalent of customizing an American car. It is about style nothing else. I don't see why one is any better than the other. It is the same thing. Do I get Bosozoku style NO do I think it is cool for what it is and the thought and process and the uniqueness when it is done YEAH. Do I get chopping, channeling, and sectioning NO do I think it is cool for what it is and the thought and process and the uniqueness when it is done YEAH. It amazes me constantly how closed minded the American car culture is.

I used to get cortisone shots and the doctor told me the same thing about them. Might even be what they gave you. have to be careful with that stuff though because you can't feel ANYTHING so you don't know if you are doing something to re-injure what you just got operated on.

I guess you missed the pick ONE and then wait two weeks before picking a second, part. Also the Electra 225 in the Sir Mix-a-lot song is a 69. --- I am still deciding what car to do. I know a bunch of great songs with cars but none of them are popular enough for the majority on here to know.

Went up because of what happened in Japan BUT like the owner of the shop I went to yesterday said it won't go back down. It will stay high even after everything is back on track.

That right their is why more novice modelers don't like to get involved with resin. If I got a body like that in my first resin purchase I probably would never do resin again.

No clue where to start looking for something that old and rare but try the wanted section of the forum :D