A BIG Shout Out to Eric Mcleod!

[Art Anderson]

Eric approached me, a couple of months ago, in a message exchange here, about joining him in a talk at the Gilmore Classic Car Museum in Hickory Corners MI, about the "History Of The Model Car Hobby".  I agreed, figuring that "OK, there will be about 10 or 15 people, from who knows what background or interest."  but MAN was I surprised (as I suspect Eric was as well!).  There must have been perhaps 70 people in attendance this past Sunday! 

Eric gave the first part, an overview of the history of our hobby (and the industry which feeds us our model kits), to a rapt audience, and then I was asked to fill in some of the details, and answer some rather technical details about model kits, how they come about.  3 or 4 other attendees brought historic model car kits to help illustrate, as did Eric, with numerous builtups, some very old, some newer and more current, all of which helped to illustrate the evolution of out hobby, the model kits themselves, and of course, us all as model car builders.

The event was scheduled to be an hour long, but stretched into two hours, even a bit longer--the museum staff was getting a bit antsy to go home for supper, but they were very supportive to the end.

Thanks, Eric, for the invitation, and for orchestrating one very cool event--who knows, we might have rekindled the flame among some of those who came, and certainly you did capture the interest of the entire audience!

Art Anderson

[DumpyDan]

Wow, that would have been something to attended.  So glad everything turned out better then you thought.......Time for you two to go on tour. 

[XJ6]

Interesting information thanks for posting ?

[afx]

Any chance someone recorded this event and can post a video?

[Dragline]

This needs to happen everywhere all at once. Perhaps kids would put down the PS3 for a second and come up for air.

[Art Anderson]

Any chance someone recorded this event and can post a video?

If anyone video'd it, I was unaware of it.

Art