NNL East Club Project Car Circa 1996

[Tom Geiger]

I've been cleaning up photo libraries as I dump the contents of my phone and came across these shots.  Eons ago the Tri-State Club received this resin body from Grandpa's Toys to use as a door prize at NNL East.  The only problem is that it arrived the week after the show.  So we looked it over and decided to do a club project with it.  Each person would have 30 days to complete a percentage or assembly for the vehicle.  And at every monthly club meeting we would review it and pass it on to the next person.  Each person could do what ever they wanted. There were no rules.

Our goal was to have a finished model to raffle off at the next NNL East.  I forget who did much of the work but I remember that Ryan Leach did the slant six, Todd Koncsol did body work including setting in the tail lights.  I believe Bill Barrett did the interior.  I opened the hood panel, and noticing it was a slush cast body and the final assembler would have a dickens of a time getting glass to sit in it, I replaced the roof with a matching plastic one.  We did meet our goal and indeed raffled it off at something like NNL East 10.  (Yes it was 10, I just saw the license plate!) It was won by Dan Vogel from the Jersey Shore Club.  A few years ago he brought it to a club meeting and I squeezed off a few photos!  It's doing well considering we just held NNL East 33!