Where Were You in '62? World's Fair, Perhaps??

[Casey]

I found this flyer(?) inside a Monogram Big Deuce instruction manual I purchased, so I figured I'd scan it, post it, and see if anybody old enough to have been there is willing to admit it.

[DanielG]

I was in high-school, up the coast a ways, but didnt make it to the fair.

Edited May 14, 2011 by DanielG

[MoparWoman Jamie]

I was not invented yet.

[ra7c7er]

I was going to say I wasn't invented. Adverts are cool though.

[novadose71]

I was negative 10 years old, didn't see a thing

[Aaronw]

I'll let you know after I visit the past lives pavilion.

[MrObsessive]

I would have been just learning to walk in '62! I saw cars (lots of fins and chrome around then), but didn't know what they were let alone the years and brand names.

[Mercman]

Building these kits.

This is from Monogram. They were called 49"ers as they only cost$0.49. This one was called the "Wolf Wagon".

BTW this one still survives in my collection.

Edited May 14, 2011 by Mercman

[Dr. Cranky]

Doctor Cranky was just out of the oven and learning to say GOO-GOO-GAH-GAH, which was the first time he uttered the words LONG LIVE RUST!

Junior, that's a wonderful gem in your collection! Those decals would be fabulous now!

[Foxer]

In 1962 I was home doing a chop, channel and section on a '40 Ford Sedan and talking my Dad into a hobby store trip for some Pactra Candy Apple Green.

Never made it the that World's Fair. I wonder what ever happened to World's Fairs?

[Guest Johnny]

In 1962 I was home doing a chop, channel and section on a '40 Ford Sedan and talking my Dad into a hobby store trip for some Pactra Candy Apple Green.

Never made it the that World's Fair. I wonder what ever happened to World's Fairs?

That is a really good question!!! When did they stop having them? Funny though but never noticed they were gone nor had I even thought about it!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_fairs Gues they are still having them, just not publicized like they used to be!

I had the kit with that ad in it! Got it from the church in a gift exchange.

Grandpa said it was too expensive for me to try and build (I was 11 at he time ) so he gave it to the nephew of the lady across the street to build for me. (he was a HS kid with a really badazz 56 Chevy that gave us all a ride to school, actually my big sis, we just hitched a ride ) and he had it for 2 years!!! Finally got it back,(after he went in the Army) half built with lots of distortion from too much glue, bad paint and faded chrome and a tire missing!

It ended up being tossed out by grandma along with my collection of Hot Rodding,(5 years of small magizines) and other old magizines from the 50's and early 60's that were left in my old room when I moved out.

Edited May 14, 2011 by Johnny

[bbowser]

I was in 2nd grade, just starting to glue my fingers together on WWI biplanes.

[DRG]

I was 12 years old,building models and noticing girls were built differently.

[Guest Johnny]

I was 12 years old,building models and noticing girls were built differently.

That was a good one! and true!

[Terry Sumner]

4th grade and buildin' models!

[s10chevypu]

I was just seven years old, and don't remeber what I was doing back then.I do remember that I did start building models at around the age of 9 or 10 years old.

[GrandpaMcGurk]

Getting my first car roadworthy, knowing that one more birthday and I'd have a "legal" drivers license......a '34 Plymouth coupe.

[MrObsessive]

Some of us may have been sitting in traffic here..............

[Agent G]

I was seven and building what would become the first of many many models.

G

[Green Duster]

I was 8 years old. My fingers were stuck together then with glue. Still are.

Just better glue now. They should rename it to stupid glue, not super.

[Dragline]

It would be another 3 years before I would grace this planet with my presence.

Bob

[Hoosierfarmboy]

I used Book Antiqua font purposely. In 62 I was a junior in high school. Had built the Monogram 56 Ford convertible as I recall. Was sharpening my driving skills on the farm hauling hay from the field on our 51 Ford COE. Fall was my senior year in high school. Lived in midwest so didn't make it to Seattle. Do remember the 'Kat - Bud Anderson ' in ads and mags. Soooo long ago!

[styromaniac]

Building these kits.

This is from Monogram. They were called 49"ers as they only cost$0.49. This one was called the "Wolf Wagon".

BTW this one still survives in my collection.

That's a nice survivor..but it's actually not a Monogram kit..it's one of the Aurora 1/32nd scale kits...I know...I had "one back in the day"...and you're right...they were quite affordable...you could get one for less than a dollar and still have money left for a tube of glue or Testors bottle enamel. These Aurora kits were kind of toy like...they all had plastic tires and a reasonable facsimile of a Chevy 409 in them...but the box art was really cool, mostly depicting the vehicle in front of soda shops, high school / college campuses, movie theaters, or at other period correct dating or drag racing scenes. Other cars in the product line were the Shiftin' Drifter, Ram Rod, Sad Sack, Scat Cat, Moody Monster, High Stepper.

Pyro also had a more refined series of 1/32nd scale cars in their "Tabletop" series..also inexpensively priced but quite realistic in scale.

As for the Worlds Fair..I remember reading about the one in New York City in '64 in Life magazine..seemed really cool...futuristic car themes galore.

Where was I in '62? I was a nine / ten year old back then, getting high on styrene and glue fumes...dreaming about hot rods...but hardly ever seeing one except on TV.

It wasn't until many years later I actually got to go to a rod & custom show...at the DC Armory..saw the Batmobile,the Munster Koach, Roth's Surfite, Carl Casper's Ghost.

I also saw Bud the Kat Anderson of AMT officiating at a slot car race/exhibit.Cool stuff back then.

[Casey]

Straight outta AMT's Kustom Korner at the '62 World's Fair

[rel14]

i was in second grade eating glue, off the stick that was on the lid.