What era of car kits do you prefer building and why?

[brad4321]

I enjoy building almost anything. But every type model has something I dislike doing. My favorite builds are Formula 1, especially the cars from yesteryear. But I hate building the wings. I love planes and jets, but theres just so much putty work and scribing. And masking the canopies isn't a barrel of monkies either. I love tanks but building the tracks is miserable. I like cars but I'm not great at high gloss finishes. So I go thru cycles so that I'm always fresh. I never want the hobby to feel like work, and occassionally it does. And when that happens I put the project aside for a while and dive into something that keeps me excited. Because having fun is more important than having a finished project right away - for me it is anyway.

[Chuck Most]

Mainly 1930 to 1960, that's the bulk of my collection, but if it strikes my fancy, I'll build it no matter what vintage or manufacturer it represents.

[Art Anderson]

circa 1900 to about 1960.

[Craig Irwin]

I like anything from the one cylinder horseless carrages / brass era cars to about the mid 70's. I would like to see an Olds curved dash, a Stanley Steamer and would buy a case of Brass Ford T's. Once the government took over car design I have little interest.

[crazyjim]

I don't think I have a particular era as a preference. I like about anything as long as it's SHINY :)

[Repstock]

1960 thru 1977, 1/25 only. If I limit myself this way, it's easier to afford the hobby.

I was born in 1960. These are the cars I remember.

I will build newer cars if I owned the 1:1, or a friend did.

Edited February 12, 2012 by Repstock

[Johnny K]

For the most part, I prefer 1925 through 1934, both cars and pickups, and '37 to '41 pickups. There are a couple definitions for era, and, for that reason, I'd have to include the '50's, not for the new cars produced in that decade, but for the reinvention of the earlier cars and real advent of the Hot Rods.

[my66s55]

I build model cars and small trucks from These are the cars I remember growing up. 1900 to 1972. My favorites are from the 30's.

[A.R.C.]

Anything from 1900 to the mid 90`s. There is the odd current era(2000`s)car that I like, but for the most part I dont like them. Vehicles from the last 15 years or so have no character or soul.

[kingtoy]

My primary passion is modern imports, mainly Toyotas, but I also love any era Toyota. I do build cars from other genres. I have built rat rods, goverment cars, lots of trucks and muscle cars.

[Steve Keck]

I like the colorful ones; same with movies -talkies, too.

[Rob McKee]

Like many I like them all.

I like to build the 20s - early 50s cars with body modifications and other customizations. They are fun to paint up with custom shiney colors and big wheels. Really I see it as anything goes on these.

Mid 50s to Mid 60s I like to keep stock with some real minor mods adding custom wheels and engine upgrades.

Mid 60s to current dates I like to build my favorite muscle cars stock. That would include the current muscle cars as well.

Rob

[Junkman]

I like most anything from the fist 100 years of the automobile. Why nothing post-mid-eighties? Because I dislike the direction automotive styling took since.

[Frank]

I like to build 20s to 50s.I buils them stock and hotrod.I also build the occasional 60s or 70s car if they take my fancy. At the moment i am attemting to build 1 of every body style 32 Ford 13 of them, it's very interesting.I dont build modern stuff because they all look the same.

[SuperStockAndy]

60s and 70s muscle cars, they just look awesome xD

[moparmagiclives]

Depends on the mood, some kits will strike a memory and I'll get stuck in the past for a wile, remembering my dads old street rodder mags, or I'll see something parked down town and want to smash together something with a turbo or two....

[MrObsessive]

I like to sometimes focus on cars that were just getting my interest when I first realized what a car was. That would mean cars out of the early to mid '50'/early '60's. Growing up as a kid through the later '60's there was quite a variety of American iron on the road.

You still had the befinned and chromed land yachts of the '50's---------then there were your basic station wagons and grocery getters, up to the raucous muscle cars that I occasionally saw. You also had your oddball foreign car that motored by, which I would have no idea what it was until years later!

Some of today's cars strike my fancy as well.........while I'm not a tuner type of guy, I can appreciate the Hondas, Mitsus, Toyotas, and Nissans of the world. I'm not much of an SUV fan-----although I can think of a few that if there were kits, I wouldn't mind building.