I found 'em! My old cars!

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Back when I was younger, I refused to clean my room and some of my models were taken away from me. They remained gone until yesterday! I recovered a GTO, a Torino Talladega, an AAR Cuda, a Dodge A100 pickup, a Scout II, and a Bel Air pickup!

WHEEEE!

So many memories, so many mistakes to fix....

[Brizio]

WOW!!! Very happy that you have them back with you,

[chunkypeanutbutter]

It's sorta hilarious about how bad I was at doing these.

Well, I was a kid when I did these.... like eight years ago.

The Torino is molded in white, but I painted it in tutone with silver brush paint and made a "carbon fiber" hood for it. I'm pretty sure that involved a heavy coat of grimy black paint and paper towels.

It is quite ugly.

There was also a White Freightliner big rig in there, thankfully I didn't screw it up.

The rigs were all my dad's, actual old Ertl releases.

It is in multiple pieces. However, the frame is so short and only has one rear axle. But I'm gonna lengthen it and add a double axle.

[Miatatom]

All of my old ones are packaged together somewhere at a friends parents house along with all of his. We worked on them back in the early 60s. He passed away about 17 years ago. I asked his Dad if I could have them back then and he was hesitant. I understood and never pressed the issue afterwards. Went to visit them a couple of years ago and didn't bring it up. Those models hold a lot of sentimental value for his parents and myself. I hope they're not in the attic. You're lucky to have yours back.

Edited July 29, 2014 by Miatatom

[chunkypeanutbutter]

I've been looking for these darn things for years, as my parents decided I could have them back, but forgot where they were. On a routine trip down to the cellar I noticed that mighty familiar looking box.... and, boom.

My uncle and father made tons of kits. He tells me they used to take their weekly allowance and go to every store that had models and bought whatever they could, and as much as they could. One store had damaged kits or returns, so they could get 'em for about seventy-five cents as opposed to five dollars or so.

A few they got were Japanese, and with my uncle deciding last year that he wanted to move on to model military (and more financial problems, I guess) he sent me a huge box with all the cars he had left. Looking through this box, there are parts to build a table full of cars, but parts, bits, and bobs for scores more that are absent. There are trees of chrome that show there are two missing Mazda RX-3s I would dearly love to have.

Sorry to hear about your models, Tom. I bet there are a bunch of great ones in there. Nice Bugeye, by the way.

[LDO]

Wow. There were no carbon fiber hoods when I was a kid.

Edited July 30, 2014 by LDO

[tbill]

cool find. if the freightliner is a 'day cab', it's probably the SD version [single drive], latest re-issue is the DD [dual drive] with the sleeper cab.