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First the quick background. In 1974 my father bought my mother her first car for her 30th birthday, a 1947 Nash 600. We were not people of means so this actually was a pretty extravagant gift for her.The car needed a lot of work but ran pretty well. The car was driven home under her own power and was fixed up for my mom over the next few weeks. In this car I learned to bleed brakes, do tuneups and eventually drive. Mom graduated to a 1971 Volvo Wagon when I was in high school. In exchange for scraping and painting the house I recieved the 1947 Nash for my 16th birthday in 1980. Being a model car builder, naturally I wanted a model of my fist car. As one can imagine, such a model is not easy to find. Behold, with the miracle of eBay and resin modeling I present to you a model of my first car.

You will note, it is not the most detailed model. I decided that I would forgo attempting to paint a stripe to duplicate the stainless steel along the sides of the body and skipped the trim around the windows and down the center of the hood. The model is in HO scale so such details are pretty difficult. Granted, this is a long way from a perfect model, but it was fun to have a quick and easy model of my first car.

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Well done! Wish we had a 1/25 of it!

Edited by midnightprowler
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