Art & Inspiration Model Car Christmas

very cool.

 

Cool - Thanks - same to you

 

Ahhh ... model car Christmas ... when you shook every box that looked like a Johan or AMT & hoped it wasn't a damn Imperial or Rambler Uncle Willy & Aunt Edna sent this year.

 

As a kid model cars were on the top of my Christmas list,,cool 40. HRP

 

I got to pick out the model cars that I wanted a week before Christmas, then they were taken home, wrapped and placed under the tree and I wasn't allowed to touch them until Christmas Morning-----boy that was long week!!!!

 

Ah,the 40 coupe. It was my all time favorite kit,must have built ten of them. My life size looks a lot like your model,very cool.


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Age 10, already knee deep into the scale models. I call them the gateway drugs that lead to the addiction of the real (full-size) cars.....54 yrs. later, I still have all of these and the many more I've built over my lifetime.

 

I always thought Christmas was incomplete if I did not get a model. Hey I guess I still do...... Didn't get one this year the wife must have thought my unbuilt collection was getting too big. I have not had much time for building models since I started building the real cars again a few years ago. I still try to find time for at least one a year. My all time favorite Christmas model gifts were the Monogram 1/8th scale Big T and the Big Deuce. Still have them.

 

Amazing you still have all of them. I came across a couple of boxes of my old models about a year or so ago. Only 3 or 4 from my high school years. I hate to think about how many cool ones got blown up with firecrackers or met similar fates. Oh well at least a few survived.

 

I had a brother who was 11 years younger, when I went away to college, he found the boxes they were packed in, and got very creative "improving" each one.

 

I got an Ideal '53 1/8th scale corvette TWO years in a row...'54 and'55!!! I'm sending a pic of one in a Oct '54 hotrod. Its a little fuzzy but you get the idea. Tim

 

I have built a lot of them as a kid. I tried to follow the instructions but every time I ended up getting the knife out and combining parts from other kits. I guess I was a hot rodder back then too.
Jim Ford