Without stating your age: How old are you?

halfmile said:
The AMT 3in1 32 Ford Coupe kit was the answer to the world`s problems.:D
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My recent foray into diorama building has rekindled my interest in model cars and trucks. As a young teen/pre-teen, I built a bunch of them, mostly the cars that I lusted mightily after and knew I'd never get to drive, much less own one. Vettes, Goats, Road Runners, 'Stangs, 442's...

As best I can remember, I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.50 to $5.00 for them.

Now the crappy ones with the warped castings and the inaccurate detail go for $30 and if you want a NICE one they can get close to 3 figures!
 
Downeaster said:
My recent foray into diorama building has rekindled my interest in model cars and trucks. As a young teen/pre-teen, I built a bunch of them, mostly the cars that I lusted mightily after and knew I'd never get to drive, much less own one. Vettes, Goats, Road Runners, 'Stangs, 442's...

As best I can remember, I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.50 to $5.00 for them.
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When I first bought them they were $1.49 and the double kits like the Ala Kart and Double Dragster were $1.99. Way too rich for my paltry allowance.:(
 
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halfmile said:
The AMT 3in1 32 Ford Coupe kit was the answer to the world`s problems.:D
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Well if we are showing old model cars how about this classic:
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And that is vintage dust on that one!

Have a big box of several others and even a 1957 Ford never assembled!
 
The longer this thread goes the older I get:doh: I`ll probably need a hearing aid and a hip replacement by morning. One more. Before we (my parents) got our first TV we had a cabinet type 5 band radio. It was always on and after the evening news there was a 15 min show called Big John & Sparky. Teddy Bears Picnic was a feature of that show. I still have the little yellow 78 RPM child`s record of the same theme song. I would have been 3 years old. I still have the radio too but can`t get to it because all my motorcycles are in the way.:unsure:
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59Tebo said:
Wow Jim! I think everybody who shoots had (or has) one of those little rifles! I sold mine to a friend for dirt cheap. I bought a BRNO bolt-action because I wanted something more accurate (Oh, yeah!). It looks like somebody shrunk a Mauser in the wash... :hijack: ...sorry.
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I still have dad's old J,C. Higgins bolt action .22. Only thing it needs is what dad called the clip but I guess the proper term, at least these days, is magazine?
 
Allen Sherman records (Hello Mudder, Hello Father, Here we are at Camp Granada) Red Skelton show. Laurence Welk show. Ed Sullivan with the Rolling Stones or Beatles and more plate spinners then you can shake a stick at.
 
azman857 said:
Allen Sherman records (Hello Mudder, Hello Father, Here we are at Camp Granada) Red Skelton show. Laurence Welk show. Ed Sullivan with the Rolling Stones or Beatles and more plate spinners then you can shake a stick at.
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Don`t forget Topo Gigio the Italian mouse and Wayne & Shuster and Zippy the chimp and Victor the bear. Ed Sullivan was mandatory at our house. I remember my dad made me come in the house to watch Elvis Presley. Hound Dog from the waist up only.
Hudson & Landry`s "Ajax Liquor Store" was great.:thumbsup:
 
"halfmile, post: 632875, member: 22256"]The longer this thread goes the older I get:doh:

Jeez Phil, the older you get the better memory you have. I bet we are close to the same age, but I don't remember some of yours.
I did build lots of model cars and planes. Torched the planes in a friends garage just for the fun of it. I built a 32 Ford into a Model T tub. Called it the 'dirt squirt' and entered it in a Monogram model contest at our local hobby shop. Used balsa wood for the back and a thimble for the tank in the back. I was the youngest contestant and won 3rd place
 

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GLJ said:
Yep. Halter tops and tube tops were good to.
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....indeed - I got to try out my knot (un)tying skills that I learned at Cubs. Hehehehe.

There was a cut-rate gas station in the next town called XL39 - because the price of gasoline was an unchanging $0.39 / gallon (and that was an Imperial gallon).

On TV,I watched the Thunderbirds, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, the Three Stooges, Combat, Rat Patrol, Star Trek, I recall the Kennedy shooting too (my Dad was so sad) and the Apollo 11 moon landing (Dad had a camera pointed at the TV for hours), and the Apollo 13 explosion (our school had everyone in the gym for several days watching it unfold on TV), Expo ‘67 in Montreal, Canada’s new flag in 1965, the Queen visiting our town in about 1964, my first job washing windows at an auto body shop at about years old. A couple years later I got a job at what we were told was only the 3rd or 4th McDonalds in Canada (I lied about my age...), ahhhh, the good old days....
 
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azman857 said:
Allen Sherman records (Hello Mudder, Hello Father, Here we are at Camp Granada) Red Skelton show.
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I remember watching Allen Sherman singing it on Johnny Carson when he was still in NY. The album cover was cool with his face sticking out of a pile of nuts. I think the name of the album was "nuts".
 
Trips from Michigan to Missouri to see Grandma and Grandpa in a 1960 Chevy on Route 66 in which Dad made sure he had extra set of points, coil, plug wires and distributor rotor. Ohh, and a tool box with which he could rebuild almost any part of the car if necessary. And for dinners, fried chicken which was reheated on the engine.
 

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