When I Was a Kid:

I did model boats and airplanes. Ultimately, blew up all the boats with a B.B. gun. Moved up to cars after that. My pride and joy was a 69 Charger than I’m pretty sure I had combined leftover pieces from 10 or 12 kits into that one car. IT WAS AWESOME!
 
eSGEe said:
The original Millenium Falcon .....model glue and 2 M-80s................damn things worth a new house MINT IN BOX now............stupid ass kid.
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Original 12” GI Joe’s. Wish they would have survived me as a kid.
 
I see most of us were destructive little fiends, self included.
My stories mirror everyone elses.
G.I. Joe's & model cars bought the farm regularly.
It was usually the wrath of fireworks that did them in.

M80's were much better back then.
 
Speaking about fireworks, I remember when I was a kid to be able to throw those firecrackers around the cherry bombs and the lady fingers. I still would like to have some around on May 24th weekend , but the crackers have been illegal here for many many years now.:osnap:
 
Me and my buddies used to take 2 of those deep twist off bottle caps and fill them with the cut off heads of those self strike wooden matches. Them tape them together. Wrap masking tape to hold them, punch a little hole,in the seam, fill it with lighter fluid. put the thing on the sidewalk and light it. It would burn for about 5 seconds as just a little flame then....wham, you’d get a 4 foot diameter fire ball for about 2 seconds, whooooose.
 
Don O said:
Me and my buddies used to take 2 of those deep twist off bottle caps and fill them with the cut off heads of those self strike wooden matches. Them tape them together. Wrap masking tape to hold them, punch a little hole,in the seam, fill it with lighter fluid. put the thing on the sidewalk and light it. It would burn for about 5 seconds as just a little flame then....wham, you’d get a 4 foot diameter fire ball for about 2 seconds, whooooose.
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The mention of the self strike matches brings us many adventures.
We used to fire them out of our pump up .177 air rifles, at a concrete wall, where they would go bang on impact.
it was a huge source of cheap amusement for a kid in the early 70's.

We also would cut off the ends of our empty C02 cartridges and pack them with match heads from cut up book matches.
A piece of model rocket fuse to ignite things and we either had a rocket or a grenade, depending on our luck that day.

Yet we're all still here. God bless the good old days.
 
Another thing we did with the stick matches is take a medium size empty spool of thread, tape a piece of elastic over one end, then put the stick match in the other end, pinch with the elastic, pull it back, then strike the match and let her fly. Looked like those medieval arrows flaming through the air.

Its amazing we didn't burn anything down.
 
Remember using a magnifying glass to light firecrackers, sometimes one would just go off cause it had a quick wick. Then there were times the Sun was so bright you didn't see the thing lit until it was too late BANG!
 
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