Show us your band van!

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Wow I built that model.
And TV Tommy Ivo’s galloping ghost, the Tarantula

 

[WavMixer]

Wow I built that model.
And TV Tommy Ivo’s galloping ghost, the Tarantula

And the Paddy Wagon too!

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

And the Paddy Wagon too!

I do believe I built it as well!
Thanks for bringing back some cool memories Grant
Cheers

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

And least we forget the RedBarron !!
Then I got into big rigs then WWll
Tanks !
Cheers

 

[WavMixer]

Looks like we were both building the same models in the 60's Mitch!

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Looks like we were both building the same models in the 60's Mitch!

I have been building models for years, I quit building them when we moved to our current home in 2001, started bugging my eyes.
The last ones I had been working on were HO scale trains.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Those little eye bolts and grab irons we’re getting to become a nightmare to drill with out breaking bits.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Plus I never wore the correct safety items when painting or when gluing components on to the shells, but I loved decalling and weathering them to make them look authentic as possible.

 

[WavMixer]

I stuck with 1/24 model cars, but my dad used to build HO train and slot car tracks.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

I stuck with 1/24 model cars, but my dad used to build HO train and slot car tracks.

Plus 1 on the slot cars started with the 1/ 24’th scale then in the late teens me and a couple of buddies got about 3 large HO scale slot cars and put all 3 kits together in his apartment living room, ha ha the time we had drinking and smoking racing the cars was a site to behold.

 

[Trident]

I drove my parents nutts with the slot cars...Lol

Do you remember the stuff called Moo you could put on the tires to make them stick better on the track?

It kinda looked like a light orange Elmers Glue....Stuff worked good...Lol

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

I drove my parents nutts with the slot cars...Lol

Do you remember the stuff called Moo you could put on the tires to make them stick better on the track?

It kinda looked like a light orange Elmers Glue....Stuff worked good...Lol

Yes and if you had one with the pivot front slot holders it would pop a wheelie, I know this because my bat mobile ad that type of front end, I always drooled over the little red wagon one.
I wanted it badly

 

[WavMixer]

I modded a slot car with a Tonka metal body and added a slotted pin for the back so it could fish tail and not leave the track. I'd power slide around the curves and knock the other cars off the track. I didn't lose many races.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

I modded a slot car with a Tonka metal body and added a slotted pin for the back so it could fish tail and not leave the track. I'd power slide around the curves and knock the other cars off the track. I didn't lose many races.

I would have loved to have seen that.
All of our 1/24’th scale slot cars were stolen out of our garage

 

[Trident]

They were tons of fun....

 

[Dave Sloven]

I had the rear interior of my car pulled out the week before we went to Melbourne. I found the source of the leak and treated the mould but couldn't find the necessary part and had to do the trip with gaffa tape over the leaking rubber seal. Thankfully it didn't get wet in there again. On Thursday I went out to the other side of Adelaide on the basis of a tip from our former bassist and found the rubber seal for $50. It had some overspray of red metallic paint from a previous crash repair but I found some polish that I have had since the 1980s, and that got it off!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]