I always enjoyed building models growing up. I got to where I’d just buy them and keep them sealed. Well the 1st gens anyways.

Here is one a friend of the family built for my father. I can remember him coming over and taking 100 photos of the car before starting the model build. The next one was one my father built in the late 60’s that I still have and then a Yenko I built when I was 14. The 55 I built a couple years back as a hot rod black. Forgot how small the parts were after taking many years off from building.

Okay, I didn't build it but thought it was cool the car are 1/64th scale 69 Hot Wheel Chevelles.

And for a throwback, here's my car collection in the very early '80s right after I graduated high school in '80. They went into a box a few years later and stayed there until 2015. My buddy has them now and put them back into display condition. They were arranged on the hood of his '67 SS 396 Camaro that he's had since 1979. (LS7, M-22, Centerlines.)

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All super cool and I'm w:eek2:wed by some of what's been posted!
40+ years since I got off the glue but man those sure were some fun times.
Broken w/ missing parts but here's one I still have, 2'nd pic is box side panels.
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~ Pete

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Built a ton of models during my youth, Then I was introduced to firecrackers. :cool2:

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I had 1/25 scale models back to the early 60's. Sadly, they were destroyed in a flood in my parents basement in 1974. I had already moved out (I was 22 and we moved out of our parents houses in those days) however, my model cars were still there in a nice cabinet my father and I made (which the water destroyed).

Pellet guns and M80s for me! LOL!

Paintless model cars can be fun. The AMT '62 Impala convertible is an original 1962 kit that I had to build. I did the Revell '57 Ford and Chevy about ten years ago. I added wheels from Monogram '58 T-bird to the Ford and from the Monogram '57 Corvette to the convertible. The blue and white '57 Ford hardtop dates to 1978. I saw one exactly like it, restored perfectly, in the Burger King parking lot where I worked. Went home and built the model. Dusty from being unboxed in parents' basement after 35 years. Still looks good! The JoHan Road Runner was a project I started back in the late '70s and found it when I got all of my stored stuff out of the parent's basement five years ago. Fun to open boxes and see kits I had long forgotten about.

I have been building for years!