‘65 GT - my most favorite race car of all time.
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Thunderbird Club
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ya think?…..hmmm…. pretty clean…
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Uhhh. We have. Just not necessarily in person.
- Jun 30, 2010
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So true - after attending the inaugural 2022 T-bird Migration at Chucky's - we really do know each other.., as in, no surprises. (in the best sense)
- Jun 30, 2010
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Yep, mt 1st slot-car was a (red plastic) Ford GT. (it was all I could afford...) I never had much money but I wanted to be a part of it. I only got so far and eventually dropped out, mostly because I couldn't compete against the guys with the wooden multi-trey box's filled with tools, parts and controllers. I watched in awe at their dexterity on the control, and could never get there with my low-level of hardware. I started custom painting the clear vacu-formed bodies (from the inside!) for those dudes, and became accepted in their 'elite' community as the guy who painted their cars.
If I were a gazillionare, I would have a room with a slot-car track - a major one! (hah... since I don't play the lottery, I guess I can count that out from ever happening!)My local 'dive' was nowhere near this elaborate - it was big, but bare-bones and raw and with fast banks.
I painted my wood box blue.Yep, mt 1st slot-car was a (red plastic) Ford GT. (it was all I could afford...) I never had much money but I wanted to be a part of it. I only got so far and eventually dropped out, mostly because I couldn't compete against the guys with the wooden multi-trey box's filled with tools, parts and controllers. I watched in awe at their dexterity on the control, and could never get there with my low-level of hardware. I started custom painting the clear vacu-formed bodies (from the inside!) for those dudes, and became accepted in their 'elite' community as the guy who painted their cars.
My local 'dive' was nowhere near this elaborate - it was big, but bare-bones and raw and with fast banks.
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Powder. I need to find what I did with it. At least one can am racer and a rail. I have a transparent controller and some Mura electric motors.
dieselman
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Saw him/them once in Miami with Roland Kirk as a guest.
Hello, T-bird club
I do not have business here
Just saying Hello
I do not have business here
Just saying Hello
such a contrast to the little Cooper.
I used to have a small slot car track when I was a kid in the 90's. Don't know what became of it, or where it went... Knowing my mother it probably was donated to some charity just to get it out of the way and so I couldn't play with it. She never liked it when I had toys, she was pretty much of the mentality all work all the time and zero play.Yep, mt 1st slot-car was a (red plastic) Ford GT. (it was all I could afford...) I never had much money but I wanted to be a part of it. I only got so far and eventually dropped out, mostly because I couldn't compete against the guys with the wooden multi-trey box's filled with tools, parts and controllers. I watched in awe at their dexterity on the control, and could never get there with my low-level of hardware. I started custom painting the clear vacu-formed bodies (from the inside!) for those dudes, and became accepted in their 'elite' community as the guy who painted their cars.
My local 'dive' was nowhere near this elaborate - it was big, but bare-bones and raw and with fast banks.
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Yep, mt 1st slot-car was a (red plastic) Ford GT. (it was all I could afford...) I never had much money but I wanted to be a part of it. I only got so far and eventually dropped out, mostly because I couldn't compete against the guys with the wooden multi-trey box's filled with tools, parts and controllers. I watched in awe at their dexterity on the control, and could never get there with my low-level of hardware. I started custom painting the clear vacu-formed bodies (from the inside!) for those dudes, and became accepted in their 'elite' community as the guy who painted their cars.
My local 'dive' was nowhere near this elaborate - it was big, but bare-bones and raw and with fast banks.
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Yep, mt 1st slot-car was a (red plastic) Ford GT. (it was all I could afford...) I never had much money but I wanted to be a part of it. I only got so far and eventually dropped out, mostly because I couldn't compete against the guys with the wooden multi-trey box's filled with tools, parts and controllers. I watched in awe at their dexterity on the control, and could never get there with my low-level of hardware. I started custom painting the clear vacu-formed bodies (from the inside!) for those dudes, and became accepted in their 'elite' community as the guy who painted their cars.
My local 'dive' was nowhere near this elaborate - it was big, but bare-bones and raw and with fast banks.
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Whoa, that looks like a lot of fun!
