Dave's Show Rod Rally
Dave's Show Rod Rally page takes me back to the ancient past when I would lock myself in my room for hours, building hot rod model kits until I passed out from inhaling Testors glue. I also collected these cards. Dave Marek's original Kustom Kar art is pretty nifty as well. I really like his iPod rod (and the Tiki T too, 'natch).
Yet another fantastic link from Papel Continuo
Comments
My best memories of those things was building the Big Daddy Ed Roth kits with monsters buggged out eyes etc. I wish I saved one.
Posted by: Fritz | October 7, 2004 04:06 PM
Roth was the greatest. You can still buy the models if you want to relive your childhood.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 7, 2004 04:46 PM
Ah, that smell. The smell of that glue. And the weird things it did to your skin when it dried on it. All those models; all long gone. Didn't save a one, nor did I destroy them. I guess they're somewhere ...
Posted by: jim | October 7, 2004 05:24 PM
Ah, the brain damage! Yes, the glue was special. The stuff my son uses these days on his models is non-toxic...NON-TOXIC!!! What fun is that, I axe you?
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 7, 2004 07:24 PM
Yes I looked up and found the very same kit I made some 30 years ago, it was called Mr. Gasser.
Very strange to get a window into someting I remember vividly from long ago. Yes and the toxic glue, I moved on to model airplanes and covered fabric demanded "Dope". Thank God I was sane enoguh to open the windows. Lastly do you think the Tiki T ever really exisited other than as a model? If it din't it should have . Mahalo.
Posted by: Fritz | October 7, 2004 11:32 PM
Airplane dope....oooohhhh, yeah!!! I can feel my brain cells dying just thinki...wait, what *was* I thinking about?
Looks to me like the Tiki T is only artwork at this point, but I agree, somebody really should build it as a show rod.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 8, 2004 08:39 AM