As of this writing I have roughly 100 Thunderjets, a collection that grows by the week. That’s a year’s worth of acquisition, so I’ll have to slow it down at some point or I’ll wind up with as many T-jets as I have Hot Wheels and Matchboxes…meaning I would need a bigger house. I’m also making little improvements where possible: performance tuning, wheel changes, decals, paint and patina.
I do have one hard and fast rule: there are two fleets, the unnumbered fleet consisting of ’40’s, ‘50’s and ‘60’s hot rods, kustoms, kruisers and muscle cars; and the numbered fleet, consisting primarily of sports and racing cars, mainly 1960’s models. These fleets race independently of one another, and when I run a heat or a tournament, the cars in each respective fleet race only against others in the same fleet.
Granted, the line is a little fuzzy at times; the Trans-Am cars in the racing fleet could be considered muscle cars, while the Willys stockers in the Muscle fleet could be considered racers; and there are ‘60’s Mustangs in both fleets. But still, with only a couple of exceptions, if it has a racing number, its in the racing fleet, and if it doesn’t have a number it’s in the muscle car case.
As of now I’m working toward my goal of having 64 cars in each fleet. I’ve chosen that number because it divides evenly by halves all the way down to 2, and also because I figure that’s about as many cars as I could race in one day. It also gives me an excuse to keep buying and building more!
In these “Meet The Fleet” posts, I’ll profile some of my cars for your reading pleasure. I was going to try to figure some order in which to do this. In the end I’ve decided to do it totally at random! For some semblance of order, I will alternate between the muscle cars and the sports cars.
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