Because it’s been a few days, I thought it was time for a “lite” weekday post showing some goodies I’ve added to the ginormous 1:64 collection over the last few weeks. 2 of these were specifically purchased with intent for the diorama, while others may rotate in briefly throughout the next year, and still others are just interesting or cool. So, here’s a look at a few recent additions, some of which you can find in your own local store, and others…maybe not so much…
“Elite 64”
This ‘75 BMW 3.0 CSL is definitely bound for Drag City! How could it not be? When this showed up on the RLC club page I jumped right on it! Usually, I don’t open cars like this, but I’m going to open this one! The 2nd purchase I made after joined RLC was another “Elite 64” McLaren, and I opened that one too; even put decals on it, and it’s in the paddock right now. This BMW will be joining it soon! That means I can repurpose the blister pack protector for another car, since I can never open these packages cleanly without tears! It sucks to have to throw such nice packaging away, but that’s what you get when they make them non-reusable, and hey…you can’t keep them all sealed!
Premiums
Along comes another P-917K! This one will not replace the Gulf livery version in the paddock-I like that one too much-but it will augment the display somewhere because, look at it: it has to! The name “Circuit Legends” certainly piques my interest! What other “circuit legends” might we be seeing in this series?
The ‘70 Roadrunner was a must have for obvious reasons – its an uptowned copy of a casting that has long existed and I have several mainline versions, but this one was offered in a very appealing color combo with really awesome wheels. The mint green Bronco rounds it out: this casting has also been done recently as a mainline Matchbox, but I liked the color combo and the wheels on this metal/metal version, so grabbed it I did!
Hot Ones!
I love these, you know it! I’m a sucker for the retro stuff and Jason my Hot Wheels Hunter scored a few more at an after-work stop Target and picked me up a couple more! Now I have 2 of the “long tail” 917LH’s and the oversized but still cool GT-40 Mk IV. Still doubt I’ll open these, but you never know…
HW “XL”
This is a fairly new thing they’ve started doing. I don’t collect 1:43’s like I do 1:64’s but I like them, and along with my Hot Ones, J picked himself up one of these “enlarged” El Segundo Coupes. This one was a little poignant for yours truly, since it is a blown-up version of the exact car that helped start my cub on Hot Wheels collecting: the 1:64 version you see on the countertop below it is the very first Hot Wheels I ever gave to Jason, so his getting this bigger version seemed like a nice bookend!
Anniversary Editions
This is another thing Mattel is now doing annually: the bright gold and metallic anniversary editions. 2024 was turquoise, 2025 was purple, now 2026 is dark metallic blue. Nice! The ’70 Camaro, Honda Civic hatch, Subee Brat, ’80s Dodge D100 and everyone’s favorite HW ever (it seems) The Boneshaker, all here! Only the “sharknosed” Corvette-that eternal casting from 1975-is missing from this sequence
Mainlines
And last but not least, the bulk-cheapies that anyone can buy…if you can find ‘em! Here again, The Hunter comes through with a haul for me and a haul for himself, although a couple of his are now on my want list: especially that Datsun 240Z in gorgeous copper-orange, probably the 2nd best variation I’ve seen on this awesome casting to date, and the cool “La Liebre” coupe, another fantasy car so cool it should be real!
For my stash, the only one of these 7 I already had was the red Cortina, but I only had a single one which I snagged @ a Wallyworld in AZ when I was there for X-mas, so a 2nd copy is much appreciated! The black satin issue of the “Hoto Roto” is awesome, as is the white El Segundo and the “Willow Green” Mini, which will be getting a racing number decal applied soon enough! Bound for the diorama, then? We’ll see! And that “Pantone” series model of the Twin Mill III is especially cool to me, considering that after working in the graphics and print/publishing industry for well over a decade, it’s a concept I’m very familiar with! I used to talk to co-workers in “Pantone-speak;” whenever someone said “186” we all knew exactly what that meant!
And THIS is why they’re called “Treasure Hunts!”
So one that Jason found that I definitely didn’t get was this gray Triumph TR6! Very cool! I wanted it and he was almost ready to give it to me until he saw that little logo on the back of the card behind the car! Holy cow, how does he keep finding these things in the wild like this?!
And there you have it folks, just the latest additions to the collection that’s eating my basement and my brain! I may run out of room someday, but I’m not there yet, and when your cars are as easy to store and maintain as these are, I say…keep ‘em coming!
Well, another weekend and another weekend working! Yet again, I had to spend half my Saturday in the office playing catch-up on stuff I couldn’t get done during the week due to various extended troubleshooting sessions and other types of issues that always arise in an engineer’s life, leaving only Sunday for chores and house maintenance. That’s left little time for the hobby, but I’ll drop at least one post this weekend showing an update to The Road Crew that I think is worth presenting!
Restoring old damaged Thunderjets can be a tricky business: you always have to wonder how far you should go with it. As I’ve mentioned several times, I have become quite proficient at fabricating replacement screw posts-something I was once convinced couldn’t even be done. Since then, I’ve learned a few other tricks, but most of those require the use of “donor cars.” The problem with that is that the donor cars themselves are difficult to come by, because the things on that are usually damaged – meaning the A and B pillars or the rear wheel wells – are exactly the kind of things that turn a body into a parts car in the first place. I mean, if you had a ‘69 Charger with the rear wheel wells carved out and then you found another one with good wheel wells that you could theoretically use to cut up to repair the wheel wells on the other car, then the question arises: why wouldn’t you just save the parts car?
Every case is different, of course: sometimes there’s an exceptionally rare color that you’re trying to preserve, and you might take parts from a more common color, although then you’re painting those replacement parts….which de-values your original. In other cases, you might get really lucky and find a car in a junk bin that is pretty much destroyed, but still has the part that you need: as in, good wheel wells, but with the top torn off of it or something. But this is a rare situation; I have found that, often, it might be best to leave a slightly damaged car in the condition that you find it in after doing the appropriate cleanup and working as best you can with what you have.
That was the route that I decided to take with this pair of ‘67 Ford Galaxie XL 500 fastback coupes. I found these for sale as a pair at what I thought was a pretty reasonable price, but as you can see, they are both suffering from the common A/B pillar damage. Using extreme care and patience, I was able to tweak what remained of those posts back into place as well as possible. They are still obviously bent, but the rooflines on both cars now look right, and a replacement window insert for one of them solved the broken glass problem. The other car was missing a rear bumper, which I was also able to obtain as a correct reproduction part.
Interestingly enough, in contrast to what I just said above, I actually did buy a parts car for this pair, although I elected not to utilize it! This Cigar Box model has a pristine underside and no wear marks on the surface but still suffers from missing driver’s side A and B pillars and a dislocated axle. Its now in the parts bin and may yield something of use in the future
Since both of these were delivered without chassis, the combination of providing my own, plus a couple of replacement parts, bumped up the price of these quite a bit, but I still think I’m ahead, and this is a body that I needed more of in my collection, because 2 of the previous 3 that I have are both imposters in a manner of speaking, although in different ways
The orange car is from the 2nd haul from Performance Slots and Hobbies in 2021. It is a reproduction made by a very skilled craftsman. I’m not sure who made it, but it looks almost exactly like the real thing other than being molded in a color that the original was never made in. The blue one is an Aurora original, but not a Thunderjet: I did an extensive and detailed post on that car here.
In contrast, this red and tan pair were both original Thunderjet slotties that needed no trick modification to the screw posts, or anything else, to mount just fine on an original chassis.
Both of these bodies needed a lot of polishing to remove surface scratches – the tan one far more than the red one – and both needed a little touching up to the chrome on the sides. For the tan car, I wound up using my last available closed rivet chassis, which is not a great runner, but it does OK even if it’s slow. The red one got a newer open rivet chassis that is much “perkier” on the track, and as a result, it got a set of JelClaws for the rear, since this car’s long tail gives it a tendency to slide out copiously in the turns. Since the tan car was the more distressed of the pair, I elected to leave the somewhat delaminated wheels on the chassis-at least for now-to embrace that “old beater” look. I may revisit this decision later, but for now, it stays.
Lined up beside my other stock original, a nearly pristine yellow version, this makes a nice color rainbow in the section of the Road crew parking lot shaded by the corkscrew!
So there’s the update from Drag City for this weekend, but I’m happy to say that a long Whale Hunt has just been ended successfully, and I’m about to add a rare one to The Crew next… I’ll show you that one too after a little bit of cleanup, coming up soon!
I have just completed a weekend experiment with a new chassis that I finally acquired last week after first seeing them about 2.5 years ago. Today’s post is my assessment of that test run.
In the past, I have tried – and blogged about – a couple of other chassis designs from other companies that were made to be compatible with the Thunderjet format. These include the Dash Motorsports version of the TJet as well as well as completely new designs from JAG Hobbies, the TR3 and the newer DK-4.
The JAG Hobbies DK4 T-Jet compatible chassis
All of these products are excellent in their way and it’s great that there are people out there designing and building new things for this hobby. For me personally, only the Dash Motorsports version of the T-Jet has met my specific needs, as I run this chassis under some of the MEV bodies in The Road Crew. For the racing fleets, only the Auto World Ultra-G was economical enough to build a fleet of hundreds of cars with, and considering that the newer and readily available version has the traction magnet, and that was what I got used to at the outset, the idea of going back and redoing my whole fleet with a different chassis just wasn’t in the cards. This has led to some of these other experiments being interesting one-offs, but never part of my overall racing lineup. This being my experience at this point, I went into this purchase of the Bauer UL expecting much the same, but at this early stage, I think this one may have more promise for my own use than some of the others!
One of the frustrating things about Bauer slot cars is the lack of coherent information available about them. Case in Point: when I go looking for Bauer cars online, I’ve seen that over the years different models have utilized different chassis platforms. Some of them run on the original Aurora Thunderjet chassis, which is interesting, because the only way that I can see that they’ve been able to do that is by getting ahold of large quantities of NOS chassis to build their cars. Others are mounted on the modern Auto World Ultra-G, the platform I utilize most extensively, and which was the original core subject of this blog. Other Bauer bodies appear to be mounted on AFX chassis, and I’ve even seen some that looked like they’re mounted on Tyco chassis.
An example of a newer Bauer model mounted on a chassis with an inline style motor, which looks to me like a Tyco 440 or X2.
The difference between these is significant because of the slight difference in size between the original T-Jet and Ultra-G formats. The beautifully crafted and customized Bauer bodies understandably have extremely tight tolerances, and are not likely to be candidates for the kinds of adjustments I’ve discussed so extensively on this blog. Who wants to take a Dremmel and start grinding away plastic on something that cost so much money?
I desperately want both of these beautiful slotties in my collection…but at these prices, are you willing to take a gamble on what chassis they are mounted on? The only option is hoping for feedback from a seller before someone else buys the car you want!
The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any type of chart or listing that shows which Bauer bodies were made for which formats. I recently made a purchase from a vendor in New Jersey who has a large number of Bauer slot cars for sale, and sent him an email trying to get some clarification on these questions, but that communication appears to have died out before it even started. As a result, I again find myself in the wilderness, trying to figure this all out on my own. Nothing new: I’ve been doing that since I got into this hobby and I’m used to it, but you can understand that it’s one thing to experiment with a $35 Auto World body or a $60 Aurora body, but quite another to do the same with a $250 Bauer. Therefore, I am proceeding with extreme caution.
Sometimes a seller will show you the entire car you’ll get if you buy…but not always!
These investigations have led me to the “Ultra Low,” or “UL” chassis design, introduced by Bauer sometime around November 2023 and built under the name B4Slot, the logo of Burn4Slotracing GmbH, which I understand took over from Motordrom, another German firm, in January of that same year. The relationship between B4 Slot and Bauer is a little fuzzy to me, but perhaps these details are unimportant where the rubber meets the road.
Some more recent Bauer HO’s are coming with fully detailed interiors including drivers, a good indication these cars are on the “UL” Chassis
So you probably already know this, but like most modern day slot chassis, this is a can motor design, in the idea is a low center of gravity, combined with a very flat form factor making it possible for Bauer or theoretically other companies to put interiors in their slot cars: something that would dramatically increase the enjoyment of these cars to collectors like me who grew up on high-quality diecasts with full interiors!
Image from the web showing the UL alongside an original Auora Thunderjet
Right out of the gate there’s a disadvantage in comparison to the original T-Jet in that the wheelbase is not adjustable. Bauer has anticipated this and made the chassis in four different formats. There is a short and long wheelbase version matching the original aurora T-Jet. There is an indication of an Auto World short and long wheelbase as well, showing that Bauer was proactively thinking ahead and taking Auto World owners into consideration, although I have to say that up to this point I have yet to see any of these AW formats for sale. Whether that’s because the vendors that I buy from just aren’t carrying them, or because they are planned but have not yet been put into production, is a question I cannot conclusively answer at this time.
Since the majority of bodies use a long wheelbase, that’s the format I bought, and throughout the weekend I attempted to fit it to several different bodies from several different manufacturers in my collection and found that it fit most of them very well. There were exceptions: the most disappointing one was my favorite HO slot body, the Road Race Replicas ‘65 Mustang fastback; the resistor at the front of the chassis would not clear the screw post on that design. I also tried it on a couple of the Faller bodies I have, and that, sadly, did not work out either. But all The Aurora and Model Motoring bodies I tried worked fine, and even a couple of the newer JL/AW bodies appeared to line up and mount pretty well.
Here was a configuration that did not work: the front screw post on the Road Race Replicas Mustang fastback body would not clear the resistor at the front of the UL chassis.
One complaint that I have with the design is that the installation of the guide pin was difficult: I would like to see the chassis cut with a deeper better-defined slot at the front to hold the traditional T-Jet style guide pin surface. I was able to get it to work, but the pin wanted to slide around a lot without cranking down harder on the front screw than I was comfortable with. The new Auto World combo screw/pin introduced in 2023 seemed to work significantly better.
Getting the traditional style pin in place so that it holds there is a challenge
My first runs were extremely positive as I discovered that, with the resistor upfront, the chassis is nowhere near as fast as some of the other can motor variations I’ve tried, which is a good thing! The motor runs at a speed and power level commensurate with the original Auroras, which makes them highly compatible with the original chassis. This was a delightful discovery, especially after trying the JAG Hobbies DK4, which was unusably fast!
The newer-style combo pin/screw actually worked better
On the negative side, I see a potential problem with fitting custom wheels or tires to one of these chassis. I attempted to fit a set of original Aurora tires on the stock wheels it came with with; the original tires are slightly taller in diameter than the high-quality tires that the chassis came with, and discovered that after having done so, the pick up shoes no longer made good enough contact with the rails to keep the car running reliably. I could get it to work sometimes, but as soon as it hit a low spot, it cut out. Restoring the stock Bauer tires resolved this problem.
Original T-Jet tires on the stock wheels did not go as planned
Considering that the Bauer tires are far superior to the original tires in every way, you would think this wouldn’t be much of a complaint…but what happens when you try to fit a set of Vincent or Road Race Replicas wheels and tires to this chassis? I haven’t tried that yet, but if simply changing the tires produced the results that I saw, I suspect that there are some troubles on the horizon there. Some of this may be overcome by making tweaks and adjustments to the depth of the pickup shoes, either by bending them slightly or by installing taller or stronger springs. I’ll be experimenting with some of these tricks in the future.
Right now, I only have one of these chassis, but I will soon be buying another one, one of the short wheelbase versions, so I could try that out on some of the smaller bodies and see the results. Thus, so a part two of this post is definitely coming.
For now, I come back to the issue of the Bauer slot cars themselves and wondering how viable it is to add some of these to my collection. I don’t think there’s any question that they would work fine with The Road Crew and would run around happily on the Model Motoring track with my Aurora originals and Dash Motorsports customs. What is still unresolved is whether there is any chance of adding any Bauer bodies to my Ultra-G fleet. Just because they appear to be making this new chassis to match the wheelbase of the Auto World reboot does not necessarily mean that they will be making entire cars to that specification. I know there are a small handful of them; I bought one a couple of years ago. Yet, due to the lack of guidance on which Bauer cars are made for which platforms, I am simply going to experiment with what I find and see what works. That’s liable to get expensive, so that means it will happen slowly.
A Model Motoring ’67 GTO looks just fine on the UL, but all that space on the inside just cries out for a detailed interior, doesn’t it?
So, in conclusion…
Won’t fit a Faller!
Is it cool? Yes. Is it “awesome?” Not quite; there are limitations. But it does show the promise of compatibility with the original cars in ways some of the other chassis have not. Would I buy another? Absolutely, and as I mentioned above, I plan to, and when I do there will be a follow up to this post showing what more I learned and what more I can do with it. I’m also going to be looking more aggressively for the “AW short” and “AW long” models to see what I can do with those. And I’m very enamored of the idea of a low gravity chassis clearing space for interior inserts in HO scale slot cars. That alone would make it worth the price to get used to using this platform!
All of this is fun: the experimentation, the investigation, trying out new platforms and products and new combinations, and seeing what we can create. But at the end of the day, I come to the same conclusion that I’ve come to over and over again: there’s no substitute for the original; there never has been, and I doubt there ever will be!
A demo video showing a few different bodies running the HO Highway on the Bauer UL chassis
Happy motoring, race fans, and as always: if anyone has any advice or knowledge to impart or any questions to ask, contact me!
Happy Saturday dear readers, the best day of the week is here! This cold but sunny one here in the Rockies finds your Humble Blogger where he’s happiest: in the toy room, at the controls of the Model Motoring HO Highway! As I’ve mentioned in a few recent posts, I’m shifting my focus-and my finances-away from the Auto World Ultra G racing fleets due to their prodigious size, and will race and maintain those cars – plenty of activity still, considering there are well over 200 of them! – while pursuing more of the Aurora originals. As with the last Road Crew Expansion post, this one adds a couple of nice pieces to the sports car section of The Crew; while neither of these additions are rare, I hope you’ll agree they are good additions, although I admit one of them needs something extra. To wit…
Ferrari Dino in YELLOW
I needed another yellow car on the sports car side of the crew and IMHO this is one of the best colors on the Ferrari Dino…specifically a 1966/67 206S. Now, long time readers will note this is not the first of these cars to appear in my collection, as there is one in the identical color scheme in the Ultra G racing fleet! That one, however, is a Cigar Box conversion, which provides and interesting contrast in this image of the two side by side at Drag City, where you can see the converted car’s shorter from screw post, as expected on a Cigar Box model! Of course some careful modifications with the Dremel were needed with to mount the body on the Ultra G chassis, while this latest addition remains stock right down to the wheels!
Despite having a split rear screw post-a very common affliction on this model-the screw holds fine, and otherwise the car is in excellent condition and came on a good clean running open rivet chassis that was ready to go with only one addition: a new set of tires. I decided to use a set of sticky Super Tires I’ve had sitting around forever, so it grips as good as it looks!
FLAMETHROWER Ford GT 40 in…what? I say MAROON!
So, since I added another Ferrari it only seemed right to add another Ford GT 40 so we can keep that age-old rivalry going! For a while now I’ve been wanting this body in the late-era reddish-brown, one of 2 hues that was used on the “Flamethrower” model with the working headlights. This color is a little controversial, as some call it brown while others insist its red. I’ve always used the name “Cordovan” because I remember that color name being used on penny loafers that were this color in my 1980s childhood, but for those who don’t like the “fashion industry” color names, let’s just settle on “maroon.” It’s not a “racy color,” I admit, but with the white stripe I think it looks awesome! While not exactly “hard to find,” I don’t see this color often, and I found it for sale from a dealer on the east coast as a body-only in near mint condition at a price I couldn’t turn down.
When it arrived, I mounted it on the only chassis that was right for it: one of only 2 original Aurora Flamethrower chassis I own. Sadly, unlike the one on the blue Ferrari GTO, this one is non-functional owing to the angel hair-thin wire becoming disconnected from one side of the lightbulb. This is a real bummer, as these bulbs are wires are so tiny and delicate that I do not have the means to repair them: do you know anyone with the tools or the skill to solder a wire this size without ruining it-and everything around it? If so, contact me and tell me what you charge, as I would love to restore illumination to this car! Since I do have the one working Flamethrower, it would be awesome to have a pair, especially since getting this one work would again give me “Ford VS Ferrari” with lights!
Even without the bulb working, this car looks great on both the track and lined up with the rest of the “sports job” alongside the HO Highway. I love the color and I love the way it looks, and in the tradition of The Crew, it bears no racing numbers and remains completely stock other than the addition of a pair of Jel Claws 2030’s at the rear.
All this activity with the old cars is leading to a little bit of discovery of technologies both new and old that will be compatible with the HO Highway, so stay tuned, dear readers, as I embark on some expansions of not only the car fleet but also of the track and its accessories! There’s always something new-and something old!-to see at Drag City!
Well, that last weekend was no fun! Not for your humble blogger and friends, and not for at least a million other peeps across the land! The Weather Channel has apparently named the monster that just past “Winter Storm Fern,” while NOAA/NWS just called it “the January 2026 winter storm.” I bet there a lot of other people calling it far more choice names. I shouldn’t complain; despite Colorado’s reputation for occasional spectacular blizzards, we got very little snow-not much more than a couple of inches in my neck of the woods. What we did get, though, was icy temperatures that plumbed depths not seen since X-mas of 2022!
Sunday afternoon, Sunday night
For all these reasons, I spent the whole weekend safe at home, for the most part wrapped in a flannel “union suit” (where’d that name come from? Its like Long Johns that joined the Teamsters) which was mighty comfy, so while the temps plunged and the snow blew outdoors, I was surrounded by antique electric heaters and a monster gas furnace and made the best of it, getting’ all warm and fuzzy with some music and some good food and my toys! And on top of that I even had a couple of visits from friends who braved the cold! So, what does a slot-head and die-cast collector do when trapped at home on a weekend? Here’s a few highlights!
Junkyard Pickin’s!
My buddy Patrick dropped in on me again bearing gifts: one was a cool checkered flag with a 76 logo on it that he had in his garage for years. Origin unknown, but I grew up with that orange and blue logo and remember it from my youngest days. I don’t see it anymore, although I understand that even after several ownership changes over the years (through Chevron and then Phillips) you can still find 76 stations doing business in CA (though for how much longer only the state government knows for sure!) Makes a nice wall decoration beside the “jumbo-tron” above the track!
The other item he gifted me was a big bag full of die-casts he had found sitting next to a dumpster somewhere up in his mountain environs. He had been meaning to give them to me for years but always forgot until this weekend. Unwrapping those plastic bags revealed a motley mess that needed a lot of cleaning with strong dish soap and hot water, but once the grime was removed there were a few things in there of moderate interest.
There were no fewer than 6 Mc D’s Happy Meal cars (in the past I had been led to believe these were highly collectible, but Colorado Diecast always throws them into their 50¢ bin, so, maybe not) and one of these piqued my interest in that it looked like a super-streamlined dream car from the 1930’s, like something out of a comic book. Probably another Batmobile, then, although there were no markings indicating such.
Strange ’30s style Streamliner, one of the McDonald’s Happy Meal Hot Wheels of an unknown year. Anyone know any more details about this one?
Several of these cars were beat up and junked but a few were in pretty decent condition; There were 5 or 6 Hot Wheels that were definitely worth keeping, including a decent ‘67 Camaro re-press in Hot Wheels livery and a Toyota Supra I’d never seen before, a couple of Lesney-era Matchboxes as well as several of the awful “late Universal era” cheapies, with the rest made up of the usual south Asian throw-aways.
The one car in this pile that did catch my attention was the lone Ertl casting of an ‘80 Chevy Caprice. This beat up budget 2-door had the name “Hawaiian Tropic” on the side, which rings a distant bell though I can’t say why. It was probably a NASCAR promo, but I liked the distressed look of it enough that I actually bothered to put it in an out of the way spot on the diorama, over by the storage shed near the pile of wrecked racing cars sitting alongside the abandoned French Majorette pickup truck.
I doubt I’ll leave it there for long, but it sort of looks right sitting there, like someone’s forgotten demolition derby project! So nothing earth-shattering about this-no super rare “barn find” gems here!-but on a weekend trapped indoors by the weather, fun is where you find it!
“Project Mo-Stash.”
This one is a little more interesting. In 2024 Hot Wheels released one of their more “whimsical” fantasy cars called the Mo-Stash. The looks like an open-wheeled racer from the early 19-teens, but is divided down the middle by a piece of plastic, hinged at the front, that opens out into a moustache comb. Cute, I suppose, but I never bought one…until they released a yellow, orange and brown recolor in November of ‘25. I really took a shine to the way that release was presented, and got it into my head to “improve” their design a little.
So I acquired a few of them at Wally World – more accurately, Jason acquired them for me! – and hacked the moustache comb in half, carving out the section that ran through the interior and fixing the back of it back in place with some epoxy and filler. I then salvaged a tiny steering wheel out of a destroyed Lesney Matchbox in the junkyard and carefully adhered it to the now exposed dashboard inside the cockpit, and then hand-painted one of my sitting figures to fit behind that wheel.
With a racing number change and the addition of a few old my dwindling stash of Road Race Replicas decals, I turned it into a “resto-mod” that just may be worthy of a place on the diorama as well…although exactly where I’d put it, I can’t imagine right now.
Let The Wind Howl!
With the space heaters on and wrapped in a flannel “union suit,” your HB is nice and snug at the HO Highway in the underground empire of The Toy Room!
So, as you can see, nothing too exciting here, but it was a relaxing weekend under terrible conditions where I again found myself feeling grateful for what I have. It was also the calm before the storm, as this week marks another nasty and difficult job in the field. Fortunately, the storm is over! I know a lot of you out there might still be digging out, and for me it’s back to work on another high-visibility, high pressure project, so I shall return this weekend once I have a chance to relax again and show you some more cool new additions to the Thunderjet collection! I mean, even in the deadest of winter, there’s still action at Drag City!
