I’ ve been slow to post on LALD lately because I’m getting back into the customizing game. I’m buying less cars these days but do find myself buying fantasy cars for parts. Here are three I’m currently working on. I want to make sure they’re perfect before I airbrush them......and I need to learn how to airbrush.

Like Doctor Suarez, I’m also celebrating Christmas in July. Sorry for the blurred photos and bad lighting. I’m using manual focus and can’t get it right. Need my eyes checked.

Thanks to a fellow LALDer here, I’ve developed a taste for better diecasts. I used to chase all JDM HWs released. I’ve spend tons of moola buying up old releases that I missed out on. I was obsessive with owning every variation of every japanese car. Hunting took over my life. But now that all changed. I no longer see…

I found this at Target this morning. There was also a Transformer set. At $5.99 I’m not sure I am going to keep this since I’m only interested in the Supra. I wish these were priced at $1 per car, similar to the nanofigs pricing. So, since I possibly will return this, here are pictures of the cars unopened.

I may finally purchase some Jada cars! I was browsing ebay and these popped up. Mini Fast & Furious cars! Some of you know I loathe Jada’s weird scale and refuse to buy them but, I may give these tiny cars a chance. Hopefully, these will pop up at Walmart because I would like to avoid eBay as much as possible. I’ve…

A great LaLDer had been helping me get cars for the past several months and now I finally have them in my hands. Delivery was fast but the mail person delivered my precious package to the wrong house. Thankfully, I ended up getting my package. It was delivered to the house across the street and was still sitting on…

I’ve got three. The Revell version has an opening hood so I guess I like that one the most but it’s a shame the body kit doesn’t look like the one from the movie.  And the roof is different.4

M2. The “2" stands for 2nd chance. I’ll give them a second chance and may buy from them again. Finally they are coming out with something different instead of just beating the same few JDM castings to death. I’ll have to wait and see if the quality control issues are still the same.

My collection of Johnny Lightning Import Heat. Had I been collecting since the late 90s and early 00's I would have pretty every ricey Johnny Lightning, Revell, Racing Champions/Ertl and Modifiers by now. I’m still missing a few from this particular release.

Well.....this was an interesting choice of packaging.

I almost didn’t get this car. The whole time waiting in line in front of the HW vending van, I was so nervous that they would run out by the time it was my turn. I can heave a sigh of relief now. I apologize in advance if any photos got kinja’ed. You know the drill....just click on it and it’ll open up facing the…

I found these at a hobby store. The employee said someone sold their collection because his basement got flooded a long time ago. The film of dirt on the blisters indicate that these were flooded once but, the cars and cardboard do not look like they’ve ever been submerged. I didn’t clean the cars. They came straight…

I got this MR2 in the mail today. I had to get it because you don’t see too many of these third gen MR2 in 1/64 scale. And no, the humongous Jada junk version doesn’t count.

I’ve been looking for the new 2019 MBX moving parts NYC Crown Vic police car with no luck. However, I found a way better one today at a hobby store and it was only $2!

Someone needs to make and orange F&F Supra using the Super Tsunami/Power Pro! I give this seller props! Good use of paint markers

I like to get the most for my money. That’s why I got the Wendy’s 4 for $4 meal for lunch. And I got these cars at a hobby store for $1 each during lunch!

I’ve lost count of how many M2's I’ve seen in store with broken or misaligned parts.  In my opinion M2 has the worse quality control. Out of 6 Advan Haulers, only one was acceptable. But, I wanted to get one for my Advan cars.   My only complaint, other than quality and price, is that the truck is not a Japanese…

dek34 helped me buy a lot of things and they all arrived today. He is like my diecast broker. And because of him, I am broke...er.

I work near downtown Dallas. Outside my office building is a train station. On the other side of the tracks are multi-million dollar mansions. This enclave is named Highland Park and ranked 4th most affluent areas in Dallas.....but you couldn’t pay me to live there. They call this place “The Bubble” and it’s where the…

I took a 30 minute detour on the way home. 30 minutes because traffic was so bad and I took a wrong exit.