ORAT: Meet the Trail Hoppers
Inspired by others stories of off road adventure, the Trail Hoppers started planning their spring adventures. Over the past couple weeks they’ve been frequenting the local parts store to tune everything up.
The Packard from Malaysia
After reading Bttfdmc1984's story of the 34 Packards, I had to see if the one I had in storage was a match.
Concours d'Diecast Lemons | Extras
These Junkers didn’t even get the lemon award.
Concourse d'diecast Lemons | The Good Ol' Boy
I had this one in storage for a while now. You can see the original orange paint. The horn still plays ‘dixie’ and it will move on its own power (but not like it used to). An original from the show.
LaLD Car Week: Free for all Friday | Combat Medic
I love the art/graphics used on many of the delivery vehicles. I like the old boxy look of the Letter Getter/Combat Medic. This is my collecting focus, any time I see a pile of cars I’m scanning to see if any of these gems are hiding in there. I had several to choose from and decided to go with the bright orange…
LaLD Car Week - Thursday on the Thames | Land Rover
So I tried something new with the background. Not sure if it’s too busy or not. It was the first British car I came across so it the choice for today’s entry. This is a HW Range Rover. The cast is from 1990-99 and this version is from 1996.
LaLD Car Week: Wacky Wednesday | Red Baron
I know Enginerrrrrrrrr put one in for yesterday, but this is my entry for Wacky Wednesday. Y’all already got the history lesson behind the design. I’ll point out that this is the 77 version. In 73 the spectraflame paint went by by and the red enamel became the standard. In 74 the nub on the helmet was smaller, and…
LaLD Car Week: Teutonic Tuesday | Sweet Super
It was a hard choice to pick an entry for today. I knew it would be a VW, but I have so many (I also found I have more BMWs and Mercedes than I knew.) As I looked over the choices I had to choose, Golf, Caddy, Bus, Beetle, New Beetle, Baja, or Dune Buggy. I decided air cooled classic would be the way to go. I put…
The One and Only | Lexus SC400
Did you know that this casting is the ONLY casting HW has ever done of a Lexus? While searching for a good entry for LaLD Car Week, I found this (and it’s metallic burgundy twin) in storage. Took some photos of the purple one before deciding to go with a different entry. First hitting the market in 1993 in metallic…
LaLD Car Week: 'Murica Monday | Bywayman (Silverado)
If its a skyjacked 4x4 Chevy truck you can’t get much more ‘Murican than that.
HWEP Thanks!
Thanks to CyborgAbeLincoln - now with added V8 for the nice little trucks. My first car was a 74 Super Beetle, from there many VW’s were went through my possession. Never had a Caddy, but looked at a yellow one with a white cap once. Love this little truck, have several of the red ones, now an orange one, just need…
LaLD Car Week: Land of the Rising Sunday - Isuzu Rodeo
I know it’s late for Sunday, but I already took the pics so figured I would post them anyway. If it doesn’t qualify that’s ok.
I wanted to go with something a bit different so I pulled this one out of storage. As you can see the rims are so shiny they are picking up the orange phone (gotta find a way to keep that from…
Focus Friday
Obviously we all collect, but what is your focus?