Bill's Junk (Page 9 of 10)

This 1/24 scratchbuilt car was one of the cars from Norton Gaston's collection. Norton's father, Jerry Gaston, worked for Cox with another engineer designing and building slot cars. As I have been going through the collection I have been looking for scratchbuilt cars that may have some early chassis designs that became production cars. One thing I noticed was the drop arm on this particular car. A rubber band is used to "spring load" the movement of the drop arm and guide flag. This is similar to the design of the La Cucaracha and Chaparral 2E chassis. I have no way of verifying this, and there's no way to know which came first, the Cox production cars or this scratchbuilt. Nevertheless, this one is very nicely detailed and extremely cool!

At one time this one was probably a very nice 1/24 Ford GT40. It's still not too bad, a little dirty, and needs some re-assembly. It looks like it was someone's favorite and raced quite a bit.

This is a 1/24 Chaparral 2G model car body mounted on a Cox Chaparral magnesium chassis. This car was part of the "Goose" collection and unfortunately I have no idea who built it. It is however very nicely done!

I believe this is a Can Am Lola model car body and was built by the same person that built the Chaparral 2G in the previous pictures. This body is also mounted on a Cox magnesium chassis. It is also very well done!

1/24 factory painted Lola T70 vintage clear body. I believe this is one of the bodies from a Monogram slot car kit.

This looks like a Daytona Cobra Coupe body that would have come in the same Monogram slot car kit as the previously pictured Lola T70. The kits offered the builder a choice of two factory painted bodies.

This is just a nicely painted Pontiac GTO vintage clear body.

This brings us to the bottom shelf of the display case. Where most of the 1/24 scale F1 cars live. This first car is an early attempt at transforming a battery powered model car into a slot car. My original thought was maybe some day I'll complete the job. In reality I may never get there. But I think its cool anyway! It was customized from a Strombecker motorized Mercedes Benz model.

In addition to slot cars, quite a few years ago I started collecting Pine Wood Derby cars. Since then they have also gotten pretty expensive (evidently I am not the only one collecting them). This is one of the nicer ones I found before the became valuable! It is an older build, judging by the early wheels. It was very nicely done!

Everybody that has old slot cars has at least one of these Cox controllers! This is the only one I have that is still new in the box!

I like F1 slot cars....a lot! I like the way this Eagle was detailed and painted. Maybe not really accurate, but the boy in me says cool!

This Cox Lotus is pretty rough. Maybe someday it will undergo restoration?

This Cox BRM is pretty nice!

A Russkit Ferrari F1. The body is injection molded, not clear plastic.

This Atlas Cooper, like many of the cars in my F1 collection, came from my friend Dick Gehrke. Dick kept very good care of them through the years!

This is a vintage MINRA trophy I found somewhere. Another one of those DKWW (don't know where or when) deals.....

Cox BRM F1, original and complete.

Honda F1 in 1/24.

Revell 1/24 F1. These cars were also produced in the Ed Roth monster versions.

Strombecker 1/24 Maserati F1.

Customized Lotus body on a Cox F1 chassis?

Monogram Lotus F1 in 1/24. This one needs some work!

I don't remember for sure (old guy issue), but I think this may be one of Hal Tacker's paint jobs on this clear body. It is mounted on a Dynamic chassis. One thing for sure, it is definitely cool!

Daytona Cobra GT Coupe mounted on a Testors chassis.

This is an original Revell Lola T70 with a factory paint job.

This appears to be a factory paint clear body shell mounted on a Gar Vic chassis.

This is another slot car I have had many of through the years. However this was the first that was original and complete. Most were broken or cut up.

These 1/24 Revell Cooper Fords are hard to find in this condition. It took me a few years to find one this complete, and this nice!

A 1/24 Revell Ferrari GTO. A pretty nice original car.

This is a very nicely painted and detailed 1/24 Revell AC Cobra.

Monogram Daytona Cobra GT Coupe in 1/24.

These are all the cars currently in my display case. That is up until today anyway. After making some repairs to the case, I now have to load all the cars back in....Things may change......a little.......

Thought maybe I'd give you guys that are interested an update as to what's been going on around here. As most of you know Diane and I made a trip back to Marietta Georgia to visit my Mom. Da passed away last November and there was a lot of stuff she wanted me to take home. Actually there was way more than I was able to load into Diane's Bronco Sport!

We decided to take Scooter with us on this trip. Scooter is the little ornery one with three feet. We had to have our bigger dog (the bigger brown, nice one) put to sleep due to cancer. We spent six days on the drive to Marietta. Scooter actually did really well, even staying in the motels. He seemed to like the road! Nothing really exciting happened on the drive there, just the usual stupid drivers here and there. I guess most all the states have their own.

While we were at Mom's I went through Dad's stuff. He had a lot of stuff (must be where I get it), though most of it was not stuff I am really interested in. Lots of HAM radio stuff and diecast cars of all sorts. We spent almost two weeks with Mom. As usual I ate some of the best food I have ever had! If I lived in Georgia I would weight about 400 pounds!

After the Bronco was loaded we headed out for home. When I say l "loaded", I mean LOADED! I had to stop loading because I could not fit ANYTHING else into the car! I mean I left some coats behind because I could not wad them up into any spot in the car. From Mom's we drove up to Pennsylvania to see my son John, his wife Chrissi, my grandson Grayson, and my granddaughter Lilly. The drive back home was a pain in the ass! We came across through the northern states, which I will NEVER do again! Toll road after toll road, and all kinds of construction! But we did see a lot of country we hadn't seen before.

Once we got home the Bronco got unloaded and the track got covered......A big thanks to Kirk Smith for helping me unload, and then taking all the HAM radio stuff to a swap meet and selling it for me. My next task was finding a place for 1/24 diecast cars....lucky for me I talked Bob Nakamura into buying all the 1/24 NASCAR diecast! Sometimes you just gotta make 'em a deal they can't refuse! There were about 30 of them in total! I kept the 40 or so Danbury Mint 1/24 diecast, which meant I had to reorganize my displace cases.....again! I added four more shelves to my tall case and then moved slot cars around to make room.

The entire bottom of this case is now Danbury Mint diescast cars. If anybody is interested I would probably be willing to sell some.