Billy Kingsley

Oops, posted the wrong picture. Don't know if I can edit on the phone when a picture is involved.

My brother got me three new display cases for my model builds... something I desperately needed. As it turns out I only filled one and a half of them, but I finished 166 this year so if I keep that pace I'll need more by next year. As you can tell, NASCAR is my main building focus.

I've bought from a vendor using a hearse in the past...it was a little weird. I also do Find a Grave and think it would be fun to get a hearse for those outings. Guaranteed you wouldn't be bothered! NASCAR driver Tony Stewart was known to use a hearse as his daily driver for a while. Might still, I don't know.

I have a light up car in my display this year

People (meaning drivers) seem to be getting dumber all the time. It seems like certain road configurations lead to higher degrees of stupidity. There are a couple of places here in the Hudson Valley where it's single lane, opens up to two lanes for a few hundred feet before merging back to one lane and both are in a high traffic area. I can't remember the last time I didn't see something stupid at those places. With that said, I am continually surprised by how many old cars I see driving around in Manhattan. I don't go there very often, but literally every time I've ever gone there I've seen at least one old car, usually more than one. New York City seems like the least likely place to see old cars driving around but they are there. The most surprising NYC car spotting to me was a factory stock 59 Cadillac on the Taconic heading into the Bronx as we were leaving.

A bit outside the usual realm of this forum, but I believe my lifelong love of everything automotive started on Christmas day 1985. I was a year and two months old, and I believe that's when I got my first 1/64 diecast cars, a Chevette no less. The obsession has been going strong and shows no sign of ever abating. It has literally shaped every day of my life, even when I was in the hospital struggling to survive, which I obviously did, I could see the major road from my bed and spent quite a bit of time just watching the cars.

I was born in 1984 and there are several vehicles I want from that year, starting with a Chevrolet El Camino. The oldest car I've ever been in is a 1913 Model T. My great grandfather was 13 when it was built, or possibly 12 depending on when it was actually built. Hard to fathom.

My brother's first car was a Kcar. A Horizon replaced it. He'll never buy another Chrysler product ever again because of them.

Although not directly tied to this, I visited the Museum of American Armor on Long Island on Sunday and expect to post the photos to Facebook later today. I will put a thread in the Museums section here as well.

Congratulations!

Although I'm sure it helped for rain, the real thing it was trying to stop was what came out of the horse pulling the wagon. Riding shotgun means riding in the front passenger seat. That comes from the days of stagecoaches who employed men to sit next to the driver as a guard weilding a shotgun.

My dad made the mail trucks happen, or at least it seemed it to me. He worked for the USPS and could do body work or mechanical. He also drag raced school busses at Englishtown

I let my subscription run out and didn't renew, it seemed to be the same thing every month. It was also too technical for my taste, for instance I don't care about the gear ratio in some car I'm never even going to sit in let alone own. The design is what matters to me and the actual construction process. I dropped Hemming muscle machines when they were clueless about the Plymouth Superbird racing in NASCAR. It was created specifically for NASCAR and for them to not know that, and make like it was made for drag racing and anything else was not normal, well, I knew right then and there that there was no real point to reading the articles if there was nothing I could trust. This forum has replaced Hemmings Classic Car as my go to when I want to read about old cars. But, this is better because I can ask questions and most of the time even get an answer, unlike the one way format of just reading. Currently the only magazine I actually read is Archaeology. I need to resubscribe to a few others but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Very sorry for your loss

Great to see a Studebaker wagon getting restored! And a low end model at that. Looking forward very much to see future progress.

It really just has to exist. I just love vehicles that can move under their own power. (Or could at one point). And not just cars and trucks, although clearly my favorite, I also read about ships, planes, trains, anything. I've just been addicted to everything automotive my entire life. It started at Christmas 1985 at 14 months old when I was given a 1/64 Chevette of all things. I've been addicted ever since. Always will be. I have no idea why cars resonated so much with me but I can't remember a day where I didn't think about cars. Even the time I've spent in the hospital was spent watching the cars out the window. It doesn't have to be old cars. I get just as much enjoyment walking around a dealer lot as I do a cruise in. Well, maybe not as much since there's more variety at a cruise in but I still take every opportunity I can to visit one. I've set my sights on photographing as many different brands as possible. My health doesn't allow me to drive or work on cars so I've tried to photograph as many as possible. I've shot more than 200 brands already even though I have mobility issues and for most of my life only did two shows a year (Rhinebeck for stock, Adirondack Nationals for custom) and usually can only do 45 minutes to an hour before I can't physically walk anymore. My favorite era is the 50s cars. The designs are all so unique, the colors are bright and interesting, the plentiful chrome, the fins, there's not a single 1950s car I don't love from any manufacturer. I also can identify them all easily, that's the decade with the most distinctive looks. I also love the big square bodied cars of the 20s although I can't identify most of them from a distance as they all pretty much look alike, but that's no problem. I love the 70s and 80s cars because that's what I grew up with. They remind me of when I was young, when I was healthy and all my family was still alive and healthy. I don't know why I've fixated on the El Camino. It's been my favorite model since I was in junior high which was ten years after the last one was made. That's when I really took notice of it. When the 80s cars were new I didn't pay much attention, which I now regret immensely. I'm also a huge fan of Edsels and again I have no idea why. I just love to see them.

I am absolutely stealing that image for reposting

This thread has gifted me a better build to my vocabulary. 😁 Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Sad news. I wasn't aware of him but sounds like a good guy.

No, but I'm not able to drive automatics either. Lousy health including not being able to see well enough to drive.

Yup that doesn't surprise me at all. I've seen cars on the lake when there was open water, not a great idea.

I was watching dive videos on Lake George NY and there is a stripped out 80s wagon down there for some reason. Missing doors, hood, grill, engine. There is also an airplane without wings. Suspect they were put there on purpose since they couldn't have gotten there on their own. I've seen two news stories in the past month about several missing persons cases being solved by finding the car with the people still in it at the bottom of rivers.

There's a trick to get around that. I don't remember the exact details but if I recall correctly you put the address of the post office and your box is suite number. Have had to do this a couple of times from clueless sellers who don't trust po boxes for some brainless reason. Have had the same Po box address since 1995.

I don't have an orphan car but this is one of my favorite threads I've read since joining this forum. I love the obscure and oddball stuff and have made it a lifelong quest to see and photograph as many different brands as possible. I'm at over 200 brands already despite only shooting pictures since 2003. There are several posted here in this thread that I've not only never seen in person, I didn't even know existed! Just wanted to share my appreciation.

Probably been posted before but still funny