"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
11/19/2014 at 15:58 • Filed to: parent's house
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
11/19/2014 at 15:58 • Filed to: parent's house | 1
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Earlier I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I received from mom. She took me to the basement and pointed to some boxes and said to take my stuff home to my house and out of hers. There was considerable interest on here about the Testor's 917k model that sat on a closet shelf from 1990 when I got it until today. I decided to open it up and look at it's condition. Here is the photo documentation.
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The box had always been unwrapped and had been opened before but everything was undisturbed and had never been separated form any of the frames. This is the entire contents. Original bags. 4 rubber tires.
The instructions are amazing and thorough. They are so thorough I feel confident now that I can build an entire Flat-12 mechanically injected endurance engine on a card table.
One thing i was very surprised about, is the aluminum tubular space frame and the frame all of those little parts are attached to. It is in mint condition and not a single piece of thin fragile plastic was bent or separated.
The rest of the pieces are just gorgeous in themselves, not because of the fact it's an older undamaged model, but because it's just like examining a real 917 in person. the body work and the small perfectly detailed engineering pieces. The purpose of the Testors kits was to produce exact replicas for the bookshelf or competition diorama display.
The decal sheet. I was worried about this. Given storage and temperature and humidity, decal sheets can become browned or curled up or warped or the worst of all, brittle. So using them could be a problem. I was relieved when I pulled these out and they looked almost fresh. I could see some age, just a slight perception of it, but I think those of you, in to models, reading this can tell more than I can about their condition. I would have no problem using them for this car.
Apply to these positions indicated on the back of the instructions.
I became enamored with this car from a book in my public library. Don't forget, at this time it was in the 80's. Internet did not exist on ANY level. If I wanted to know about a car, I had to take a trip to the library down town and look for that information. There was limited info on such things beyond NASCAR or how to fix your truck. In fact, during high school when I asked some of these guys, who were talking about their 350 v8 engined cars, how a turbo would be a good idea, they looked at me like i had boogers in my ears and proclaimed that XX cam and XX headers and XX carb, "seven-fifty-Holley!" was the best thing. We all knew that Porsche made great cars and fast cars and Lamborghini's countach was the greatest car ever made because Cannonball Run, and the Ferrari F-40 was a dragon on crack, but for attainable cars, domestic muscle cars was the only answer and domestic knowlege base was the only way forward.
My library showed me otherwise. I got this car, never built it, and got out of that town before some girl proclaimed we should go to the mall and look at rings. I'm so glad I didn't get a truck with a 350 small block and 750 Holley carb and a line-dancing girlfriend that drove a red Pontiac Grand-Prix because it's a sports car.
More posts a-comin' on my boxed youth.
Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
> Grindintosecond
11/19/2014 at 16:13 |
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Man, I grew up in the 80's. I remember AD&D and plastic model cars like yesterday. Shopping for a new model was like shopping for a bottle of wine.
TxBrumski
> Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
11/19/2014 at 16:39 |
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I have never heard an analogy so spot-on.
AutoSavant
> Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
11/19/2014 at 16:46 |
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I have a bunch in the attic. Including some die cast ones. I need to get them down and build one for fun.