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13 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

That's not something ya hear everyday.  What happened?

Well... 

I keep my TA (Raven) covered in my brother-in-law's barn. He keeps a .22 rifle in the barn (so he doesn't have to go back to the house) to shoot unwanted varmints that prey on the chickens. For safety, he keeps the ammo in a separate location than the rifle, in case a grandkid comes across it, it is always unloaded. Anyway... a couple of fat squirrels (he loves to cook up squirrel) were in a tree by the barn, He loaded up the rifle and had the safety on. He doesn't know exactly how it happened, but as he took the safety off, in the same motion, his finger must have slipped to the trigger at the same time, and it fired. He was bringing the gun around when it went off, and at that moment it was obviously pointed at Raven's passenger side window. You know in movies, when the good guys and the bad guys get into shoot outs in cars and the bullets make holes in the windows?... um, no. That window shattered into 20 million pieces all over the interior! I used a roll of quarters vacuuming out all that glass at the car wash, and I am still finding pieces.

My brother-in-law felt REALLY bad. I told him please don't worry about it, you let me take up space in your barn with Raven that you could use for farm stuff and you don't charge me a cent! I am so thankful it didn't go off pointed at your foot or, heaven forbid, someone else... the window can be replaced.

Decided to dip my toe into a new hobby... slot car drag racing! There is a hobby shop a couple of towns over from where I live that has a scale 1/8 mile slot car drag strip. There are a dozen or so hard core racers that race there each weekend... real nice guys (and gals!). I watched them race and they were kind enough to let me try some of the cars, decided I had to build one. There is no kit, you just buy a model car kit (for the body and decals), a bunch of parts and solder and glue it together. It went together pretty good (except for a few bad words and the time I wanted to throw it across the room, lol!). It ran ok, but I kept throwing the pinion gear until one of the guys showed me how to properly solder it on the motor shaft.

Anyway... here are some pics of the build, it is a Pontiac of course! If any of you all are into slot cars, please feel free to post them on this thread.

You may have a unicorn there, with the two-tone paint trim option and monotone paint.

We like pictures at FP.

I took my 1981 TA "Raven" to our first car show this summer. Seems like something has come up every weekend this summer and haven't been able to attend any shows.

This is a show was in Middletown VA . They have it once a year, main street is closed from one end of town to the other, and the show cars are parked on both sides of the street... had to be over 200 cars.

Anyway... I took a ton of pictures and created a slide show of many of the cars. Raven is the first car, then all the Pontiacs, then the rest in no particular order.

btw... The white 1970 GTO Judge had a twin turbo RA V motor. I wasn't able to talk to the owner, but at the very least they are RA V heads, you can tell by the location of the exhaust ports in the picture of the engine.

https://app.photobucket.com/u/us_strat/a/2071723f-f20a-4730-9740-fb6097f5b8ac?mode=slideshow

Thought I would start this thread for the folks out there in Forever Pontiac Land who build models. We all love pictures here at FP, so post 'em if you build 'em!

Two years ago I got back into making models after a 40 year hiatus. I'm not very fast and am easily distracted, so I have only built four models in two years, lol.

This is my latest build... It is a Cessna A-37B Dragonfly from the Vietnam war. It is painted in the colors and markings of a VNAF Dragonfly of the 520th fighter squadron at Binh Thuy during 1970.