Race Card #73-'Ball's and Smokey's Tin Indian

[LUKE'57]

While I'm sure the new kit will be much more detailed as a road car I'll bet it won't be any more detailed as a race car than this one my friend built way back when. It even has Smokey's signature X-shaped roll cage.

This car not only survived my friend's childhood but also a divorce auction that saw the sale of my collection of dirt cars go for $2 each. It was one of about a dozen of his older stock cars I had on display in my shop. Since they were on loan to me she had to bring them back(Oh did she hate that!) and they served as the nucleous of my present day collection of vintage stock cars.

 

[Jmac]

 

[Eagle1]

Hey Luke, are you putting all these pictures and stories on a web site? If you're not you really should be, this is a magnificent collection of pictures and stories and I'll bet many many more people would be interested in seeing them. If you don't have a site to host them, you know maybe TonyB would be interested in adding them to his site. He has a great site with lots of visitors everyday. Hope I'm not over stepping here to either you or TonyB, just a thought I had.

 

[LUKE'57]

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you are enjoying the "ride". My son has an e-magazine that has been somewhat neglected for the past year or so that we are about ready to start reworking. I have a column on it that I will be doing something like this on in the very near future. I'm also offering a picture CD of this and other projects of mine with over 2000 images on in a limited edition set of 150 signed and numbered discs that I still have a few left on. I'm shooting all new pics for an all new card set especially for it along with the other pics.