Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
Hotrodpaint your post jogged my memory on the size - I remember the Big T at the hobby shop (the owner probably bought it thinking I would buy it for sure!!) but I was also into the 24th scale size and the 1:8 was just too big, plus none of my "stash" of left over parts could be used My modeling days ended when the hobby shop mysteriously burned to the ground one night with about a dozen of my best creations in a display case and the shop owner had disappeared, supposedly leaving on an unplanned vacation a few hours before the fire....
Probably one of them "friction fires"---you know, where the insurance policy papers rub against the mortgage papers creating excessive friction, heat, and eventually a fire.... happens often in biznezz!!!!!!!!