Like Hotrodpaint I built with a vengeance starting around 10 or so, and even got into scratch building a bit. Lived in a little town of around 1200 people, and every nickel I got went to the local hobby shop. After a while the guy who owned the shop asked if he could display some of my work, so I carried all of my best cars down and he put them in his display case. About three weeks later I awoke to the aroma of smoke, rode down town and found that the hobby shop was burned to the ground, and learned later in the day that the shop owner had not been seen, and that his car had disappeared, too. Rumor was that the fire wasn't accidental, but regardless my modeling bug burned up with that building. Built a few Cobra's about 20 years ago including one in a 1:16 scale, but it never stuck as a new hobby. I actually have a '32 Ford Sedan Revel kit that one of the boys bought me for last year's birthday, and have thought of cutting it apart to model a phantom woody idea that's been bouncing around in my head, but so far it just sits there....