Friday, April 19, 2024
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 | Javier (152) |  |
| Hello, I started my collection of die-cast model cars back in 1988 in Miami Florida on a trip to visit my father and siblings in a local suburb called Coral Gables Florida. I remember the day very well because it was the first time I was able to talk my father into leaving work to take me to a hobby store that was about two to three blocks from my fathers busy Auto Shop. I was so excited that the minutes seemed like hours, my mind was made up and I was going to get the latest and greatest R/C car of which I knew not which one just yet. All I knew is that it had to be fast and it had to be a cool car like a Ferrari or something as I had been watching F1 with my father and Indy since I was a small boy. We would all get ready in the afternoon to go out with my father and the family but first we had to shower and get dressed up in slacks and a polo shirt, hey it was 1980..... So I was five at the time and my pops would turn on the TV and it would be a diet of racing, racing, and more racing in open wheel only. While my stepmother was getting ready which took about two hours, you know women, my car passion was born. So i am in the car with my father and he is asking me what I wanted when we got to the hobby shop, in my mind i am thinking that he had been hearing me all week ask him for a trip to the shop so I can drive my first car. Kinda cute when I look back on it now because 9I was a pot belly awkward little 13 year old trying to score a cool toy. So we get to the shop and all I can see hanging on the shelves and from the roof behind the counter are extremely expensive petrol powered big boy R/C cars. My initial internal feeling was that there was no way my father at that time was going to buy me a $150.00 R/C car so I might as well just go right back to the car. Well my father saw my face frown and he told me that he could not buy me a model of this magnitude or power because it would just be to much for me to handle considering I had never even had a battery powered one before. I agreed and honestly was not even upset but more hurt that that is all they had and nothing for beginners. My father, being the best dad that he is told me that we would go to Linoel Play World which was the Toys R Us of the 80's in southern Florida at that time. I decided to look around for a second and then I saw it, it was red, looked just like one of my good friends posters he had on his wall, it was beautiful and big, not like a match box and it had detail, boy did it have detail. It was the F40 by Bburago and next to it was the Lamborghini Countach in red. To this day I still have both models and they are in mint condition. They have been the starting point and the focus of my collection for over 22 years now. I cannot believe it but they have been with me since that day and I have not looked back. My partial collection http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr359/ludicris007/Ferrari%20250%20GTO%20Modification%20Pictures/ My Photos of 1/1 Ferrari's I have personally seen http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr359/ludicris007/Ferrari%20Pictures/ and http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr359/ludicris007/Ferrari%201995-2009%20Pictures/ |
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