HFS! Anyone else into nostalgia or AFX cars?

My dad was an old racer from the 60's, campaining a 56 210 gasser and his "project" 56 Nomad was also an old gasser. He has also had a 40 Chevy coupe, 40 Studebaker and some other stuff...

Me, I haven't owned any of the above mentioned stuff in 1:1 but since I was about 10, I built models of every concievable drag car and custom you can think of, down to a scale recreation I gave as a gift to Bob Harrop(one of the 6 factory AWB owners for 65 from Dodge)of his "Flying Carpet" hemi coronet...

Needless to say, I love nostalgia drag cars and have had a burning desire to build a SD 421 Pontiac clone...

Screw the clone... HERE'S the real deal, unrestored as found in a garage. Now on Fleabay...





http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-Le-Mans-TEMPEST-63-PONTIAC-LeMANS-TEMPEST-1-4-MILE-CAR-W-O-MOTOR-TRANS_W0QQitemZ110306170567QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item110306170567&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A727%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Awwww I thought this thread was going to be about Aurora AFX HO slot cars.....

Wow, just a little on the expensive side for me. Cool piece of history though!

This was almost as exciting as the World Series... Was watching it end at work with 18 other guys who could give a shit less about cars. They all SHIT when it jumped from 92XXX.XX with 5 seconds to go to this:

wow! I'll bet that seller is pretty happy right now, assuming he actually gets the money.

From what I understand, the car is already paid for and on it's way to this guy:

http://www.yearone.com/leader_ads/tieman.html

He does some HIGH dollar resto's and restored the other SD Lemans, the SD Lemans wagon and countless other SD Catalina's