Car show on my layout (good excuse for lots od diecast cars)

Hi Lee, Really like the car show. The missile base is looking good.

 

You could add a Pierce-Arrow and matching travelodge trailer.  The owner sitting next to it on a lawn chair in a bright hawaiian shirt. 

Good way of integrating Dirk Pitt into a layout.

 

Nick

I like it Lee. The ability to change scenes at a whim is a great way to add variety. Looks very nice!  Terry

you may want to advertise the car show a little better next time and up the attendance!

 

Being an old drag racer I like it.  It is reminiscent of a time while at Myrtle Beach there was a car/hot rod show there in a large grassed area.

 

If I ever get a standing layout again one of the shops on the main drag will be the speed shop ,in his name, where I bought many of my engine speed components.  I will have Rods parked there and occasionally block off the street for a show with customs, rods and rails.

I built Lucas Doolin's shop for much the same sentiments - it is actually right off to the left of this car show - you can see it in the upper left of the photo with the rocket base pallet in place. There are some photos below.  I put a small blue LED under the green '49  Ford coupe in the background with a "welding" flicker circuit (video below).  I am particularly proud of the half-set of headers (the other being, presumably, being welded on on the ground and a dual exhaust set next to the car - scratch made.

I always appreciate a good car show (I guess that's why I am at them every Sunday during the summer, rather than working on the layout). Thanks for sharing!

Lots if fun Lee. Thanks for posting.

Side-bar: don't you have two versions of the UP H7? How about a side-by-side review?

very nice, I had a car dealership  in ho scale years ago, and a drive in theater on the same layout.  I like cars and trucks as well and sometimes overkill the layout with them 

That must be a pretty affluent neighborhood. The Ferrari in the middle has got to be worth close to a million, if not more, and some of the others are pretty rare too. Nice that your townspeople have that kind of bucks! 

 

Car shows and trains go great together.I try to never miss the August car show at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Dan

A car show! Yay! No parts tables! Boo!

That welder needs a leather blanket, or You need some digital swearing sounds for your speed shop. Ever weld exhaust overhead while laying down? The sparks and red hot slag fall right on you...ouch! For the record I started to shut my eyes when the video started flashing. Seems that the thought of welding combined with a flashing light is still enough to trigger my "save the eyes" reflex...wait..OK, that's better. 

Good stuff, Lee.  I notice that Miss Veranda made it to the car show.  She gets around!

Yes, my little town is amazingly well fitted out with cars: for every rusty, twenty-year old workaday sedan there must be five or six sleek sports cars or exotic low-production luxury coupes.  The time period is supposed to be mid '50s and most of those cars are from that period, such as the white special-production C. B. Thomas Chrysler, one of my very favorite cars from the '50s.

 

The Ferrari on the platform is a Targa Floria entry from that period and would have been worth about $5 million equivalent in today's money.  The other Ferrari (its difficult to see in the photos - it's the rightmost of the three in the center in the first photo) is the street version of the 375 coupe that won the '54 Carrera Pan America and probably the fastest "production" car in the world back then - "list" price about $1 million equivalent today.  But the red car between the two Ferrari's would probably have been both the most valuable car in the show and the one regarded as most exotic, back then: an Alfa Disco Volante.