Show and Tell Picture Thread - Trinkets Knick-Knacks Curios

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Lol, that too.

It's Jack Baldwin's car from the Trans-Am Series, he got Hot Wheels as a sponsor and they made a toy version and the nicer one from the 100% line. So Hot Wheels is the brand of miniature, Chevy is the brand of car, although I'm pretty sure AER, or Riley and Scott, or Pratt Miller (or similar) are the actual builder of the car.

Trans-Am cars are like NASCAR stock cars, they're a silhouette car, not based on a production chassis.

Revell made a model kit of it too.

I played with all my Matchbox and Hot Wheels.
Lost one in a sand pile once.It was awful.
They definitely weren’t mint like those.

Yeah, some of those have details like tow hooks. A tow hook in 1:64 is less than a millimetre wide and maybe 2 long. I don't think they'd survive the trip over to the sandbox, let alone playing in the sandbox.

you live and learn.

I used to love the Trans-AM game on the spectrum. I think the first Trans-AM I saw IRL was in Philadelphia ( I think I have a photo, BRB ). I thought it was great photo but my memory is clearly s**t

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I have a collection of banknotes and my favourite was always a US $2 dollar bill which I think I've lost but while searching for the Trans-Am photo I found these.

I've won two raffles in my life, the first time I won a mountain bike, the second time I won a Zanzibarian painting of Mnazi Mmoja Hospital on Valentines Day.

That poor woman and man named USA and Mud.What were their parents thinking.
Cool art.
I have some old money, maybe I’ll dig it out and show and tell.Years back someone ripped me off and stole a old German banknote , old WW2 pound note and a new note from the Bahamas which was beautiful with colored fish.
I know who did it.BG.Little s**t.

^ Maybe they are abbreviations? Imagine all the 'your name is mud' jokes if they are not abbreviations.

I'm a multimillionaire as I have a 20 million marks Reichsbank note

I hope you had some revenge on the little s**t.

I think mine was a 20,000 note.I can’t remember the date on it.Old pre WW2.
I’m sure something ill happened to him later on.Not that I had anything to do with it.People like that usually rip the wrong person off and come to a bad end.
We can always hope.

Ah, I was talking about the other Trans-Am, the one the car, and the old Challenger TA, and BF Goodrich TA tires are all named after; the Trans Am Series (formerly SCCA Trans-Am, formerly SCCA Trans-American Sedan Challenge).

Trans-Am was a racing series in the US (and sometimes Canada). It started with Group 2 touring cars under 5000ccs, mostly Camaros, Mustangs and the odd Cuda in the main class and Datsuns, Alfas and V-Dubs in the under 2500cc class.

Gradually as NASCAR builders became more heavily involved the cars started to develop more along those lines.

Ironically, the Pontiac Trans-Am wasn't a big competitor in the Trans-Am series. Then again, the Buick Grand National was never eligible for the Grand National series either.

^ Ha, good job I'm used to this type of miscommunication bollox Thanks for the info.

My guess is the vampire killing kit is resting on an open copy of Vampyres. Lord Byron to Count Dracula by Christopher Frayling.

^ That's the book, although it's a different edition with a different cover.

The vampire kit lives on the vampire section of my bookshelf but I thought an open book would make a more pleasing backdrop.

I didn't make the kit, although I do make miniature things. I made two little velvet-lined coffins in the same(ish) scale to fit playmobil inside. I can't believe you made your own vampire slaying kit, that is so cool (and a creative thing to sell, too)!

Isabella, your family log books are so special. How cool to be able to chart where they went and who they were with - what they ate, even! What a precious thing to have, and to know that you spent the start of your life like that, too. Are you one of those people who feels the call of the sea? My mum has a diary she kept when I was a baby. I remember she let me read some of it when I was little, but I'm sure it would mean a lot more now to be able to read it and relate to her as an adult. The only bits I remember are things like 'Rachel got up and crawled today', but now I'd be much more interested in how she was feeling.

Misslizard, I LOVE the cabinet of curiosities. It reminds me of one of my favourite shops in Edinburgh where they have fossils and stones in big wooden cabinets just like that. I'd love to find arrowheads and things like that so abundantly like you can in some places over there. Regarding the gun, my great uncle - house-bound, in a wheelchair, recovering from pneumonia with oxygen tanks etc. - was arrested last Christmas for importing a gun illegally from the US . Apparently he wanted to put it above the fireplace (he does love americana), but like?????? buy a replica! My aunt had to drive up from Wales to go and get him from the police station lmao, she was not impressed. Anyway, I would love a proper look in that cabinet.

funeralxempire's car collection is. so. cool. I can practically hear the little squeak of the wheels and feel them driving up and down my arm lol. Granny and Grandad used to keep some high quality reproductions like that on their mantle piece when we were little, mainly for my brother to play with and maybe have one day. I'm not a big car person but I love driving the little wheels up and down my arm. I do have two of the cars here somewhere that were mine, miniature VW beetles with slogans on them, a pink one and a black one with red hearts. I like how nicely you've displayed yours.

This thread is lit.

This is my most sensory-friendly plush. Just, the texture, the weight, the softness, the squish.... all perfection. He's a pleasure to cuddle with

He cost me $60 (overpriced as he's smaller than he looks) but was worth every penny

It was an excellent backdrop which gave a great idea of scale of the kit.

I did have an old coffin style violin case which would have made a great box for the vampire kit but it was too valuable so I flogged it





Even if you do say so yourself. "Seriously, you guys are totally wrong about Rachie being wrong. And frankly Rachie's right about her being right. Not only that remember my great idea that Rachie had last week? I love it, we think it's great."

Yeah, Snorlax? looks massive and too big to have decent cwtches with.