Also over the weekend I finally fulfilled my promise to Jonathan to find him some cars made out of paper. We found this site, and printed out one of each, (with two of the Datsun roadsters, and two trailers.)
My favorite is the Datsun 510 in the BRE livery. I did one of those, and a VW microbus in blue and orange (one of the trailers will go with that), and an old-style Mini Cooper for Boy, and a light blue Datsun 1800 for Catherine, who was quite proud of it. Oddest comment concerned the Lincoln Continental, which two of the kids (at separate times) said looked like my Volvo. Then again, they didn't see this one.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at November 28, 2005 11:35 AMNeat. Car paper dolls. My son will be wanting some too. His indulgent grandfather actually spent an afternoon constructing a paper car for him entirely without a pattern. This would definitely go a lot faster.
Posted by: Jordana at November 28, 2005 11:41 AMCard modelling is really a big thing--I never really knew what all was available until we built that paper trebuchet.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 28, 2005 11:45 AMI gave my kid the motorcycle pages and instructions as a alternative to boredom for the weekend. He didn't jump on it...
Posted by: Nate at November 28, 2005 01:13 PMHeh--it certainly would give him something to do. For a LONG time!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 28, 2005 01:23 PMThat BRE Datsun- I still have a plastic model of that race car that I built in about 1976. Its a little worse for wear after all these years and being around the world a couple times. I actually won 2nd place in a model contest with it at the local JC Pennys. I built a neat Lucite and mirror stand to display it and on the back was a snapshot of the car in action at Mid-Ohio Raceway, taken by a guy I worked with who was also a SCCA corner worker.
Pretty sure I still have the street car version waiting to be built somewhere. I was always going to finish that one and build a trailer to put the race car on, behind it.
Maybe after I get dulcimer competent, graduate, finish the Avenger and take the BSU on a cruise...
Posted by: Nate at November 28, 2005 02:58 PMI really have a soft spot for those 510s. Before the current Moron Project took shape, that was another one of the cars I had looked at, being small and boxy and innocuous looking. Hard to find them in any kind of moderately good shape, though--they seem to be either restored or wrecked. There was a guy who went to my high school who had a black one that was just sharp as a tack.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 28, 2005 03:12 PM