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Originally Posted by GT182
Welcome to the forums Ray. I see no location posted so I'm going to ask. Do you live up around Rising Sun, or Hatfield?
Reason being, I see Arnie's "Mystery Tornado" in the pictures you have posted. I saw Arnie up in Hatfield back at the last
PY show and talked with him for a long time. I'm thinking you might have been there at that show too.
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I'm from MD actually, been here my whole life, except 4 1/2 years in Columbus, OH when I went to OSU for college.
I can't say that I was there, maybe when I was a child and I don't remember. My Dad used to hit all the GTO events when he was younger and back in the day i'm sure he went to all the events in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
I must have 8 or more of the Mystery Tornado 1:24 scale plastic models my Dad made. He was no amateur either at making models, They are prime examples of what a professional model should look like. Immaculate detail and as time went on, he made over 200+ 1:24 scale plastic models. He made all kinds of cars, GMs, Fords, Mopars, and others. I've sold many of the best ones off, but still have a bunch. I recently put a Ramchargers Dodge 330 that looked like a Franklin/Danbury Mint model in plastic form. I placed it on eBay just throwing out a random high price of $80.00 and within maybe 30-40 hours, it sold . The buyer didn't even make me an offer, just bought it for my full asking price.
I still have a ton of 1:18 scale diecast GTOs. My favorite GTOs 1:18 scale models I have that I keep in display cases, are my rare 1966 Nightwatch Blue GTO made by Acme using Guycast tooling. It's one of 200 made. I have an Acme 1966 Royal Bobcat GTO (I actually have two of them), above that car is the 1964 Mystery Tornado GTO (also have 2 of them), above that I have an Acme 1966 GTO in Turquoise that is one of 402, and above that I have a hand made 1:24 scale plastic 1964 GTO that was painted to look like it was Nocturne Blue just like my Dad's 64 GTO.. The model is extremely detailed and very well done..
I also have the Beswick Tameless Tiger, Highway 61 1966 Beswick Drag Car, SC Collectibles 1964 GTO drag car, Lane Motor-State 1966 GTO Holiday edition, Beswick 68 "Bossman" GTO, two 1963 Acme Pontiac Tempests w/ the 421 SD (one is the blackout version which is 1 or 96) and many many more without making this a college term paper in length.