As I mentioned in our previous update, I’ve had a cutback in hours. Ironically, one of the days I now regularly work is Saturday. So, I had to miss our September meeting. Thus, Original Ken again stepped in for photo duty. I chose the best for this update.
We’re introducing an interesting new feature this month: in-caption links. I won’t bore you with the technicals of not being able to create hyperlinks in photo captions in our old hand-coded version of the club site. It’s something I’ve seen on other “blog platform”-type sites, and I found it intriguing. The Holy Spirit told me to give it a shot, and voila!: functional hyperlinks in our own photo captions! This obviously gives me more options for the placement and, as it were, “timing” of off-site links.
So get to the photos!
September 2018
I wish I had more information for you about this item. Big Tractor Mike bought it from Spare Mike. The side reads “O’Neill Family Produce”. But I’m fascinated by the richly sculpted and individually painted food items.
Now that’s some farm-fresh produce!
You can tell it was a successful meeting, because…
Say it with me, boys and girls: “Ken bought garbage trucks!”
…From Bill. He bought them from Bill.
A pair of Redline-era Turbofires (Scott’s stock). I first thought these were Toreros (Toreroes?), but no, they are Turbofires.
These are Turbofires, not Toreros. Just want to be clear on that.
That Ken is a funny guy. He takes this here photo, and edits a copy of the front end into the pic to make it look like the car has two engines.
What a funny, funny guy. By the way, this is Bye-Focal.
From Ed’s stock, this array of … Er, these vari-colored, uh … Field of, um … All these multi-hued … Hmph. I’m not sure what I could say about this….
Ooh! I just thought of what I could say about this!
Scott had this vintage (ca. 1960s?) slot car case (with space for Name and Racing Club)…
The “puzzle piece” edge is due to having to rotate the photo to straighten it; the bottom was cut off.
…With two controllers and three sweet classic slot car models neatly tucked inside.
I guess they’re from the Italian racing circuit…
For its wonderful “retro” vibe, its great contents, and its overall good condition, I declare Scott’s vinatge slot car case to be Suncoast Diecasters‘ Find of the Month(*) for September 2018. Congratulations, Scott!
Scott had a second case, but its cars were upside-down, which is just embarrassing.
And with just over an hour of September left, our September update is actually posted in September! I should treat myself to a pizza! (But I have some bread to finish off, so I’ll treat myself to some deli slices instead.)
See you at our November meeting!
~WM
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