New Hobby

I bought a couple new cars for myself today. A '51 Mercury and a '70 Mustang BOSS. Pfffft. I wish!!

Well, I actually did. Of course they're only 1:64th scale...about the size of a HotWheel. I was hanging around KayBee Toystore today for a sidewalk sale (don't ask) and somehow I just felt like getting myself a little toy just for kicks.

Then I happened upon these things called BigTime Muscle. They're about $2.50 - $5.00 each. They're BADDASS!! I couldn't resist. I had a big weakness for toy cars when I was younger and I felt the that old flame ignite again. I think I found a new hobby...

The site they have is pretty cool actually. Jada Toys. Apparently they do all kinds of trendy street vehicles in die-cast.

They're pretty solid too. It's die-cast completely throughout the thing, rubber tires, interior. They're about as solid as HotWheels vehicles USED to be back when I was a kid. Not the inferior crappy stuff that HotWheels puts out now.

Now I want to find a few of the other favorite Hot Rods I really like. Ebay didn't turn up too many of these I wonder how hard is it to find these things? OH!! I must find em!

If anybody spots these around let me know!! I know I've seen them here and there before in the past but now that I got 2 of them I want at least 3 or 4 more of them hehe. Damnit if I can't afford a real hotrod I want to at least play with these toy ones.

Dream a little dream....

Besides, from a design standpoint I think these cars are a work of art. Whether it's the real thing or just these little toys.

My brother and I had a serious discussion once about getting a couple of hotrods sometime. I was suprised he was into hotrods too but apparently we share that admiration of muscle cars in common. The real things aren't too expensive actually. We might actually seriously get into these someday.

Anyway, I told my girl "Hey look babe, I got me these COOL toy cars!!!"

She wasn't impressed.