How to pass a nice warm sunny fall day.

buildimg model kits on your veranda overlooking your garden would be a pretty even match!

Excuse my ignorance, what are the two cars in the picture? Being European and from a more recent manufacture date, I guess chevy ('56 / '57) bel air?

Did you build them oob or did you modify them?

They are AMT '56 Fords. I build them about the way they used to build the real race cars back in the day. I take a street car, throw away everything that doesn't look like a race car and start from there. LOL 

 Actually, the "stock cars" back then were a lot "stocker" than the one of today. They started out with a production car and added roll bars, heavy springs and shocks, some tweaking and painted the markings on and went racing.

These two were from Nascar's Convertible Division that ran from '56 through '59 and the background photo is from the old beach/road course at Daytona that used a two mile stretch of highway A-1A and the beach for the return path.

If you would lend me one of those I'd sure give you a match down the road.

Nice cars and a nice "display" too.

Niclas

Just pick one and we'll "get it on".   A little historical insight- Before the huge 2.5 mile Daytona International Speedway was finished they used to actually race on the beach itself. The time trials were held on a measure section of the sand and the races were run on a 4.1 mile course that consisted of a section of US A1A highway and a corresponding section of the beach with connecting turn cut into the beach.

   Pretty impressive when you think about speeds approaching 140 mph on what was a two lane highway ( with a dip near the end of the two mile straightaway that obscured vision of what was over the hill). What is really scary is that after cresting that hill you had to somehow get your car "whoa-ed" down enough to pitch it off the pavement onto the sand for a 180 degree change of direction so you could repeat the performance only this time on sand with another slippery reversal of travel so you could do it all over again.