Fordguy,
Thanks for the good words. I love to talk and listen to others talking on my favorite subjects.....which don't include women as I have not done well in that regard. I would rather be assembling a killer 301 Chevy engine, about which I know more than I will ever know about women.
Trying to make a silly little joke there. Actually I like history, it's one of my favorite topics. When I was sneaking looks at this forum, long before I joined, I loved seeing the "how to" builds that took one from beginning to end of a nice model, especially when they incorporated some history of the real car in their stories. I have not really seen that anywhere else. In these days of no magazines to read anymore we are on our own. This is a nice little group of guys assembled here and I am glad to be among good talented people now where a guy can learn something every visit to STM. I noticed in my early looks that many were sorry that there did not seem to be more people posting. I thought about that a lot, and most all the models that replicate cars that actually existed at one time, and realized that all of those cars had a history. Where we are lucky photographs survive, some good enough to build a replica from. And all those 1:1 cars had people that built them and people that crewed on them and people that not only drove them but others who competed against them. That is a lot of stuff to write about and you know what?
Every bit of that had to do with cars that actually existed and had fame to one degree or another. And even if it only had "local" fame, it still was important to those areas of the country and the people who built them, drove em and cheered for, or against, them. I encourage others that want to do so to weave any history they have knowledge of into the stories and how they relate to certain cars. Just from reading STM for a few months I have learned quite a bit about racing cars and their drivers and builders, that I did not know existed.
So build on guys, and if you are creating a replica to honor some once great racing machine, tell us all you can about it's history. The background is just as important, and fun to talk about, as is the real car. Life is a learning curve and we never know what we will learn tomorrow......until we get there.
MB