My bucket list consists of the 20 or so kits and parts car projects in our " fun room " as we call it. I'll be 80 before the end of the year. Old age is creeping in. It is a real bucket list for me.
Thought I'd list them all, but it would be boring for you. Two are the rebuilds of a 1/16 '56 Chevy and a 1/16 '78 Firebird to complete my Freddy Fryar Tribute. The 1/16 '30 sedan is done and posted here.
Another is an Alabama Gang Tribute consisting of a '32 sedan for Bobby, '37 Chevy coupe for Donnie, and a '32 coupe for Red. None of these, including the Fryar cars, are full-blown replicas - just cars they could have raced in their colors.
Also a '66 Chevy hauler for my 14 late model, shown here recently, and for my new shop diorama, to be shown soon.
All of these kits and projects are short track stuff, except a Foose pick up, and a Shelby Cobra for the street.
I guess there is one true " bucket list " item in that I have started what I call a " Wacky Racer." It is a slab sided sheet plastic bodied early '60s super modified. The idea is an experiment to see the feasibility of trying to design and build a plastic 1/25 scale model airplane similar to a homebuilt Piper Cub. There are no 1/25 plastic airplane kits on the market. My idea is to use flat bulkheads at the windshield and rear window of the car, to learn about flat bulkheads ( and sheet sides ) for the aircraft fuselage. We will see.
At my age, my building philosophy is changing, in that I now only build engine parts that will show, and am seriously going toward only doing the parts of the process that I enjoy most whether anything gets finished or not. And that is painting, decaling, and hand lettering bodies. I have done 4 coupe bodies within the past two weeks.
Maybe y'all won't run me off just yet.