Cars II stuff at Target..

[Brandon]

A little off topic, but with two boys I am always in the Hot Wheels aisle, and the new Cars stuff is out, before the June 24th movie even... unless I missed something.

Anyhoo... a V8 Gremlin X carried me home from the hospital (am I telling on myself, here?) and that would explain a lot, I'm sure, but as such, I have an interest in them.. and we had another one when I was older, and I watched one do a complete 360 in front of my house one warm summer night, which would have been cool, but my dog happened to be underneath, hence the reason for the spin... and when the car came to a rest, facing the same direction it was going, the dang dog darted out from underneath and was fine.... LOL. Car load of buzzed teens, early 20 year olds... (It was a different time then..) shaken, and aopolgetic, and left with a little burnout cause I told them to do it.. hehehe...

Anyways.... of all the Cars cars on the racks...I got the LAST Gremlin diecast car... they are going fast. I'm a snob and don't care about the pacer... but if you are a Gremlin fan, and like the little big eared dude on the gas cap, you better get to the stores now...



B.

[plastimatic]

That's not off target, the Big Deal worked on character design for the first movie.
It was pretty cool to see the Gremlin on the rack. Now if only they would do a LeCar and a VW 411!

[Brandon]

Ya know.. the first car I ever remember doing a hundred in was a little LeCar... LOl.

I was very young, probably 8, maybe and a car nut, and as such, my parents were young also, and we had this hot Italian chick who ended up living with us briefly, and she was in her early 20's I guess, and we lived in MA and she was from RI, and for some reason she took me to her parents house for the weekend one night, (and I built an orange Scout with superglue cause they didn't buy the Testors.. super nice people and awesome spaghetti sauce) and we were headed south, and rolling along, and she was going 70, and I told her to do 80, and she did, and I dared her to do 90, and she did... and I asked for 100 and she told me no... but we were whizzing along and all of a sudden she looked down and starts freaking out saying she is doing a hundred and her car will blow up... and I looked and it was pegged... we slowed down, but damn that was awesome... they only have three lug nuts. LOL.

I didn't lead a sheltered life....

I also once dated a chick when I was 16 who took my VW bug and drove the crap out of it.. turned out she raced go-karts (and won a bunch) and had a bug when she was 14... Her dad owned my favorite junk yard... garsh that was hot. "Lemme drive yer Doodle bug" she said... and I jumped in the passenger seat of my lowered '68 with dual carbs and a stinger and was impressed. She even snatched a second.... Sigh....

I digress. Back to model building... hehehe.

[robriley]

I too have fond memories of a black 1973 gremlin X with a 401 and a 4 speed.
My friend in high school bought it for $500.00 because it had a busted leaf spring in the rear.
we put a new spring on it, and it became THE burnout car of the summer of 1980.
i swear that car could smoke the tire for well over a block!

[Tim Nolan]

Aaahhhh...fond memories....

One of my good friends (now deceased) had a 327 powered Vega hatchback. It was THE burnout car around Daytona. Trouble was, the wheel wells had rusted thru in the hatchback, so the tire smoke would fill the entire car! We looked like Cheech and Chong hangin' out the windows after a big smokey burnout!! LOL. Still makes my heart pitter patter! Those were good times. Who would think he'd be dead by his late thirtys of brain cancer.... Wonder if it was from all that burnin' rubber? (could have been from everything else we were burnin' too.... :] )