I collect models, primarily Aurora models. I post them over in the GA section but there really isn't a fixed place to see what everyone has so lets see if this can be the place.
While I was strongly drawn to the Revell "Big Daddy" Roth custom car and fink kits right from the start, I don't clearly remember when and where I first learned of these kits or "Big Daddy" Roth's existence. It was perhaps from an ad for one of his model kits in Boy's Life magazine in 1963 or so:
But I clearly remember looking at the Revell Beatnik Bandit model kit at the Tuckey Hardware store two blocks from my house sometime in early 1964:
A few months afterward I was co