Not long ago, I dug up some old photos of the 1958 Volkswagen Beetle that launched me on the primer-and-junkyards automotive path I've taken to get to this point. Now look what's happened!

Yeah, you just never know where this writing thing will take you; one day you put up some photos of a car you owned in 1983, and then some Canadian builds a disturbingly accurate model of that car in what appears to be 1:zillion scale.

Next challenge: I want to see a diorama of the junked Renault 16, with a 1:24 Charles de Gaulle weeping over it!

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