Post by dustymojave on Mar 10, 2013 2:52:35 GMT -5
Howdy Bobby!
Finally decided to join in here. MY name's Richard. I've been spotted on many model forums over the past decade +. Past user names which have been discarded and/or disallowed as "already taken" include "HiJumper208", "Mojaveracer208" and a couple I can't even remember now. So some of you may recognize me. I try to stick to using my current handle of "DustyMojave" these days.
I'm an Admin on several forums for models and 1:1 cars. Owner of one model forum I'm working on developing a little before it goes public and a motorcycle racing forum that Yahoo Groups locked me out of when they made a mistake and deleted my Yahoo Account.
I'm a long-time member of and admin of the Yahoo group and ProBoard Forum "Desert Racing Modelers".
As you might tell from the photo above, I live, work and play in the Mojave Desert. You've actually seen my neighborhood many times on TV and in movies and ads. Most desert scenes are filmed right within a couple miles of my house. That Baja Bug was my 1st car and I've known it since the day it was bought new in 1957. I modified it into a Baja and it now has over 800,000 miles on it. I'm a past Champion off road race car driver. I've worked Tech Inspection for offroad racers since 1973 and Road Racers for 10 years before that. I've raced in Baja and built a few cars which have won their class in the Baja 1000. I've owned a business building race cars since the mid 1980s. I've worked on many types of racers such as Super Modifieds, Trans Am Racers from the Tube-frame era and the older made-from-production cars, Vintage Midgets and Sprinters, Dry Lakes Streamliners, Baja-racing pickups and buggies, Hot Rods, Porsches, etc....
I've been building model cars since I was introduced to them by a road race co-worker of my parents who had a bunch of hand carved wood models. My 1st was a '59 Corvette I got in 1960. I have an inventory of something like 1,400 unbuilt kits and a couple hundred old models in need of rebuilds. So I'm not likely to run out of things to work on for a while. here's a model I built when the kit was brand new in 1969. It could use some upgrading though, like hood pins to keep the nose from drooping when I take pictures of it!
