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ChristineBCW · October 14, 2015, 07:04:03 PM

Hep, no, he no longer has those Post cards but those are the ones he recalls most favorably. Born a poor and thrifty sort, he didn't mind eating 8 boxes of cereal rather than buying 3 packs of bubble gum for the cards. "They were free! Well, in a way."

He said a lot of the Post baseball cards met a death in between bike-spokes. He re-created that cool sound for our kids' and their friends' bikes with cardboard. Very handy on the local hike & bike trails, too. No need for a steenkin' bell or shout-out's... everyone can hear these li'l monsters on their buzzed-out bikes.

Hubby's only made one trip to the hospital in our 14 years together. I brought him a cactus. He had the nurses gingerly remove it, wearing thicket rubberized bathroom-scrubdown gloves, swearing they'd never touch it to their skin.

He acted like I was trying to kill him! Good grief... me? NEVER!

But isn't it common for women to want to change men?

He snorted and would have turned over if not for those cute li'l tubes and bandages. Trapped. Could not move. I loved that visit.

Hepcat · October 15, 2015, 07:44:46 AM

Here are pics of the boss buildups of all twelve "Big Daddy" Roth fink kits by our own Weldonmc:

SURFINK

SCUZ FINK

SUPERFINK

RAT FINK

MOTHER'S WORRY

MR. GASSER

FINK ELIMINATOR

DRAGNUT

DRAGNUT

ANGEL FINK

BROTHER RAT FINK on a BIKE

OUTLAW with ROBBIN HOOD FINK

TWEEDY PIE with BOSS FINK

"HOLD the PICKLES"

TRIXIE

Weldonmc built most of these for the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles where they currently reside. (I could not have beared to part with them myself.) The "Hold the Pickels" was built for the Johnny Rockets restaurant at the Museum and "TRIXIE" was a custom piece Weldonmc worked upon in conjunction with his deceased buddy Gary Pritchett.

ChristineBCW · October 15, 2015, 08:11:44 AM

Hep, can you give approximate dates for these items' popularity? Was it pre-1965? Mid-60s? Late '60s?

On THE MUNSTERS TV show, there are episodes where a drag-racer version of their hearse is popularized, and several BEACH PARTY movies have dragster types on display.

Also, there were Iron Crosses on display occasionally, which surprises me since that was a strong German Army sign and they seem to appear within 2 decades of the war's end in Europe. Do you know of explanations for that popularity? Was that a sign of the growing distrust for The Older Generation? Some 'stick in yer eye' lambast?

"Fink" seemed to fade out by 1970, but there is a joke about this word in a Hogan's Heroes episode (about 1968, I think) so it was still in-use or popularly understood at that time. But this Rat Fink character you're presenting doesn't have anything to do with a 'tattle tale' exactly. It's just a wild character, it appears, without any particular slur or social stigma ("are you a fink? a dirty rotten rat fink, telling the screws about our break-out plans?!!").

Hepcat · October 15, 2015, 08:48:34 AM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 08:11:44 AMHep, can you give approximate dates for these items' popularity? Was it pre-1965? Mid-60s? Late '60s?

"Fink" seemed to fade out by 1970, but there is a joke about this word in a Hogan's Heroes episode (about 1968, I think) so it was still in-use or popularly understood at that time. But this Rat Fink character you're presenting doesn't have anything to do with a 'tattle tale' exactly. It's just a wild character, it appears, without any particular slur or social stigma ("are you a fink? a dirty rotten rat fink, telling the screws about our break-out plans?!!").

Revell released the "Big Daddy" Roth custom car and fink kits between 1962 and 1965. The heyday for "Big Daddy" Roth's T-shirt designs may have lasted another year or too, but rock music/hippie culture had superceded custom car culture by 1966-67.

This thread here on UMA is an excellent resource on "Big Daddy" Roth items:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=13133.msg211090#msg211090

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 08:11:44 AMAlso, there were Iron Crosses on display occasionally, which surprises me since that was a strong German Army sign and they seem to appear within 2 decades of the war's end in Europe. Do you know of explanations for that popularity? Was that a sign of the growing distrust for The Older Generation? Some 'stick in yer eye' lambast?

California surfers started using the iron cross as a badge of youthful rebellion in the fifties. It was swiftly embraced by outlaw bikers who thought it would enhance their offensiveness to "straight" society and "Big Daddy" Roth incorporated the iron cross into some of his t-shirt designs. Teens across the States were enamoured of California culture in the early sixties and trends originating with kids in California spread quickly across the country in those days. As a result, by about late 1963 iron crosses had exploded in popularity with teens across North America and they were sold rather widely at country fairs and other places that sold kitsch. I still have one of the two I bought! (The first and nicer one was stolen.)

zombabe · October 15, 2015, 09:31:40 AM

Hepcat · October 15, 2015, 02:12:43 PM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 08:11:44 AMOn THE MUNSTERS TV show, there are episodes where a drag-racer version of their hearse is popularized, and several BEACH PARTY movies have dragster types on display.

Here are a couple of photos of my Grandpa Munster Drag-U-La model kit:

marsattacks666 · October 15, 2015, 04:06:38 PM

Great kit, Hepcat

ChristineBCW · October 15, 2015, 06:00:28 PM

Gasp... you've never built it?!! How can that be possible? How can you sit there, open it, look at those beckoning pieces - "I was MADE to be assembled! Not to be left here, rattling in some box!! BUILD MEEEE!!"

How can you do that?!! Or do you own a model shop and, like one of those evil chocolatiers in Hershey PA, "I no longer have the taste..." Is that it?!!

Thanks for that write-up on the Iron Crosses and Rat Fink notions. It's interesting how the "rebel side" of people manifest their behaviors and decorate them with insignias, logos, etc. Recently, I've found some smokers who have confessed that they started "to get back at ___ an authority figure - mom, dad, etc." Or to "do something everyone said not to."

For the iron crosses, I keep giggling over the idea that, somewhere in the 'burbs of Buenos Aires, there were a bunch thick-speaking immigrants with a funny mustache or two, who saw those and wondered, "Maybe we should move to LA and open a surfboard shop."

Hepcat · October 15, 2015, 06:43:50 PM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 06:00:28 PMGasp... you've never built it?!! How can that be possible? How can you sit there, open it, look at those beckoning pieces - "I was MADE to be assembled! Not to be left here, rattling in some box!! BUILD MEEEE!!"

How can you do that?!! Or do you own a model shop and, like one of those evil chocolatiers in Hershey PA, "I no longer have the taste..." Is that it?!!

It's what I do. I'm a collector of monster model kits among other things. I have the collecting gene. Here are a few pics of the main model cabinet in my monster room from about four years ago:

Here are close-ups of some of the model kits together with my alter ego Styx:

If you wanted to analyze my behaviour, I suppose what I'm doing is bestowing the entire model shelf on the youngster who once upon a time could only long for any of those wonderful kits he was admiring at the hardware store or hobby shop. But what's the point of analyzing it? I collect these kits because possessing them brings me delight and satisfaction. Case closed. And I wouldn't be here on this board if the collecting gene wasn't part of my makeup.

marsattacks666 · October 15, 2015, 07:34:46 PM

QuoteGasp... you've never built it?!! How can that be possible? How can you sit there, open it, look at those beckoning pieces - "I was MADE to be assembled! Not to be left here, rattling in some box!! BUILD MEEEE!!"

I think I have an answer in response to your question. Or was that a rhetorical question? Guess not.....

Although I cannot answer for my fellow UMA'ers or who is a collector of model kits. Let me confess my love and obsession for styrene goodness. The box-art and aesthetic of the kits, especially Aurora
model kits are really stunning. The graphics really pop!!

Many years ago when I did have a disposable income( doesn't every collector) I would purchase two of every model kit that I truly liked, salivated, coveted over. Mostly Monster kits that were at time deemed rare. Locating such rare kits in good condition was nearly impossible.
Before the internet, one would have search Toy Shows, estate sales, conventions, etc.

Again, I cannot speak for anyone else and their experience. Only my experiences.

horrorhunter · October 15, 2015, 10:37:19 PM

Gorgo's Mom squares off with The BIG G.

ChristineBCW · October 16, 2015, 08:34:07 AM

Hep, NO CRITICISM INTENDED by my comments - rather, an amazement at self control NOT to build them. Like I wrote, I'd be FORCED to build them! Compelled. I sew. I get stacks of alpaca and llama wool from our farm. It calls me in the night - children of the night! - demanding that I skein out the wool into layers for sweaters and blankets! (And occasionally to muffle Hubby's abortive cries for help and those pesky 9-1-1 calls if he manages to get the dog to knock the phone off the hook. "Here, boy! Press 9... then 1... then 1 again..." And I'm busy teaching the dog just the opposite. "BAD DOGGY!! Don't listen to yer dad!!")

I mean, I only have so much duct tape for him. I'm not going to waste good duct tape when I could use wool layers to toss over him as the detectives arrive. "That pile of fabric in the corner? Oh, it needs cleaning first - but if you want to git yer hands all mucky, sure, dig thru it..." which of course they never do.