Cary resident collects scale model replicas of all the classics - Northwest Herald

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The model car bug hit him a few years later when he was 13. He still owns the first model he ever built, a plastic one-twenty-fifth scale 1953 Pontiac Star Chief two-door hardtop produced by Jo-Han. To make money when he was a kid, he would mow laws in Palatine, where he grew up. As soon as he got paid for his work, he would run down to the local hobby shop and buy a model car kit to build. Modern cars today really all resemble each other, he said, what’s known as the “aero effect,” where cars are designed to slip through the air without a lot of drag to obtain maximum fuel mileage. Back in the day, gasoline was really cheap, so automobile manufacturers really didn’t care much about fuel economy.

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Amazon now sells out of children's predator drone toys following mocking reviews - Daily Mail

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Ever since the customer reviews section of an Amazon page selling a children’s model of a U. S. military aircraft become a target of abuse for American’s unhappy about the use of predator drones by the Obama administration, the toys are almost... is having a difficult time keeping their toy drones on the shelves, with only one toy available to purchase on Amazon. A growing number of Americans are voicing their unhappiness about the use of drones, which have been blamed for the death of innocent women and children, and now protesters appear to be even targeting the sale of tiny plastic models.

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