The Little World

The Daily Driver

Does no-one have ordinary days any more? Have model car kits stopped being three-in-one? Can we not build the car our Dad drove in 1959? How about the one we drove yesterday?

I do admire a good hot rod. I am in awe of the custom car that took a decade and $ 200,000 to build – even if it is basically ugly…I do see the point of a supercar that gives a new Asian billionaire gloating rights over the rest of his family. These are all legitimate uses of motor transport.

But so is going to the IGA. So is the Mummy Run. So is the Pensioner’s Deathtrap. We need models of real cars on our real roads in our real lives. And so few of the kit makers ever oblige.

And come to say it, we need real container trucks and real tradie’s vans and real Transperth buses as kits – our lives are more important to us than California hype.

Let us have kits that are relevant to us – here – now. if you can’t do that, let us have kits that show the real past, rather than someone else’s fake memories. We’ll pay – in real money, right now.