my 1/64th addiction

One of my earliest memories is picking out a new Matchbox car at the local Capps drugstore from a rotisserie type display. You picked it out, then a clerk took it out of this wooden drawer box where they were kept. This would lead to many hours of racing it around a oval throwrug like a racetrack or any other surface around the house. My Mom says that from the time I could walk, I always had at least one in my hand at all times. Fast forward 40 odd years and our local Dollar General had Muscle Machines for a dollar, which I could afford and the bug bit again. Then I discovered the M2 line of Mopar relicas then I had a serious problem. One of the problems was how and where to display them. I searched CL for some time before finding this late 40s-early 50s deco style cabinet that at some point is going to be transformed into a Sinclair Dino themed gas station type cabinet. I intend to make the top shelf a dealership with the 73-4 Charger as the new model to honor the 1-1 scale version in my life. The second shelf has a urban city theme with brick walls, checkerboard floor, graffiti and mini superheroes and villians duking it out around the cars. The third shelf is a dragstrip complete with a timing tower and JL Christmas tree. I want to build bleachers ,a burnout dividing wall , pa speakers, burn out marks and some lighting. I'm working on putting vintage drag cars in it and trading out my Muscle Machines. They and some others are going in this really cool Sikkens cabinet that used to hold our paint alternates at our other shop. I'm also looking for some appropriate scale people to populate this with. They are awful expensive. The bottom of the cabinet has doors that hold my John Deere toys I had as a kid, my collection of tech articles for my 1-1 scale Charger(sorry no A Body:D) and misc. supplies. The top (OMG) is a place for everything right now. You may also notice the license plates off some of our cars of the past, a Stomper Dodge pickup that my girlfriend(now wife of 25 years ) gave me, little tractors and some other cool emblems off new Mopar products. The cabinet has 1/4 inch sliding glass doors, which I took off for pics. Among the pics are some custom M2 favorites, I have. I like to change them up which is easy to do because they screw together. My custom Panther Pink wrecker is my favorite. All chassies on the truck interchange, so all mine have chrome wheels, tanks and dual stacks even if not available.I was glad to find this forum on here and thought I would post some pics an 'fess up." My name is John and I have an addiction to 1/64 scale autos......":burnout: