The GSL International Scale Vehicle Championship and Convention, billed as "the world's premiere scale vehicle contest and gathering" is held every other year in Salt Lake City.  The show is expertly run by Mark Gustavson and the staff from the International Model Car Builder's Museum.   Several members of the Town of Newburgh Model Car Club have made the trek to GSL over the last few years and done quite well.  For 2009, nine of our members made the long trek to attend.;  And considering how much fun we all had there, we're hoping to get a bunch more to go in 2011.

GSL is one of the premier shows in the world, and every modeler worth his salt owes it to themselves to attend at least once.  Like our other event tribute pages, we've got photos from previous years, a listing of members who have won awards in previous years, and some info on GSL XXIII, coming in 2011, including a countdown ticker to the big event.

Click HERE for a trip report from GSL-XX, held in April, 2005, as told by David Best.

Click HERE for photos from GSL-XXII, held in May, 2009 (Link courtesy of Model Cars magazine.)

Each GSL, a readily available kit is chosen for the "Common Kit" class.  In 2013, for GSL XXIV, the common kit will be Monogram's '58 Thunderbird !  They also have a class known as Group 13, which judges models built from a specific kit using only techniques and materials available 40 years ago  For 2013, that kit will be Amt's 49 Ford Coupe !