Atlas O 1/48 1973 Ford F100

If you are suggesting an automobile, it helps to be very specific in the suggestion, since there are so many automobiles that they could choose.  

Andrew

Cool!  Perfect for my time frame.  I'l be getting at least a couple of these.

Finally someone gets it!

There is a large void in 60's & 70' "O" scale vehicles. Probably the most model train people still in the hobby, yet we don't have much of an accurate selection. It's either one extreme or the other. Or if you do find something the size is incorrect. 

Looks like it would be easy to add Evans lights to it.  I try to seek items with mirrors attached as well.

There are tons of 50s and 60s O-sized vehicles available through Diecast Direct, Wayne Waltz, eBay, etc., made by many different manufacturers. They are generally in 1:43 and 1:50 scale, although there are some in 1:48. There are 70s vehicles available as well, but considerably less than what is available from the 50s and 60s. For my layout, which is circa 50-60s, this is a good situation. Not so much for the guys whose layouts are replicas of more recent periods.

Lots of the cheap  '1/43' die cast are not 1/43 scale. I check the die cast display at my Rite aid and find models that are 1/48 or very close.  Some are very easy.....1955 Thunderbird that is bigger than a 1953 Buick is to big.......but checking some models wheelbase I find vehicles that are usable on a layout. I use wheelbase as it's easy to check the model and there are websites that list wheelbase of real cars.....I don't worry about other measurements if the vehicle looks right. And when they go on sale buy one get one free for $5 not a bad deal.  

Could tractors and trailer frames for the intermodal containers be far behind?

irish rifle posted:

There are tons of 50s and 60s O-sized vehicles available through Diecast Direct, Wayne Waltz, eBay, etc., made by many different manufactures. They are generally in 1:43 and 1:50 scale, although there are some in 1:48. There are 70s vehicles available as well, but considerably less than what is available from the 50s and 60s. For my layout, which is circa 50-60s, this is a good situation. Not so much for the guys whose layouts are replicas of more recent periods.

Not really 60 - 70's 

Diecast direct has always been limited and overpriced. Only item I bought from them are yellow safety road cones. They cater mostly to shelf collectors, not R.R. Scene modelers.

I see only 4 items on there of interest. WB-275, WB-203 and AHM 48001 & 2. They have nothing else for my time frame.

I have the Charles chips van, Good Humor truck, Borden’s Divco, Lionel fuel tanker and a bunch of undersized Corgi fishbowl/ GM buses. Cars are plenty. The only believable O fork lift is the one from Arttista.

H.O has all the good stuff, not O. Just look at the Athearn stuff. 

If there are any Late 1960's and 1970's era automobiles in 1/43rd to 1/50th scales, they tend to be sports cars, not the much needed typical sedans from Ford, Chrysler, and GM. 

Andrew

If your end year that you model is 1972, you could still use a 1973 vehicle since the model year usually begins in September of the year before.  So a 1973 Ford pickup would have been seen in the last four months of 1972.

Larry

SIRT posted:

irish rifle posted:

There are tons of 50s and 60s O-sized vehicles available through Diecast Direct, Wayne Waltz, eBay, etc., made by many different manufactures. They are generally in 1:43 and 1:50 scale, although there are some in 1:48. There are 70s vehicles available as well, but considerably less than what is available from the 50s and 60s. For my layout, which is circa 50-60s, this is a good situation. Not so much for the guys whose layouts are replicas of more recent periods.

Not really 60 - 70's 

Diecast direct has always been limited and overpriced. Only item I bought from them are yellow safety road cones. They cater mostly to shelf collectors, not R.R. Scene modelers.

I see only 4 items on there of interest. WB-275, WB-203 and AHM 48001 & 2. They have nothing else for my time frame.

I have the Charles chips van, Good Humor truck, Borden’s Divco, Lionel fuel tanker and a bunch of undersized Corgi fishbowl/ GM buses. Cars are plenty. The only believable O fork lift is the one from Arttista.

H.O has all the good stuff, not O. Just look at the Athearn stuff. 

My post was on the 50-60s era, and was totally accurate. I probably have 100 or more vehicles on my layout from that era, all of high quality, with more to add. And I had almost all of them lit by the best lighting guy in the world - Jack Pearce. Also respectfully disagree with your assessment of Diecast Direct. I have found their pricing to be generally reasonable over the years. No doubt that some of the vehicle lines they carry for some of the newer manufacturers, e.g., Brooklin, Neo, etc., are expensive. Indeed, I have never bought a single vehicle manufactured by such companies, because they are simply too expensive. But the blame for the high cost of those vehicles is on the manufacturers, not the distributors.