Automobiles/ Trucks 1/43-1/50 scale let’s see them

Wow, that is a beautiful Mack'.. Nice color'....

Gift from The Old Man, circa 1964 or so...

PD. Thanks for posting that’s a nice car 

Vincent. I would have to be pretty bad to be a ugly Mack  

Thanks guys for keeping this going I know it’s not much but we’re almost on page 20. I would never dreamed that anyway I’ve blowed up some pics hope you enjoy them

While not my pic do have two of these tractor/trailers.  The intent was to have one wandering the roads and the other spotted behind the local McDonald's delivering.

Ron

Now this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is about the sharpest-looking station wagon I have ever seen. Assuming that it IS a station wagon. 

Is that a 1939 Olds or Buick? Who made the model and is it available? 

Thanks

That is a 1939 Cadillac series 75 Imperial sedan. Years ago (1970s) a friend of mine had one of these that had belonged to Warner Brothers Studios.  A massive beast of a car!   Doug

PRRronbh posted:

Neat looking rig.

I know many of these models are fantasy-based, so I wonder if this was a type of truck you'd really see on the road with this paint and marking?
Note the more modern McD's logo on the doors.

Not knocking the rig, just wondering. It really looks cool.

p51 posted:

PRRronbh posted:

Neat looking rig.

I know many of these models are fantasy-based, so I wonder if this was a type of truck you'd really see on the road with this paint and marking?
Note the more modern McD's logo on the doors.

Not knocking the rig, just wondering. It really looks cool.

I am pretty sure you are correct. I remember red Mc Donald's trailers  but not that art work or much art work either.

Ron

Checking the web, I found McDonald's trailers, but no McDonald's cabs.

McDonald's might not have owned the trailers--renting advertising space on the sides of trailers is a common practice.

PRRronbh posted:

I know many of these models are fantasy-based, so I wonder if this was a type of truck you'd really see on the road with this paint and marking?
Note the more modern McD's logo on the doors.

I am pretty sure you are correct. I remember red Mc Donald's trailers  but not that art work or much art work either.

Such a great looking rig, I was hoping it wasn't a fantasy truck.

Still, it's your layout, Ron, and your world. In your layout's 'reality', McDs had lots of them, right?

Ron, I remember when McDonald's hit "Over 4 million sold." And I remember a TV commercial in which the guy sent his butler to McDonald's with a dollar bill. The butler returned with a hamburger, milk shake, and fries, and had to give back the change.

Vincent Massi posted:

Ron, I remember when McDonald's hit "Over 4 million sold." And I remember a TV commercial in which the guy sent his butler to McDonald's with a dollar bill. The butler returned with a hamburger, milk shake, and fries, and had to give back the change.

Vincent, I think it was 1956 my much older brother tried to convince my parents buying into and opening a Mc Donald's.  He had the info sheet.  Yes one sheet of paper printed on both sides.  It described the two different sized building footprints with cost of under 35K plus the land.  How the windows would be staffed with only young men, no girls/woman to prevent guys from loitering at the sales windows.  Boy I wish I still had that one sheet of info.  More over my parents and I wish they would have made the investment at the time.  But I recall parents could not see making money selling a 15-cent burger!

Ironically in about 1959/60 a Mc Donald's opened up caddy-corner from our business located on a four-lane state highway.  So for about 13-years (until we sold the business) we were daily reminded of that mistake.

Ron

Thanks guys for the complement on the Caddy it’s one of my favorite too Vincent. I think White Box or White Rose I’ll look tomorrow when I’m at the layout. 

I think McDonald’s always had out side distributors delivered to the store like now GSF golden state foods delivers now and there trailers advertise for McDonald’s. Who says back in the 1960s when this B61 Mack made it could have pulled one of those  trailers. Rim thanks for posting. 

In 1963, my sister took a job with McDonalds.  My entire family would drive over to 'Sunrise Highway, in Patchogue, we would get hamburgers, fries and shakes free, because she was an employee that worked the window and took the orders.  Everyone paid in cash, and she made change by hand.  I remember other folks would look at me funny, as I was always selected to pick up the order.  In those days, you paid when it was ready.  Not up front like today'...  I think I vaguely remember seeing a McDonalds delivery truck one time when we were there.  This photo of the trailer has brought back memories of that time....  And boy was it a good time'  The burgers were delicious... Of course I haven't had one in over 35 years .   The last time I got one for my Grand kids, they didn't look too appetising '..... 

QT. Thanks for posting that story. The nearest one to me when I was a kid was 40 miles away we went there maybe 3 times a year boy what a treat to get to go to McDonald’s now in my hometown where I grew up and love currently there’s 3 McDonald’s with in 3-5 miles 

PRRronbh posted:

While not my pic do have two of these tractor/trailers.  The intent was to have one wandering the roads and the other spotted behind the local McDonald's delivering.

Ron

Pardon me for bring this forward but have some internet research info (for what that is worth !) to add.

The art work refers to "Over 100 million sold"  the search found that the 100 million mark was hit in (edit)  1958.

MTH's model of the classic McDonald's :

This sign states 1-million sold.  According to one source  this would be 1955 Ray Kroc's first McDonald's opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.  But another source states the original sign  as 15-million.

Just some perspective(s).

Ron

Does this thread include 1/50 scale busses?  I have an extensive collection.