Cars and Trucks for your layout

Why don't you look on the buy/sell forum?

Bob

I model 1955.  I will make exceptions out of that time period, as I explained on the three rail forum lately for the wonderful model I bought of the land speed record car Bluebird (1960) which despite being five years later I put on a flatcar on my layout.

Anyway, once a week, I check through Amazon.com.  I gt to the Toys and Games section and use the search to check for "1:43 1947" and check all the 1947 cars they offer.  then check 1948, and so forth, up through about 1965.  the stock changes every week as to the prices, but there are dozens and dozens of options for that time period each week, many very well priced.  The same will work for any period of time, including the '60s, '70s, etc.   If you are looking for cars and trucks of any period you will find enough there.  More than enough.

Thank you, Lee.

I just checked amazon out, and found a Ford Pickup that I've been looking for for a good while.

BK: I haven't checked the buy/sell forums yet, but I will soon.

Most of these cars are from my childhood. The first 7 are the real-world vehicle forms of the original Transformers Autobots. I really wanted to find a General Lee, but no one's tackled it yet. Road Champs simply neutered their then-existing Charger Daytona to get a Charger 500, instead of the R/T.

try diecast direct

You might want to read this.

https://ogrforum.com/d...nt/12411751681310938

You could check stores like Walgreen's, Dollar General, Family Dollar, Tractor Supply Company, and others, if you happen to drive near them.

Andrew

Also check the bay - both US and UK sites, under diecast cars.  I've found a surprising amount of US cars on the British e bay.  I just won a 78 Dodge police car there.  I look for 60's & 70's cars. 

It becomes more difficult if you are looking for a specific car model or color ('76 Chevy vs. '76 cream Chevy Caprice). For the best search, IMO, enter "1:43 1976" on eBay to see most of the cars available for that year. NEO/American Excellence is now making some fine models of '50s-'80s cars...but they are about $80..

Immediately after reading the advice above about Amazon.com, which I almost never visit, I checked it, and, voila', there were some Rextoy 1935 Fords on there, but they were the lettered panel trucks, (with brands demanding a repaint) etc., and none of the coupes, two and four doors for street scenes.  I think there were some of the 1940 Packards on there, but not in street livery.   Rextoy boomed and then busted, disappearing after the Packard was introduced and before they produced several other makes pictured in their tiny catalogs, two of which makes have been produced by Brooklin, at 3 times the price.

Brooklin, though, has tackled a problem with most "toy" cars, thousands and thousands of the same year, make, model, and body style produced, but no near

by years or other body styles.  A whole series of Buicks from the mid thirties, but

not 1940??, and hints of other Olds and Pontiacs (but no 1930's Chevrolets except

for one 1937 produced years ago) are offered. The Buicks have been of 1934-1939

Buicks and not all open car or limousines, but coaches and sedans as were commonly parked in front of Sears when you were in there looking at the holiday train display during grade school. These are obviously for steam era modelers.  Rextoy made myriads of 1935 Fords, but Ford, of course, produced cars from 1903 to date.

I need to check out the list of potential "local store" sources above.  I will find out if any fall into my era, offer street-likely body styles, or look like models and not toys.  (when I was a kid, I had a rubber mold plaster of Paris toy car casting set,

where you laid these metal rods for axles across the top of the mold, and poured

in the plaster.  I think they were painted with water colors, which made for some

very light shades, and when you tried to use the "models" as toys, a few runs on

the floor broke the axles out of the plaster...no surprise.)

I found a few cars at train shows 3 for 12 bucks in monroeville greenburg show. I got some police cars on the bay.  1:43 scale.  its all random though I got different types of cars and trucks.  walmart had a few for 6 bucks.  

Chris 

Colorado what exactly are you looking for? Email is in my profile.

Bob

I just purchased a few vehicles from Diecastdirect.com and they are a great resource. The collection of cars is searchable by toy manufacturer, vehicle make and vehicle type. I am sure that you will find some of cars that you are looking for. I know that they have a 1981 Cadillac Seville in 4 different color schemes.

I just purchased a Kinsmart 1950 Chevrolet Suburban school bus at CVS pharmacy. It is listed as 1:36 but it looks more like 1:43 to me. There were regular Suburbans in various colors too, but I figured I'd check the bus to my other 1:43 vehicles....looked OK to me. So might pick up a few more tonight. I guess I should keep a list of specs and a ruler in my wallet so I can always be prepared to check scale!

Paul Goodness

Paul if the school bus is more then 5 inches long then it's to big.

Bob

Bob, It is just 5 inches bumper to bumper. The wheel base is 2 7/8 inches. Width is 1 7/8 inches. When I put it next to my Yat Ming 1:43 cars it looks OK and very good next to my DIVCO trucks. Looks smaller than any of my 1:36 cars. I run toy-rail so for me I guess it will be "good enough". After all, I even use Homies in some areas of my layout. I will probably place it near other "larger" cars and people. I do have a CORGI 1:36 Goldfinger Rolls Royce III Sedance De Ville that I will be useing, which gives you an idea how the scale fidelity is for me.

Paul Goodness