Classic Models Corp (CMC) 1971 Catalog

That's pretty cool.  Anyone see any of these in person?

John23 posted:

That's pretty cool.  Anyone see any of these in person?

I have a number of those pictured. Overall between CMC & it's later CMT incarnation, I have about 70 pieces.

Steve

Thank you for posting the catalog. I had not seen it before.

Very cool! Thank you for sharing. I'd love to know what yesteryear prices were!!

roundtownrr posted:

 I'd love to know what yesteryear prices were!!

We can do that.  1971 Classic Models (CMC) price list:

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david

Love the catalog - thanks for posting, Steve.  David - thanks also for posting the price list -- very informative.

Anyone have any idea who the young man is in the catalog?  He'd likely be in his early to mid-fifties today.  It would be interesting to see what he remembers about the creation of the catalog and/or the trains.

Rob Shaubach posted:

Anyone have any idea who the young man is in the catalog?  He'd likely be in his early to mid-fifties today.  It would be interesting to see what he remembers about the creation of the catalog and/or the trains.

CMC was founded by Fred Mills and Jerry Williams in 1969.  The partnership didn't last long, and Williams left in a couple of years to found Williams Reproductions Limited. So the youngster in the 1970 catalog may have been some relation to Mills or Williams.  Or not.

I suppose there is also a remote possibibility that he might be a young neighbor of Jerry Williams, who was very into trains at a young age, later worked for Williams after school, and ended up buying out  WRL and renaming it.

Or not.

david

wolf wolf!

Steamer posted:

wolf wolf!

Wouldn't that be funny