I would like more 1980s and some 70s cars. I would like more non sports cars. An early 80s Toyota Carolla or Celica would be great. A 1978 Subaru station wagon or a Brat would rule. An Early 80's Chevy Beauville van. A Dodge van with some 70's custom mods like a mushroom or porthole window and a dragon fighting a wizard mural would be fun. A Honda that would be great to see would be a Civic hatch back. A Chrysler K car like an Aries. A Volkwagon Vanagon. A Jeep Grand Cherokee with the woody panels. I love a good Chevy Caprice classic. A Crysler town and county station wagon with the woody panels would be great as well. There is a fun wish list of cars that are memorable but not offered a lot in die cast.
( I would like to see more 1:50 or 1:48 scale 1950's to the 1980's tractor trailers! )
yes ones that we can afford and in red if possible 35 foot and 40 foot trailers are much easier placed on my set than the 53 foot trailers that are being offered
a few COE 's would alright also
CAPPilot posted:Any car from an US automaker made prior to 1950, but definitely more late 40s models. And more basic models because the little people on my layout are not that rich.
I'll second that, and add at affordable prices. Brooklin, et. al. make some very nice models, but at those prices, only the wealthy can afford to populate a layout with them.
I picked up one of those Dodge vans at a local train show. It looked a little customized, lowered, white wall tires, driver, silver and white paint scheme, but I believe its a Hot Wheels product and just the driver was added.
My entire layout is represented as "Welcome to 1950", so I have had to limit myself to cars that might have been around throughout 1950, which has been a fun project. i do own about 200 1/43 scale vehicles, all of which are on the layout itself, including trucks and construction equipment, fire apparatus as well as, of course, automobiles themselves. For a long while, due to limited funds, I stuck with the cheaper, more common cars from people like Ertl, Road champs, even K-Line. But a few years ago my wife, knowing that I like Nashes, bought me a Brooklin model of a 1935 Nash Ambassador. she probably paid more than $100 for the car and it was quickly placed in a prominent place on the layout. It added some variety to the "mix" of cars which I really liked.
Since then I have been able to purchase a number of more expensive models from Brooklin, Solido and other companies. My layout no longer looks like a study in Wal Mart grade merchandise with about a dozen of these cars scattered around the layout.
But, to answer the original question, I would really like two cars, very special to me: First, a 1941 Cadillac convertible, a car which has always been at the very top of my list for class, beauty, prestige, etc. Always wished I could own a real one, but, oh well! The other car is a Bathtub Nash from 1949, 1950 or 1951. I know that Brooklin once made this model but I have never been able to find one at a reasonable price. Not an unusual car, but one I feel would help round out the layout mix.
Paul Fischer
A '41 Caddy is a fine car and would fit on my layout, but again, diecast seems to be about the high-end cars and rarely about the average. Who had the money to buy a Cadillac in 1940? Not too many people could.
What I want, most of all: Pre-war trucks with trailers! Nobody seems to make good scale diecast of a large truck before the 50s or so. Yes, I know they weren't terribly common on the roads prior to the 50s, but they were out there.
Heck, the RR I model had TOFC cars for them in the 1930s!*
*They weren't being used by the WW2 years, so I can't use them on my layout, darn it.
When I needed a 60's style garbage truck I used an Athearn Ford C cab chassis and a New Ray garbage truck body. I'm thinking I might try that with a few Corgis to get close to the truck I posted.
Very Nicely Detailed dozers, pipelayers, etc from the 40's and 50's.
Silver Lake posted:I would like more 1980s and some 70s cars. I would like more non sports cars. An early 80s Toyota Carolla or Celica would be great. A 1978 Subaru station wagon or a Brat would rule. An Early 80's Chevy Beauville van. A Dodge van with some 70's custom mods like a mushroom or porthole window and a dragon fighting a wizard mural would be fun. A Honda that would be great to see would be a Civic hatch back. A Chrysler K car like an Aries. A Volkwagon Vanagon. A Jeep Grand Cherokee with the woody panels. I love a good Chevy Caprice classic. A Crysler town and county station wagon with the woody panels would be great as well. There is a fun wish list of cars that are memorable but not offered a lot in die cast.
I sold the 1:24 Westfalia model version about a month ago, but I had a smaller cast one too. I think it was 1:50-1:52. I looked at the remainder of the collection but it looks like I sold it. But it may be in my garage too. I'll keep in in mind if I find it.
You should research the foreign names for it. That was always a good way to hunt older VW toys. T3-Type 2. T3, Type 2,T2, are the more technical terms for it. The T designation is its own newer term adding more confusion when shortened considering "Type" used the same abbreviation, and that could also refer to the body, frame type, and/or a tranny, or engine. They might be water cooled, or air cooled with a Type V engine 
Try a site called "The Samba".
While looking around for your's, I did uncover a forgotten limited edition corgi 1950's T2-VW, and a streamlined Fordson panel truck for myself.1:50-ish? (it's not listed, what's corgi scales near O?)
A perfect fit for my own layout because I just converted a tin Marx passenger car from diner to a hobby shop. I added a small toy train, and two Lionel magnets to the roof for a sign. With those parked outside the store, I'll have to think about a "Collectibles" sign too.; they have murals on the truck's sides of Marvel Comic Book cover art, taken from vintage Captain America books
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Ironic paint jobs for two European classics 
J Daddy posted:
a few of these around the round house would always look good.
One of my favorites for mid fifties model railroads.
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CAPPilot posted:Any car from an US automaker made prior to 1950, but definitely more late 40s models. And more basic models because the little people on my layout are not that rich.
1949 Ford Coupe is one of my favorites
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Robert Macfie posted:( I would like to see more 1:50 or 1:48 scale 1950's to the 1980's tractor trailers! )
yes ones that we can afford and in red if possible 35 foot and 40 foot trailers are much easier placed on my set than the 53 foot trailers that are being offered
a few COE 's would alright also
One of my favorite Ertl early tractor+trailer sets.
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Ertl 1948 Diamond T tractor
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CHOO-CHOO MIKE posted:I'd like a white 4 door 61 Impala with a red stripe.
I had a 62 Impala, white with red stripe and red interior.
I would like a 1/48 or 1/50 1950s style school bus.
How about this?
Bob
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There are a lot of MODERN model school bus models out there. I want a 1940, Chevrolet or Reo or other uncommon make, but, even a Ford, for 1940 or prior, will do, as I will promptly make a railbus out of it. (I have a model T Ford schoolbus model but it is so small).
colorado hirailer posted:There are a lot of MODERN model school bus models out there. I want a 1940, Chevrolet or Reo or other uncommon make, but, even a Ford, for 1940 or prior, will do
I agree fully. Other than extreme high-end cars, pickups to 3/4 ton trucks, there are next to no diecast pre-WW2 vehicles out there. Very few people modeling a pre-VJ day era can have appropriate models other than modeling a very rich neighborhood where everyone has the most expensive cars being made.
Not much working-class vehicles out there for this era.
How about 1941 Fords?
Bob
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Hey guys looking for old school buses....let me re-post this pic....a Ford AA from a Russian vendor on EB**.....added people, paint, and home-made decals.....John A
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Cool bus.
Were school busses all yellow back then, too?
p51 posted:Cool bus.
Were school busses all yellow back then, too?
J Daddy posted:Went to my local car show that happens every week in Milford and found a Nice Holiday Sedan - 1956 Oldsmobile that I wish I not only could own - maybe one day - but sure would be nice to have a version on the layout... What vehicles would you like on your layout?
Looked on eBay. Found 256 listings for Oldsmobiles. Lots of 55's and 57's but only one listed as a 56 Starfire Convertible. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a whole lot of difference between 55 and 56 models. Hardtops and sedans are more rare, and you really have to pay up for those. Nice cars, if you can find them. And the real versions are even better, but WAY more money. Good luck. Bob
P51: Back when I was a kid, during the WWII years, school buses were painted red, white and blue. Of course they were of rather early designs, having been built before 1941. I remember some that were built on truck chassis, with the engine hood and front fenders, usually painted black, out in front of the body itself. But I also remember some early attempts at streamlining that appeared on some of the more recent buses. I don't think that yellow became the accepted color until the late 1940's or early 1950's.
I never got to ride on any of these buses because we lived within a mile, or so, of school and we weren't entitled to bus rides. (I can remember trudging through well over two feet of snow that fell during the blizzard of 1947 in Milwaukee on my way home from school.) Once I recall, that we went on a "field trip" down to the Milwaukee Public Museum and we took an old, regular city bus from the TMER&LCo, but it was a really old Twin Coach, the one with the two engines on each side of the center of the bus, and had rounded glass corners and big, pedestal mounted headlights like on an interurban. Now, that's a 1/50 scale model that I would die for!
Paul Fischer
So the Blue Bird factory in Ga. has or had the real thing? They were selling cases of those Model T models, which is exactly what I was talking about....I thought that plant closed?? I sold a couple of cases of them setting up in train shows like Wheaton, but I think I sold all but one model. I saw them in shows for a while, the models, but haven't seen any offered for several years.
Paul,
My Dad lived very close to the elementary school and it didn't go up the Hollow he lived on until last, so it was walk or be home on an hour. Not much of a choice. None of the busses on Stoney Creek were yellow through the 30s or WW2 years either, I'd asked my parents about that a few years back. I'm pretty sure the busses there were black or darker colors from the photos I've found. They would have been 6 or 7 by the summer of 43 when my layout takes place.
But red white and blue in your case comes as no surprise to me.
FYI, there are plenty of these on O scale, thank goodness, in 1/48 and 1/43.
This is mine, a 1944 Willys. I checked all the various fluids, changed the oil and drove it around the neighborhood. I do this every spring but was very late this year and didnt do much with it over the winter as I was focused on the layout and we had one of the wettest winters on record.
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I've been looking for years for one of these.
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colorado hirailer posted:So the Blue Bird factory in Ga. has or had the real thing? They were selling cases of those Model T models, which is exactly what I was talking about....I thought that plant closed?? I sold a couple of cases of them setting up in train shows like Wheaton, but I think I sold all but one model. I saw them in shows for a while, the models, but haven't seen any offered for several years.
I interviewed for blue bird back in 2006. And the bus was still in the plant and used for parades. The plant was operating then. I decided to stay in Michigan and weather out the economic storm. The bus was in excellent shape.
Good morning, Duke I agree with you.
I have been looking for some late 40's early 50's single axle or early tandem axle dump trucks.
Woodland Scenics has some vehicles including a tandem axle dump truck that would be perfect, but they only come in HO.
They also over an older dozer looks like a Euclid cable blade that would be great also but again, only in HO.
Mark: I see many "dump" trucks, but none with the scissors-type lift mechanism with a closed cab. We had a coal heater growing up and I loved those trucks from our local coal yard. I even ask the toy truck guys at York each time I'm there. Keep me in mind if you track any down close to O scale. Thanks, Guy
Hello Duke, I have asked at York also with the same results as you.
I come across something I will let you know !!!!!!
Stanley
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This one is for Tom. One of many available.
Bob
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Bob,
Very nice. Thanks.
Tom
Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I'd be in for modern, average cars from today. Not just police Tahoes, Impalas and Chargers, but stuff like Honda Odyssey vans, some of the new CUVs (e.g. Ford Escape, HR-V), and smaller cars like the Civic, Corolla, maybe even a Prius or Tesla.
I'd also really love to see an Acura (Honda for the British) NSX from the early 1990s in both hardtop and Targa versions. 
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