Merry Christmas from O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle Dec 19

Right back at you.

Merry Christmas to you as well, Richard. Here is this week's contribution.

Merry Christmas! 

Art

And back to  you Richard, and to all of the guys who populate this little topic.  I've enjoyed each and every one of  your "studies".  May all of you have a wonderful, Merry Christmas and a Prosperous nad Healthy New Year!  I look forward to continuing these Friday sessions in the New Year, as well.

Paul Fischer

Merry Christmas, too!  

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Richard, your topic two weeks ago got me off the fence and I ordered the Nash-Healey. I am a Healey freak from way back (have owned and restored five 100s or 3000s, and three Sprites, one of them a Lemans hardtop.   While I would have preferred the '51, I could only find the '54 (Brooklin).  I touched up the paint (cowl around the interior, buttons for the tonneau cover). 

I must admit this is not my favorite car.  Here it is to a "real" Healey, a 100-4, which would have been a contemporary of it, and was much more pure sports car.  Still, the Nash Healey is interesting . . . 

I got this Muntz Jet, which I like more than I expected.  In 3-D, even as a model, it has clean lines and its attractive.  Particularly with the Cadillac V8, it was supposed to be quite fast for its time.  Again, its not a pure sports car - its almost exactly the same size as a '64 Falcon coupe I have . . . but its a car I could see me owning and driving if I had been my age now in the '50s.  Cool car

Neither of those cars will spend a lot of time on the layout.  This will.  While shopping for those guys I found this used Solido '50 Buick three-hole convertible, at a very good price.  It is not the greatest model in the world (no door panels inside, no "glass" in the rear window of the top, etc., and it was a very bright red, which just seems wrong for a Buick.  Here it is repainted, etc. I'm going to scratch build a foldered convertible top for it and it will be parked on the layout pretty permanently.  

Lee; Very nice purchases.

Lee:  Thanx for the posting.  I like what you did to the Buick;  looks good.  On the other hand, I have always been a Nash fan, coming from Milwaukee as I have.  since I was an early teenager, I have always admired the 1948 Nash Ambassador convertible.   Also, knowing that I could never afford one, then or now.  They only built 300 of them and I wonder if 10 are still in existence.   I'd also like to find a '49 or '50 "bathtub" Nash in 1/43 to really add variety to the layout.

But the Nash Healey really hits a strong note with me.  One of my friends owned one and I got to drive it, perhaps 35 years ago.  I thought it was a really neat car.  Of course it didn't have the refinements of a  Jaguar XL120 of it's day;  The Nash had only a three speed transmission with the Borg Warner overdrive, but I still thought it was a pretty hot car.  Of course, the V-8 era of Corvettes, etc. came on and little six cylinder motors were left in the dust.

Paul Fischer

A very Merry Christmas to you as well. While these collectibles are nice to have, and I appreciate them, it can really make for one expensive layout.  The budget approach is to populate a layout with inexpensive 40's and 50's vehicles, (Yat Ming and that type of stuff) at $5 to $7 each. Some of the collectible O gauge vehicles can go for $100 or more and there is a brisk collector market for them.  

Merry Christmas To All, Richard, Thank you for this thread every week, sure do enjoy it.

Lee, Nice Cars.

Thanks, Richard, and all who contribute to this...one of my favorite weekly topics on the forum.  Merry Christmas to All!!

A Merry Christmas to all, and here's a 1/43 Christmas item - a Corgi truck full of Christmas trees.

that is a cool truck, particularly this time of year.  We see a lot of them just about like that around here, since NC is the #2 producing Christmas tree state.

Merry Christmas to you too Richard. I enjoy your threads a lot and look forward to seeing new and unknown models here.

Not rare or particularly special but I've always liked these 55/56 Chryslers. A neighbor had a 55 when we were kids and it was a nice car.

This Imperial Coupe has a good shiny finish on it

Richard,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too

Alex

Richard,

   Merry Christmas to you and your family, got to get a couple more of your Cars & Trucks no doubt about it.

PCRR/Dave

I, and I am sure, many others thank you for contributing this thread to the forum.

Wishing you the best of a memorable holiday.