O Scale Motor Chronicle Vol. III Feb. 1

That is a cool truck, and would be perfect for the time period of my layout.  I've wanted to get some of them. 

 

Below is a crop of four cars that arrived yesterday, from a place in Germany that sells through Amazon.  These cost around $11-$20 each plus about $13 shipping but . . . The company that sells them calls itself American Excellence, the cars say "Neo" underneath on the chassis, and they each came with a catalog for the diecast brand "Starline."   Anyway . . .  the two cars with numbers are Cisitalia 1100s - 1947 and 1950 models.  I removed the numbers (separate post/new thread on that).  The MG-TD is particularly nice and detailed.  The blue  is a Siata 208, a custom bodied GT made by the Italian tuner shop Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori  -- using the two liter Fiat V8. - it was in a class with Ferraris at the time.

Below, I was pleased to finally get some new cars and be able to rearrange the driveway of Fast Eddies - it had been the same for a year.  But I found I had no place to put the other cars.    I think this particularly place is going to become Hawthorn's (Mike) English Motorcars and I am goling to make another sports car place across town - maybe called Ascari's Scuderia Italiana or something where I can put alot of the Italian and German stuff I have.

These are both 1940 Packard police cars by Rextoys. One with door decals and one without.

 

 

 

The Diamond T Is correct for my era but the Hess graphics are from the mid 60s.
Ertl Diamond T semi tractors can usually be found for sale on e-bay, Sometimes with a trailer.

Still need to make some wheel chocks for it, but atheren 1/50 ford c trucks. My grandfather drove for branch motor express and retired in 76.

Lee,

 

go to www.american-excellence.com - you can order directly from them. I believe they have a distribution point in Florida. I've purchased directly from them without a hassle.

Thanks for the tip, but it's not the same "American Excellence" - I check this site out about once a month and have several old Caddies, Buicks, Pontiacs from them.  I'ts a good site, and American Excellence models are fantastic in detail and paint and fit, but they do not have all three cars I show above, the Cisitalia, the Siata, or the MG-TD. 

 

"American Excellence" I bought from is a store in Germany.  I have no idea if they are related to this American Excellence, but their cars are mostly European and while they have a few that overlap this website, many that are different.

Here are a couple of funeral cars that I like. The hearse is a 1939 La Salle......

 

 

I am so happy to have this car.

 

This is now the exact copy of the car that I left parked in the side yard of my childhood home on the day I left for the U.S.Navy in 1958. (including the fender skirts and the color scheme).

 

 Just finished painting the roof white, it came with a light green roof. Brooklin 1:43

 

Thanks for looking, Casey.

 

 

 

That's very nice.  A car that has a special, personal, attachment like that is fantastic.  The roof looks factory painted, by the way . . .

Having an exact model of a car from your youth. How cool can that be?
It takes guts to repaint an expensive model. You did a nice job.
Nostalgia is the strongest force that drives this hobby and the old car hobby as well.

in your British garage have the lights flicker (Lucas ) and have the hood up of a XKE with smoke from a smoke unit waffling around. or a Sunbeam

Q: Why do the English drink warm beer?

 

A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators!

 

Back in the '70s, I could actually tell by the sound of the exhaust on my 3-liter Healey when the fuel pump points were about five minutes from going.  I could pull over, jack up the car (speed jack, knock off wheels), remove the right rear tire, remove the Lucas fuel pump, substitute the spare, and be back on my way in ten minutes.  I had to do it so often. Several friends put American aftermarket pumps on their cars, but I kept the car completely unmodified.