O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle May 2

I always wanted a '64 'vette - preferred it to the split window personally and I liked them with the small block, great cars.  But the Camaro was all I could afford at the time.

I checked diecastdirect and found Spark had also released a'67 Z28.  Close enough to a '68 (first new car I ever bought): I'll have to repaint it but I will now have another of the favorite cars I owned. Yippee!

I almost bought that '50 Bentley at York, but bought the NEO '54 Pontiac Bonneville Motorama dream car instead. Both were at the DiecastDirect booth in the Orange Hall. The Pontiac was the only one they had, so I was glad I got to their booth a few minutes after the opening on Thursday.

Department 56 introduced several versions of this van. It was a model of a full size version they kept at their Eden Prairie showroom. By far the most collectible of these is the "gold Edition" made for key stockholders when the firm went public. The vast majority were black with different names on the sides sometimes representing larger D56 dealers. There was also a silver version for their 25th Anniversary.

Richard - That '36 Pontiac is a sweet car. 

Art

The wheels on that '60 Vette are strange - they look like the Fuchs alloy wheels on my '86 Porsche 944 Turbo. They obviously aren't stock, and they don't really look like typical American cast wheels of the 60's.