O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle Sept 13

I'm afraid they got the Jaguar drophead a bit wrong. The windshield area is supposed to be body color (part of the body) with silver trim around the glass. Side vents are silver.

Vitesse made a correct one.

I'll be looking forward to the Buick wagon.

Looking forward to these. One I've never seen anyone do is the very obscure 1960 Edsel. Yes, they did make one but they are rarely seen (I think they were rarely seen even in 1960). Saw one about six months ago and nearly sprained my neck doing a double-take. It was a four-door like the yellow one here. Supposedly they stayed in production until 1961-1962.

Wow - thanks for the heads up.  I missed these.  I really appreciate it.

I will definitely, absolutely, right now, try to get the '52 Buick station wagon.  Very cool.  I have to have one. 

I will also get the Jaguar as I need it to fill in my set of 1950ish Jags - don't have a 140.  I can paint the windscreen frame, etc.  I have three jaguar sedans on my layout (1934 SS Jaguar 2.5 liter sedan and two of Morse's 1960 S sedan) and three sports/racing XKs cars: the XK-120 bubble canopy that held some LSR class record at around 175 mph, a stock XK-120 (I love the stamped steel wheels on this one) and an XK-150.

The two non-racers have a permanent place on the layout in Nigel Quick's British motorcars dealership, the 150 the sole car on display inside the building.  The bubble-canopy racer stays on my land-speed record train (eight flatcars with 14 land speed record cars on them, so far).

I'll also take the opportunity to show I took apart and rebuilt every standard model of Austin Healey made.  In the photo below, fromthe right: a late series Sprite, a 1955 100-4 (BN2), a flat windscreen 3000 from around 1960 (BN7), a final series of curved windscreen 3000 (BJ8), and the Healey Lemans racer from the mid '60s - it bore no relation to the production cars (Lola chassis, F1 engine).  Alos on order but taking their own sweet time getting here: a bugeye Sprite, a steamlined nose/fastback Sprite Lemans racer, and a model of one of Healey's 3000 LeMans entries - I think it placed 6th in the mid 50s, something like that.  I also have two 3000s on order to cut apart and build one model of the Austin Healey 4000 prototype (someday).

The green '60 3000 is a permanent fixture on my layout, part of the oldest vignette in my downtown: two avid British sports car owners meeting to talk.  The other production Healeys are in Nigel Quick's car lot.

The 1960 Edsel front end looked similar to the '61 Pontiac Tempest.

Brooklin made a '60 Edsel convertible between 1998-2004.

Th 1960 Edsal was in production for only 2 months. Brooklin made a 1960 convertible, (BK75) but is has been discontinued. There is one on e-bay now

The 1959 Plymouth Fury is my favorite, I guess.  I like the 1960 Ford and 1958 Chevy too, also.  Wish the Chevy was anything but a convertible though.

I have a similar Jag by New Ray, so will pass on this one.

I am with you on the convertible thing. Convertibles were a small percentage of the cars on the road. Besides the roof designs of '50s cars was was a large part of their styling especially the C panels and rear window.

Thanks for offering this thread like you do.  It's my favorite recurring thread.  Here's the New Ray Jaguar, and a '59 Ford somewhat similar to the one shown above.  I guess it's a top-down convertible, as the roof has a pebble grain to it.  I got it about 20 years ago.  There's no brand on it; it's made in Thailand.

The New Ray XK-120 is quite nice except for the windscreen frame.  It is a bit too thick and upright.  I made a new one with a scrap of clear plastic that was the box window on a rolling stock I bought and have it somewhere in my trainroom.