Old automobiles

do you mean 1:43?  If so there are plenty of makers of the 1:43 scale in that era.  I have 1:43 pieces from solido, franklin mint and road champs...1:63... I'm not familiar with...you can find plenty in 1:64 though.  Let me know if need some 1:43s...I can probably help with those pieces.

Forty Rod posted:

I'm pretty much getting 1?63 cars and trucks for my Marx O-27 layout.  Finding lots of '1960s and later stuff but nothing much from 1935 until 1955, and almost nothing except muscle cars, hot rods, and luxury cars.  Does anyone make older vehicles and more common stuff like station wagons, family cars, and early imports?

 

How about motorcycles?

There is a 40 Ford sedan and a '32 Ford Model B and a 29 Ford Model A.   Renwal I believe.

And a fifties pickup truck with a Police Harley (old Revell kit) from the Pan/Knucklehead era.     Have not opened mine to see exactly what model it is, but it's one of the few motorcycles from the era. 

Seemingly lousy selection of 1:48 and 1:50 scale cars for O scale.   A bigger selection of 1:43 oversize cars. 

1:63 - 1:64 are S scale.  My Marx trains and a lot of Plasticville buildings are closer to S scale than they are to O.  I'm still trying to explain to people that I am NOT a model railroader ( was into HO scael for many years and sold the whole shebang about ten years ago.).   I'm playing with toy trains... late '40s to mid '70s.  Strict scale is not important as long as it's close and I'm not beyond plastic, slush-moulded alloys, tin, or even a few plaster vehicles.

Forty Rod posted:

1:63 - 1:64 are S scale.  My Marx trains and a lot of Plasticville buildings are closer to S scale than they are to O.  I'm still trying to explain to people that I am NOT a model railroader ( was into HO scael for many years and sold the whole shebang about ten years ago.).   I'm playing with toy trains... late '40s to mid '70s.  Strict scale is not important as long as it's close and I'm not beyond plastic, slush-moulded alloys, tin, or even a few plaster vehicles.

Playing with trains gives you lots more choices... but few of them are common old cars strangely.

Nope, no common Chevvies, Fords, Dodges or Packards.

Maybe inquiring over on the S scale forum would be useful?

There WAS a maker who did a lot of, not inexpensive, 1/64th trucks, box trucks, and tractor trailers, from '30's to '60's. Saw some at Strasburg show..  Can,t think of brand. Used to see a lot of them in that shop, closed, up over Strasburg train shop.

Go to the closest Wal-Mart. I see a bunch of 1:64 scale vehicles in the toy section every time I go there.

This is not new, all sorts of Cars and trucks and buses all can be had in a variety of scales surrounding O Gauge trains. In this image 1940's 1950's is museum level represented in 1:43, 1:48 models. 

I have a number of very nice 1/64 cars on my S gauge layout, but they only cover the 1950s. They are M2 Auto-Thentics brand, and they rival some of the more expensive 1/43 cars I have.

Diecast Direct has hundreds of 1/64 cars, but they only span 1950 to the present day. Some of the few older ones are 1930s hot rods and customs.

p51 posted:

Go to the closest Wal-Mart. I see a bunch of 1:64 scale vehicles in the toy section every time I go there.

Me too, but nothing "common".  I don't think Ford race cars, super super super charged rods, and late era muscle cars are going to work.

Forty Rod posted:

p51 posted:

Go to the closest Wal-Mart. I see a bunch of 1:64 scale vehicles in the toy section every time I go there.

Me too, but nothing "common".  I don't think Ford race cars, super super super charged rods, and late era muscle cars are going to work.

Well, that’s the overall problem with ALL die-cast cars. You see so few normal cars and trucks. I model the WW2 years in the extremely rural Blue Ridge area of Tennessee. You’d never see a Cord or Dusenberg (or other uber expensive type) in that place and time. Yet, that’s most of the pre-war cars you find in die-cast. It took a while to scare up good pre-war working-class vehicles and even still, I’m sure what I have is too ‘high-falootin’ for what you’d really have found in that place and time.

It took more than two weeks to find tires for my 1931 Rolls Royce. Then I had to use a razor knife to cut them in half, as they were too thick. And then my smart intelligent wife repainted it, and here it is!

I originally had 1:43 Vehicles on my railroad with Rail King trains, but overall, the 1:43 looked too small. Now I have larger 1:32 vehicles, and I find the variety of years and cars suits the time period of 1930s thru the mid 1950s that I model in.

I'd give my eye teeth for a few buses...Ford "cracker box" locals, mic '50s Greyhounds and Trailways, etc. that wouldn't cost as much as my mortgage payment.

Been collecting a lot of cars from antique shops around here.  Most are to scale, just exactly what scale is hard to tell, but if iIm careful about placement I think I can get by. Got three old Pyro models at the last train show.  They are about 1/43, but not quite.  Even found some Brit cast metal and one that appears to be fired clay of some sort and a half dozen old Post Cereal plastic cars that somehow survived unscathed.

Mid 20th century construction and farm equipment is scarce, too.

The brand of 1/64th l could not think of above, was Dehanes, and they offered a lot of interesting vintage trucks l wanted, but not in 1/43-1/50 O gauge.  I think they have joined the dinosaurs.  I don't ever remember seeing them in a train show.