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Still doing more research. I took the truck apart and did not find any manufacture marks or numbers. While it looks like the same body and trailer...
My truck does look like the image you showed. Are you sure that image is Marx? I can't read the writing on the truck door. When I look up Marx...
Not exactly a Hot Rod but I have this cool old truck and trailer in my collection for a few years that I am having a hard time identifying. There...
A Nylint Econoline truck and a trailer I paired up for this custom build. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Just saw on our morning news that Rita Moreno is currently visiting Rochester to accept the George Eastman award for her work as a distinguished...
Helping a friend with an estate cleanout and found some vintage cast iron toys. This one is an Arcade farm model W&K Fordson tractor. I kept...
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Always liked this image of our kids with our 61 Corvair. Our Son is a great Dad and an automotive engineer in Michigan since the late 90's. Our...
Got a 57 Chevy convertible that needed restoration in a Franklin and Danbury Mint diecast collection I found last month. I could not save the...
Been attending since the beginning including 1995 when it was an NSRA event. Always a great weekend show. Hope more of the old vendors start...
Nice vintage can collection. While I don't have many old cans, I do have an ever-growing collection of rattle can industrial marbles. [ATTACH]...
I like car haulers and tow trucks. Sometimes I create them from broken diecast vehicles and spare parts. Here are some I added to my collection...
With honor this weekend our Family remembers an Uncle I never got to meet. USAAF 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Dalberth. Uncle Art became a pilot at an...
Jeepsterhemi, that is my old 61 Corvair and our kids back in the early 80's when I took the picture of them playing. I must have posted it...
In the late 50's and 60's my brother and I would go to Hermans Hobby Shop and spend the silver dollars our dad gave us on model cars. We also...
Years ago, I was loading wood in the back of a 37 Chevy Kingcab streetrod pickup I had built. A guy started a conversation how his uncle had one...
A couple of my full-size builds that I recreated several years ago in small diecast. I also did my 56 using a larger Franklin Mint diecast....
This day in Corvair History... On April 11, 1958, the secret that General Motors would build a small compact car at the Willow Run Assembly Plant...
Created another tabletop display with the rusty toy train passenger car I found a few weeks ago. Mounted it on wood saved from a 150 year old...
Brings back a memory when my Brother and I would ride our bikes to Hermans Hobby Shop and buy model cars with old silver dollars that our Dad...
All the young kids were calling my 2010 Custom Camaro build from several years ago a "Shooting Brake". I had to look it up to see what it meant....
Looks like the Heinrich Chevrolet building in Rochester, NY. Heinrich opened their dealership in 1933 at 214 Lake Ave. (We called that area the...
Time to thin out one of my Cabinets. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In 1955 I got a toy Areial Fire Truck for Christmas that I still have. After my kids and grandkids were old enough to stop playing with it, I...
Love the look of a 54 Chevy grille on a 58 Chevy. Several years ago, I did the same on one of my 58 mild custom builds. [ATTACH]
Always admired Gene's creative ability. Enjoyed the times I got to talk to him at Detroit Autorama and Syracuse Nationals the past 20 plus years....
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Still enjoying the 56. Met lots of others who did similar conversions. A local friend has a nice 57 conversion he did....
Wandered around a toy show on Sunday and seem to always be attracted to the bulk junk bins some vendors have. Picked up a bag that had some...
Cold Sunday so I wandered around a huge toy show this morning. I like tow trucks and car hauler and have several. A friend found me this custom...
A little more modern one-of-a-kind diecast build I did last month. Found a monster truck chassis at Goodwill. I then raided my spare parts stash...
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