Great images. My wife and I were antique dealers for 25 years. Passed along lots of old photos we sold as “instant relatives.”
I see very few roadster rollbars that I find appealing, too many either don't look like they'd do anything, they look too modern and stand out, or they look too homemade/cobbled and stand out that way. This one is quite good.
Back when my wife had a booth in a vintage/antique shop she used to always find cool old photos at the St Patricks School Shamrock Thrift Shop in Grover Beach on Grand Ave.. So Joey, next time you cruise down 101 to the Central Coast stop in and check them out plus don't forget a cinnamon roll at Old West Cinnamon rolls in Pismo Beach.
The amazing march of time. We see a scene, that back then, would have been sooo cool, Today it's cool but sooo quaint.
Hello, When our son was a upper level toddler, we used to go to a lot of antique stores. My wife and I were into old oak furniture and had lots of those refinished products all over our house. It gave our son a place to play when he was really little and would crawl into the lower parts of an old Hoosier cabinet and play for hours. His imagination back then was astounding. We always said he could make friends with a wall and have fun doing it. Ha! But, since there were three of us on an old antique search, we went to a lot of old stores in our So Cal neighborhoods. One was a short drive away in the middle of a lot of old hot rod antique parts stores and had several complete streets housing antique shops of all kinds. From structural antiques like large doors, stained glass panels and siding from old houses. All the way down to the standard antique store with trinkets and cousin Mary’s odd ball dinner set for 8 people. The old car photos were too fuzzy to see clearly and not going to work, even with a light antique brown photo tint. But, given the cameras of old… that is the way it was. We skipped by those displays and went right to the tables that had toys. Our son was a collector of hot wheels, matchbox and corgi little cars/trucks. He had money saved and liked to spend it on these road trips to the antique stores. One day he bought a little vw van with a surfboard. That was cool. But weeks later, it was gone. Why? He traded it to another neighborhood friend for several old hot rods and trucks 4 for one sounded good to him. Well, that one was worth a lot more, as we found out later. Perhaps priceless was the key. But, toys are all apart of playing with them. He was not one to put them on a counter and display them. They were his toys… Jnaki Now, the last generation of relatives have the collection of hot wheels, matchbox and corgi toys. They got lots of use and smiles when they were being taken to restaurant table tops and other folks’ homes to pass the time away as a kid playing with toys. Not display models. One day my wife’s sister will return the whole set of two large boxes full of the toys. So, what will we do with the whole collection when we get them back? Store them away as usual. Our granddaughter picked out some of the cars and kept them in her play bag, every time we went to the park, someone’s houses ot to the beach. One of her favorite things was to make a sand castle with wet sand and have a road go from outside of the walls across a moat and up into the castle. Creative things with cars and trucks. But they did get a little time worn with the inclusion of salt water, gritty sand and salt water rainfall from her garden pour spout can. But, they are toys and they all had a lot of action in the years of going to the beach. Value? Fun is the value… YRMV Note: Every year, we always set out “her Christmas Tree.” The hot wheels cars and trucks in our garage drawer come out to play during the winter months. It is a tradition that started in 1976 and has lasted all this time, with a new name ornament for each year noted. If we could not find a named ornament, then we made our own mini version. A couple of years ago, a new arrival with an Airstream trailer arrived…and was able to fit right onto the trailer hitch of the 55 Nomad. Then recently, a new Buick Skylark Convertible arrived to donate the rare wire wheels to the 1958 Impala build… YRMV
ala - ALA KART one of my all time favorites. Of course most of my favorites are ones I built the model kits of in the 50s & 60s.
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