It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

If you can think of something to talk about that is not related to knives, discuss it here.
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

Another big lot from a source I regularly do business with on another forum.

Most of these are filler condition English-made Matchbox, but some are quite scarce odd European brands that are near impossible to find in the US. Some displayable as-is, others need repainting or even parts replaced (lots of inexpensive reproduction parts are available for the brands I collecrlt, others will need to be fabricated).
image_185541.jpg
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

cody6268 wrote: Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:35 pm Another big lot from a source I regularly do business with on another forum.

Most of these are filler condition English-made Matchbox, but some are quite scarce odd European brands that are near impossible to find in the US. Some displayable as-is, others need repainting or even parts replaced (lots of inexpensive reproduction parts are available for the brands I collecrlt, others will need to be fabricated).
Wow Cody! Looking forward to seeing your pictures of those. ::nod:: ::tu:: :D

I just bought a green 68' Plymouth Barracuda. ::nod::
Our High School mascot in FL was the Barracuda. ::super_happy::
Attachments
s-l1600 - 2022-02-10T100809.171.jpg
s-l1600 - 2022-02-10T100801.054.jpg
s-l1600 - 2022-02-10T100752.639.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

Another Hot Wheels is on it's way. :oops: ::shrug::

This one is a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. ::tu::
Not sure what year it's supposed to be. I'd guess the late 70's ? ::shrug::
I always thought "T-TOPS" are cool. 8) Anybody know what year it is? ::shrug::

Thanks for looking friends! ::handshake::
Attachments
s-l1600 - 2022-02-12T175742.014.jpg
s-l1600 - 2022-02-12T175051.930.jpg
s-l1600 - 2022-02-12T174945.513.jpg
s-l1600 - 2022-02-12T174630.454.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
jmh58
Posts: 13448
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:22 pm
Location: Pgh,Pa

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by jmh58 »

77-78??
My guess. ::shrug:: 😉
John 💥
Not all who wander are lost!!

Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure some of them are Dirt!!!
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

Thanks John! ::handshake::

I've been looking around the Internet trying to figure it out. Haven't been able to find any information as to what year it's supposed to be but I did find a nicer picture of it. ::tu:: Maybe it will be stated on the bottom of the car. ::shrug::

Click to enlarge. ::nod:: ::super_happy::
Attachments
HotBird.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
WillyCamaro
Posts: 6092
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:03 am

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by WillyCamaro »

The designers based it off the '77 Firebird; when they changed to the new front end, wide slotted tail-lights, & wrap-a-round rear windshield.

Casting was first introduced in said same year, and redone in '06.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Firebird#1977
https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Bird
"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34
User avatar
cudgee
Posts: 6187
Joined: Thu May 16, 2019 7:21 am
Location: Victoria. Australia.

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cudgee »

TPK wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:22 pm Thanks John! ::handshake::

I've been looking around the Internet trying to figure it out. Haven't been able to find any information as to what year it's supposed to be but I did find a nicer picture of it. ::tu:: Maybe it will be stated on the bottom of the car. ::shrug::

Click to enlarge. ::nod:: ::super_happy::
::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::ds:: ::ds:: ::ds:: ::tu::
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

WillyCamaro wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:57 am The designers based it off the '77 Firebird; when they changed to the new front end, wide slotted tail-lights, & wrap-a-round rear windshield.

Casting was first introduced in said same year, and redone in '06.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Firebird#1977
https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Bird
Thanks Willy! ::handshake:: I was hopeing you'd jump in there with your wisdom. ::nod:: ::tu::
Can you tell me about the TH or Treasure Hunt cars? Why are they so expensive? ::shrug::
Yes I could research it. Asking is easier. ::facepalm::

::super_happy::
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

cudgee wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:33 am
TPK wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:22 pm Thanks John! ::handshake::

I've been looking around the Internet trying to figure it out. Haven't been able to find any information as to what year it's supposed to be but I did find a nicer picture of it. ::tu:: Maybe it will be stated on the bottom of the car. ::shrug::

Click to enlarge. ::nod:: ::super_happy::
::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::woot:: ::ds:: ::ds:: ::ds:: ::tu::
Thanks Buddy! ::handshake:: ::super_happy::
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
WillyCamaro
Posts: 6092
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:03 am

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by WillyCamaro »

TPK wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:55 am
WillyCamaro wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:57 am The designers based it off the '77 Firebird; when they changed to the new front end, wide slotted tail-lights, & wrap-a-round rear windshield.

Casting was first introduced in said same year, and redone in '06.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Firebird#1977
https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Bird
Thanks Willy! ::handshake:: I was hopeing you'd jump in there with your wisdom. ::nod:: ::tu::
Can you tell me about the TH or Treasure Hunt cars? Why are they so expensive? ::shrug::
Yes I could research it. Asking is easier. ::facepalm::

::super_happy::
No problem Tom! It's my pleasure to help a fellow collector in need. ::handshake::

I was going to answer with cynical joking, but it's the whole market is beyond joking. Especially on the new stuff, it's scalpers, & the people supporting it, that are driving prices bonkers.
On the old/er stuff, it's the market demand of a huge number of collectors, trying to buy those so many cars in circulation. Rarity & low numbers on the older sups/exclusives, drive prices.

Like knives, these last 2 years have driven the market mad. Prices are the indication of how many new collectors are there are. It's a super fun hobby that hooks you snap, entry is a low bar when you find them in store.
As long as there isn't a stock-market crash/depression, and people have extra money to burn, the hobby is going to stay screaming hot.

Hope that sheds a little light on the hobby, & the outrageous goings on that happen day-to-day.... :mrgreen:

I've been helped more times then I can count, so I just return the favor whenever I can.
::tu::
"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

WillyCamaro wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:34 am
TPK wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:55 am
WillyCamaro wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:57 am The designers based it off the '77 Firebird; when they changed to the new front end, wide slotted tail-lights, & wrap-a-round rear windshield.

Casting was first introduced in said same year, and redone in '06.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Firebird#1977
https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Bird
Thanks Willy! ::handshake:: I was hopeing you'd jump in there with your wisdom. ::nod:: ::tu::
Can you tell me about the TH or Treasure Hunt cars? Why are they so expensive? ::shrug::
Yes I could research it. Asking is easier. ::facepalm::

::super_happy::
No problem Tom! It's my pleasure to help a fellow collector in need. ::handshake::
I've been helped more times then I can count, so I just return the favor whenever I can.
::tu::
Thanks Buddy! ::handshake:: Appreciate it! ::super_happy::
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

It was cheap. ::shrug:: :mrgreen:
Attachments
s-l1600 - 2022-03-13T085503.702.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

Tom, I think I did that too just now. I had bid on this one like last week, and logging onto eBay this afternoon learned I had won it. It ended cheaper than I expected, and I had promotional credits bringing the price down to $9 shipped. I don't know how old the $11.95 price tag is, but in 1991 (when the model was new), it was equal to just short of $25 today.

Scale Models Ford/Versatile 876
s-l1600SCV976.jpg

Scale Models was founded by the founder of ERTL, Joseph Ertl, shortly after ERTL was sold in the early '80s. Most of the early pieces were plastic and not licensed. Later, they got the license for several brands--among them Case IH/Farmall, Ford/New Holland, White Farm Equipment, and Kinze, among others. They mostly produce pedal tractors now, but are still in business. All the models are produced in the USA.

I have several Minneapolis Moline (all bought as a lot from one collector) models, mostly small, and all but two of them are the early plastic offerings. Heck, three of them aren't technically Minneapolis Moline, and back when they were new, he had purchased aftermarket decals to convert them into G850 and G940 models.

I've been moving from the largely smaller vintage tractors I owned in my youth (biggest then was the 9420T by ERTL) to large articulated units intended for heavy tillage, as well as big disks and seeders as well. The card is battered, so I will be setting this one free. I will have to find a disk that is not John Deere green (Case red or New Holland blue is good enough), however. All the disks/mulch rippers in my collection now are Deere.
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

Congrats Cody! ::handshake:: ::super_happy::

My Gators plate came this week. I'll add it to my small collection of U.S. car plates out in my car port. ::tu::
I'd like to have one from all 50 states some day but that goal is a long way off. I have ::hmm:: 4 or maybe 5 as of now so it could be years till I reach that goal. :lol: The really nice ones that make a reference to something special like say for example a MD plate with reference to the Chesapeake Bay are the type of plates I'd really like to have but they are sooooo ($50 - $100) expensive over here that I'll have to settle for the "Plane Jane" plates for the most part. :roll:
Attachments
IMG_20220319_084351_178.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
WillyCamaro
Posts: 6092
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:03 am

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by WillyCamaro »

Well done Cody!

We run a '94 846 here, and Dad just finally scored a '98 9282; low hours, gps, babied it's whole life: the works!
Awesome 4-wheelers.

::tu::
"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

To buy real Zippo brand products I have to make an extra trip to a city about 25 miles away from where I live. With gas prices at close to $10 a gallon ::uc:: it's cheaper to pay for shipping than it is to drive 25 miles to get it. ::nod:: This set of 4 fluids, 12 stones & 2 wicks should hold me for a good while. ::tu::
Attachments
s-l1600 - 2022-04-03T192037.671.jpg
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
Steve Warden
Posts: 6320
Joined: Wed May 27, 2015 4:18 pm
Location: Cherry Hill, NJ

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by Steve Warden »

TPK wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:42 pm To buy real Zippo brand products I have to make an extra trip to a city about 25 miles away from where I live. With gas prices at close to $10 a gallon ::uc:: it's cheaper to pay for shipping than it is to drive 25 miles to get it. ::nod:: This set of 4 fluids, 12 stones & 2 wicks should hold me for a good while. ::tu::
Even longer if you give up the cigarettes.
::stir:: ::poke::
Take care and God bless,

Steve
TSgt USAF, Retired
1980-2000

But any knife is better than no knife! ~ Mumbleypeg (aka Ken)
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

Steve Warden wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 7:27 pm
TPK wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:42 pm To buy real Zippo brand products I have to make an extra trip to a city about 25 miles away from where I live. With gas prices at close to $10 a gallon ::uc:: it's cheaper to pay for shipping than it is to drive 25 miles to get it. ::nod:: This set of 4 fluids, 12 stones & 2 wicks should hold me for a good while. ::tu::
Even longer if you give up the cigarettes.
::stir:: ::poke::
::undecided::
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

TPK wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:42 pm To buy real Zippo brand products I have to make an extra trip to a city about 25 miles away from where I live. With gas prices at close to $10 a gallon ::uc:: it's cheaper to pay for shipping than it is to drive 25 miles to get it. ::nod:: This set of 4 fluids, 12 stones & 2 wicks should hold me for a good while. ::tu::
Don't blame you at all. I have a knife store in town, but parking in town to get to it is a pain in the rear. UPS shipping is like $7 for the average-size order I make with them, and I get it the next day if I order the knife before lunchtime. Helps that they seem to do quite brisk business on the online end of things.

Besides, I'm on there anyway "to see if they have it in stock", and if they do, it's easier, especially so I don't have to make a special trip. The car's MPG basically means a round trip to town is the same as the UPS shipping.
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

A few horse figurines with riders. Had several Schleich-scale horses (which are between scales for both Breyer's main scales and common action figure scales) and decided to do more with them. Been meaning to add some riders and tack.

There are quite a few available, but often expensive, especially when loose/used for some strange reason. I didn't like the face paint application of most of the current Schleich items (which have changed from lifelike to cartoonish), or the Big Country Toys offerings that don't have good paint.

I chose two, both cowgirls for some reason.


This one is from the French company Papo.

Papo Wild West Horse And Cowgirl. Details are amazing, but the tack is molded as a part of the horse, meaning it can't be switched between horses. Rider is still removable.
61ML9zmEcgL._AC_SL1500_.jpg



This one perplexed me. I liked this one better than any of the other options. The cowgirl alone was listed by multiple sellers as being an older, retired Schleich item, and high prices were often asked. I THOUGHT I got a good deal by low-balling a seller from $35 with shipping to $15 shipped. However, I was wrong and ended up overpaying.
s-l1600swrcg.jpg

Instead, she's a fairly inexpensive currently produced item. I learned she was a current-catalog Safari Toys Ltd. item, listed under their "Winner's Circle" line of horses; and was introduced in 2008. She came with a beautiful Gypsy Vanner horse and is commonly available--even Michael's stocks them. Cost is only around $12 from most sources, about $8 less than I paid for the Papo set, and half that of most Schleich sets with riders. So, I got the full set of horse and rider as well.


Audrey on Streaming Light
audrey-on-streaming-light-set-680498.jpg


Reins are molded as a part of both the horse and rider figure, and there is no saddle. I'll have to find a suitable Western saddle without paying out the nose. I know Tractor Supply used to sell tack sets for Schleich horses for far less than gift sets, but I think those were retired. Have to run there next week, so I'll check them out. I'll try the spare rider (AKA the one I overpaid for) with the other tack and a Schliech horse. Schleich sells tack sets for around $6 each on their website, but they're all English saddles with different colored saddle pads.

On the sunny side of things, if the rider of the set has a bad paint job, I know the second, more expensive rider does have a good paint job.

I'm going to have to avoid going nuts with Safari. I see them in stores from time to time (and I already own a few, mostly forgotten about--a few horses, and an otter I picked up in the Great Smoky Mountains a decade ago); but rarely gave them any attention. Their "Good Luck Minis" and "Toob" animals (which include horses, livestock, and wildlife) often scale close to 1:64. Their regular scale livestock, horses, and wildlife are half the cost of Schleich. May end up building my own farm with these things--I plan to make the barn myself from wood.
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

WillyCamaro wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:16 pm Well done Cody!

We run a '94 846 here, and Dad just finally scored a '98 9282; low hours, gps, babied it's whole life: the works!
Awesome 4-wheelers.

::tu::
Nice! Scale Models also produced the 846 in both Ford and Versatile colors, but they seem to have produced fewer of each than the 876 versions.


I have been on a 7400 Deere that was owned by the German guy who owned the farm my great-uncle managed for many years, but normally, I run a 2014 (bought new in 2017) Deere 3038E or a 1996 Deere 5400. I mostly run the 3038E, since it's hydrostatic; as the 5400 is stick-shift.
User avatar
cody6268
Posts: 3869
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:51 pm
Location: Southwestern Virginia

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by cody6268 »

Just ordered this one off the Hot Wheels Collectors/Mattel Creations site. It's a Redline Club Exclusive, which I picked up for just the truck. The "digital" subscription is $10, so hopefully more American classics and/or 4x4s get done as I plan to make that subscription worth my while.

Hot Wheels 1952 Dodge Power Wagon with Willock Swivel Frame
GXJ19_W_22_1952_DPW_446_1500x1500_e5b0a536-9162-401f-af48-66e2783f4525_1024x(1).jpg
At $35, it's a LOT more expensive than even premium line models. It's also back ordered through the end of July.


Presumably, this is the truck HW used as a reference, and I wish had been replicated. I'd have preferred a more utilitarian look, but it's the only representation of the Willock Swivel frame in miniature without cutting up a truck. Been meaning on tinkering around with the 1:43 Matchbox version (which despite selling for a bit more than it was new, still will cost you less than this truck) to have the swivel frame. And in fact, I have a damaged/previously customized one ripe for the picking.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profi ... wer-wagon/

There are a number of wartime WC-series Dodges in 3-inch, but no Power Wagons. I have a 1:43 from Matchbox and am meaning to get Busch's HO scale version.
User avatar
Steve Warden
Posts: 6320
Joined: Wed May 27, 2015 4:18 pm
Location: Cherry Hill, NJ

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by Steve Warden »

My third pair of Ariats - Sport Stratten
Ariat boots.png
Dressy without being too much so, I think.
Already have a black pair, needed brown.
Last two pairs were comfy right out of the box.
Take care and God bless,

Steve
TSgt USAF, Retired
1980-2000

But any knife is better than no knife! ~ Mumbleypeg (aka Ken)
User avatar
1967redrider
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 16106
Joined: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:23 pm
Location: Alexandria, VA
Contact:

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by 1967redrider »

TPK wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:19 am
cody6268 wrote: Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:35 pm Another big lot from a source I regularly do business with on another forum.

Most of these are filler condition English-made Matchbox, but some are quite scarce odd European brands that are near impossible to find in the US. Some displayable as-is, others need repainting or even parts replaced (lots of inexpensive reproduction parts are available for the brands I collecrlt, others will need to be fabricated).
Wow Cody! Looking forward to seeing your pictures of those. ::nod:: ::tu:: :D

I just bought a green 68' Plymouth Barracuda. ::nod::
Our High School mascot in FL was the Barracuda. ::super_happy::

Tom, I learned to drive with a '68 green Barracuda. 4 on the floor Hurst shifter, 318 V-8 and no power steering, power brakes or AC but it had an 8-Track. Had it up to 100 mph on a back road in Garrett County once. Those were the days!
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!

You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
User avatar
TPK
Posts: 10111
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:16 pm
Location: Bayern, Germany

Re: It's in the Mail, Off Topic Style

Post by TPK »

1967redrider wrote: Fri Jun 17, 2022 4:28 pm
TPK wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:19 am
cody6268 wrote: Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:35 pm Another big lot from a source I regularly do business with on another forum.

Most of these are filler condition English-made Matchbox, but some are quite scarce odd European brands that are near impossible to find in the US. Some displayable as-is, others need repainting or even parts replaced (lots of inexpensive reproduction parts are available for the brands I collecrlt, others will need to be fabricated).
Wow Cody! Looking forward to seeing your pictures of those. ::nod:: ::tu:: :D

I just bought a green 68' Plymouth Barracuda. ::nod::
Our High School mascot in FL was the Barracuda. ::super_happy::

Tom, I learned to drive with a '68 green Barracuda. 4 on the floor Hurst shifter, 318 V-8 and no power steering, power brakes or AC but it had an 8-Track. Had it up to 100 mph on a back road in Garrett County once. Those were the days!
:lol: Cool! ::tu:: It would be worth some money now days. ::nod:: ::super_happy::

And I learned to drive in an old Renault 8 or Renault 10. ::hmm:: ::shrug:: It was from the 50's or 60's and the motor was in the rear of the car. Dad got it from a junk yard for some welding jobs he did for the junk yard. He put it on my grandmother's cow patch for me to play with. And my cousin & another neighbor also had cars on the cow patch. Of course there were no more cows there. We had a blast! ::nod:: I was like 10 or 11 years old at the time. ::woot:: Yes, those were the days! ::nod:: :lol:
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)

I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate. :wink:

Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano

US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
Post Reply

Return to “General Off Topic Discussion”