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Woodsy,
Circa 1970, I ordered an item called "100 HO Scale Cars" from America's Hobby Center in New York City. For 99 cents plus shipping!
Hoping they were discontinued EKO or VIKING automobiles, I was sorely disappointed when I received in the mail a bag filled with one-piece, brightly-colored plastic toy vehicles, labeled "100 Cars of the World", by Multiple Toymakers!
After I got over my initial disappointment, I learned to love these homely little toys, and painted them up to look as "realistic" as possible.
An eclectic mix of sports and utility vehicles, both contemporary and antique, the big downside to these models was the embossing of the vehicle name on the backside or trunk. I tried to file off the names on a couple of the vehicles, with disastrous results, so I left the rest intact.
Here are pix of some of the painted ones I managed to save. Crude, but useful for background settings. The photos of the original bagged item are from eBay.
Rob C
USA
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American Hobby Center is sorely missed. It finally closed when owner Marshall was too ill to continue. He could regale customers for hours with tales of his former marriages, but managed to offer great bargains for many hobbies. Flying models, boats, radio control cars and HO model trains by the end of the business they had their own line of radio controlled tanks.
ReplyDeleteWhen they closed their Manhattan store and warehouse and moved to NJ they unearthed a box of Airfix kits, early releases in plastic bags with a stapled header card.