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A few good books ..... in Miniature by Randall Olson

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Chris Sweetman
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These are a series of model car books providing information on scale replica North American cars to 1:43rd scale. All were written by Randall Olson a noted collector. Randy used to be a regular contributor on the old Forum43 forum.

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In order of publication:

Ford in Miniature - published September 2006
GM in Miniature - published February 2008
Chrysler in Miniature - published November 2009
Independents in Miniature - published March 2012

The Ford and GM books were published by Veloce. They are currently out of print so are available via Amazon or second hand book sellers.

Chrysler in Miniature and Independents in Miniature were self published and available via print on demand from:

Chrysler in Miniature

https://www.lulu.com/search?sortBy=RELEVANCE&page=1&q=CHRYSLER+IN+miniature&adult_audience_rating=00&fbclid=IwY2xjawH-5ZlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHU4o6yPN229n3Q8pKI6Uo4_VrCjc7NY-mwkf2-VSghFJ33IbkwCrbpDMvw_aem_vqft0LJ_em03SPmtx0fGfA&pageSize=10

Independents in Miniature

https://www.blurb.com/b/3082983-independents?fbclid=IwY2xjawH-5M1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQRmrDfucw2lBDdn3CHd10vJVO1pBoHpXhZPR898RJVXQ9OLABLLRR-gmw_aem_MkiLmx8mxKHH75ihkNlNkQ

 


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Pretty darn cool. Appreciate the information!



   
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Curtis Parisi
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Have them all, excellent! 



   
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@parisi50       Exactly, a good source of information and simply a pleasure to read.


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I miss Randy's posts. His dioramas were always interesting along with his collection of models.



   
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