This is an older Brooklin white metal 1/43 replica of the '34 Buick 96-S automobile. I picked this one up used at one of the Countryside shows a number of years ago and Amanda at Brooklin helped me get a part which was missing.
It is a very nice 2-door coupe in a Royal blue color and it looks really good on display. Being of white metal, it is satisfyingly heavy, too !
Thanks, Tony ! Brooklin's Buick Collection cars are extremely nice.
Lol, and Karl, only in a special fx photo would I be able to park my Buick right next to the El tracks in Chicago, not too far from Union Station ! (and in the air in another shot near the Buick is a Curtiss Condor passenger airliner from the early 1930's)
As usual, your pictures are great. I have a question about the EL tracks you show. Do you know which line that is? I road the EL trains many times in my life, including commuting to college (IIT), and these pictures bring back memories.
Thanks, Ed ! I took that photo that is behind the '34 Buick some years ago as I left Union Station on a BNSF commuter train back to Riverside.
It was taken looking north out the train window a bit south of the station as the train turned west towards the western suburbs. I believe that is an old train track approach to a bridge which goes over Canal Street, then near 12th Street (Roosevelt Road) and over the south branch of the Chicago River. I "aged" the image a bit in the computer, I recall.
That photograph and model car look excellent ! Your image does a perfect job of presenting and showing off the replica Buick .....and that is really the important thing. The color of that Buick is particularly attractive and this view shows it very well.
@ed-davis I wish I had a buck for every time I got off at the 35th Street station for IIT. There was (is?) a second stair to let folks off at the campus so we didn't have to enter the 'neighborhood'.
The Mies van der Rohe designed buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology would also make a great backdrop for something like dreamcars (or models of dreamcars) of the '50's or '60's. Very futuristic !
